R.I.P. Tupac Amaru Shakur

Funny, but I've never done that.

 

Have you read the rose that grew from from concrete? Anyways, Tupac was,by far, the greatest rapper of all time. I think the feud with him and Biggie was stupid, but I still respect the guy's work.

P.S. Whitlock, did you just say that Tupac was a "wannabe" gangster?

 

Having just listened to it, i'd like to add Pour Out a Little Liquor to my list of best 2Pac songs.

 

It's more the case that being a bigot makes you not like rap.

 

Dude, just stop posting on this thread if you don't like rap and want to talk bad about Makaveli. You have no appreciation for Tupac, the literary genius, and you just come off sounding like you need a vacation.

 

(Quietly nominating myself to portray Mainstream America)

 

pac was a genius. ain't no way around dat.

and i'm disgusted by what rap music has become.... but some of the stuff pac wrote was pure genius.

 

If he didn't die on Sept. 13, 1996, he would have been killed sooner than later. He may have gifted but he was a piece of shit.

 

Reading what I'm assuming was supposed to be English, I'd ask this: Aren't most "geniuses" less than perfect human beings?

Honestly?

Not equating his asshole tendencies with anyone else's...but very few geniuses are completely grounded.

 

Where does the need to slander the dead come from?

I guess I could understand if he had some tangible negative impact on your life, but for the love of God, can we just let the Tupac fans have one little fucking thread where they throw out some old lyrics and remember a big talent who died young?

The man had flaws. He embraced them, gave in to them, fought them, wrote about them, rapped about them, wore them on the outside.

He's been dead a while now, and a lot of us wish he wasn't, and remember the music fondly.

I personally don't listen to much hip-hop or rap anymore. But I did listen to Tupac, as did everyone I knew back in the day, black, white, asian, hispanic.

And if you write at all, you have to admire the man's lyrics. He told stories, used vivid imagery and more complex rhyme schemes than I would ever attempt. If you can't take anything else away, if your tired ass insists that the whole genre of music is shit, sit down and scan the lyrics some time. It's as tight as anything they'll hold up for canonization in Intro to Poetry.