Was 2pac the best at pickin beats

[Mietek23]

'Pac had a good ear for pickin' beats but saying he was the best at it is a little too far...

[2euce 7even]

'Pac had a good ear for pickin' beats but saying he was the best at it is a little too far...

yep, but he had some sick beats at the time.so wack too.

[penenstamp]

he has so many songs with shit beats. listen to some of his originals and you'll laugh that shit off

which is probably -in most cases- the reason they didn't come out

[the ghost]

I'm not sure it was necessarily that they were the best beats but I think Pac could bring out the best in them. The game was so different back then. I think Pac just knew how to get what he wanted out of the songs. I don't think he was hung up on production like artists these days. I mean, maybe it's me but if you take a lot of Pac's songs and remove his words from them and just play the instrumental, a lot of  them weren't necessarily hot beats. It's not to say they were shit but I don't think he had exceptional ears for picking beats.

I was thinking the same thing.

[acgrundy]

he has so many songs with shit beats. listen to some of his originals and you'll laugh that shit off

They were unreleased, meaning not ready for an album.  He did the same lyrics over several beats many times, for instance...Still Ballin' which was released on Thug Life is one of my all time favorite pac songs, and that beat is classic...there are many other unreleased versions of the song, and none come even close to the version that was released.

Out of all the songs released when he was alive, very very few are wack beats.

just because they were not ready for an album doesn't change the fact that they sucked.

They sucked and therefore didn't make the album...further making the point that Pac was great at picking good beats

[scarface2oh4]

http://www.imeem.com/live2love2live/music/1qk-ewiD/backyard_sweet_thang/

lol wtf is that shit.

[Africandogg]

Lol @ u punks Pac didn't need hot beats hits words were too powerful to b overtaken by a beat. Listen to Never had a friend like me n wats ur phne # those 2 songs cn go over any beat. He killed the game, genius like my nigga said. Nobody comes close to Lesane whn it comes to makin real music n fuck the hatin go listen to biggie's shit. Eat a cock bitch

[jeromechickenbone]

Pac had a great ear for beats, def one of the best. 

Look at all the producers from the Makaveli album...how many of those producers went on and did ANYTHING else?  Pac brought the best out of producers, and could make the wackest beat seem tight because of how he ripped tracks. 

And the unreleased OG's are great - I wish they were all mixed properly and released in CDQ.  They monumentally fucked up trying to rework the production on his posthumous albums.

[Machiavelli]

I heard the 7 day theory album was co produced by tupac too

[Not Likely]

Pac had a great ear for beats, def one of the best. 

Look at all the producers from the Makaveli album...how many of those producers went on and did ANYTHING else?  Pac brought the best out of producers, and could make the wackest beat seem tight because of how he ripped tracks. 

cosign. those producers didn't do SHIT on other artists' songs but Pac's. he got the most out of his producers.

[you gon always be my latin queen bitch]

yeah alotta of the times his lyrics was better than his choice of production
so some of his stuff IMO dont sound rite or dope on some of the muzik he chose

he has so many songs with shit beats. listen to some of his originals and you'll laugh that shit off

yeah i agree most of this niggas songs was wacc ass beats

[MasterX]

he was because he neva had a weak beat

[yeapp]

he was because he neva had a weak beat

I will never understand the mind of a diccryder

[G-Funk]

i would say he had a good ear. but he wasnt the best. i can name a only a few songs that arent really that good.

[One2free]

he has so many songs with shit beats. listen to some of his originals and you'll laugh that shit off

lmao!

+ for a good amount, they stayed unreleased & were not choose to be.
Got to be tha same for many others rappers, their original might sound shitty to some.

Pac just listened to the beat via phone for just a few seconds and picked it! Pac was a genius! RIP

Peace

Like he did for 'I Get Around', which is one dope song anyway