In “I’m Tupac”, B paints himself as a kind of prophet – perhaps, through whom Tupac (RIP) can communicate. He compares his raps to scriptures – noting that they are “seamless”, i.e. they flow freely from him with no hesitation or restriction.

In his role as prophet – or maybe even, as a God – he respects Jesus as another powerful spiritual figure, but not as one that dictates his own world. In fact, B has compared himself to Jesus many times, most blatantly in “Look Like Jesus”.

B speaks of two “pictures” or visions of society:

• the flawed world, for which we all should take responsibility
• the based world paradise, in which we can all take solace (a world that exists within the real world, but focuses on positivity and kindness)

Basically: we have great control over our own lives – we can shape the world to be what we want it to be, and we must take responsibility when we fail.

B gets real in these lines, playing the role of colonizer. B describes a paradise sarcastically – in many ways, the world we live in today is built on hatred and discrimination deeply ingrained in the structures upon which the U.S. was built. His paradise is an escape within that world of violence, discrimination, and hatred.

As Martin Luther King Jr. once said,

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy.

We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode.

In these three lines, B draws some comparisons between himself and Jesus.

• “I’m better in the present” = post resurrection
• “My past was a message” = pre resurrection
• “My presence is a statement” = post resurrection

B, like Jesus, has a message to communicate to all of Based World – and this intention leaves him as somewhat of a God or prophet.

In fact, he has compared himself to Jesus more directly in his aptly named song “Look Like Jesus”:

I’m god, I look like Jesus
And I’m coming with that motherfucking heater
Bitch, suck my dick

This line allows the reader a glimpse of what Clarissa looks like. Outside of the narrator’s shoes the reader is allowed to perceive Clarissa from another angle. We also see a brief exposition into Clarissa’s character and see that she has suffered from “illness”.

Woolf evokes the image of the blue jay in comparing Clarissa’s once youthful physicality to that of a bird characterized by its beauty and vibrance. The blue jay is young, always chirping, and bright – a little of what Clarissa used to be. Now she is old, “over fifty”, and her color has faded to white.

Lil B talks lifestyle choices, an area he has touched on in many songs before, as well as taken to Twitter to discuss.

B is the supreme advocate for:

• happiness
• positivity
• kindness towards our fellow humans

Kids should stick to the based side of life qnd not fall into illegal habits.
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Whedon’s famous TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer follows Buffy Summers (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar), the latest in a line of young women known as “Vampire Slayers” or simply “Slayers”. In the story, Slayers are “called” (chosen by fate) to battle against vampires, demons, and other forces of darkness.

As Whedon says, Buffy is surrounded by men who directly interact with her strength and power in positive ways:

• Like previous Slayers, Buffy is aided by a male Watcher, who guides, teaches, and trains her – directly invested in Buffy growing as strong as possible.
• One of Buffy’s love interests is a vampire, Angel. Simply because of her role as vampire slayer and his as vampire, she holds a great deal of power and agency over him. That power – instead of threatening him – attracts him.

Put articulately and directly in this article in Atlantic Magazine:

It’s entirely possible to be anti-sex work but pro-sex workers rights. And I want to open up space for people to talk about that. To say, “I think this work can be exploitative, I think this work can be dangerous, but I know that the way to be safe isn’t to wait for abolition.” It’s to look at how we can actually help people here and now.