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Tupac is overrated
- Thread starter DeSo
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Q: What's your favourite album?
A: The one with Changes!
Blam
Member
Lmao that's literally how they are.
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
2Pac created a lot of memorable songs, and that's why many people considered him one of best rappers ever.
Just take a look at the rappers from the 90's
Eazy-E
Dr Dre
Snoop
2Pac
Are these rappers lyrically better or on the same level as biggie? No. But there's no denying that they made great rap songs that are considered classics. Music is an art, and you don't have to be technically the best "artist" to create memorable work.
Just take a look at the rappers from the 90's
Eazy-E
Dr Dre
Snoop
2Pac
Are these rappers lyrically better or on the same level as biggie? No. But there's no denying that they made great rap songs that are considered classics. Music is an art, and you don't have to be technically the best "artist" to create memorable work.
Sunster
Member
welcome!
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
ROFL All Eyez On Me isn't a classic? That's crazy talk
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highrider
Banned
Out of curiosity there really isn’t a lot of rap from the late 70s unless you kind of were at the epicenter in New York where it was growing in popularity. I grew up on the east coast in DC and other than Sugarhill and Planet Rock there was only rumblings of national popularity that early. I’m 50 and have been collecting music of the genre for a long time.
TFGB
Member
Indeed, but Hip Hop didn't merely revolve around 'rap' back then. I was mostly listening to funk on pirate London stations, but the beginnings of Electro occured in the late 70s. Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express" was produced several years before Bambaataa used it as his inspiration for Planet Rock.
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highrider
Banned
Love Kraftwerk, also Malcom Mclarren did some interesting fusion as well. Although I would say to some people in hip hop would dismiss it out of hand as not in the genre. When I think late 70s hip hop, I’m thinking about the film Wildstyle, Caz, Treacherous 3, Crash Crew, Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Flash etc..
TFGB
Member
Same here, but I think memory is hindering us both as I also imagined Wildstyle being the late 70s...but it was early 80s!
I did have the vinyl soundtrack to the movie about 20 years back, but sold it along with all my breaks collection. :/I remember the old ‘Double Trouble’ tracks and stuff from the original Cold Crush Bros. Classic!
I did pick these up a while back. Beat Street has never looked so good, and I still get chills when The Roxy battle kicks off lol.
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DasPenguin
Member
Are you trying to name most of the N.W.A. members while leaving out the guy who wrote the lyrics and was the best rapper of the whole group?
Porcile
Member
Yeah, where is The D.O.C on that list?
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DasPenguin
Member
I knew that was coming. Late 80’s to early 90’s Cube put out nothing but great albums. N.W.A. tanked the second he left the group. Last I checked D.O.C. and Ren wrote most of the songs on the second album which is mostly garbage.
Cube and Chuck D. are both criminally underrated these days.
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EricTheRed
Member
This video sums up more than any words could why I think 2pac is the GOAT. Just pure raw emotion.
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
Why would I do that when that has nothing to do with my point?
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
Why would I add him to the list?
Sickness702
Member
I grew up in LA, I listened to Pac, I felt what he was saying. I witnessed what he was saying with my own eyes. I like Nas but I'm not from the East Coast so I can't relate to half the shit he said. He's not the best rapper, most lyrical, he is the best story teller though and that's why I like him. He paints a picture with his words like nobody else. Em and Kendrick are good story tellers but not like Pac was.
And about being paranoid... well damn, he went to go see Biggie in the studio and got shot, tf kinda bullshit is this? You wouldn't be paranoid if the guy as you say "who was friends, with, idolized and looked up to tupac" set you up and almost get you killed? And before you go on about "he didn't set him up" doesn't matter because thats what Pac believed.
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Porcile
Member
Because he was the secret best member of NWA, Nobody did it better.
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
If I was trying to name the members of NWA, then Pac and Snoop wouldn't be on that list.
The Sane Psycho
Banned
I love Tupac, but I think he is a bit overrated. Ready To Die by Biggie is my personal favorite rap album.
grumpyGamer
Member
Yo can´t talk about 2pac and not talk about politics,
At the time the discrimination against blacks was big so was the racism, you may not like his music but his words changed so social spectrum of the time.
so in that he was among the best
At the time the discrimination against blacks was big so was the racism, you may not like his music but his words changed so social spectrum of the time.
so in that he was among the best
TrainedRage
Banned
Have you heard these......?
This song is so damn relevant today; even though it was written 20 years ago.
I mean.... Come on.
This song is so damn relevant today; even though it was written 20 years ago.
I mean.... Come on.