Lil Zane made a classic 2Pac song when he put out "Calling Me"
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I really was not paying enough attention to dude back then to notice the blatant Pac bitin
bigbadbossup2012
Biggest baddest boss
Funniest line in the songDid a show in California had to be in Vegas the same night
Slim is horrible on the hook
Youngblood Priest
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Agree with all that........plus he is the "original". I was telling a lil nikka at the job that Pac is the forefather of all of what you see now. Take his style and pit themselves on top of it.
Pacs death left mad voweeeeeelllllsssssss streettttchhhheeeeeeddddddbeeeellieeeevvvveeeeee meeeeeee!
That era of the grime coming back after the soft moment of reflection when rap tried to shift direction (for a few months) was so surreal in retrospect as you suddenly had everyone rockin a baldie, top off and tatts became the wave not to mention the flagrant jacking of the flow that popped up everywhere. Crazier still is when the boots leaked people started just redoing those songs or jacking the same sample/concept and getting it on their album.
You look at every single artist that blew from that era onwards and you can see bits and pieces of Pacs blueprint - either blatant or subtle influence - weaved through their makeup because his death left a huge void in the game but like Quik said:
"Cause everybody wanna be Pac, But dont nobody wanna fill them shoes before they feel them shots"
Even worse is the current devolved state of the game can also be traced directly back to Pac because its just his antics turned up to 11 for a new generation and everyones doing it instead of just him being wild, dolo. Pac laid the original crazy, drunk/high all the time, courting controversy at all costs, name in media 24/7, being all extra archetype and the new generation took it and ran with it but because the drugs are stronger and raps standards are lower their mumbling incoherence over repetitive beats is all thats left of the artform as the machine he helped build is now firing on all cylinders selling genocide rhymes completely neutralized of any self awareness and social commentary to the next generation of youth.
One mans influence is an amazing thing when seen with the right perspective because love him or hate him he was an original.
Take It In Blood
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calling me, calling me, calling me
say my name
say my name
Its almost like he found a lost pac track in the studio and killed the producer and remade it
Complexion
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Agree with all that........plus he is the "original". I was telling a lil nikka at the job that Pac is the forefather of all of what you see now. Take his style and pit themselves on top of it.
Its interesting when you look at it because they took the worst parts of Pac and amplified them whereas the good parts take too much effort/skill so they let them fall by the wayside. Even more interesting is how Pacs "Elevation of todays generation if I can make em listen" credo was flipped as the music is now predominantly demonic ranging to low vibration at best.
Very little in the way of game, insight, consequences etc being offered anywhere. Stranger still is that the dude who was so paranoid about people biting his style/jacking his slang is the blueprint for an era filled with copy and paste artists where genericism rules supreme.
OfTheCross
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I'm puttin negs on all you muthafukkas!
Dynamite James
The Main attraction
Did a show in California had to be in Vegas the same night
Slim is horrible on the hook
Was too young and liked the songs too much to notice it
but, in that era, for my age, that was just the time, lot of up and coming rappers were influenced, or biting Pac and BIG, that was the sound to emulate
DMX, Ja Rule, Shyne
but, in that era, for my age, that was just the time, lot of up and coming rappers were influenced, or biting Pac and BIG, that was the sound to emulate
DMX, Ja Rule, Shyne