For Your Casting Consideration
Kinya Shakur
SAG Actress of the Millennium
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
"Hit 'Em Up" - the Genius of an Artist
I was driving my cousin’s car the other day and she had Tupac Shakur’s “Hit ‘Em Up” in her CD player. For those of you unfamiliar with the song, it’s simply a vicious comeback on Biggie Smalls, the Junior Mafia crew along with Bad Boy Records. As a loving mother I cringed when he spat the lyrics, “my .44’ll make sure all your children don’t grow!”. As a fellow artist who just so happens to have the middle name Shakur, I oddly pressed rewind several times as I listened to the anger in him swell like a tidal wave and crash down on my ears and heart. Then just as strange, I found myself laughing at the shock of his words and at how one could not just think those thoughts out loud, but have the nerve to record it! The purity of its venom had the potential to bring an emotion that so many of us have felt at one time or another to the surface.
How many times have you been in an argument with someone you loved or cared for and have been hurt by them? Have you ever said things you wished you could take back? There have been times, I myself hovered above my physical self and poured out that same killer potion only to have it sting myself as well as the one for whom I meant it for. Some of us have the innate ability to suppress this kind of fury while for others it is detrimental for their mental well-being to let it out. Those who tend to pour their emotions out on a canvas, a piano, with paper and pen or a microphone.
Have you ever thought it could be possible to bottle up those emotions, to study and review them or to maybe let them out only when the urge calls for it? Welcome to the world of the artist. Where just like some may stroll around the halls of the MET and view the mangled twists of an iron sculpture or the angry brushstrokes of a painting and visualize the passion behind it, it is this particular track that allowed me to feel the hurt, the confusion and the heat Tupac felt when he said them. It is this empathy that a Psychotherapist or Psychologist must be able to tap into in order to peel apart the layers of human nature when trying to understand their patients. That same empathy must be felt by a teacher in order to know when to put a child in the corner; when to call a parent; or in fact when to call the Department of Social Services.
When an artist is able to channel an act of human nature in its purest form, call upon that feeling at will and express it in its original context in a way that allows a witness to shudder at the memory of the moment he/she felt that same way, it is a great form of expression and it turn, a great work of art.
How many times have you been in an argument with someone you loved or cared for and have been hurt by them? Have you ever said things you wished you could take back? There have been times, I myself hovered above my physical self and poured out that same killer potion only to have it sting myself as well as the one for whom I meant it for. Some of us have the innate ability to suppress this kind of fury while for others it is detrimental for their mental well-being to let it out. Those who tend to pour their emotions out on a canvas, a piano, with paper and pen or a microphone.
Have you ever thought it could be possible to bottle up those emotions, to study and review them or to maybe let them out only when the urge calls for it? Welcome to the world of the artist. Where just like some may stroll around the halls of the MET and view the mangled twists of an iron sculpture or the angry brushstrokes of a painting and visualize the passion behind it, it is this particular track that allowed me to feel the hurt, the confusion and the heat Tupac felt when he said them. It is this empathy that a Psychotherapist or Psychologist must be able to tap into in order to peel apart the layers of human nature when trying to understand their patients. That same empathy must be felt by a teacher in order to know when to put a child in the corner; when to call a parent; or in fact when to call the Department of Social Services.
When an artist is able to channel an act of human nature in its purest form, call upon that feeling at will and express it in its original context in a way that allows a witness to shudder at the memory of the moment he/she felt that same way, it is a great form of expression and it turn, a great work of art.
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