Not quite accurate ma boy, Pac was SUPER influential...but he didn't have that kind of reach. Rakim and in turn Nas have more claim to that, in terms of a sea-change in cadences and lyricism.
He moved to the “Jungles” housing projects in Marin City (North Bay Area)when he was 16. Mother was a Panther and he spent most of his time in Oakland.
Nahhh, don't get me wrong, I absolutely love Tupac and his music and the messages in them and the way he shed light on a life style and trying to uplift others going through it too, but Kendrick is the person to carry the torch of his and honestly in my opinion, is better than Tupac, but no denying there wouldn't be a Kendrick Lamar without Tupac
@@maxviclomax9327I disagree. Kendrick doesn't have the swagger Tupac had. Tupac had not only rap skills but acting skills and was an activist. Tupac was a poet and gifted actor. Not many rappers can achieve that, especially in such a short time as Tupac with all his achievements done and became a household name by the age of 25. And most notably without any social media or internet because it didn't even exist at the time. And on top of that, damn near 30 years later, even the younger generation as you can see here is listening to his work from the 90's. Now that says a lot!
He is nowhere near 2pac. Never will ever be. Kendrick was never shot like pac kendrick never been to jail like pac kendrick never shot nobody like pac kendrick is a respected rapper, he has leadership though and i applaud for that. but not as visionary as Tupac Shakur @maxviclomax9327
@@ajaxshipale I don't think experiences makes a person, he grew around people who did all that, he understood why the people around him did what they did, and loved them anyways and only wants better, he's a visionary in so many ways, he understands perspective and where that leads, how it can go down different paths, he didn't shoot anyone but shit I'm sure he's seen it, knows people who has, just cause he doesn't have the same experiences as tupac doesn't mean he can't be a visionary
I remember Tupac being interviewed and asked why he rapped slow. He said something along the lines of if he rapped fast then people might not get the message he was trying to get across. Mad respect for Pac man he wasn't just a rapper, man was a philosopher a poet, and above all else kept it real.
@@michaelwilson939 why you beatin round the bush? Ur basically sayin he was fake but u don’t really kno the man personally so how would u kno? He was bout that life b4 he blew up but never got caught up until he was famous
My pops and uncle did bodyguard work for Pac. They said he would abandon all safety procedure and run into groups of women or to go check somebody. My pops has some stories 😂
There is a book of all of his poetry. He was highly intelligent. His mom and step father were Black Panthers. Yes, he is the best rapper of all time. Legend!
Pac wasn't about bars. His lyrics were mainly straight forward not giving a damn. Raw emotions, unlike most rappers who speak subliminally. That's what I loved about him.
I highly recommend you guys check out 2Pac Thug Angel (documentary) and 2Pac Resurrection (also documentary). Probably the quickest way to get a summary of his short life.
@@jermaineanthony7794 I did not say he was better lyrically (I know Em is better lyrically), but I prefer Tupac over Eminem. Maybe because I listened to him already before anyone knew Eminem. The work he did in a short amount of time is pretty impressive. I can't say I like any Eminem album better than Me Against The World by Pac tbh. Em has a few sick albums don't get me wrong, but I can't say I like The Marshall Matters EP for instance more or something.
RIP to Shock G aka Humpty Hump for producing the track. If it wasn't for him we wouldn't even know 2Pac. He flipped the hell outta that Stevie Wonder song "That Girl" to create this banger 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Stevie Wonder actually did his sound live at the studio with 2pac. Pac from Harlem and grew up in the Bronx then moved to Baltimore later. Side note: Before he was 2pac, check out his original MC name: MC New York when he was on his Rakim type of flow. Very conscious.
Yes he would be the best 😌. I'm 45 and still feel the void. He had a message that spoke to everyone. He is from New York and came out to Oakland and Marin in his late teen's. I grew up in Hayward and Pittsburg in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. I am straight Bay Area hood rat. I am telling you guys that being the only white boy in the hood was not easy. Listening to 2pac brings me back to a time that I miss. RIP 2pac
Pac was real and seen a lot of shit but he was a thug he changed as he got older especially after getting shot but if you here people talking negative about him remember they wasn't say anything when he was alive 💯 a lot people hated pac because they wasn't on his level yall need to really dig into his interviews 💯
You gotta understand this whole 'he wasn't a real gangster' mentality shouldn't take away from the message he was preaching. He was an arts kid who became a victim of his reality. This was the truth for many kids back then. I always felt like he leaned into that 'Thug Life' level to pull people out of that struggle, and help shift their mentality. Don't get it twisted though, this is the same man who shot two police officers and got away with it.
