What makes Tupac so good at what he does? Nothing in Gangsta Rap can compare to him which is sad seeing as he's been dead for nearly two decades now
What makes Tupac so good at what he does...
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Sebastian White
He was a poncy little artist pretending to be a big hard man, not the other way round. Same goes for Ice Cube and Dre.
William Lewis
only reason he's still famous is bc of the murder
Bentley Walker
Dre being a studio gangster has been old news since Eazy called him out for it. But what makes you say that about Tupac and Ice Cube?
Adrian Davis
Not the guy you responded to but Cube was a regular college student before NWA and Tupac was a nerdy dancer before he blew up.
Henry Williams
2pac was the only rapper that was a musician that's why he's good
>if you disagree name another who could actually play guitar and wasn't a fuck up at it
Jacob Hall
his feminine side added depth to his rap game.
Kevin Russell
>his feminine side
Genuinely interested in this. I understand where your coming from ("Keep ya head up" etc) but I wouldn't have ever called it feminine.
Jacob Ramirez
Nathaniel James
>a nerdy dancer
Aaron Fisher
I don't have a musical example but look at how feminine his voice/mannerisms are in this deposition video. I honestly think he was bisexual, if not straight up gay.
Bentley Wilson
he's trying to be a nice guy for the court, this doesn't really seem feminine to me
Bentley Allen
>straight up gay
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Jack Diaz
straight up gay
lmfao
Oliver Clark
The whole "2pac was bisexual" meme has been around a long time within the black/rap community. I'm not going to get into it all but just google it and you'll find people discussing the matter. I mean keep in mind that he was a ballet dancer at Baltimore School of the Arts. Speaking from personal experience, the VAST majority of men who do ballet are gay/bi. Dre might also be gay too (both Suge and Eazy claimed he was.) There is a TON of undercover gay stuff going down in hip hop in general, tbqh. At least one, if not a few prominent west cost rappers from that era were on some down low shit.
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Benjamin Hernandez
2pac was never a ballet dancer though. He entered the BSA because of his rhyme poetry, Ballet classes may have been part of the curriculum but that doesn't make 2pac a ballet dancer.
Ethan Scott
any other rappers out here ballet dancing
Anthony Jackson
Playing guitar is the objective measurement of when an artist is an actual musician. Alright then
David Williams
He wasn't a professional ballet dancer but he has mentioned taking ballet in school and he started out as a backup dancer for the Digital Underground. I assume that he must have been a fairly skilled dancer who enjoyed dance to get that job.
Grayson Anderson
It was his message that made him big. He just happened to be one of the few rappers who got the most popularity.
If you want a rapper with actual skill hit up Biggy, his flow and rhymes are probably the best to ever come out of rap.
Logan Kelly
He was big because his voice hit the snare drum at the right time. He emphasized on the snare. Shit lodges itself in your brain
Blake Ramirez
he was literally the Oasis of hip hop
William Wilson
tupac and biggie are normie tier, i dont get how they were considered the greatest. Biggie was nice but pac was mediocre at best. theres hundreds of rappers that are better and more unique and spit better.
kool keith?DOOM? Rakim?
i can go on
Nathaniel Flores
NO SOUL
Owen Brown
I kinda like Cube for still attending school whilst trying to survive South LA. Now, he's a family man. It's kinda cool.
Logan Martin
>What makes Tupac so good at what he does?
Nothing
Pac isn't good
You just fell for the backpack meme, user
Gavin Nguyen
He was big because he was a lyrical prophet and Jonathan Swift-tier social critic. It blows my mind that some people may ironically not be intelligent enough for the rebellious african poetry of Tupac Shakur.
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Mason Thompson
That's because gangster rap is shit.
William Brooks
This. It's modern-day blackface and coonery.
Gangsta rap is not really "black", because if you look at that time period, white males are the biggest consumers and jew execs started pushing that harder and aiming for that demographic. This has ended up skewing all of rap and hip hop culture and blacks for the worse.
Isaac Johnson
Landon Flores
>Doom
t. white hipster
Jaxon Reed
>good at what he does
good at what he did...he doesn't do it anymore.
Ethan James
I'm ok with rappers like Tupac because I feel like the east coast/west coast fued era was the last era in which gangster rap could legitimately be called an honest representation of the urban black experience. You have to keep in mind, this was a time period in which authenticity mattered and fake gangsters who attemped to do gangster rap would be harshly rebuked. As a result of this, the gangster rap of this era was a much more nuanced and realistc portrayal of "thug" life. I agree with you in regards to the vast majority of gangster rap after this era though.
Matthew Gomez
xD
Juan Cruz
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>In the early-mid 1980s, there was no hip hop industry as it was today. Politicians and businessman maligned and ignored the hip hop movement. However, in the late 1980s, music industry executives realized that they could capitalize on the success of "gangsta rap." They made a formula that created "a titillating buffet of hypermasculinity and glorified violence." This type of rap was marketed to the new fanbase: white males. They ignored the depictions of a harsh reality to focus on the sex and violence involved
>The commercialization of the genre has in turn stripped it of its earlier political nature and the politics of major record labels have forced rappers to craft their music and images to appeal to white, affluent and suburban audiences.
Michael Cooper
dint read xP
Xavier Gray
he's the polar opposite of fagye