For those who think Pac wasn't as good of a rapper as the best of them

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  • T. Sanford
    T. Sanford Guests, Members, Writer, Content Producer Posts: 25,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Dont get me wrong; a rapper can't be wack lyrically & shall know how to rap but I don't get much intrigued about how technical a rapper is. As long as he making music that's passionate & I can relate to then it's good with me
  • sapp08_2001
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    Pac will always be considered to be the best to ever touch the mic imo. LL Cool J is 2nd
  • *~queenbee~*
    *~queenbee~* Members Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    5 Grand wrote: »
    .....and then send a virus to your computer and send thugs to your house/job to beat you up.

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    @5 Grand, did you have too much to drink, dear? I specifically asked the ? bartender nott to spike the tea with Rum!
  • aladdin1978
    aladdin1978 Members Posts: 4,609 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    youngnick wrote: »
    You just haven't listened to much of his music...

    Me Against the World
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cjv7hEAytU

    [Verse 1: 2Pac]
    Can you picture my prophecy?
    Stress in the city, the cops is out for me
    The projects is full of bullets, though bodies is droppin'
    They ain't no stoppin' me
    Constantly movin' while makin' millions
    Witnessin' killings
    Leavin' dead bodies in abandoned buildings
    Can't reach the children 'cause they're illin'
    Addicted to killin' and the appeal from the cap peelin'
    Without feelin', but will they last or be blasted?
    Hard headed bastard
    Maybe he'll listen in his casket; the aftermath
    More bodies being buried, I'm losin' my homies in a hurry
    They're relocatin' to the cemetery
    Got me runnin', stressin', my vision's blurry
    The question is will I live? No one in the world loves me
    I'm headed for danger, don't trust strangers
    Put one in the chamber whenever I'm feeling this anger
    Don't wanna make excuses, cause this is how it is
    What's the use? Unless we're shootin' no one notices the youth
    It's just me against the world, baby


    [[Verse 4: 2Pac]
    With all this extra stressin'
    The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath
    When will I finally get to rest through this oppression?
    They punish the people that's askin' questions. And those that possess steal from the ones without possessions
    The message I stress: to make it stop, study your lessons
    Don't settle for less, even the genius asks his questions
    Be grateful for blessings, don't ever change, keep your essence
    The power is in the people and politics we address
    Always do your best, don't let the pressure make you panic
    And when you get stranded
    And things don't go the way you planned it
    Dreamin' of riches, in a position of makin' a difference
    Politicians are hypocrites, they don't wanna listen
    If I'm insane, it's the fame made a brother change
    It wasn't nothin' like the game, it's just me against the world


    Checkout Time
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AxaBugdt2I

    [Verse 1: 2Pac]
    Now I'm up early in the mornin', breath stinkin' as I'm yawnin'
    Just another sunny day in California
    I got my mind focused on some papers while I'm into sexy capers
    Give a holla to them hoochies last night, that tried to ? us
    Will these rap lyrics take us, plus room all up in Vegas
    I'm a boss playa, death before I let these ? break us
    Last night was like a fantasy, Alizé and Hennessy
    A hoochie and her homie ? dancin' with my man and me
    Told her I was interested, picture all the ? we did
    I got her hot and ? , all up on me, what a freaky ?
    First you argued, then I fight it, 'til you lick me where I like it
    Got a ? all excited, it don't matter, just don't bite it
    I never got to check out the scene
    Too busy tryin' to dig a hole in your jeans
    Now it seems, it's check out time


    Got My Mind Made Up
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gztDvPWTWs

    [Verse 2: 2Pac]
    So mandatory my elevation, my lyrics like orientation
    So you can be more familiar with the ? you facin'
    We must be patient, nothin' better than communication
    Known to damage and highly flammable like gas stations
    Sorry I left that ass waitin'
    No more procrastination, give up to fate and get that ass shakin'
    I'm bustin' and makin' ? panic
    Don't take your life for granted
    Put that ass in the dirt, you swear the ? was planted
    My lyrics motivate the planet
    It's similar to Rhythm Nation, but thugged out, forgive me, Janet
    Who's in control, I'm activatin' your souls
    You know the way the games get controlled
    Yo, two years ago, a friend of mine
    Told me Alize and Cristal blows your mind
    Bear witness to the dopest ? ' rhyme I wrote
    Takin' off my coat, clearin' my throat


    I Get Around
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqJAnQTwmJs

    [Verse 4: 2Pac]
    Finger tips on the hips as I dip
    Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip; loose lips sink ships
    It's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips, see me jockin'
    Put a little twist in her hips ?cause I'm watchin'
    Conversations on the phone 'til the break of dawn
    Now we're all alone: why the lights on?
    Turn them off! Time to set it off, get you wet and soft
    Somethin' is on your mind, let it off
    You don't know me, you just met me, you won't let me
    Well, if I couldn't have it (silly rabbit) why you sweatin' me?
    It's a lot of real G's doin' time
    ?Cause a groupie bent the truth and told a lie
    You picked the wrong guy, baby, if you're too fly
    You need to hit the door, search for a new guy
    ?Cause I only got one night in town
    Break out or be clowned, baby doll, are you down? I get around


