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Happy Birthday to Tupac Amaru Shakur.

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Hot97 was playing a lot of tupac songs, I almost didn't want to leave my car. Damn, I miss this man.

My favorite album has to be Me Against the World, what a masterpiece. What's yours?
 
Even if you don't like rap, you can recognize Tupac as a mainstream rapper of a much higher caliber than anybody out there today. Lyrically, Tupac managed to make popular rap music without resorting to the 3 B's: Bentleys, Benjamins, and B1tches.
 
Originally posted by: jpeyton
Even if you don't like rap, you can recognize Tupac as a mainstream rapper of a much higher caliber than anybody out there today. Lyrically, Tupac managed to make popular rap music without resorting to the 3 B's: Bentleys, Benjamins, and B1tches.
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yeah, by rapping about gang lifestyles, killings, drugs, and demeaning women.

i guess that's better.

btw, i do like tupac, but i don't paint him to be some kind of saint just because he's dead.
 
Originally posted by: jpeyton
Even if you don't like rap, you can recognize Tupac as a mainstream rapper of a much higher caliber than anybody out there today. Lyrically, Tupac managed to make popular rap music without resorting to the 3 B's: Bentleys, Benjamins, and B1tches.
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No, you're wrong, I don't recognize him as higher caliber. It's all sh!t.
 
yeah, by rapping about gang lifestyles, killings, drugs, and demeaning women.
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Most of the rappers today are just crap compared to the era where tupac and biggie ruled. And they are doing things 10x as bad as anything tupac said. You don't understand him.
 
Originally posted by: iamme
Originally posted by: jpeyton

yeah, by rapping about gang lifestyles, killings, drugs, and demeaning women.

i guess that's better.

btw, i do like tupac, but i don't paint him to be some kind of saint just because he's dead.
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tupac - Keep Ya Head Up

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots
I give a holler to my sisters on welfare
Tupac cares and don't nobody else care
I know they like to beat ya down a lot
When you come around the block brothas clown a lot
But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up
Forgive but don't forget keep your head up
And when he tells you you ain't nothin don't believe him
And if he can't learn to love you you should leave him
Cuz sista you don't need him
And I ain't tryin to gash up, I just call em how I see em
You know it makes me unhappy
When brothas make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy
And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?
I think it's time to kill for our women
Time to heal our women, be real to our women
And if we don't then we'll have a race of babies
That hate the ladies that make the babies
And since a man can't make one
HE HAS NO RIGHT TO TELL A WOMEN WHEN AND WHERE TO CREATE ONE
So would the real men get up
I know your fed up ladies, but keep your head up

just saying, he sang about his life and not all of it was about the things you were talking about
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Originally posted by: iamme
Originally posted by: jpeyton
Even if you don't like rap, you can recognize Tupac as a mainstream rapper of a much higher caliber than anybody out there today. Lyrically, Tupac managed to make popular rap music without resorting to the 3 B's: Bentleys, Benjamins, and B1tches.
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yeah, by rapping about gang lifestyles, killings, drugs, and demeaning women.

i guess that's better.

btw, i do like tupac, but i don't paint him to be some kind of saint just because he's dead.
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Since when does any art form (music, painting, photography, poetry, etc.) have to be politically correct to be considered great?

I'd rather hear rappers talk about gangs, murder, drugs, and women vs. "my rolly on dubz, we paid for it cash, sippin' cristal at the club, etc., etc.".
 
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