MTV News has dug up a 24-year-old unaired interview with Tupac Shakur in which the hip-hop icon criticizes Donald Trump as greedy and demanded greater wealth equality.
“You’re taught in school, in big business, if you want to be successful, if you want to be like Trump…gimme gimme gimme!”
In the August 1992 interview, Tupac also speaks about his frustration with the unequal spread of wealth in the United States, and talks about how African-Americans can fight for equality. His words sound more relevant than ever in the era of Occupy Wall Street, #BlackLivesMatter and Bernie Sanders blasting Wall Street and the One Percent.
Tupac spoke to MTV as he rose to become one of the most famous and influential rappers of his generation, a year after the release of his debut album, “2pacalyse Now.”
“I don’t have mega-money,” says Tupac, who was shot and killed in 1996. “But I know that if I have three thousand dollars in my pocket, it’s wrong to just give that person a quarter.”
He added: “Could you imagine someone having $32 million, and this person has nothing? And these are the people that get humanitarian awards. Millionaires.”
Careful, Tupac. People might call you a Democratic socialist.
Ted Cruz v Donald Trump Timeline: Their Insults About Wives and Rat Sex (Photos)
This week began with nude pictures of Donald Trump's wife, Melania Trump, and ended with Ted Cruz calling Trump a rat and just barely avoiding the word "ratfucking." Let's review.
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It all started with an anti-Trump Facebook ad targeted at Mormons from the super PAC America Awesome, which featured a photo of Melania Trump posing naked for GQ.
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Taking offense to the perceived slight, Trump threatened to "spill the beans" on Cruz's wife Heidi. "Be careful, Lyin' Ted," he warned on Twitter.
"Pic of your wife not from us. Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you're more of a coward than I thought. #classless," responded Cruz.
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On Wednesday, a story accusing Cruz of having affairs with five women appeared in The National Enquirer. Cruz denied the story, calling it "complete and utter lies" and "a smear that has come from Donald Trump and his henchmen."
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While accusing Trump of planting the story, Cruz tried to talk around the word "ratfucking," derogatory slang for an especially dirty kind of political sabotage.
“He’s a man for whom a term was coined for copulating with a rodent,” Cruz said of a former Trump ally. “Well let me be clear, Mr. Trump may be a rat but I have no desire to copulate with him. And this garbage does not belong in politics.”
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On Friday, Trump issued a statement on Facebook, denying the accusation that he planted the Enquirer story.
"While [The National Enquirer was] right about O.J. Simpson, John Edwards, and many others, I certainly hope they are not right about Lyin’ Ted Cruz," he wrote.
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This week in disgusting presidential politics
This week began with nude pictures of Donald Trump's wife, Melania Trump, and ended with Ted Cruz calling Trump a rat and just barely avoiding the word "ratfucking." Let's review.