I don't care who it's directed to, who are you to judge how someone reacted to that event?
I don't respect a 5-15yo's opinion on this situation and if you dont get why IDK what to tell ya
Oldheads ?How was it like when 2pac died?
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I don't respect a 5-15yo's opinion on this situation and if you dont get why IDK what to tell ya
Mac Casper
@adonnis - pull up, there's refreshments
Big Mel
@bigboss
i was a pretty astute 15 year old.
Why are yall arguing with this white dude mr. smoke weed about Pac's influence and death causing sadness in the black community like he could relate at all
This dude trying to tell us, that we lying about how we felt like we just making shyt up, because we were basically too young.
Breh, some of actually LIVED, GREW UP IN, and RELATED to the struggle that Pac and Big rapped about so we were drawn to them
Anyways, I was 12 when Pac died and 13 when B.I.G. died.
It was disbelief for me when Pac died, because he was bigger than life in my area (105 and St. Clair, Cleveland, Glenville area.....or a few blocks from East 99 where everyone knows Bone lived). Kids and grown-ups were sad and crying about it. I remember riding with my mom and dad...."keep your head up" came on and my mom started crying.
BIG dying was worse for me though, because he was my favorite rapper, and I was on "his" side in the beef with Pac. I cried and stayed up the whole night "dubbing" all his songs off the radio on my cassette player with the tissue in the tape so I could have some of his music for myself (my dad wouldnt let me take his tapes out the car).
Both were fukked up. Think about this and put this in perspective.
Pac was younger than Drake and Biggie was younger than Big Sean when they died and what type of impact they made in the world of hip-hop in their little time on this earth.
They died WAY too early over some bs and I always wondered how the rap game would have been different if they never passed.
This dude trying to tell us, that we lying about how we felt like we just making shyt up, because we were basically too young.Breh, some of actually LIVED, GREW UP IN, and RELATED to the struggle that Pac and Big rapped about so we were drawn to them
Anyways, I was 12 when Pac died and 13 when B.I.G. died.
It was disbelief for me when Pac died, because he was bigger than life in my area (105 and St. Clair, Cleveland, Glenville area.....or a few blocks from East 99 where everyone knows Bone lived). Kids and grown-ups were sad and crying about it. I remember riding with my mom and dad...."keep your head up" came on and my mom started crying.
BIG dying was worse for me though, because he was my favorite rapper, and I was on "his" side in the beef with Pac. I cried and stayed up the whole night "dubbing" all his songs off the radio on my cassette player with the tissue in the tape so I could have some of his music for myself (my dad wouldnt let me take his tapes out the car).
Both were fukked up. Think about this and put this in perspective.
Pac was younger than Drake and Biggie was younger than Big Sean when they died and what type of impact they made in the world of hip-hop in their little time on this earth.
They died WAY too early over some bs and I always wondered how the rap game would have been different if they never passed.
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.
leila steinberg?
Yes they did
I was 13 and me and the fam was heading to Astroworld for my fathers company picnic and heard the News on MTV and BET and shyt was crazy..EVERYONE though he was gonna pull through. I remember girls in my apartment complex crying and shyt and when we got in the car to head to Astroworld we turned on the 97.9 and they said to turn your head lights on in honor of Pac...95% OF HOUSTON HAD THERE shyt ON.
