For fans with English as a second language

[Mongol]

Did anyone on this board (the fans across the seas - non english speaking countries) started listening to Pac when they didnt speak English?

 

[G.Litt]

No. I knew english when I started listening to 2Pac.

 

[Ricardo_Brown]

yea i was about 11-12 when i started to listen to pac. and my english wasent the best back then... but neither is my gramar now dayz lol

 

[Smoke-A-Lot]

lol yeah same thing happens with me

 

[2Pac-arab]

no my english is second lang- since i begain to hear 2Pac

but why u ask ?

 

[Mongol]

well the reason i am asking cause i didnt speak a fucking word back in 97 when i listened to all eyez on me - so for me it is interesting how pac captivated people around the world with his voice. i found myself skipping the tracks with not so good beats though.
just was curious if anyone had the same experience back then or even right now.

i bet some still enjoy Beatles somewhere in a foreign contry without understanding it and same goes with pac - i have lots of friends that dont know english but listening to pac

so for me it was an urge to learn what pac was really saying-basically my first english teacher.

 

[Saaphir]

I understand just few words or verses but I bounce to the music

 

[bimi]

well the reason i am asking cause i didnt speak a fucking word back in 97 when i listened to all eyez on me - so for me it is interesting how pac captivated people around the world with his voice. i found myself skipping the tracks with not so good beats though.
just was curious if anyone had the same experience back then or even right now.

i bet some still enjoy Beatles somewhere in a foreign contry without understanding it and same goes with pac - i have lots of friends that dont know english but listening to pac

so for me it was an urge to learn what pac was really saying-basically my first english teacher.

lool...i find that funny couse I used to do the same and now sometimes I try to remember what songs I used to skip just to check what I didnt like about them...and one of them used to be Holla at Me...I dont know why but maybe couse of the ladyvoice on but I know I used to like Only God can judge me couse I knew what the titel means ...I started lissning to him in my 5-th grade (96) and that waz the time when I started taking english lessons on my country(Kosova)...and after the war I moved to Sweden 99 and keep on bumpin Pacs music every day...

peace/bimi

 

[Jokko20]

I started to listen to pac a few years ago when I was about 12-13 (now im 15) and back them my english wasnt that good. And now all I can say is that my english is improved Partially because of this board maybe

 

[Zero Cool]

^^I notice that there are quite a lot of Swedish fans of Pac on here, is he big over there?

 

[Tru Principle]

Yeah I guess he is! But i'm over seas however my first langauge is English so... coodos to you Sir. lol Peace

 

[Jokko20]

well I aint livin in one of the bigger citys so I can't really answer that question but I now that here where I live pac's not that big. But i'm tryin to convince my homies to throw away their 50cent-cd's and start listen to some real music

 

[bimi]

^^I notice that there are quite a lot of Swedish fans of Pac on here, is he big over there?

yeah he is BIG as shit couse on the late 90 alot of street ppl moved to Sweden...before that sweden waz lolly lully Pop shit....noone new anything about Rap or westcoast or Pac....when I moved to sweden on 99 noone new about Pac in my school....the only thing they new about music waz Max Matrin(the one who allways produce Backstreet Boys and Britney and N*stinks )

he is big on the south sweden where all the minority ppl lives...on the south ghettos(Malmö, Helsingborg, Landskrona)....sweden has alot of imigrant from Somalia, Ghana, Turkey, Kosova, Bosnia and all these ppl lissen to Pac couse he tells us how we dont have the same rights here in sweden as sweeds....when it comes to me, I lissen Pac couse he tells me how to live my life on a forgein cpountry when u have ppl telling that u are not welcome on their country....and now Im on my first year on University of Lund(Swedens best one) and showing these swedish kids that minority ppl can make it too even tho I´ve only lived here for about 6 years.

Holla

 

[makaveli_411]

Check this out Zero Cool, Sweden is one of the only countries that are crazy for Pac and his music. I remember when I saw my cousin, he's living in Sweden with my uncle. In 99' in Tunisia we went and bought a Pac tape and we played it the whole summer for a month and a half when he were at his house next to the beach.

Peace

 

[Ricardo_Brown]

yea ofcourse sweden likes pac... how many other countrys can you mention that pac visited when he was alive....

 

[Missy "C"]

no, i knew some english when i started listening to pac. I think that if u like hip hop, u should understand what the lyrics are about, if not, it doesn't make much sense, u only listen to the beat.

 

[bimi]

yea ofcourse sweden likes pac... how many other countrys can you mention that pac visited when he was alive....

eeeehm, did Pac visited Sweden???
never heard of that dude...I hope u kidding couse Pac would never come to this cold ass country

holla/bimi

 

[Jokko20]

Originally Posted by bimi
eeeehm, did Pac visited Sweden???
never heard of that dude...I hope u kidding couse Pac would never come to this cold ass country

holla/bimi

Man havn't u heard the P3 Interview with pac? It's from Sweden..i think?

EDIT: sorry. the interview was made in NY. my bad

 

[Saaphir]

There are a lot of countries in Europe which got love for Pac,specially France (I dunno 'bout UK but I think they love him too...) where he is seen as the Greatest!Frenchies love the westcoast style(Dr. Dre & Snoop,I mean and now The Game)

 

[Scoobyffc]

Well...i started to speak english, i mean, really learn english, after listen to some Pac songs. I was tryin to figure out everything he was talkin about, not only a couple of lines, than i started an English class ....
Back in 98...when i was 15...