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What is a "backpacker"?Only backpackers listened to him when he was alive.
What is a "backpacker"?Only backpackers listened to him when he was alive.
He was many things all at once, trying to balance them somehow.Came here to say something similar.
I grew up listening to him. Huge fan since i was 5th grade but the guy was very unstable.
In his interviews (some) hed come off as some civil rights activist and have great things to say then the next interview talking ghetto and west coast vs east coast feud.
Just like his music... One track "changes" touchy feely next track "hit em up"... Its like really? Guy makes no sense. Complains in one track about crime and the tough in ghetto and wants change in one song and then in another actually promotes the very thing he proclaims to detest.
But i suppose i act the same too
Agreed. I love Old School, it’s a super respectful song especially considering how coastal everything ended up getting.his best songs are his least played / least known songs.
he was definitely wise beyond his yearsAgreed. I love Old School, it’s a super respectful song especially considering how coastal everything ended up getting.
I listened to a lot of Tupac back in the era when I was a teenager but I’ve recently started listening to it again and as an adult, it’s actually so much more socially conscious than I could have grasped as a teen.
He was surprisingly aware and intelligent, we just tend to forget how young he was. Of course he was torn. He was 24 when he died. All of the lyrics that are seemingly contradictory are the personification of a young man wanting to see things improve but also enjoy the celebrity life while not losing the edge that got him there.
I wish we could have seen what he would have done.
Yeah odd name for a supposed "WEST COAST MC" who made his living dancing.
Yeah assaulting women and shooting cops is so cool bro. It's almost like he wanted to die to become a real west coast G! He was very smart though and politically when he wasn't rapping he had some compelling things to say.
Not even close. His rhymes were basic in his peak and super basic today. Not even a top 10 rapper at any point in time.
Thanks for your hate.
I'm being honest here I wouldn't recognise any of his music. Not my genre of choice. What's his most well known song? I'll take a listen.
He was convicted shit head.
No.
Yet the facts remain as I stated.
Most overrated posthumously of all time.
People who worship Tupac immediately show their limited knowledge of music.
im 32 today and been listening to pac since I was about 10 years old, damn time flies by so fucking fast man, now im not from the USA but as a immigrant foreigner in Sweden we kind of related to the blacks and rap a lot as minorities, me and all my friends were all into pac and biggie growing up wanting to be a G, im still listening to some of his songs every now and then and still get the same feelings today..
Anyway to me, pac always was and always will be the man when it comes to rap, his anger and passion, voice and flow/delivery is unmatched imo.
RIP 2Pac !
Was Pac a real gang banger?
Lol maybe you should switch people born in the 80's to people born in the eastIt seems to be split three ways between:
People who were born in the 80's and came of age in the 90's saying he wasn't that great, but still good. This is where I fall.
People born in the 90's and came of age in the 00's saying he was the greatest.
And people who dislike hip-hop/rap.
Very annoying mid 00's rap fans that were into underground and conscious rap.What is a "backpacker"?
He wasn't that big until he started to pretend he was from Oakland. Previously his name was MC New York.
His rhymes were always simple and one of the worst beat pickers in hip hop.
You've more than likely heard "California Love", I'd say it's probably one of the biggest mainstream songs he did, but not his best. He did a pretty cool video for it that was a homage to Mad Max.
I like "Life goes on". Changes is a good song and another of his bigger/more mainstream hits.