Word: shakur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...generations. The fates of Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrision were representative of the pitfalls of a drug culture; Kurt Cobain's suicide exemplified the nihilistic and selfdestructive elements of the so-called Generation X. Biggie's slaying, especially because it was so closely preceded by the death of Tupac Shakur, is indicative of a hip-hop culture that is too often obsessed with mindless violence and senseless killings...
Jones spoke about Tupac Shakur, the famed rapper and associate of Jones who was killed last year in Nevada, and of Shakur's frustration with the music industry...
Jones--whose daughter, Kidada Jones, had been engaged to Shakur and came close to being in the car in which the rap artist was killed--said the "gangsta" element in rap music was more theatrical than political and should be abandoned...
...Rama gets a screaming scene. The tone is set by Roth, the Brit of choice for those directors who think Gary Oldman just doesn't push it far enough. It's cartoon work, really (imagine Henery Hawk trying to be the Tasmanian Devil), but fun to watch. And Shakur, as the sensible guy, plays nicely off Roth. He is both Stretch's keeper and the film's conscience. "When gettin' high becomes a job," he muses, "what's the point...
...Shakur also serves as his own elegist. "All the things we talked about," he says of Cookie when he thinks she might be dead, "things she wanted to do--then she ups and dies. I don't wanna go out like that." Later he speaks one of the most introspective lines in the Afro-action canon: "Somehow I don't think this was my parents' dream for me." With Shakur's death, Hollywood lost part of its own dream to become a robust rainbow cinema. Gridlock'd gives a taste of what the movies are going to miss...