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Great thread.
I don't know how anyone can use the word "real" when describing anything tupac did. Dude was always a follower. He followed whatever trend was popular at the time to make money. He started out as a "conscious" rapper, but by the early 90's that shit wasn't selling anymore. On the other hand down south in LA rappers were making millions doing "gangsta" rap. So what does tupac do? He moves down to LA creates Thug Life, covers himself in tattoos, creates a whole new persona for himself. And it only got worse from there.
^You actually reminded me of that. Tupac basically coined "Money over bitches", yet made countless songs defending women saying men need to respect them. Quite contradicting.
A number of inacurate statements... 2Pac never said about the drugs thing previously mentioned when kids asked what to do if offered drugs. This was a women who said that, and was put on a documentary to show how out of touch politicians and people in authority were with the youth in societyJay Z seems like a nice guy, and a brilliant business man, but being realer? I don't know. Jay Z spent like 2 million on a party, whereas 2Pac spent $200,000 on homeless people. 2Pac was affiliated around everythign he rapped about. He was in poverty, his mother screwing the local drug dealers for crack. He lived a worse life than Jay Z. Jay Z was able to use the West/East situation to his advantage. 2Pac was a bit of an idiot at times though and condradicted himself a lot, but he had more passion, and heart so his intentions were always more sincere than Jay's. Jay started out as a wannbe Italian mob rapper, but fk it his debut album was a classic and shyts on a lot of 2Pac albums (including his debut)But for the thread starter to take a couple of quotes from interviews (when some aren't even true) to demonstrate his level of realness, it's a bit silly... Come on kid, we can spit out a ton of lines from Jay Z and make him look like whatever tooBoth are different artists... Jay was for the boss man, business man suit and booted figure head... 2Pac was community orientated and the peoples champ
Quote from: K.Dub on August 13, 2011, 01:05:48 AMGreat thread. Only Euros would have these silly discussions, yeah.
^Nope. White guys in this country are actually exposed to Black people & wouldn't go through the trouble of throwing gang signs up.