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2pac parasitic
Gotti......Xl:
parasite n. person living off another or others and giving no useful return. parasitic /-'sit-/ a.
I feel like making a survey/list of all the people that have exploited 2pac's ideas, lyrics or style to benefit them$elve$, coz to me the number is gettin' ridiculous.I've put together my comments with various articles and opinions I've found online.
CHOMP! CHOMP! CHOMP! 1pac, 2pac, 3pac, 4
Tha Realest
Formerly known as "Tenkamenin" (as you may know him from the Gang Related Soundtrack), "Tha Realest" switched his name when he joined Deathrow Records.Why? One can only speculate.However I have heard 2pac refer to himself as "The Realest", (you know who the "realest" is) on more than one occasion.
The style of Tha Realest is so similar to Pac's, it's hard to mistake.From his words dissing Mobb Deep and No Limit, to his speech and demeanor in interviews and on to his style in rappin'. Many people claim he is riding where Pac left off.Do you think there would be room for Tha Realest on Deathrow if 2pac was still alive?
Tha Realest has addressed many of these similarities himself. As far as appearance, he says he looks like his mom and his father, not like Pac.As far as his style, he says he had the same style a long time ago.I don't deny any of these facts. However, I do believe the only reason he is on Deathrow is because 2pac is gone and they're looking for somebody to take his place.
"Stand Strong" is a song recorded by the Realest as a "dedication" to 2pac.You can compare nearly every line in this song to a song where 2pac has stated something similar.
No Limit Records
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Master P has been on Pac's nuts since Pac died, and he released the song "R.I.P. Tupac" on the West Coast Bad Boyz II album.If you listen to Master P's albums, his style changed since the death of 2pac.More specifically everything released after Ghetto D.Suddenly P became not only a "Don", but "Da Last Don".Excuse me while I laugh, hurl, and then become pissed off.If you listen to the Da Last Don album you can notice many 2pac quotes, and many comparisons in song titles and content between 2pac's album "All Eyez On Me".Basically, the "P" in Master P was changed to stand for Pac after the death of 2pac.
It was said that Master P attempted to purchase unreleased Tupac material for a price labelled in the millions.Despite the fact that the deal was not completed, No Limit still managed to release songs obviously stolen from 2pac.
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C-Murder released a song called "On My Enemies" on his Bossalinie album.The song, was ripped from the unreleased 2pac track titled "When We Ride On Our Enemies".What makes it worse, is the fact that he tried to pass it off as a "tribute", in order to make it seem okay.The beat was left the same, and words were changed to keep the same rhyme pattern, but with slightly different lyrics.What C-Murder managed to do was take a song close to 2pac, that showed so much emotion and truth, and fabricate it with words that were both meaningless and stupid.For example, 2pac said,
"...now label this my fuckin' trick shot,
my lyrics runnin' all you cowards outta Hip Hop..".
C-Murder re-wrote the lyrics to say,
"...remember this as a bitch slap,
my lyrics runnin, all you cowards outta Gangsta Rap..."
Excuse me? Who is C-Murder going to run out of Gangsta Rap? He also changed the lyrics,
"...heard the Fugees was tryna do me..."
to say,
"...heard the industry was tryna finish me...".
Yeah, he must be referring to the "big industry conspiracy" to prevent the big shake up in the game that the dropping of his newest album is going to create.I wonder if he's been sharing a pipe with O.D.B.
Master P recently bit heavily from the same 2pac track ("When We Ride On Our Enemies") on his joint called "Anything Goes", nibbling on Pac's legacy with lines like:
"...Cause we motherfucking thug niggaz
Used to f u c k i n g love niggaz
Now I gotta plug niggaz..."
"...Heard your toy f u c k i n g soldiers want to do me
Look I don't play this ain't no motherfucking movie..."
"...Make sure these motherfuckers heard
Everything I speak I mean every motherfucking word..."
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Kane & Abel also joined the list of biters, when they released a song called "Soldier Story".Not only did they change 2pac's chorus from,
"All you wanted to be, a soulja, a soulja"
to,
"All he want to be a No Limit soldier"
they also bit the entire third verse from 2pac's song "Soulja's Story", and failed to mention this in the credits.