    If I Die 2Nite
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3zaafiNVWE

    [Verse 1]
    They say ? and paper is poetry, power and pistols
    Plotting on murdering ? 'fore they get you
    Picturing pitiful punk ? copping pleas
    Puffing weed as I position myself to clock G's
    My enemies scatter in suicidal situations
    Never to witness the wicked ? that they was facin'
    Pockets is packed with presidents, pursue your riches
    Evading the playa hating tricks while hitting switches
    ? is bad-mouth, ?cause brawling ? is bold
    But charge them hoes; the game should be sold
    I'm sick of psychotic society, somebody save me
    Addicted to drama, so even Mama couldn't raise me
    Even the preacher and all my teachers couldn't reach me
    I run in the streets and puffing weed with my peeps
    I'm duckin' the cops, I hit the weed as I'm clutchin' my Glock
    ? is hot when I hit the block; what if I die tonight?


    [Verse 2]
    Polish your pistols, prepare for battle, pass the pump
    When I get to poppin', ? is droppin' then they done
    Calling the coroner, come collect the ? corpse
    He got hit by a killer, preoccupied with being boss
    Revenge is the method
    Whenever steppin', keep a weapon close
    Adversaries are overdosed over deadly notes
    Jealous ? and broke ? equal packed jails
    Hit the block and fill your pockets, making ? sales
    Picture perfection, pursuing paper with a passion
    Visions of prisons for all the ? that I blasted
    Running with criminals individuals with no remorse
    Try to stop me, my pistol posse's using deadly force
    In my brain all I can think about is fame
    The police know my name
    A different game, ain't a thing changed
    I'm seeing cemetery photos of my peers
    Conversating like they still here; if I die tonight




    He always got criticized for his flow and rhyme schemes but don't let his commercialization fool you.

    Hi.
    Did you find it aboutely necessary to post like 10 of his ? verses tho
  • water ur seeds
    water ur seeds Members Posts: 17,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Pac is my favour rapper, but I think the reason he used things like 'Hennessy and enemies' etc and few other of his rhymes more than once (though i think some people madly exaggerate the amount) is because I believe he wrote so many songs at the same time during a certain period of his life and recorded so many tracks the same day etc that naturally your get that happening...

    Also I think the reason he had so many collaborations with rappers on AOEM is because he wanted to show love to all his friends and people that supported him...
  • a_list
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    Lefty_ wrote: »
    There are way more than this too....

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    Damn!...lol...I thought ? were exaggerating.....They need to do one for good and hood.....
  • CeLLaR-DooR
    CeLLaR-DooR Members Posts: 18,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    a_list wrote: »
    Lefty_ wrote: »
    There are way more than this too....

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    Damn!...lol...I thought ? were exaggerating.....They need to do one for good and hood.....

    Jadakiss winnin' that ? fam
  • trendsetta1030
    trendsetta1030 Members Posts: 2,730 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    He was an iambic rapper not a lyrical rhyme scheme rapper
  • qawshun
    qawshun Members Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    a_list wrote: »
    Lefty_ wrote: »
    There are way more than this too....

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    Damn!...lol...I thought ? were exaggerating.....They need to do one for good and hood.....

    Jadakiss winnin' that ? fam

    lmao nah man kiss didn't use that that much nah lol
  • Ether44mag
    Ether44mag Members Posts: 890 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    lol you put songs that everybody knows to make us realise what ?? Pac aint a lyricist but still is a great rapper case closed ,NOBODY .EVER quotes a Tupac verse to say " he killed that" his strenght is song makin and emotions ,not bars ,deal with it!
  • emaculate
    emaculate Members Posts: 554 ✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2017
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    He was an iambic rapper not a lyrical rhyme scheme rapper

    Poetic indeed. He was also able to channel energy through his voice and conveyed emontional imagery very well. People were able to connect to his emotion an appeal.

    These days I tend to listen to those hidden gems in his catalog not so much the more known was. I've heard them so much and know them in & out that I don't dip into that pool of his music too often.

    It's pretty cool how his music matured over time from sonic perspective reviewing his flows. YBL below demonstrates his ability to channel energy, emotion as well social commentary in a highly structured manner that may also be iambic in written but sounds more like tightly woven poem or rap track that our ears typically hear more of in musics current climate.




    https://youtu.be/QhUVV3LauYY


    https://genius.com/11139648

    W. Shakespeare wrote in iambic pentameter. Pretty cool stuff to examine.

    And it would be right if I didn't include a line from the song:

    
F St. Ides, it's an Old E thing, baby
    
Strictly some of that Hennessy
  • Lou Cypher
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    Ain't listened to some of those songs in years. Gonna be listening to pac for the next few weeks
  • RickyRich
    RickyRich Members Posts: 13,062 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Pac is my favour rapper, but I think the reason he used things like 'Hennessy and enemies' etc and few other of his rhymes more than once (though i think some people madly exaggerate the amount) is because I believe he wrote so many songs at the same time during a certain period of his life and recorded so many tracks the same day etc that naturally your get that happening...

    Also I think the reason he had so many collaborations with rappers on AOEM is because he wanted to show love to all his friends and people that supported him...

    I agree i think thats the reason he out tha outlawz on songs that he didnt need em on . So they can get funds from the song if he had died which he did