Speech Debelle on Tupak Shakur + Tupak in Kazakhstan

From Mercury award winner Speech Debelle to Kazakhstan, Tupak lives!

One of Debelle’s idols as a teen was the rapper Tupac Shakur. “Someone once said about him — and I’d like to think I have that — that he had strength within his vulnerability. And I think that’s what Daddy’s Little Girl is. It’s a really vulnerable song, but I’m not trying to hide in the corner.”

Of the track, she says: “I didn’t ‘hear’ the words to that until I was sitting listening back to the song. My A&R was, like, ‘I wonder what your dad would say’, and I listened to it properly only then. I was, like, ‘Oh my God.’” Eviscerating her dad for his absence and neglect, for fathering eight half-siblings (to “six different mothers”) whom Debelle scarcely knows, it ends by painting a picture of him in old age, grey-haired and with nobody to steady his shaking hands.

Source:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6725086.ece

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