C. Delores Tucker and the Generational Divide: Was She Wrong, or Was She Just Asking the Question Nobody Wanted to Answer?

The General's Briefing · Apr 22, 2026 · 19m

In 1996, Tupac Shakur released a song called "How Do U Want It." It was a hit. It went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was played on every radio station, in every club, at every party.

But buried in the second verse was a line that most people didn't catch. Tupac rapped:

"Delores Tucker, you's a motherfucker / Instead of trying to help a nigga, you destroy a brother"

C. Delores Tucker was a 68-year-old civil rights activist. She had marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She had fought for voting rights. She had served as Pennsylvania's Secretary of State—the first Black woman to hold…