Girls who used to frown say I'm down when I come around...
See, I never really liked 2pac (save for his verse on DU's 'Same Song'), so it's strange seeing people so fanatical about him.
Still, each to their own, eh?
Man, Tupac was/is brilliant.
I see three levels of thug in rap.
The first is gangsta-as-tittilation. Violence! Sex! Drugs! OMG! Hey he's rapping about selling crack to whores! Whatever. Candyfloss. No content.
The second is gangsta-as-reporter, the whole "goddammit this is what life is like out here and this is the only way we can get you to listen" thing. Tittilates, but aims to scare and sadden and anger too.
The third... is Tupac, and pretty much Tupac alone. He wasn't just reporting, and he wasn't doing it to excite us or shock or anything... it was like it was part of his world, part of him, and somehow he was filled with love anyhow,and it all came through in his music. There's a person there, a whole character.
tupac is jesus for po' thug folks.
important and valuble? yes. but that important? hell no. for every decent verse he sang, he crapped out 40 more, and while his presence isn't without merit, he's just another pretty pint-size rapper. he might have actually had something valuable to say had he endured the maturation process of another 15 years, but by that time no one would be interested (ask krs-one), and he'd be doing shorts on beyonce's daughter's new solo project.
i too think it's stupid that no one has been caught for his murder, but that's the nature of the game... snitches and rats get stitches from bats.
can we let the dead guys just be dead guys, and move on?
that song OLD SCHOOL is beautiful... i'm definitely more of a fan of the pre-Death Row Pac....
Sadly with Tupac, theres a polarisation between largely-ignorant dick riders, and hip-ho heads who are apathetic towards him... its hard to view him in an unbiased light.
Biggie was better - Tupac was just jealous; but he will always be a legend.
Es Won, "hip-ho heads" is the quote of the week, I could not have said it better myself.
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