CORP$EY
no mickey mouse ting
Biggie was amazing, one of the best ever, his flow on 'Hypnotise', his imaginative self-loathing on 'suicidal thoughts', him acknowledging his own ugliness simultaneously somehow one of rap's most credible ladies men, his cinematic storytelling etc. Noz wrote a good thing on Biggie, here it is http://www.thefader.com/2011/04/20/feature-stay-low-and-keep-firing
2pac i'm less sold on (hardly listen to him) but tracks like 'hail mary' and 'no more pain' and 'dear mama' etc. no other rapper (aside from yer 2pac rip off artists) could have made those songs. His lyrics aren't very clever or witty or whatever but he had a totally distinctive voice and delivery, there's a reason (his untimely death aside) that he's been so influential and worshipped. Charisma. Magnetism.
Is it fair to say that, in spite of the legions of pasty white fans wearing bandanas in their bedrooms, 2pac is a rapper that white people by and large don't really get? I mean I get the sense that for black ppl 2pac resonates a lot more emotionally than a lot of supposedly better rappers - granted i get this impression from lurking on the coli, where he's worshipped as a God, and anybody deferring from this position is dismissed ipso facto as a 'cac'.
2pac i'm less sold on (hardly listen to him) but tracks like 'hail mary' and 'no more pain' and 'dear mama' etc. no other rapper (aside from yer 2pac rip off artists) could have made those songs. His lyrics aren't very clever or witty or whatever but he had a totally distinctive voice and delivery, there's a reason (his untimely death aside) that he's been so influential and worshipped. Charisma. Magnetism.
Is it fair to say that, in spite of the legions of pasty white fans wearing bandanas in their bedrooms, 2pac is a rapper that white people by and large don't really get? I mean I get the sense that for black ppl 2pac resonates a lot more emotionally than a lot of supposedly better rappers - granted i get this impression from lurking on the coli, where he's worshipped as a God, and anybody deferring from this position is dismissed ipso facto as a 'cac'.