AEOM is 25 tomorrow
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That's what I thought as well. 2pac's early albums were clearly a sign of their time and sound very old-school. MATW sounds like solid 90s music to me. But AEOM and Makaveli, despite being recorded just a year after MATW, sound simply like good music over 25 years later. Most songs on these have a timeless vibe to them.
It's also crazy to me that 2pac's music career lasted just five years, and he progressed so much within such a short time period. I wish I could see an alternative universe in which 2pac is alive. There are very few "what-ifs" that I'm more curious about than seeing 2pac and what he'd have done over those 30 years instead of just 5. Knowing this guy it.. could have been anything between peacefully retired to the most charismatic leader of nations, and almost an infinite number of possibilities in between. I'm yet to meet a 25-year old with a combination of as much drive, charisma/personality and emotional intelligence regardless of what they're doing.
It's also crazy to me that 2pac's music career lasted just five years, and he progressed so much within such a short time period. I wish I could see an alternative universe in which 2pac is alive. There are very few "what-ifs" that I'm more curious about than seeing 2pac and what he'd have done over those 30 years instead of just 5. Knowing this guy it.. could have been anything between peacefully retired to the most charismatic leader of nations, and almost an infinite number of possibilities in between. I'm yet to meet a 25-year old with a combination of as much drive, charisma/personality and emotional intelligence regardless of what they're doing.
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Pac had such great ideas. I think he would have evolved into something greater than an entertainer. You only have to remember his beginnings and early influences with Afeni being an activist to see which direction he may have been heading in especially with the audience that Pac had, and the world events that have been happening over time. Pac would have used his platform for a greater purpose.
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It's crazy to think I bought AEOM Remastered in 2003 or 04, just 7 years after his death. It has since been 17 years since I bought that album, almost twice the amount of time since his death at that time.
I only got in to hip hop around that 2002ish era and that was 6 years since his death.
I don't know if it's controversial to say so or not but that was my favorite album of his. The other ones were OK but AOEM was something I could listen to without skipping many tracks.
I only got in to hip hop around that 2002ish era and that was 6 years since his death.
I don't know if it's controversial to say so or not but that was my favorite album of his. The other ones were OK but AOEM was something I could listen to without skipping many tracks.
I remember getting seriously into 2pac when "Greatest Hits" came out. I thought "Changes" was his biggest song as it was on MTV all the time. My first middle school girlfriend lent me the CD and I never gave it back (eventually she was ok with it), had it playing on repeat, almost 24/7. After "Changes" I had "How long will they mourn me" as my huge first big favorite.
Even though it was just two or three years after he died, even at that time it felt to me as he was always "the rapper who died", as ridiculous as it sounds. Feels stupid it was so recent at that point, and it's been almost 25 years now.
Even though it was just two or three years after he died, even at that time it felt to me as he was always "the rapper who died", as ridiculous as it sounds. Feels stupid it was so recent at that point, and it's been almost 25 years now.
I actually asked about The Realest within the past year. I couldn't remember his name but I remembered the beat for Witness the Realest for the first time since the year it dropped and had to find the name of the artist. I think Fat Joe was on that one, too. It was a sick beat and the Pac resemblance was uncanny and I kind of subconsciously accepted it as being a Pac song.
Looks like the folks around my age got in to Pac around the same time I did; I assumed most of you guys were old enough to go out and purchase Pac's earlier albums like Me Against the World as they released, or soon after. But people's first experiences with it were in the early-2000s, well after his death.
Now that Masta mentioned it, Changes was all over the radio in 98 or 99 or so and I used to listen to Hits radio station in Chicago at that time. Didn't know it was Pac and didn't care for the song much at the time, but I knew the beat and the chorus. Same with California Love. I think that was the Summer of 99 for me when I heard it on the radio. Wasn't it used for that Wild Wild West movie with Will Smith?
Omg I used to chat with Tha Realest on Myspace. I also managed to get a shoutout from Yukmouth on my profile, or one of the photos, or something, but it was public. I was a kid harassing them for info about 2pac lmao. Those early social media days were awesome. To be fair they're not big celebrities and are likely to respond if you reached out to them today, not sure about Yuk as he's a Bay Area legend but not super in the spotlight so who knows.
Tha Realest's "Fuck Dre" was actually a very solid diss track that aged horribly badly in all possible ways. Ah the simple days of making an entire song calling someone gay and laughing at Dre, Eminem and Snoop and mocking them for turning their backs on "bulletproof" Deathrow.
Tha Realest's "Fuck Dre" was actually a very solid diss track that aged horribly badly in all possible ways. Ah the simple days of making an entire song calling someone gay and laughing at Dre, Eminem and Snoop and mocking them for turning their backs on "bulletproof" Deathrow.
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