why do ppl say Pac wasnt shit when he was ALIVE? he was already a living legend.. he already sold 5mil b4 his death. everybody was afraid to touch that guy when he was ALIVE.. he gets love all over iN CALI, even Versace was on his ass.. cmon now
Tojo said:why do ppl say Pac wasnt shit when he was ALIVE? he was already a living legend.. he already sold 5mil b4 his death. everybody was afraid to touch that guy when he was ALIVE.. he gets love all over iN CALI, even Versace was on his ass.. cmon now
CalcuoCuchicheo said:I think a lot of people see Tupac as overrated for mainly two reasons;
1. They've never really listened to his music..
Buyaka said:Thank you!
Pac achieved his first goal of coming back into rap after all that drama that almost killed him. So sayin he werent loved when he was alive is straight ignorant bull crap tit wank bollocks! Trust me, half the reason he got killed was out of jealousy, they hated he had all this power. The whole of westcoast was ready to put it down with 2pac -
Reason I say this is because alot of people have said that death made 2pac! - Fuck that, Pac came back up in '96 with his nuts (or nut rather) in his hand and said fuck em all, im back, im bad and im gonna knock y'all the fuck out! - And for that brief moment of time, he did! He was on the verge of owning Rap Music in my eyes dude, his influence to the game would of been, and still is, immense. The only thing death did to 2pac was show why he was such a special force of human nature. He was a phenomenon. Noone has ever stepped on a stage/mic/album/industry the way he has. So no, he aint over-rated.
I got a problem and that is I respect business people and any person who achieves success out of failure, and Pacs one of them dude's. In fact, Pac is the ultimate guy to have done this. One minute he's sittin in jail writing letters home saying he wants to open a restaurant and settle down in a family business cuz this rap game has done nothing but destroy him, and the next he becomes the biggest thing in the west coast and Rap music taking on anybody who stood in his way. Badboy got hit hard!! Suge gave him the golden ticket, he took it and run with it!
Suge knew Pac had a beef with Badboy, and Suge obviously did too - so Suge let him off the leash so to speak and said go get em playa - do what u gotta do. Pac was hungry for it and it showed.
I gotta agree with the majority that your in a 2pac fan forum discussing him and u drop an ignorant comment like "he's over-rated" and then get shocked when people shit on you. I personally respect your opinion cuz i put up with this shit from my homies all day long - but dont get touchy when people spit back at ya -.
Anyway it dont matter what anyone says, Pac was blessed by something and his life was a special one. People get shot and live all the time, but to come back the way he did against every odd and the fear that he could end up in a grave again - well it just shows how big his balls (ball) were.
He sacrificed his own life to rap, so respect it dude - it gave millions of people around the world timeless classics of a timeless rapper.
Peace ..!
yea, i think having two #1 albums (while alive) proves a little something about yourselfTojo said:why do ppl say Pac wasnt shit when he was ALIVE? he was already a living legend.. he already sold 5mil b4 his death. everybody was afraid to touch that guy when he was ALIVE.. he gets love all over iN CALI, even Versace was on his ass.. cmon now
Tonio1986 said:^ I often noticed your opinion in other threads, but you didint seperate ppl saying he is the greatest man or he is the greatest rapper. What is wrong about seeing him as the G.O.A.T.?
saltynuts said:nothing is wrong with seeing him as the GOAT if that is what he is to you (I will get back to that in a minute). his words touches many people on many levels but there are people in the game who can do better with the wordplay and there are people who can write a more complex lyrics.
there is something wrong with riding Pac's dick and claiming that 'he could out spit any MC' or other things like claiming that he never made any mistakes, pretending that he was some sort of a perfect human or a saint.
I think people are often confused about why Pac is the GOAT.
Zero Cool said:I don't dispute your right to call Tupac overrated. What I do dispute is you consistently going around hating on Pac, his music and his fans. By coming out with stupid comments like "anyone who still listens to Pac is lame" you are simply antagonizing many on this board and causing yourself unneccessary problems but at the end of the day maybe that's what you really want. This is, whether you like it or not, a site dedicated to 2Pac and if you don't want to deal with people who are big fans of his please head off to the Ill Community, you'd fit much better in there anyway.
saltynuts said:Pac was great, I think he was the greatest 'MAN' (notice I didnt use rapper) in hip hop, but people like to put him way higher than what he really was.
there is something wrong with riding Pac's dick and claiming that 'he could out spit any MC' or other things like claiming that he never made any mistakes, pretending that he was some sort of a perfect human or a saint.
I think people are often confused about why Pac is the GOAT.
CalcuoCuchicheo said:Co-sign this. In terms of the original qualities needed to be a rapper - wordplay, flow, freestyle etc. - there are people who, IMO, rank higher than 2Pac but he had extra qualities, ones which once went unaccounted for - emotion, heart/'realness' (& I mean this in the most intelligent way in that, he stood by his beliefs), charisma, originality.
Hurts said:actually it is lame if u still listen to pac..it is lame if u still listen to him more than once in every lets say** 4 months? Ya know everybody has moments when ya think back of the old times..BUt uhh many people forget hip hop moved on and hip hop obviously didnt die when pac died...and yeah he is hella overrated...doesnt mean i dont like his music tho...but ppl act like he was a god..
:thumb:CalcuoCuchicheo said:Co-sign this. In terms of the original qualities needed to be a rapper - wordplay, flow, freestyle etc. - there are people who, IMO, rank higher than 2Pac but he had extra qualities, ones which once went unaccounted for - emotion, heart/'realness' (& I mean this in the most intelligent way in that, he stood by his beliefs), charisma, originality.
IMO, 2Pac could freestyle fairly well & he had some nice wordplay, but his strength lay in writing songs. It's like this, I wouldn't say that 2Pac is the greatest rapper ever, but I will say he's the greatest songwriter in Hip Hop history, & one of the greatest in music - ever.
ThaHeartless said:I should add this reply because everyone whose replied to you has made the wrong points. You can say you dont like pac, etc. its just that when you go around calling people lame because theyre into a certain thing that you're not feeling, it ain't very smart. You need to get to grips with something called opinion and taste. I can't see how you can find the time to come to a message board for someone who now has "lame" songs?
No one here is saying they listen to pac and only pac, and hip hop died with pac (anyone who does is a fool), people prefer to listen to pac. Just like some prefer football over rugby or tea over coffee. What you're saying is that basically, if someone theres like me who listens to pac songs daily, they must be "lame", be attached to pac, and have no regard for hip hop since his death. A very well done, fantastic point.:thumb: