Tupac Refused To Be Cast As Shariff In Menace II Society; Preferred To Be One Of The Bangers

[BrownBunny]

Pac has y'all triggered 25yrs after his death. Very strange.


Did y'all even watch the video and see what Eiht actually said? Stop being weird.


Ice Cube and Dre say hello. And both are still legends.

I like Pac

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

*sigh*

He wanted to know what Sharif's motivation was supposed to be, like any actor.
He didn't understand how Sharif's character made sense...and you could understand that watching that movie.

You could almost take Sharif out of that movie and not much would change.
It didn't make sense for Sharif to kickin' it with them killers and kicking that "knowledge" chit
knowing gottdamn well they wasn't tripping off nothing he was saying. Pac was basically asking
"why should I play the one dude in this crew that doesn't fit?"

Sharifs character did not need depth, but that’s not to say it couldn’t have had more. But it didn’t need it. First of all, his character was necessary to show that not all black youth in the hood was on some street shyt. The “why” of why he was that way was not particularly important to the plot or overall message of the film.

And even though it was not in depth, it implied that he used to be on some street shyt like the rest of them, but the Muslim religion turned his life around. Roc (his father) was so passionate when he expressed that it didn’t matter what got his son off the wrong path, as long as it got him off. So he was all for the Muslim shyt. So we know Sharrif was an “ex knuckle head turned Muslim” He was used to be the voice of reason and to humanize the rest of cast. His backstory wasn’t important, as it didn’t need to be told to solidify his impact.

The most important thing about this character is that he died at the end. He had to die. He was there to be the good guy and die.

 

[The G.O.D II]

Naw. Tate was perfect as O-Dog. That wild youthful unremorseful energy. Pac would have been trash

 

[Biscayne]

More than one actor auditions for roles. More than one actor gets hired or has lengthy discussions about roles.

You could write a pretty decent book about all the actors that passed up a role, got fired, passed over or missed out. The good ones are obviously iconic roles that they were like "man, I wish I did that" theres a couple that were glad they didn't do it.

I think Dave Chappelle was in talks to be Bubba in Forrest Gump.

There's dozens of these stories.

Hell all the buddy movies of the 90's (bad boys, men in black, rush hour, money talks, blue streak, wild wild west and others) at one point had different actors and different pairings.

This. That book would be interesting.

 

[shopthatwrecks]

shariffs character...

pac was a hot head n too dumb to not try n incorporate the 2 ....

 

[Child_Of_God]

y’all really hating on Pac?

Now I’m starting to wonder if this site is really infiltrated with Cac’s.

 

[jmspro]

I don think most people in here listened to what mc eiht said. I took it as Pac would have played Shareef if he was giving a backstory, not because the character wasnt a gangster.

He wasnt no gangster in Poectic Justice, Gang Related, and Gridlocked.

 

[Biscayne]

To Pac's credit, Shariff really was a thinly written character with no depth. If you isolate all of his scenes from the movie, they are all basically "but look in the Qoran it says" with the other characters rolling their eyes and not giving a shyt. The repetition and corny setup with no real payoff would have had to be frustrating for an actor tasked with bringing that character to life.

Logical thought out response. Instead of angry and petty attempted rehash of 90's rap feaud anger..

 

[Biscayne]

I like Pac

We just came off of Kobe's death, where users(including myself) were angry at ppl in the media trying to hold Kobe's past misjudgements over his head decades after the fact and in his death. Yet users in these Pac threads are holding his misdeeds over his ashes 25yrs later like they can't let go. Very weird personal beefs they have with dead 25yr old black man. We get it, he was a hothed who made wrong decisions that contributed to his death. The hell does that have to do with what Eiht said?

 

[Biscayne]

shariffs character...

pac was a hot head n too dumb to not try n incorporate the 2 ....

What are you trying to point out here?

 

[419scam]

Rip tupac

 

[shopthatwrecks]

What are you trying to point out here?

sharif(same actor) was rick rock in boyz n the hood..... n 9 times outta 10..had somethin 2 do with the body where the kids found em...


fast forward 2 yrs later he is changed ...n tryin 2 get out the hood.... karma caught up with him...

simple

i always put poetic justice and south central in the same universe as menace..

dooky was pac's potna in poetic justice...

mad dog join the dueces n held ray ray down...

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

Pac stans are worse than Beyonce stans by a country mile

RIP to the GOAT tho

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

Old news like last Tuesday’s paper

 

[Cadillac]

The original studio gangster.

Tupac was as divaish, insecure and high maintenance as any woman. Every other anecdote has him whining and complaining about the pettiest shyt.

He must have picked those traits up while modelling.

Why wouldn’t he want to be the voice of reason? Pac stans get in here and try to twist this into a W for him because I ain’t understanding

did you dumbasses even watched the video to even know what happened

It got him killed. Pac had no business hanging around gang bangers .

Yes because Pac was hanging with such upstanding citizens before he got with Death row right?

his fake ass should have just stuck to that tutu skirt wearing shyt with Digital Underground and dancing with Jada instead of wanting to be a street nikka.

and ofcourse the cypher aint complete without some irate bitter New yorker in the fold

 

[Payday23]

his fake ass should have just stuck to that tutu skirt wearing shyt with Digital Underground and dancing with Jada instead of wanting to be a street nikka.

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