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Krazy sounds so similar to Tupac Shakur, it's rather scary.If I was 2pac and I heard this guy, it would seriously creep me out.His voice and style is so similar that a Makaveli Bootleg, Makaveli 8, was released as 2pac's work, when in actuality, the songs were performed by Krazy.Krazy denies any involvement in the making of the CD, however, so would I.
He's been rapping since 1992, but didn't really receive any attention until he was signed to Master P's No Limit Records and comparisons to Tupac surfaced.With Master P attempting to purchase unreleased 2pac tracks and the tendency of No Limit rappers to steal Pac's work, it's easy to wonder if Krazy was signed to No Limit based on his upcoming in the South, or on his similarities to Tupac.
On the intro the 504 Boyz where Master P uses the intro to give publicity to Krazy by mentioning the similarities to Pac.
Nas
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Before using Pac's image in the video (+track) for "Got Ur Self A...",
"...Hey Nas remember that sh*t you said? I don't know what magazine you said some sh*t how I wasn't... nobody saying thugs until. Well whateva whatever, whatever. ni**a you better really go to the record store, go check out some of the albums you be putting out muthaf*cka. We been saying on this thug sh*t for a while now. And I know you been listening cause you been biting this sh*t. So uh, recognize and realize before yo a** get rolled on!..."
Nasir Jones, a talented rapper from New York was caught up in the east/west beef due to his big mouth.
2pac and Nas met each other at the House Of Blues, where He and Nas talked about the whole beef situation and how it is meant.2pac told Nas that he was in no way involved and that he should not get caught up in it because 2pac and Death Row had nothing but love for him.But then, 2pac listened to Nas' songs and he remarked that there was a song in which Nas was talking about fake thugs and it sounded as if Nas was talking about 2pac.The song is entitled "The Message".2pac also noticed that Nas liked to talk a lot about Thug Life after Pac introduced it to the whole world, which pissed 2pac off because he was the man to represent it and who had done it before.Tupac accused Nas of biting his style, stealing his life for his songs and so forth, therefore, 2pac dissed Nas on songs like "Against all Odds" and in interviews, in example in the interview about Death Row East.
"...Hey Nas, your whole damn style is bitten [Like Rakim Man], heard my melody, read about my life in the papers, all my run-ins with authorities, felonious capers, now you wanna live my life? So what's that has-n-Nas, nigga that does not rhyme right..." - Against All Odds
Nas never dissed 2pac publicly, he only had a song on a mix tape in which he dissed Tupac saying "rolling over this Mockaveli".
Nas tried to make peace with 2pac after his death by releasing a song called "We Will Survive" in which he praises 2pac like his best friend , but it is obvious that he only tries to do it for the public because when you listen to "It's Mine", a collaboration with Mobb Deep, then you hear him dissing Tupac just without calling Tupac out by name.Tupac dissed Nas all the time for biting his style, "This little ni**a named Nas think he live like me, talking bout he left the hospital took 5 like me", Nas even retaliated in songs and possible was even part of a conspiracy to kill Pac, now that Pac's gone, Nas continues to bite Pac's style and writes songs giving Pac praise and saying how good he was.Nas totally bites 2pac in the way he raps and he portrays himself out to be a Thug just like 2pac.Nas saying how he got shot just like 2pac and in the video for "Hate Me Now" him and Puffy are totally disrespecting Pac by being crucified at the beginning just like the cover of The 7 Day Theory album, they also dress like 2pac did and pour out the liquor like Pac and Dre did on the California Love Remix.Nas used to dis 2pac all of the time, but since he has died, Nas has showed 2pac respect in his interviews.He should be a little ashamed of himself since he dissed Pac before suckin' his dick...remember that beat on "It Was Written" (Street Dreams)? it had the same beat to "All Eyez On Me" which was released first.
I won't count "Thugz Mansion" (even though, morally I should) coz Afeni supposedly gave blessing.Did Afeni track down Nas for the track? I doubt it.
Tupac's bodyguard, Frank Alexander
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Made steady loot from the book "Got Your Back" and the DVD "Before I Wake".Too bad he was on vacation on September 7th 1996 .
