Oldheads ?How was it like when 2pac died?

[Techniec]

when pac got shot like everyone else said, we all thought he was gonna make it

that week where shyt was up in the air was hectic

i was 13...came home..much music reported he died...wont lie..had tears in my eyes...called my cousin told him...

im from toronto so we re an east coast city so definitely people were talking about it but it wasnt a huge story among us middle school kids...

it hit me when makaveli dropped and me and my 3 cuzins are in his uncles car and heard bomb first for the first time...we all teared up...

it was a bad time

 

[airmax95fan]

Like everybody else, I thought he was superman. Beat prison, beat shooting at two cops, beat getting shot 5 times....world class rapper, entertainer, and actor. People thought he had nine lives. Image how great he would be today if he was still alive.....People were in a daze when he died. Still the only rapper my dad rocks from time to time.

 

[Big Boss]

if im not mistaken 2pac was suppose to be going back to prison

 

[Still Benefited]

Maybe it was like that when you made it east of Chicago, but when All Eyez On Me dropped, Pac was definitely THAT DUDE west of he Mississippi.


People forget, It was like Pac came back from the dead twice.A lot of people thought he was done after getting sprayed up and locked up.When he, as Nas would say, dug himself out of that proverbial grave, he came back with a vengence, and a air of invincibility.He was already on some folklore shyt for popping 2 cops and walking out the courtroom with the George Jefferson strut.All i'm saying is Pac had already lived a life of urban legends and tall tales BEFORE he physically passed away.When that happened, his fabled life became one of immortal, mythical proportions.But like I said, the seeds of legendary status had already been planted before his physical death.


Just look at his whole life.Even before rap.Look at his journey and tell me what rapper had more depth & intensity n their history?This dudes mom was being a legend when she was carrying him in her belly.She'd never went to law school, but walked in the courtroom facing 300 some odd years and ate they ass up.Lil pregnant black country girl.Got her and all her co defendants off in that Panther 21 shyt.All I'm saying is, this dude was born into some folklore shyt.I think, from the beginning, he was destined to shine more than any other rapper.The nikkaz name means Shining Serpent

The circumstances of Pacs life is just ....if we wuz to write a bible version of Pacs life we could probaly get a real religion started in about 1000 years...shyt makes u think one time,what if Jesus wuz just a regular,charismatic dude like Pac who lived a wild,crazy life with weird shyt happening to him all the time and word spread across the lands and over the years the storys just got amplified

Strange shyt really did happen to Pac,he definitly lived a wild life full of stories u wish u could ask about now....what wuz the DVD where that white lady that let Pac stay with her said that Ray Luvs father told her that he didn't want them to blow up becuz they wouldn't be able to handle it and it would end horribly?I can't remember what wuz said fully but it made u think damn bruh wuz right...wanna say it wuz thug angel dvd in the extras.

 

[Mac Casper]

Suge had all types of connections in Vegas, you think all those years of UNLV college football, it's likely he knew doctors and coroners that could've help Tupac "make the switch and retire from the life that never gave him sh!t"


we still in denial

 

[Rapmastermind]

Pac's death hit hard. I think people were more shocked cause he was shot but in the hostial and held on for almost a whole week. But when his moms came out, it was wrap. All the sudden everyone wanted to stop beefing. On the East everyone played it cool and paid respect. But Pac death really didn't maginify until Biggie died. People have to remember, Biggie died 6 months later so it was still very fresh. Big's death was like WTF. I feel both Death's are connected in that way. People were shocked as F*ck when Pac died but for Big to die in the same way that's when people really were like, WTF is going on with Hip Hop. It's crazy to look back at it cause I was in the 11th Grade.

