all eyez on me is a 10/10 classic that is best when its 80+ degrees in the summer
deej
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i know harvey has my back on this
can you believe people used to say pac was 'overrated' all the time -- some bullshit imo
can you believe people used to say pac was 'overrated' all the time -- some bullshit imo
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a point i've made on here is that one can be the best rapper alive or dead and still not live up to the hype that surrounds pac (e.g. people getting his face tatooed on their bodies or mothers naming their children after him). hence "overrated."
people who can wrap their mind around this concept will understand that this takes nothing away from his abilities as a rapper, nor does it negate the classique status of all eyez on me.
People still say it, and guess what? They're right!
People who rep tupac are enamored by his fantasy martyr thug status which is a total fallacy.
Lyrically he's not much. Which is why his supporters always point to his voice (horrible) - and the 'emotion' he put into his vocals. BECAUSE HE WAS AN ACTOR AT HEART - faking it all the way.
This is why he sold more records after he was murdered than during his brief career - the majority of his sales are generated by jackasses who are in love with the 'romantic' idea of a dead black gangster. Which was as much his own fantasy as anyone elses.
In reality, he was not a gangster, although he thought he was, which is why his card got pulled and consequently he, pardon my french, died like a bitch.
This guy, a fake thug with a sensitive aura and hollywood aspirations, larded his records with self-mythologizing, mediocre filler. He, and his fans, also completely missed the boat on the west coast gangster era, which peaked before he started dropping his solo shit. Latecomers, and wide eyed innocents, the lot of them.
This is also why his music invariably sounds like a painfully bad clich?? - by the time he came around, the funky worm inspired gangsta sound was over. Sadly, someone forgot to tell tupac and death row records.
I guess a lot of rappers pay kudos to pac- which in itself is a cliche, fearing perhaps the backlash of dissing the tupac legacy outright, because of his popularity in the burbs, but behind closed doors most of them are shaking their heads at the tupac fenom, I can assure you. Take it from your own hero, Weezy, who listed him among his top five rappers, but then admitted: "I can't front: I was never into Pac."
What goes through the mind of a white teen moved to tears by albums with titles such as his 2nd Lp, "Strictly For My N.I.G.G.A.S.", which deserves a huge NO HOMO sticker on the cd cover?
Or the equally moronically titled debut ???2Pacalypse Now??? from 91, which I gave a fair shake when it came out, with him being ex digital underground. But, after hearing the first lines of the opening song "Young Black Male, (hard like an erection)", I had to put the headphones down, I couldn't stop laughing.
He's been a joke to me since that moment.
But not to these guys:
Have fun repping that Thug Life (scary) in the sun, "gangstas"!
btw.
I guess deej wants to put the cat among the pigeons with this tired thread. Or he wants to have a pat on the back from Harvey or from all the other skreet savy people.
Just to give Deej some troll fodder:
Notorious BIG > Tupac
that's not cool guys
what's ya phone number not so much
staxwax your exageratting on your hatt
:shocked:
:rofl:
To be fair, he was a decent actor. I didn't mind him in "Juice" and "Gridlock'd".
It's silly to me by now to even have to debate this.
It's like someone saying Richard Pryor isn't the goat of comedians.
Alright, dude. Whatever you say.
Whatever you say, dude.