Ja Rule
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Even though he got permission from Suge for his singalong to "So Much Pain", this nigga is mad sharky, due to his use of Pac's material to fight Aftermath/Shady and his adoption of the bandana tied frontwards and the shaved head (wasn't shaved with C.M.C.) and the topless appearances and the praying stature and the crosses on the back, let alone claiming to be "the return of 2pac" in an interview ...a thorough impostor.
Black Child
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The other Murder Pink parasite is Black Child.This guy used a rearraged 2pac verse to backup his attack on 50 Cent/G-Unit .Don't forget either, that this fools debut is titled "Soldier Story"...should see this ass on his album cover, 2pacified.
Jay-Z
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..I'll give one example and quote a verse from 2pac's "All Out (Feat.Outlawz)" [UNRELEASED version],
"...You got a lot of nerve to play me
Another gay rapper, bustin caps at Jay-Z..."
"...us!
the first to bust, who do we trust
out for Mobb Deep and Jay-Z, dead in the dust,
I told you punks that I was after Piggie, you got involved, now we 'bout to bust on all y'all (goin' all out) WESTSIIIDE!
(Talking) Jay-Z, haha this what they gon' play at yo' funeral, punk muthafucka with them big dick-suckin' lips
you a trick-ass nigga, how you gon' be Hawiian Sophie one year and be tough-ass mob the next year?
Nigga my memory ain't bad, you up out the business...BANG! you dead
Mobb Deep you little young-ass juvenile delinquents...BANG! BANG! you dead
Biggie...BANG! you dead
Puffy...BANG! you dead, you robbed the game, no need to explain get outta here..."
Then all of a $udden...
Even though they were enemies, at some award show when Jay-Z got his award he said "2Pac 4 Eva" which showed he really liked Pac, after being an anti-Pac bandwagoneer in 1996.
$$$"...Ladies love me long time like 2Pac's soul..."~Jay-Z-"I Just Wanna Love U (Give it 2 Me)"$$$
$$$"...All I need in this life of sin, is me and my girlfriend..."~Jay-Z-"'03 Bonnie and Clyde"$$$.The main reason I'm disappointed in Jigga for this track, is because he knows damn well if Pac was alive, he would never try to pull this off.
Although, Suge has been quoted as saying,
"...I know Pac didn't have a real disliking for Jay," Knight said of some of the old disses Shakur levied at Young Hova on the Makaveli album. "[Pac] didn't have a disliking to him where if he saw [Jay] he wanted to try and take his head off.He praised Jay-Z for sampling Tupac's 'Me and My Girlfriend'..."
Even Cam'ron...
..used the beat to "When Thugz Cry" for his track "Prophecy", not to mention that breakdown in the video for "Hey Ma" with the dancer on crutches, where he samples "Ambitionz Az A Ridah" I think he calls it "Live My Life (Leave Me Alone)"... ...he need to leave Pac's nuts alone!
Monica
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She titled her album and track "All Eyez On Me" verbatim,
and with the "z" on "eyez" we know where she pulled that from.
Fat Joe
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On the same "Bust At You" by Fat Joe, Scarface's verse takes a heavy nibble from 2pac's verse off of "Pain" [Above The Rim]...check Scarface on "Bust At You" at about 3:30 into the track,
"...My whole life's filled with danger
Never been a stranger to homicide
My neighborhood's full of gangstas and drive-bys..." .
50 Cent
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Curtis had 2pac on a mixtape track with him called "The Realist Killaz" promoting his image as Pac's sidekick...pfff!
Eminem
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I won't even count the sample he used on his early track "Murder Murder", but that dis record to Everlast "Quitter" had an extension to it called "Hit 'Em Up Part III" which was pretty much a cover of the original "Hit 'Em Up".Aswell as the fact he covered "Hail Mary" to support his battle with Ja Rule.Who knows how much loot Eminem made for his garbage production on the re-hashing of old 2pac tracks for the Tupac: Resurrection soundtrack.
