bruhs, bruhs... can we please show respect for both of these legends and let them rest in peace?!
look, biggie is my favorite rapper/mc of all time but i got love for pac too and i realize that the both of them were caught up in a beef that should've never been because in the beginnin' they were friends and cool. both of them went back and forth at each other and while i still enjoyin' listenin' to both of their music, it's hard sometimes listenin' to some of those songs bein' older now because the more you look back on what was goin' on then, it's like, it should've never come to what it did
recordin' for life after death had been goin' for close to 2 years i think, i remember readin' it was 18 months of recordin' at various locations, so a lot of it NOT ALL was recordin' while their beef was goin' on. now, obviously certain songs were recorded post beef but keep it mind, biggie was 24 when he died. YOUNG. pac was 25 when he died! YOUNG. these guys were young as were the guys around them, no one was mature enough to pull back on a lot of the "tough guy" talk and say hey, "we gotta stop this bullshyt and get back on good terms because this is ridiculous" but i'm sure, just like pac felt the need to vent when he got out, biggie felt the same way after diss had been thrown his way. i feel like this beef was bigger than biggie and pac but they got caught up in some bullshyt because they were "voices"
i just wish someone with enough power could have stepped in and stop all that bullshyt because in the end 2 mothers lost their sons, 2 families lost their loved ones, 2 kids lost a dad and we as hip hop fans lost 2 of the most interestin' artists hip hop has ever seen
i miss both those brothers and hip hop to ME has NEVER been the same since we lost the both of them
i heard "so many tears" today on the radio and as i drivin', i was thinkin' to myself, "damn, this song is 21 years old and it's still as hauntin' and surreal as it was in 95'. it's a shame a generation of not only hip hop fans but fans of great music will never get to see an artist of this caliber in hip hop again. pac was truly 1 of a kind and had this chillin' way of gettin' his point across without havin' to be this lyrical acrobat. you hear his voice and the words so clearly because he comes so directly at you when he's rhymin', he makes his point clear as day"
and the flip side of that is, earlier this week i was listenin' to "life after death" and while biggie has his diss records to a wide range of people on there, i thought to myself, "as a lyricist and artist, he'd gotten even better with the way he showed his versatility as mc with street tracks, club joints, and introspective songs. his voice sounds more relaxed and in control than his debut (though "ready to die" is his best album imo). "life after death" similar to "the 7 day theory", just makes me think, if these guys would've had the chance to record another album, what would their next albums have sounded like, because these 2 albums right here are already outta this world and miles ahead of what all these other nikkas doin'

r.i.p. pac and b.i.g. we miss y'all and hip hop still ain't the same without y'all brothers