Ghetto Gospel
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- stem
Those who wish to follow me (My ghetto gospel)
I welcome with my hands
And the red sun sinks at last into the hills of gold
And peace to this young warrior without the sound of guns...Bag of shite?
Me thinks so
- blackspade0
I hate alot of what they've done with Pac's unreleased versus
that one in particular is shite
- stem0
The 'sentimentality' makes me puke!
He's done some good stuff, but whoever is responsible for putting out his posthumous stuff is obviously capitalising on this 'sentimentality'
Elton is becoming a bit of a king at this...
- Bam0
Crap
- rabattski0
haha how much more blood can you suck out of a dead body?
- its_only_me0
Yeah there kinda dragging it out now.
...and all of these Pac and Big tracks being made with people they never know and would probably hate.
tired.
- Kuz0
what are you guys talking about?
if it's that verse printed up top, i think it;s beautiful. Rich in imagery.
- stem0
I think it's a question of 'context' Kuz.
The lyrics on their own are as you say; rich in imagery. But that's when you use your own imagination.
Linked to the music vid and all the 2Pac history... very, very sickly
- Kuz0
well i haven't heard the song, seen the vid or anything. so i don't care.
those words however, are beautiful. You forget with all that thug shit bagage, that he was a real poet.
- its_only_me0
his biggest mistake was leaving so much bloody unreleased music for fags like eminem to produce and spoil.
- rabattski0
i've seen the ringtone commercials way before the video. says a lot.
- arinya0
2Pac. Great but overated?
- rabattski0
yep but not as overrated as biggie. then again, taste i guess.
- Kuz0
2pacs whopping double album, All Eyez on me is magnificent with some of the choicest tracks this side of g-funk. I think he's great, and i love the nihilism of it all. The death wish, pure immature violence and angst he spouts. THe few moments of tenderness are that much more revealing.
- rabattski0
g-funk? don't tell me it means gangsta funk.
- Kuz0
haha, yep! Gangsta bay-bee!
- rabattski0
jezus.
- Kuz0
hey but it's really cool. The sound of West coast rap in the mid 90's. Dre, Snoop, 2pac. They all released some classic g-funk albums. The soundtrack to my adolescence.
- arinya0
I love how rappers put out a mama song in the same album they have a smoking, slapping & fukcing hoes song. It's not easy putting the two of those song next to each other on teh same album. respect.
- rabattski0
common, just say those words a couple of times. gangsta funk, gangsta funk. it's so ridiculous. what IS gangsta funk? funk made by gangstas? and if it ain't made by gangstas it can't ever be g-funk? is there also g-blues? g-country? g-soul? i thought musicians where musicians and gangstas are too busy being criminal and all that shit. and OG what the hell is that? like i'm an original gangsta and you're not, you're just a gangsta? pathetic if you ask me, but whatever, everyone has their thing going on.
- Kuz0
yeah i know the label is ridiculous sounding. But that's what the music press labelled it. I mean they were all singing about gangsta's, and it had a specific LA sound, so they called it g-funk. Stupid i know, but when you get passed that, the music is class IMO.
And a lot of the rappers did come out of the LA gang culture at the time, tho most just pretended to. I can understand why that's hard for you to take seriously, because they way "gangsta" became this crazy stupid brand. But whatever, the music was cool.