Doggfather" by the late Tupac Shakur, who, when he was still alive, was a rapper who could easily be mistaken for an angry and profane street gangster.
"It's a song for people who are angry," Shakur once said.
The song's lyrics are about a white man getting shot and the aftermath — an angry black man, a frustrated black woman and a black girl who asks her white boyfriend to "get your gun" and kill her black father.
As the song progresses, the song turns into a sort of rap poetry that is as much about black rage as it is about love.
"We ain't just talkin' bout love, we're talkin' bout black love," Tupac Shakur raps.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, we're sorry, baby I'm sorry, can't you just give me a chance?" the mother in the...