Bone was way WAY WAY bigger than Pac, for years.
Especially, years before the ny incident.
When, bone was out.
no other gangsta rapper existed to any regular ghetto rap fan type.
Pac was not in bone's hemisphere when bone was at their height.
As dr, admin issues and pr of a low quality dr dre-less snoop record.
pretty much ended dr's reign, cerebrally from not including a ruthless act as relevant.
This, was during the ep and definitely till e.1999 dropped.
Which is what re-allowed easy.
To re-establish a portion of his former fanbases lost from no vaseline up until dr.
Which is also how the recently talked about
Plus, 95 was the first anemiac release year in rap since 84, at that exact time.
Which is why the marketing to Pac resonated the way it did, then.
Which also shows a definite previously, the cop shooting and
Plus, predating that even when Pac never really originally resonated with the ghetto gateway rapper crowd and in juice and seen as a more culturally based west coast act than a full gangsta rapper.
It wasn't until he signed with death row.
Then, made his fraudulent heel turn because of what he actually needed to cover up.
That is when he took the storm of the oh mama I repent direction of matw.
Then, flipped flopped.
As soon as he dropped his sig on a napkin to dr/suge.
So, all this talk of Pac being as large as bone.
when bone was bone bone is a lie.
nikka was trying to be bizzy, lazy, flesh, crazy in their whole swag.
Dalvin and devante, and snoop was morphed into looking like bone.
Nobody was walking around trying to scream thug life.
Or be on what pac was exactly in as far as thug life till dr.
Bone would be defiantly and definitely the precedent that was set first.
as far as people resonating with what the word thug connotates from that era till now.
After that is when Pac had his pr go on go mode.
All from his own negligence and violation of street code and just plain simple ethics is what lead to his career taking off.
Flash forward to 2016, and the pac formula has been nullified from having any effect for a decade.
Well eleven years to be exact, since 2oo5.
Ending with the idea and marketing of Gucci going to jail in the jeezy/gucci conflict.
Which is proof the victory lap.
they let rap have to draw ended.
Coming to an end at the Grammy awards presentation of outkast as artist of the year.
Then, dr dre as a lifetime awardee.
After that the doorway to the sales model of the thug life meets sales spike era was closed.
Now, rap is a Hodge lodge of all the exact shyt.
that went against any and every mainstream rap fan ideals.
as far as rap, is concerned
Making rap into effeminate buckbroke emo gangsta making triphop meets madonna's rays of light.
As far as mainstream pop rap is concerned.
Art Barr