He erases the negative stereotype of black criminals and replaces it with a positive compliment. Tupac is demonstrating to the listener that black people are seen as heroes because they take gunshots in order to bring society a step closer to equality and justice against systemic racism by taking the gunshots, blacks are helping to end racism. In the first verse he says, “Cops give a damn about a negro/Pull the trigger, kill a n*gga, he’s a hero.” Tupac rhymes the words “negro” and “hero” to show how when a cop kills a black man, he’s seen as a hero he does this to disrupt the ethnic norm of black people being recognized as criminals. Tupac uses rhyme schemes to disrupt the values of system racism and ethnic norms.
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