Alongside Future, Jay’s lyrics speak loudly—although not directly. As Joe Budden recently alludes to in his podcast, lines like the “In real life they like me? In real life I’m like ‘no,’” and ‘”Til you own your own you can’t be free / ‘Til you’re on your own you can’t be me” appear to address Drake’s “Summer Sixteen” line, “I used to wanna be on Roc-A-Fella then I turned into Jay / Now I got a house in L.A., now I got a bigger pool than ‘Ye. In February in 2014, Drake made some disparaging remarks (which he asserts were intended to be off the record) about his “Pound Cake/Paris Morton Music 2” collaborator. “It’s like Hov can’t drop bars these days without at least four art references,” Drake was quoting as saying. “I would love to collect [art] at some point, but I think the whole Rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.” A month later, alongside Roc Nation artist Jay Electronica on the “We Made It Freestyle,” Jay Z apologized for offending “Miss Drizzy.”
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Afeni’s associates — the first people Tupac knew — were a who’s who of famous black revolutionaries from the era. Tupac’s godmother Assata Shakur was found guilty of the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper. But she broke out of prison and later fled to Cuba; her brother Mutulu Shakur was convicted of aiding her escape. Mutulu, a renowned acupuncturist known for developing drug-treatment programs, had an even closer relationship to Tupac. In 1975 he married Afeni, and they moved to a house in Harlem, where Tupac and Mutulu’s son Mopreme became close. Mutulu was accused of participating in a 1981 attempted robbery of an armored Brinks car containing $1.6 million in Rockland County, New York, which left two cops and a security guard dead. He became a fugitive and the FBI put him on their Ten Most Wanted list, before finally catching him and sending him away for the rest of Tupac’s life.
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