jono;4589504 said:
I think cats still miss the point. Nobody is saying Pac is wack or anything like that but there is a marked difference in his sound from 2Pacalypse Now to All Eyez On Me. He changed that shit up! And he had to because he had gotten surpassed by at least 90% of the niggas he was dissing around that time.
Nas had dropped Illmatic and was heralded as the second coming of Rakim off ONE ALBUM! It took Pac 3 to get his buzz right.
Jay-Z was being co-signed by O.Gs like Jaz-O and Big Daddy Kane (even made an appearance on BDK's Daddy's Home album), granted Jigga had no real solo material at the time but he was running with heavyweights and gaining clout. 2Pac was in Digital Underground and to say he was IN it is overstating it, technically he was the little homie (back up dancer) who they let spit from time to time.
B.I.G., who Pac supposedly schooled to the rap game, had zoomed pass Pac and was crowned King of New York and the second coming of Big Daddy Kane after ONE ALBUM...again it took Pac 3 to get that clout.
Mobb Deep was smashing the game when they dropped The Infamous in 1995. Immediate impact, cats woke up. Pac was sitting in jail or just coming out during this time.
Suge blew breath into Pac while he was in prison. Suge hyped him up, promoted him, got him off his label and signed him. He began building Death Row behind 2Pac (it should be noted that Dre & Snoop as well as West Coast Hip-Hop were already on fire during this time), it was the equivalent of a big time free agent signing to a championship team. The team was already tight he just added to it.
Once Pac was on Death Row he became the centerpiece, the head MC (as he was the best rapper on the label unquestionably). So he had to promote their "style" the Death Row sound which was gangsta rap. Pac pretty much dropped all that "Panther Power" shit and got on some flossin' "Picture Me Rollin" type shit. It worked and he got the success he had always wanted.
All the beefs and shit were probably Suge's idea, mixed in with Pac's jealousy of BIG, Mobb Deep & Nas and the paranoia he attained after he got shot. If he was some revolutionary artist why did he change? Niggas like Ice Cube didn't change. Cube always mixed social commentary heavily into his albums even if they didn't do well commercially. I'm working off memory here but "Wonda Why They Call You Bitch" was probably the only social commentary he spoke on AEOM. The rest was about him "ridin on his enemies" or fuckin bitches. The nigga did a song with Jodeci man! Lol.
He had the hottest producer in the game (Dre) and a hot #2 MC (Snoop) on the hottest label in the game, of course he was successful! But BEFORE then he wasn't really seen as being THAT dude on the mic. He was known for acting an ass on TV all the time, movies, getting shot & the rape case. All the Black Panthers stuff was background noise to him being the posterboy for ignorant niggas everywhere.
so 2Pac went from
2pacalypse Now to
All Eyez On Me. just like that?
no
Strictly 4 My Niggaz??, No
Thug Life Vol. 1???, No
Me Against The World?????
So he had to promote their "style" the Death Row sound which was gangsta rap. Pac pretty much dropped all that "Panther Power" shit and got on some flossin' "Picture Me Rollin" type shit
Just
2pacalypse to
All Eyez On Me. gotcha.
Soooo , Pac Got "Thug Life" Freshly Tatted on Him,once he got on Deathrow to promote their style???
Gotcha
So you're Gonna really act like, Pac didn't hopped off that Panther Shit in 93' when he created Thug Life?
Nas had dropped Illmatic and was heralded as the second coming of Rakim off ONE ALBUM! It took Pac 3 to get his buzz right.
Jay-Z was being co-signed by O.Gs like Jaz-O and Big Daddy Kane (even made an appearance on BDK's Daddy's Home album), granted Jigga had no real solo material at the time but he was running with heavyweights and gaining clout. 2Pac was in Digital Underground and to say he was IN it is overstating it, technically he was the little homie (back up dancer) who they let spit from time to time.
and how did Nas have a bigger buzz than 2Pac????
when 2Pac 1st album went gold in 1991. Yet It took
Illmatic 7 years to go plat.
Nas had all the Magazines, and hottest producers In NY and Og's Like Kool G backing him ,to only sell 59,000 copies in its first fucking week.
Again if
2pacalypse Now, wasn't on the radar, why the
Vice President of the United States Of Fucking America Banned His Shit???????
Strictly 4 My Niggaz= Plat , 3 songs on the bill board top 100, movies with janet jackson, yet Pac was jealous? of who?
94'Thug Life Vol. 1 = gold compilation album, Got some Hood Classics on That.
Above The RIm
95' #1 album in the world. beat out
Bruce Springsteen for the #1 Spot. Yet Pac was jealous of mobb deep??? who barley went gold with "
The Infamous" in 95??
him and Biggie sold the same amount of records, yet Pac was locked up.
Biggie was able to do all the promotions and features in the world. and they still sold the same amount of records.
Biggie had more songs on rotation on the radio than Pac. Yet they still sold the same amount of records.
ANd did you bring up Jay??
now Jay is the King, But back in 95/96. Jay was irrelevant. ,dude was Biggie's hype man. Jay= Lil Cease with a Solo effort, back in 95' 96'.
Yea it Took Pac longer, he came in the game as an 17/18 year old backup dancer, recorded his 1st gold album at 19.
he was 21, 22 when his second album came out.
niggaz forgot that pac was only 23/24 when
Me Against The World Drop. and was 24 when he recorded
all Eyez On Me. He Died @ 25.
at the same damn time-Future, Jay was 26 /27 years old.
One question how old is you Bruh???????
