What Sucks about this Artist?: 2Pac

The Batlord · 04-26-2018, 10:08 AM

He does damn good gangsta rap and can murder a hardcore track like possibly no other rapper before or since, but that's kind of his only wheelhouse. His slow songs are tedious, I remember his conscious rap being likewise, even when he tries a more personal track it's always gotta be in the corny Thug Life context, and if he didn't have the East Coast/West Coast rivalry to put a fire under his ass he probably would never have been half as good or popular as he got.

OccultHawk · 04-26-2018, 10:09 AM

Lack of sincerity and authenticity

The Batlord · 04-26-2018, 10:15 AM

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Lack of sincerity and authenticity

Totes but that's not really something I care about. It's gangsta rap. 99% of the rappers probably never met a drive-by they didn't piss themselves over. The dude can sell the aggression though. "Hail Mary" is possibly the most threatening hip hop song of all-time.

He's totally full of **** though. I think this is the interview I saw with him sounding soft as **** and talking about respecting women. But even Dr. Dre was ragging on weed on Straight Out of Compton so it is what it is.

OccultHawk · 04-26-2018, 10:47 AM

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Totes but that's not really something I care about. It's gangsta rap. 99% of the rappers probably never met a drive-by they didn't piss themselves over. The dude can sell the aggression though. "Hail Mary" is possibly the most threatening hip hop song of all-time.

He's totally full of **** though. I think this is the interview I saw with him sounding soft as **** and talking about respecting women. But even Dr. Dre was ragging on weed on Straight Out of Compton so it is what it is.

To paraphrase 2 Live Crew

“He’s soft and he knows that we know it
He tries to hide but can’t help but show it”

Black Francis · 04-26-2018, 01:16 PM

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But don't this track make you wanna kill a muthafukka? He ain't brilliant but if he'd gone straight up horrorcore he could have been the best. I desperately want to know how 2Pac would have rapped about cannibalism and eating human liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Im sure he has a line in some some song about roasting biggie like a pig and eating him cause if not, he aint that good of a lyricist.

That's a good song and not gonna lie, he has some good tracks but this

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Lack of sincerity and authenticity

Overshadows his talent for me.

The Batlord · 04-26-2018, 01:28 PM

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Im sure he has a line in some some song about roasting biggie like a pig and eating him cause if not, he aint that good of a lyricist.

That's a good song and not gonna lie, he has some good tracks but this

Overshadows his talent for me.

Ignore the hype. Just take him as a guy who can make a quality aggressive track that sounds like he wants to commit a bad act. I'd honestly rather listen to him on a playlist of all his hardcore tracks than as an album artist. He's basically if Slayer thought they could be diverse enough to make non-metal songs. Nobody wants that but they'd still make quality Slayer songs cause they're Slayer.

**Frownland** · 04-26-2018, 10:10 AM

He dead.

grindy · 04-26-2018, 10:11 AM

Everything. Never understood what's supposed to be so great about him.
I guess it's that he died early and wrote songs about teenage angst and depression. Now the glam rap scene that he helped kill had some real technical chops and killer flows.

Psy-Fi · 04-26-2018, 10:28 AM

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Everything. Never understood what's supposed to be so great about him.
I guess it's that he died early and wrote songs about teenage angst and depression. Now the glam rap scene that he helped kill had some real technical chops and killer flows.

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Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 04-26-2018, 10:30 AM

he’s like totally mediocre

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grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Everything. Never understood what's supposed to be so great about him. I guess it's that he died early and wrote songs about teenage angst and depression. Now the glam rap scene that he helped kill had some real technical chops and killer flows. __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*