Tupac: All Eyes on HIM

Tupac Shakur, a gangster MC and actor, is a very accessible man in terms of all the information available on him and his controversial life (and death). I looked him up in order to find some ethos, credibility, for the paper that I am writing about his song, "Changes," as it relates to hip hop and the argument presented in its lyrics. The process of looking for information about him was a little tough. Although there was plenty of it, not all of them are credible themselves and cannot be trusted. The first thing I did was use the popular search engine, Google. A variety of sources came up as I typed in his name, including blogs about Tupac's suspicious death over ten years ago, YouTube links to some of his videos, fan sites, and bibliographies. It was actually a pretty disappointing search for the most part. Because of the circumstances of his murder, almost every source had to do with the "conspiracies" and theories circling his death. There were only a few decent search results, one of them being Wikipedia. This web site, even though its a compilation of information by different users instead of actual specialized people in that field, is trustworthy overall. It went over almost every aspect of his life. The reason I trust this source is because, in the section where it talks about his death, instead of only talking about how Tupac must be alive and in hiding, and pointing to all the supposed evidence for this theory, it also talks about the fact that he actually is dead and about all the controversy over who did it. When I went to Tupac's official web site in hopes for some more information, all that it contained was an "intro" that was only a voice recording of famous quotes said by Shakur himself throught his life. The real challenge for me now is looking up some other credible sources. Wish me luck!