You're absolutely right. Gangster mentality is a way of thinking, carry yourself, or the moves you make. Has little to do with being a tough guy, but a lot to do with your actions.
But people shouldn’t use that gangster ish against him .. He stood his ground , if he had a problem he addressed it … That man was as real as they come..
Listening to So Many Tears is just like reading Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" for the very first time. Deeper each time you listen to this work of poetry
PAC was born in NY but moved to Baltimore and then the Bay (Cali). He grew up a lot of his life in Cali which is why he claimed westcoast. However PAC said he felt like he was the bridge between the east n west because he was from the east and resides in the west
When 2pac was alive. They were scared of that man. Now he dead they be trying too rewrite that man history. Yall need too listen too his interviews in his own words. He was bout that life. He shot 2 undercover cops. He confronted the GD'S at his concert in Chicago. They was over 100 deep. Curse them out for having a 9 year old boy killed. Then shot inside the concert. When bloods had a hit out on treach his friend. He went too the hood in LA and talked too them and squashed the beef. Biggie came too la he had them leave all their stuff at the hotel they was scared they went straight too the airport and jump on the plane.
Bruh this video is proof of why Pac's haters keep bashing him.. because his image and legacy will be diminished by the younger generations who never seen the man alive and walking this earth.. haters do that to make themselves appear near his greatness by bashing him
One of the greatest Tupac songs. So Many Tears. I got this album when it came out. Still have the CD to this day. You need to listen to the entire album... There's no skips
Me against the World is my favorite PAC album! One of the most underrated hip hop albums of all time. Temptations, Lord knows, it ain’t easy straight fire
So Many Tears is the only rap song I ever cried because of the emotions conveyed. These kids don't understand the pain black people have faced in this country and the things we have to do to survive. One of the realest songs I have ever heard in my life. Nas "Street Dreams" is up there.
2pac wrote situational music for people who were going through what they were going through. A lot of his records and albums are reflected some sort of situation with somebody was on the street living destitute or living with the backup against the wall. I think "Brenda's Got a Baby" was one of his most iconic songs early in his career and possibly his entire one.
@@dylanmurphy9389 Stop it, Pac was and still the best to ever do it. Pac could slaughter anyone on the seen today! Even M wouldn't of wanted smoke from Pac! #100
Tupac is hands-down the most influential artist of all time …Tupac got plenty wild stories he wasn’t fake or not a real thug he just showed two sides of the coin you don’t have to be hard and murderous to be a thug to be a real thug someone who is a survivor through anything
2PAC was born on East coast but raised in Oakland, that’s where he learned the game. Straight up before his time and he was definitely about that life but always delivered a message weather you wanted to hear it or not. Love watching you guys keep making videos, try Dear Mama or Uppercut
Some songs like "god bless the dead", "life goes on", "can't C me", "letter to my unborn child", "lastonesleft", and "I ain't mad at cha" is a must listen.
