150 MOURN SLAIN RAPPER.Byline: Verena Dobnik Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Tupac Shakur, remembered by many as a violent rapper who died in the gangsta Noun 1. gangsta - (Black English) a member of a youth gang AAVE, African American English, African American Vernacular English, Black English, Black English Vernacular, Black Vernacular, Black Vernacular English, Ebonics - a nonstandard form of American English culture he glorified glo·ri·fy tr.v. glo·ri·fied, glo·ri·fy·ing, glo·ri·fies 1. To give glory, honor, or high praise to; exalt. 2. , was mourned at his boyhood church Sunday as the victim of a society that destroys African-American youth. ``He had the genes, he had the ability, could we have provided the society that would have made him blossom,'' the Rev. Herbert Daughtry said at The House of the Lord Pentecostal Church in Brooklyn. Two days after the 25-year-old Shakur died of gunshot wounds suffered in a drive-by shooting drive-by shooting Public health A phenomenon in which one or more persons–commonly members of street gangs, open fire à la Al Capone from moving vehicles, often in retaliation for an alleged wrong-doing by a rival gang on a Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. street, the pastor asked: ``Who will weep for Tupac Shakur?'' ``I will weep for Tupac,'' he replied. Though Shakur left Brooklyn in his teens, he still is listed as a member of the congregation that he, his mother and his sister joined when he was 15. Shakur was hit by four bullets Sept. 7 as he rode in a car driven by Marion ``Suge'' Knight, president of Shakur's recording label, Death Row Records. Daughtry told about 150 people in the half-full church that Shakur's self-proclaimed ambition to be ``a revolutionary'' against injustice to African-Americans ``was just as real as Martin's and Malcolm's,'' referring to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Malcolm X, 1925–65, militant black leader in the United States, also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, b. Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb. He was introduced to the Black Muslims while serving a prison term and became a Muslim minister upon his release in 1952. . CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO The Rev. Herbert Daughtry, pastor at Tupac Shakur's c hurch, laments the rapper's death. Associated Press |
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