Indholdsfortegnelse
1) Listen to the song while reading the lyrics.

2) What is this song about? Write down 2-3 themes, elaborate. Remember to support your points with relevant quotes from the song.

3) What is the message of the song? How is this related to the novel?

4) Look at pp. 166-170 in the novel. Comment on the conversation between Starr and her father – how does Maverick define “Thug Life”? Compare his definition of Thug Life to Khalil’s (page 21). What does Starr learn from the conversation with Maverick?

5) Skim this text: https://woe.systime.dk/?id=p259
Find 2-3 examples of incorrect English in the song (grammar, slang, abbreviations etc.) Explain what is wrong (this part must be done in Danish).

6) Choose a short part of the song and rewrite into more formal English (write 3-5 sentences)

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Uddrag
In an interview, Tupac said THUG LIFE was actually standing for 'The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone'.

“Silence is a must, violence is a plus”
“And now I'm in the rap game. Like the crack game, I got enemies”
“Pick a spot to be buried. 'Cause I'll be buckin' in a fuckin' hurry”

The song’s about a former drug dealer, who has changed profession and is now a rapper.

He describes the environments identical. Both environments are dangerous and contain drugs and thugs.

Tupac shall be careful and go about things quietly so nothing happens to him. Quotes from the song that describes this are “Pick a spot to be buried.

'Cause I'll be buckin' in a fuckin' hurry” and “And now I'm in the rap game. Like the crack game, I got enemies”.

These quotes say that he should be very careful, and he shall not do anything wrong because he got enemies.

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Drugs come from somewhere, and they’re destroying our community,” he says.

“You got folks like Brenda, who think they need them to survive, and then you got the Khalils, who think they need to sell them to survive.

The Brendas can’t get jobs unless they’re clean, and they can’t pay for rehab unless they got jobs.

When the Khalils get arrested for selling drugs, they either spend most of their life in prison, another billion-dollar industry, or they have a hard time getting a real job and probably start selling drugs again.

That’s the hate they’re giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That’s Thug Life.”people will keep rioting until it changes.. We can’t be silent.”