Y'all need to educate yourselves before speaking on things you don't know about. Pac was born IN JAIL. His mom was a black panther and a crack head and moved them around from city to city chasing the high anyway possible. He went to a school for arts to try and make a legitimate life for himself and the law wouldn't let him. The media and the law attacked him every step of the way. When he moved to Marin county he got in tight with the California crew and was adopted into the street life. He SHOT TWO COPS IN ATLANTA who were in illegal possession of firearms from evidence using them to stick ppl up and were in the middle of shaking down an innocent woman and pac shot them both down. He fought court case after court case. His tours were planned around his court appearances. And in the night he was killed suge whispered in his ear that's the guy that stole one of our chains and without hesitation in front of thousands of ppl stomped out Orlando Anderson. Then later died for it. And his last words rather than saying who did it were " fuck you" to the police. To say pac wasn't thugging is just beyond disrespectful to his legacy. It is beyond cringe this is a rap reaction channel and y'all are so out of tune with real rap and it's history
Yea I just hope they watch some of his interviews and read about his real life. Tupac was so much more than these half true stories people say about him. He was in my opinion one of the realest humans to ever live. To say he was pretending to sell records is such a wrong take in so many ways. Just do some research on Tupac, A great place to start is his biography movie titled - Tupac: Resurrection -
Tupac has so many amazing songs, I’m not sure all the ones you’ve heard. I suggest “Ambitionz Az A Ridah”, “2 of Americaz Most Wanted (feat.Snoop Dogg)”, and “I Get Around”. I’ll always remember where I was when I heard he was in the hospital it was all over the radio. 🙏 he is a lyrical genius. Many blessings to you and yours from me and mine✨
PAC’s songs were social commentary as well as bangers! He had an understanding of the world beyond his years and beyond the times he lived in. He would have done so much had he lived, he has so much potential. He was a leader, visionary, supremely talented and incredibly smart.
2pac was way ahead of his time and he spoke the truth. There will never be another man like 2Pac, RIP to a Legend..My all time favorite song by 2pac is I ain't mad atcha..
If 2 pac would have lived not only will he still be the goat but he will be a great producer film writer and activist 2 pac will always be the goat to me he would have not only changed the game he would have took over
Pac Born In New York and moved around as kid and ended up in the bay area, California when he was a teenager and started his rap career in California. That's why he was all about the west coast.
He grew up hard in Baltimore in the ghetto. His mom was a black panther. That’s where he gets his hardcore attitude from. His mom moved him to Marin which is a horrible ghetto in the Oakland area. His mom was hooked on crack also. So he grew up around it. Than he started touring with digital underground and the rest was history. Smart, educated at an arts school but mostly on the streets. A straight THUG. The greatest ever.
Tell these youngins.. I mean, I'm in my early 30's & I know this info lol ..also, I should add, the only ppl who say he wasn't street is his hater, not those who actually knew him
Your grandma is a smart woman. Tupac made an impact on all kinds of people all over the world. He was fearless. He was a genius at communicating about issues that are still relevant today. He was quick to humble himself when necessary. There's a reason why there have been college theology classes that studied Tupac music and interviews. At 23 years old he was already making references about Trump's greed and communicating about how he couldn't understand why churches are so big and collect money every Sunday, and there are homeless people on the street. He felt the churches should focus more on helping people in need of help instead of throwing money into material things. I feel he could have been a Prophet 🙌. ☮️💖🕊️✝️
One man, changing the mood of a whole nation with one song...... He was too dangerous to be left alive. America's ultimate nightmare, Young/Black/Intelligent and didn't give a fuck.
He was raised in Baltimore, and he was very very intelligent, his mom and step dad were black panthers, he was very smart politically that’s what makes him one of the greatest poets/artists of all time, watch his old interviews, he was a leader!
Pac went to a performing arts school in Bmore wit Jada. He was brilliant!!! Once he came out Rikers and got wit Suge Knight, his whole attitude changed. He wanted to fulfill his contract under him and bounce. That's why he was cranking out the music so fast. He lived in NYC, Bmore and then Cali. Hard life... but he was the fkn greatest!!❤
Tupac the 🐐. He was the realest rapper of all time. He never rapped about anything he didn’t experience or go through. 💯 % raw and real. Can’t say that about a lot of others.
2pac did not go to college he wanted to he was ready to but his circumstances mostly money held him back. He says something like this in his interview with Ed Gordon I recommend watching that one it’s very insightful
Damn i love this song. I'm not even reading the lyrics and I still remember the words. Just rapping it back, you can feel the song. It's so genuine and he's flow and voice is perfect with his style.
Pac was a poet.. a natural born story teller.. cant take nothing from him.. one of the greats.. he should still be here if he wasnt messin wit death row
Glad you guys did this one. This album was the first hip hop album I ever purchased, I was 11 years old. My mom only let me purchase it because she liked the song “Dear Mama.”
