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The book, Holler if You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur, is one of the greatest works by the author Michael Eric Dyson, who is the professor at University of Pennsylvania. This book is a good addition to the library of Hip-Hop by the best dissector of the culture. It is an absolutely vital book for various reasons. The book will be in the publication on Tupac Shakur's fifth death anniversary. It witnesses a year in when the Tupac would have only been 30 years old. It is also introduced at such a time when the culture of rap music and hip-hop is at the beginning of a purposeful periodic self-examination. Moreover, the book, Holler If You Hear Me, presents its primary arguments as understating the reason for the Tupac's tragic death, and also mentions it a huge loss after Sam Cooke in the black music.

Summary

Tupac Amaru Shakur was murdered 14 years back and Dyson believes that he is probably more controversial and significant currently than he was in his life. Dyson answers the questions and tries to handle this matter in a way, which is “not an average biography”. He draws on the opinions from the people who were familiar with knew Pac in his entire life, who seldom talked to him and even from the people who criticized him big time. The major portion of the book answers the places where Pac went wrong, the reason of his going wrong, the lesson extracted from it and other issues.

The author, in the first part, performs a great work of gathering the art of Tupac, his life and the continuously growing legend in the political and political American sentiments of the time. There is a detailed provision of the childhood of Tupac in the book, along with his entry into and transformation of the rap music. Dyson, in the proceeding chapters of the book, focuses particularly on impacts of being engaged by such people who had spent their entire lives and then died in striving for the black freedom. The Black Panthers pertained to Afeni and her lovers Lumumba and Billy Garland. Another character was the stepfather of Tupac, Mutulu Shakur, who was a black revolutionary. A heroic and large figure in the book was the godfather Tupac, named as Geronimo Pratt.

In the second section of the book, the role of Pac has been explored in the shape of an artist by Dyson and its change and transformation has been observed with the change in 2Pac himself in the entire life. The character of Tupac was not personified as amazingly gifted emcee of the hip-hop through any basis, which describes the apotheosis of the form of artistic. Yet, Tupac has been the most compelling and influential rapper amongst many. Dyson mentions Tupac as being obsessed with God. He observed Tupac's lyrics filled with the sense of divinity. It is showed by the lyrics as 'God can you feel me?' 'only God can judge me' ...