Trapp
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Some rapper that put himself forward with an album that had "Stop Tha Gunfire" by 2pac (Feat.The Notorious B.I.G.) on it (and maybe some joint with Trapp thrown on it) to help make a name/association for himself.
DJ Sickamore (money-grubbin' mixtape DJ's)
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People like this ass, help distribute phoney 2pac tracks (imitator artists) and act like they don't know they're pulling a scam on the streets to rake in extra dollars.
Lil' Zane
Check the movie "Finding Forrester" (Sean Connery), which I believe is his acting debut...THIS DUDE DON'T SOUND LIKE 2PAC! so why must he rap like 2pac?!? as if he Afeni's long lost gave-up-for-adoption seed, bare chest an' all.The video I saw of his, look just like a replica of the "I Get Around" video.
Niccademus
This dude look like Pac going into crack rehab.Wish I still had that image.Another forcefed soundalike fakin' the funk to make his paper...lil' weasel-ass nigga.
I won't count Blac Haze
coz his looks, image, persona and content are alternate to Pac (even though the voice I hear is very similar and he called his debut album "Resurrection").Neither will I count the latino cat "Slush The Villain".
Sticky Fingaz
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"Kirk Jones" literally jacked the flow and twisted the lyrics to 2pac's "Keep Ya Head Up" on Onyx's "Gun Clap Music" [Triggernometry].That album was a little dissapointing too.It's like half-full of commentary.
Angela Ardis
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Another "author" (among other things) is putting out some "collaboration of letters and responses" book called "Inside A Thug's Heart".Claiming she had a penpal relationship with Pac while he was incarcerated.Since this one was "approved by the Shakur estate", maybe finally some people are starting to water the "money tree".
Can't speak for all the "authors" though.I'll bet many of these folk splashed Pac on their book covers strictly for $elf promotion.Parasites like:
Michael Datcher+Kwame Alexander (Tough Love: Cultural Criticism & Familial Observations On The Life And Death Of Tupac Shakur)
Josh Sims (Dear 2pac)
Heather Forkos (They Died Too Young: Tupac Shakur)
Michael Eric Dyson (Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur)
Warner Brothers Publications (The Tupac Shakur Collection)
Darrin Keith Bastfield (Back In The Day: My Life And Times With Tupac Shakur)
Suzie Baer (Peru's MRTA: Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement)
Sam Brown (Tupac: A Thug Life)
Can you believe there is even a Japanese rapper named 3pac and another called Upac? yeh man, I spotted 'em in a magazine.
Pac woulda put it on all these folks for their fraudulent actions.It's like coz he's gone, it's open season to cash in on misrepresentation.The thing about it all too, is that a large majority of the "tribute" loot probly goes to Bentleys and not the Tupac foundation or Afeni.
See what Suge had to say about the 2pac robbers.
TO BE CONTINUED (I'll bet)
Peace
by: tony scarface
bez:
I know what the person who wrote it all is trying to say but seriously do we really give a fuck? Ok some of his shit has been copied and shit and some people that he didn't even like have released his tracks and praised him...but do we really give a fuck about it. All I know is that if any rapper bites a 2pac verse or re-does a 2pac song if its good i'll listen to it. I ain't into the bullshit, he's dead, so be it, if people gotta release his tracks for his legend to live on I'm all for it.
West C. Connected:
The Monica one is bullshit lol
Leggy Hendrix:
the writer missed out the fact that on one of the tracks released after his death, pac had a line that said "no offence to Nas but this whole fuckin world is mine"...i reckon they squashed it like Nas keeps sayin'...
and is it only because he is dead that all these people who have bitten lines are criminals?...listen to a Run DMC album, and you'll recognise all the lyrics that have featured in songs released in the last 5-10 years...
its not a concept that began with pac and it wont end with pac...i love pac and some of what was said was right (lil zane, ja rule (murder inc), krazy) but some of that shit was kinda dumb...
vitodeluca:
Plus, when someone releases some mixtape shit (like the everlast diss for instance) and does it over someone else's beat that ain't really biting, I mean, there's a lot of mixtapes where they use other beats..and that "hail mary" diss was over a tupac song because ja rule was always trying to be tupac, that's why they remade a tupac song...
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