They still play californoa love during sports events in california. Kurt cobain not so much.
It's an alternative fact.This part's a joke, right?
In what timespan, with how many albums?interestingly they are both mostly tied at around 75-77 million records sold
On the other hand, I bet they're not playing California Love in Seattle, though.
Tupac in USA, Cobain for the rest of the world.
He's right. At the very least in places like the UK Tupac's death was only really a notable thing in a niche crowd. Everyone knows about Kurt Cobain though.
Rap isn't as big outside the US.
Tupac in USA, Cobain for the rest of the world.
Rap isn't as big outside the US.
Huh? It's big enough to have significant artists from West Europe to East Asia.
Huh? It's big enough to have significant artists from West Europe to East Asia.
Kurt.
People were geniuenly heart broken when Kurt died and felt like it was an end to an era.
Pac dying was sad, but people romantized more with the idea of Tupac being legend years after he was gone.
Depends where you live. Where i lived i was surprised to see a lot of kids "depressed" and actually crying because Kurt Cobain was dead. It was scary and laughable to witness, to be honest. Kids......
He's right. At the very least in places like the UK Tupac's death was only really a notable thing in a niche crowd. Everyone knows about Kurt Cobain though.
Tupac in USA, Cobain for the rest of the world.
MARTIN: So how big is Tupac in Libya?
M: I would say that Tupac is, still to this day, the biggest western music artist in Libya, maybe along with Bob Marley, but the two are definitely neck-and-neck.
MARTIN: Give me an example of, like, how I would experience that if I were to go.
M: It's everywhere. I mean, I was shocked because I grew up listening to Tupac over here and, you know, my first time ever going to Libya in my life was last year, and I was shocked. I mean, visually, you see it everywhere. You see graffiti, RIP Tupac. Just riding around in the streets, you still see people playing his music from the '90s to this day, and I'm talking about kids that are 18, 19 and 20 years old that may not have been around when he was making music, but his influence is huge. I mean, he's still the premier hip-hop artist in Libya.
MARTIN: Not just hip-hop artist, but artist who represents, kind of, the soundtrack of what young people are listening to. Does that...
M: For sure.
MARTIN: ...sound about right? Why do you think that is?
M: I think he made music that's very relatable. I think Tupac really represented a struggle. He represented trying to come up out of your environment and be something bigger, exceeding expectations and, you know, that's something that all of the youth in Libya can relate to.
Cobain was the death blow to grunge, it limped on for a bit but his death killed an entire genre. So there was definitely a huge impact there.
2pac was a better artist whose passing left a deeper hole in music, and his death also had long lasting repercussions on hip hop culture and how it treated violence. But he didn't kill an entire genre with his death so my vote goes for Cobain.
I'm sure he was known to people who loved rap, but according to Wikipedia the best he ever did on the charts here (while alive) was 99. So yeah, probably lots of people have never heard about him. I personally wouldn't know about him if I didn't frequent so many american websites, I don't even think I know a song of his, or if I do then I don't know it's him.I don't get all these people saying that Pac was unknown outside the US. Seriously?!
I was into hiphop and a PAC fan in the early 90s not even knowing what Nirvana was, became a rock guy by the end of the decade. Never was a fan of them when they where active and discoved them very late. Still, In Europe Nirvana was and still is bigger then PAC by at least a factor of 100.I think I only know one Nirvana song.
Whereas I know at least a dozen Tupac songs.
It's hard to say which death impacted the music world more since most people probably only really listened to one and not the other.