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Tupac's ambiguity

OMG! LOL

"I won't deny ya, I'm a straght writer, you don't wanna fuck with me, got the police bustin at me, but they can't do nothing to a G
My ambitionz as a writer!"
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LOL
wtf you talking about man?"ridah" doesnt excist and shit.
ridah=rida=ryda=ridah=rydah=RIDER
comes from "to ride".in that context a "baller, a thug, someone who´s on the streets, in his car "dippin´",when does pac mean when he says "souljah" or "soulja", "souljah", "soulja" doesnt excist but it means
"soldier"?c´mon man grow up!

Thugish
Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Serbia
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lol wtf man, where youve been?
 
Here and there, a little bit of everywhere....i forgot about this forum, now im back....used to read this on hitemup.com, wayback......
 
Mr.Deuce said:
LOL
wtf you talking about man?"ridah" doesnt excist and shit.
ridah=rida=ryda=ridah=rydah=RIDER
comes from "to ride".in that context a "baller, a thug, someone who´s on the streets, in his car "dippin´",when does pac mean when he says "souljah" or "soulja", "souljah", "soulja" doesnt excist but it means
"soldier"?c´mon man grow up!
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What I'm saying makes perfect sense, think about it for a second ...

1) Tupac is not a mutherfucking street racer; Tupac is a Rapper, a Poet, a Scriptwriter/ a Playwrite, an Artist - writing is what he did for a living.

I never heard him say he had any ambitions to be a taxi driver or a pizza delivery guy or any other occupation that involved driving, riding, or 'dippin' in his car.

Tupac was a Writer, full stop.
 
Yeshua said:
Lol, that's a metaphor.



This is ambiguity when he says:

'Wit no hope, lil skinny mutha fucka wantin dope,
I hated cuttin suckas wit my razor blade
But everyday, Its a struggle to get major paid'

He's not talking about slashing people with razors, he's saying that he's a sharp motherfucker.
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@ Yeshua

Lol at you trying to skool him by saying his example was a metaphor and turn around and give an example that is a metaphor as well!

What's even more funny is that metaphors are a FORM of ambiguity! So he was right after all. If you open a book on social science you'll see that language equals power and metaphor's are a form of ambiguity to gain "power". Just like how rapper use metaphor's: they choose to be ambiguous by using metaphors when they could have just stated WHAT they meant by it.

By 2pac saying "up and down like a rollercoaster", he uses a form of ambiguity so you can choose how to interpret this. Obviously most of us know HOW he used this metaphor, but we EACH have a different picture of what we think is what 2pac meant.

Conclusion:
Rap = metaphors
Metaphors = ambiguity
Rap = ambiguous
 
It's threads like this that attempt to make 2pac bigger than he is that make me want to commit murder.
 
S O F I said:
It's threads like this that attempt to make 2pac bigger than he is that make me want to commit murder.
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It's people like you who are so obsessed with the internet, that they feel the urge to kill themselves after reading stupid forum topics :D


On the real though, that "will I suck seed" line cracks me up EVERY time.
 
Lol, my bad. Thought I read that you wanted to commit murder to yourself haha. Anyway, one things has been consistent throughout the years on 2pac-boards: ignorance and people posting a lot of DUMB shit :).

On the Makaveli forum someone brilliantly asked what they bleeped out in This Ain't Livin. That's a classic topic and some actually still believe that they bleeped out "disappear and reappear ..."
 
I was here before 2003, but I don't have my old nickname anymore (I can't remember if I just lost it, or that generally a lot of nicks were lost during the end of that HitEmUp period).

I've been around pretty much since the beginning of this forum. I used to go by the nickname Big Man, but even then I was more of a forum-reader than a forum-poster. I hadn't been really active on Streethop.com until recently.
 
This thread is all about 2pacs lyrics being cryptic. If anyone else has any examples I would be glad to hear them.
 
lol at the guy who doesnt know what a Ridah is

When We Ride On Our Enemies<<<You think hes in a Taxi or something?

Ridah, Balla, Mack, Playa, True G...theyre just words man, theyre not literal.

He means like I'm down to RIDE to do anything I have to do to succeed and survive, and then When We RIDE on Our Enemies could be taken as theyre RIDING around to do a driveby, to exterminate their foes, even though hes doing it lyrically, hes RIDING on them lyrically
 
Ricardo said:
lol at the guy who doesnt know what a Ridah is

When We Ride On Our Enemies<<<You think hes in a Taxi or something?

Ridah, Balla, Mack, Playa, True G...theyre just words man, theyre not literal.

He means like I'm down to RIDE to do anything I have to do to succeed and survive, and then When We RIDE on Our Enemies could be taken as theyre RIDING around to do a driveby, to exterminate their foes, even though hes doing it lyrically, hes RIDING on them lyrically
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This exacly what I'm talking about: semantics.

When tupac says "I'm 165 staying high til I die" (open fire) he's not talking about smoking weed and being 'high' he's talking about how high he is in centimetres :p
 
Yeshua said:
Lol, that's a metaphor.



This is ambiguity when he says:

'Wit no hope, lil skinny mutha fucka wantin dope,
I hated cuttin suckas wit my razor blade
But everyday, Its a struggle to get major paid'

He's not talking about slashing people with razors, he's saying that he's a sharp motherfucker.
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good one, thas a good example
 
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