Why Tupac?
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- driftlab
I'm neither young nor hip. And therefore I'm ignorant as to why Tupac has been deified in recent years. Can someone explain to me why he was so ground breaking?
I apologize for my ignorance.
- Mimio0
Charisma
- DavidFelt0
I totally agree, utter shite
- Jaline0
I was wondering the same, although I was quite young when he was at his peak (while he was alive).
- jevad0
thug prick
- jdcomba0
i personally don't like him at all. defenitley Biggy!
- lowimpakt0
don't believe the hype.
- driftlab0
yea, i'm not feeling his charisma.
- HumanMale0
I'm not big on hip-hop so I'm not gonna diss him to sound trendy.
While he was alive, some of his tunes were pretty good. Wouldn't say groundbreaking, but he was definitely in the top 5 of his time...
- driftlab0
The only rap/hip-hop i ever got into was Public Enemy. My old band even did a cover of "Night of the Living Baseheads" (/useless info).
- Kevin_Sweeney0
This was around the same time that the series Star Trek: Voyager came out (my dad watches all those sci-fi type shows) and there was a character on there named "Tuvak" I believe. So when I came into school one day and everyone was like "OMG Tupac died!" I was like "Who the hell cares? He's a TV character!" Then I was like oh...I'm an idiot.
- canuck0
I think he was pretty good. I didnt even mind him as an actor.
- dc_again0
from someone who stopped being into hip hop just before tupac made it big...
i think it was a case of him being the first good looking, charismatic, could hold a conversation gangsta artist. at the time, west coast rap was huge, and everyone was into the gangsta shit. but they all had bad attitudes, wore black, dissed women, dissed whitey, and weren't exactly handsome. tupac came out and actually came across well on tv and in mags (it's all relative) but could still put across the west coast rap/gangsta stuff.
before him, to look good and get your pic on a teenage girls wall with your top off, you had to be LL.
it's my opinion like.
- driftlab0
My only real exposure to him was catching the occasional MTV 'news' report which always seemed to feature him spitting at people.
- arinya0
Cuz he made acouple hit songs and then was shot.
Rapper + Success + Ganked(?) = Icon
- mrdobolina0
biggie wasn't really the best either. unless you were just caught up in the hype.
- spendogg0
You have to really listen to his lyrics and respect the flow - he truly is a poet and thug angel.
- mrdobolina0
his and biggie's names have been so bastardized, it ruined everything.
thug angel? wtf is that?
- mayo0
okay, explain the charisma part to me. I had no interest in paying any attention to him because i didn't care for his music, but whenever i flipped through the channels and saw him, he was always counting stacks of 100s or spitting or all up in arms about east-west coast stuff.
I'm not being flippant either, I'm really curious about this. It's also not being about "conventional beauty" because I am open to seeing beauty in non-conventional beautiful things. Also, i did grow up in a little bit of the west-coast hip hop style, so i'm not overly ignorant about that, either.
- spendogg0
thug angel is what he is called. I heard that he has enlightend alot of people in the hip hop/street community - that is the name of a docu based on his life
- mattyd0
he took a bullet to the nuts, what more do you want?
though, i think the best tupac story i heard was after he got shot like 3 time in nyc, he rolled up a joint and smoked it until the paramedics came.