I’ve noticed that whenever you have a debate on tupac its always full of terms like “passion” “influence” or “message” which I find to be bullshit every artist has all of the above why do people make it seem like Pac is the only rapper to ever have a message also in most of these debates u never hear anyone ever use his music as the argument or even his albums, why do u ask because that wouldn’t make for a good argument.
I never understood how people could claim Pac as the best mc ever, when in fact Pac is the most overrated figure in music history. I know all of Pac’s loyal “soldiers” are going to try and crucify me for this but hear me out first.
Lyrically Pac is not even top 25 maybe even 30, and the man never even made a classic album, fuck it I said it he never made a classic me against the world is his closet but 30 % of the album didn’t age very well, makaveli is probably the most overrated album ever the joint is was one wack song away from being weak. All eyez on me is a damn mess and his early albums or not even worth mentioning. Don’t get me wrong I mean I like Pac, just about as much as a I like pepperoni pizza(its cool but not every damn day) I most of his albums and some of his DVD’s so don’t think I’m not being a “hater” I just don’t understand why everyone praises this man so much.
For some strange reason Pac seems to get away with the same things we criticize other artist for. Most people criticize 50 cent for talking about get shot, but Pac talked about getting shot way more than 50 has done but no one ever brings that up. Also people love to accuse 50 of being a snitch with pretty much no basis to the argument yet Pac blatantly snitches on jimmy henchman and Haitian jack on against all odds. People accuse jayz and others for having repetitive content yet Pac talked about the same old shit “my enemies this, I’m an outlaw that” all the damn time dude repeated himself more than Mike Jones.
But the main Pac argument was his influence yeah ill admit Pac is the most influential rapper of all times bar none but that doesn’t necessarily make that a good thing, his influence on rap was about the same as a drug dealers influence on the youth in the community, what good artist has come out of Pac's influence? JA rule? Lil scrappy? Master p and c-murder? No there just all lame copy. On top of that it really wasn’t even his true image, Pac went to the school of performing arts was very articulate he said him self that he was never a drug dealer (yet he talked about it) in many of the DVD’s his old friends said he wasn’t a good fighter and always got beat up, shock g said that when he met Pac he was very quite and reserved, so where did this whole thug life, middle fingers up fuck the world shit come from it was all a fucking act they should give Pac an award for this shit the man was acting his whole god damn career that’s fucking genius. But then he goes and makes his best career move he dies, then and only then did Pac become the #1 rapper I never heard anyone say that Pac was the best before he died hell I hardly ever heard anyone talk about Pac outside of the court cases and the drama.
In closing Pac was not the best rapper of all times, he was not a revolutionary or a hero to black people he was nothing more than a shirtless thug rapper who created a great character to hide behind. I challenge anyone to make a good argument as to why Pac deserves the praise he gets in Hip Hop without mentioning his influence or his imagine.
im not into rap but it's pretty good
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