He's 37 now, but his music first hit at a time when the music industry was dominated by the first wave of millennial glitz and glamour: boy bands, meaningless rap lyrics, and bling. ... His music has done what no others have; he built an unbreakable bond between whites and blacks. ... This was never the case with any black rapper representing the art form and culture to white crowds, certainly not one like Tupac, who was at one point the black hip-hop artist of the counter-culture. ... He knows that as a white kid growing up with black heroes, black friends, and in a predominantly black...

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