I love these guys….I wish I could give them a Time Machine. Just so they could see where TuPac was coming from. He wasn’t just intelligent & gifted…..he was a rebel & a revolutionary. He speaks about the 1% vs the 99……the way race, religion, class etc was weaponized to divide us as people. He spoke to people through music, Martin Luther King had a different approach & platform but they addressed the issues & problems in our society.
Watching a new generation experience 2 Pac’s is awesome. I always wondered if he’d have stayed at the top if he was still around. I was a 14 yr old white girl in Iowa and I cried when he died. I still hold out hope in the conspiracy theories around his last album and dying on Friday the 13th that he’s really living on an island somewhere.
I don't know what interviews you was watching and/or who was talking but that's not what I heard about Pac's life. He was all about that life and a lot of other things. You didn't know what 2pac you was gonna get from one day to the next. This is my favorite pac song.
Tupac was and the best ever rapper in the world, up until this day. I'm 55 year's old very intelligent guy, to the world. His song's with live long as mankind goes on. 👍🇬🇧🇯🇲
Y'all gotta react to "If I die tonight" by Pac. He go crazy lyrically. And just for the hell of it, Cam'ron go in on "Fantastic Four part 2". Check tham both out.
This song helped me through dark times in my adolescent years. Tupac music always felt like life lessons from a father . I did know my father but he wasn’t their. And tupacs music helped guide me to being a man since i went to live on my own when i was 17 im now 30 years old. I live a good life i work have a house and hobbies . And left the street life behind me living the good life for all my homies that aren’t around anymore or in prison
Don’t get it twisted. Pac was harder than 99% of gangsters. Just because we wasn’t actually banging, it doesn’t mean he wasn’t about it. Pac was a real one. Not perfect, but insanely real, which is why he was so respected by everyone except those that were jealous or fearful of him.
Most young people today, may not be able to understand this but Tupac had not only rap skills but acting skills and was an activist. Tupac was a poet and gifted actor. Not many rappers can achieve that, especially in such a short time as Tupac with all his achievements done by the age of 25. And most notably without any social media or internet because it didn't even exist at the time. And here it is nearly 30 years later and a whole new generation is listening to his work from the 90's. That says a lot!
PAC was born in NY moved to Baltimore for a couple years then spent most of his time in the bay. That’s where he picked up all his street smarts. He was both book smart and street smart. He says in many interviews the bay is where he learned a lot of things. People in Cali just different but ESPECIALLY in the Bay. RIP Tupac ❤
Pac was born in East Harlem, New York. He moved like 10 times when he was growing up. He never really fit in anywhere. You can here that in his music. That feeling of being hopeless.
Yes this beat is hard ..this a sample from Stevie Wonder's song That Girl ..This is a great song ..Tupac is one of the greatest artist to ever do it .Rip 🙏🏼
2Pac was super smart and went to school. His music was all about representing all the different levels of being black so some of it was him speaking for others, and some of the came straight from his experiences and his heart.
Pac never said he was a gangsta, but he did say that he was a thug. Two totally different personas. Being a "real" thug doesn't mean that you're out banging (that's being a gangsta).
These young guys don't have a clue what Pac been through in his life. Like before Pac ever saw daylight he was in his mother womb when she was locked up. BORN THUG HE NEVER HAD TO ACT LIKE ONE.
Tupac was unique and one of kind. He loved everything from Shakespeare to Hip Hop. His death was definitely a loss felt around the world and across generations. I can only imagine what he could and would have accomplished had he lived longer. If yall get a chance take a look at his song "My Block". Thank you for the time you put into your content and reactions guys.
Bruh it's no way y'all got Pac info wrong in 2022 😂 you won't find nobody who actually knew Pac who would say he wasn't like that... look up Scarface, E-40, Mutah(Napoleon of Pac's Outlawz group) Spice 1, Money B, Shock G, Willie D or Master P even... that's just to start.. look up his Milwaukee incident told by Scarface or Spice 1.. don't believe the haters who didn't know the man
Dead at 25 with his entire life ahead of him. So LOVED by all sorts of people. He brought people real hope and spoke and rapped straight from his heart. He had a lot to give the world and somebody just gunned him down. And people know who did it, they just aren't talking. No justice and that's phucked up.
