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The vast majority of people aren’t readily acceptant of those who deviate from what is considered the “norms” of society. In writings especially, readers are accustomed to being exposed to a limited array of subject matter. When a writer pushes himself/herself from the expected, the public response is rather harsh. When a literary figure chooses to discuss topics that are not known to be discussed, or are considered inappropriate, how are readers supposed to react to the shocking material placed before them? When vocalists decide to “change the game” in music and include unique lyrics and varying points of view to subjects never before uncovered in a piece of music; how is society to react? These writers/vocalists, often known as artists, are categorized by a single word- Outlaw. These Outlaws have taken words and their meaning to a different level, a level that is often not accepted by the mainstream. Of all the Outlaw artists, I particularly find the rapper/ writer Tupac Shakur the most intriguing. Not particularly because he is of African American descent, but because prior to my knowledge of the Outlaws, I have listened to much of his music, read a numbe