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
Yeah but i was comparing Eazy E's death to Pacs. People dont really talk about how pacs death had a major budget behind it which pushed Pac into martyrdom.....Eazy didnt have such a privalage because he just lacked the material...This is why In 1995 eazys death gave Bone Thugs E 1999 album a special feel to it because it was the last fresh thing related to Eazy (even tho word has it he never heard the finished album, the world didnt didnt know all that at the time). ..........With Eazy I dont remember Dre or Cube making any real noise. Yet when Pac died everyone was making noise. By 1993 Pac was just stepping into those rap star shoes that Eazy was already in. Eazy was OG status in the game by 1994 so thats why when his death just came and went like that I was suprised at how Pacs death was so overhyped......Let be honest here.....No one was really stressing that Black Panther lineage when Pac was alive.....From what I remember that rape case kinda made him look like a dissapointment to his lineage. Lets be honest.....Dudes werent really sure if pac raped that girl or if he didnt..it was Mike Tyson all over again.....In 1994 both Pac and ODB got shot. Both of those shootings were big in 1994 yet as years have gone by people forget the specifics of ODB getting shot like that(off the head i also remember ODB getting shot in 1998....People forget ODb was eating those bullets back in the days). Pac was talking about killing the children of those from Bad Boy and aligned himself with street gang sh*t.....The same street gang sh*t Snoop once stressed was why he got killed. Pacs legacy downplays that negativity surrounding pac before his death but i wont forget it even if the fanatics are in denial. Mind you, Pac was starting admitted Hip Hop wars right behind the Million man march. Pacs highlight was 1996 due to his over the top marketing strategy with the music, drama and movies. Coincidently he was killed that same year. Eazy wasnt really popping musically like that before his death and didnt have unreleased material like that. These are the factors that I beleive play into why Pacs death was bigger then Eazys.....Not because of any folklore BS that Pac had more depth then other rappers. Like i keep stressing.....If Pac were alive in 2012 the current Hip Hop audience would be treating him like we currently do with Chuck D or KRS 1.
This nikka said Astroworld
Man you brought back some memories. That shyt was a rite of passage to becoming a man. I did so much deviant shyt with chicks up there back in the day it's a good thing they tore it down.
This nikka said Astroworld
Man you brought back some memories. That shyt was a rite of passage to becoming a man. I did so much deviant shyt with chicks up there back in the day it's a good thing they tore it down.
alot of memories thereshyt got too GRIMMEY...it had to go
nowadays i wish it was still running
Huellz Santana
Shocking
listen up u bytch nikka... i was 12 when Pac died and that shyt affected me deeply. i still remember hearing the news on the radio riding to church with my moms. just cuz you were a bytch ass pre-teen with no real shyt going on in your life doesnt mean the rest of us couldn't relate to Pac's music.
:rayray:
i remember shed so many tears came out and I recorded that shyt from the radio adn memorized every word.
I was in detroit at that time
my sister was crying lol
and it was all over the radio and news
alot of people were crying
but it was also a shock because he's been shot before so we all thought maybe he'll be ok
even when I went back to toronto. same thing. all over radio and tv
my sister was crying lol
and it was all over the radio and news
alot of people were crying
but it was also a shock because he's been shot before so we all thought maybe he'll be ok
even when I went back to toronto. same thing. all over radio and tv
yeah, it definitely was an "again?" reaction, since Pac had already been famously shot up, and obviously survived. It took roughly a week for him to succumb to his injuries, so it seemed like business as usual since he was just chillin' in the hospital and seemingly recovering.
I lived in San Jose, Cali at the time, so he was obviously huge around our parts. I remember my boy Ramon coming over, we we're 11, to play video games and listen to music. We had the radio on when they announced it. Definitely shocked, but when I see videos of the announcement of John Lennon passing and its aftermath, I can safely say Pac's death did not generate that kind of reaction. We were already de-sensitized to violence with him, plus he was a very polarizing figure at the time, and quite hated by many.
I lived in San Jose, Cali at the time, so he was obviously huge around our parts. I remember my boy Ramon coming over, we we're 11, to play video games and listen to music. We had the radio on when they announced it. Definitely shocked, but when I see videos of the announcement of John Lennon passing and its aftermath, I can safely say Pac's death did not generate that kind of reaction. We were already de-sensitized to violence with him, plus he was a very polarizing figure at the time, and quite hated by many.
Jone2three45
Superstar
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
Spoken like a true mythos follower
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dadecountynigga
Rookie
I was in middle school when it happened seemed like every girl lost they husband or daddy or something boo hoo crying all in the hallway and shyt i was like 
you never even met the nikka
My sister was crying.like a baby too
that shyt and clean up was my reply to.her
you never even met the nikka My sister was crying.like a baby too
that shyt and clean up was my reply to.her
shyt got too GRIMMEY...it had to go
nowadays i wish it was still running
Oh yea I went back a few years before it shut down and that shyt was beyond grimy. I stayed for about and hour and got the fukk out of there...expeditiously.