Pac died in Sept, I was 16 and by March in 97, I was 17. We are approaching 20 years for both of them in a few years or so, it blows my mind to see how Both Biggie and Pac's legacy are still here and strong. I'm happy I got to live to see both of their careers while they were alive. I hate that Biggie got killed out West though, it was like they blamed Biggie for Pac's death by doing that. But Big was not smart how he handled it. It would of been one thing if he went to the West for a few days, did some interviews and left. But Biggie was in L.A. for 2 1/2 weeks. I mean that was just way to long. But the Haters just didn't like that Biggie was alive and Pac wasn't. Sad we lost probably two of the most talented rap artist ever over some B.S. Then came June of 1997, A year after Pac dropped "Hit em Up" and they were both dead. Sad, Sad story. This is why Pac and Biggie will always be at the top of the list. Their stories, music, talents and death have took on a mythical status for Hip Hop and music fans. This is what a "LEGEND" is about. A story being told over and over again and passed down for generations.

 

[Mac Casper]

Why'd that woman in the news say he was picked up by a helicopter when the reports real an ambulance took him? She's blonde, but how could she mistake a helicopter landing with an ambulance

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[Buckeye Fever]

On a breezy friday in september, the homie scooped us up in the 86 regal and we cruised the streets and heard the news on the radio. Nobody said a word for 20 mins.

I broke the silence and was like "lets go get some weed"

 

[Mike Ock]

Ironic thing about when he died was like a day later "I ain't mad at cha" video was released...then the "he faked his death" rumors started happening...and if i remember correctly dudes were lining up an sleeping outside record stored for the makaveli album release...I think that was prolly at a few spot in cali.

 

[Busby]

Reading all these stories like

I was 8 when he died...I didn't see the importance of him when I was a youngin...When the MTV report came up talking about his death I was like "Wow he died?...oh well.."

I mean remember seeing his videos and shyt but I really didn't see understand how important he was until I got older...

Then seeing all these albums come out AFTER his death left me like ...this nikka is alive and well..u can't tell me NO different...BUT...I got older and wiser and was like "This nikka "

I got a more understanding of him from watching all those documentaries of him...especially the Thug Angel and Tupac: Resurrection movies...and it really seemed like that nikka was on the news every other day getting into some type of fukkery....

Reading through this thread is leaving me like ...that was such a crazy and dark time for hip-hop..

 

[King Karim]

our generation's Elvis.

yes people cried. a lot of people cried...the hardest niccaz on the block were crying.

people went and got Tupac painted on their cars, tats, and for the longest time it seemed like every car was riding around blasting his music.

it was a very sad day

 

[Blackking]

oldheads?? ​

smh, at n1ggas in their 20's, early 30's considered old heads now.

Was like whatever when Pac died, I liked his music, liked above the rim, and liked that he was grimy in juice... but I didn't know him and people got shot every day in the D during the 90's- it was a national punch line.

Same w Biggie. Except, it seemed that more people were sad than when Pac died... until you got older and realized that Pac was deep, conscious, and a poet and revolutionary at times.

 

[King Karim]

I remember it was a friday night and we we're headed to our HS football game. We stopped off at mcdonalds first to meet up with some folks. When we heard on the radio he had died we were stunned of course. Then everybody started playing his music in the parking lot. It was like 50 of us out there then the police came after about 30 minutes. Nobody went to the game, we ended up at my homeboys house playing pac and smoking and drinking the rest of the night.

Yea u really lived thru it...we bout the same age. b/c i was going to a football game myself ironically, and the news started spreading as we were walking to the stadium into the game from the car.


this was waaaaaay before the 'technology' wave hit, so it was no jumping on twitter or hoping online on ur cellphone.


it really hit that next morning hard once the National Media starting picking up his death more and more...it kinda became official then for me.

RIP Black Elvis

 

[num123]

I was 11 at Nevin park in Richmond playing around with some kids and this older guy with tears rolling down his face comes up out of nowhere yelling, " Tupac's dead!! ". The other kids and I were like , hearing that almost felt like someone i actually knew had died.

 

[JayYoung314]

first of all i dont like this nikka callin people oldheads just becuz they remember when tupac got killed. even tho i was young when it happened i still feel offended nikka and im only 27 so fukk you. anyway, it was just as sad as when michael jackson died except only hip hop fans were affected