“In 1965 I was up in Canada, and there was a friend of mine up there who had just left a rock’n’roll band… he had just newly turned 19, and that meant he was no longer allowed into his favorite hangout, which was kind of a teeny-bopper club and once you’re over 18 you couldn’t get in there anymore; so he was really feeling terrible because his girlfriends and everybody that he wanted to hang out with, his band could still go there, you know, but it’s one of the things that drove him to become a folk singer was that he couldn’t play in this club anymore.
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Tupac at Seventeen
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgA95WN7tX8&feature=youtu.be
“I really think that teenagers—they’ve got a lot of responsibilities and a lot of burdens because in fact we’re given a horrible world—the gift that we’re getting when we have to take over is horrible.