The point Marquis here is different, the point here is why you are dragging on this conversation when it has little to nothing to do with the discussion the thread was aimed at.
Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! if you don't like rap why be so hasty about it? take time to respect the art you don't understand
i've tried to listen to the stuff they call music and i just don't like it, it's bile! Seriously come on, who can think that Tupac was a good guy? didn't he die?
yeah some a** shot him. The true legend of rap, the saddest moment in history of Earth. Tupac Shakur, forever in my heart!
Squirrels have larger brains than us, relative to their body weight. Elephants have the largest brains of any land mammal, but that's not the point.
oh please if your going to cry over some star then cry over one worthy of your tears, Freddy mercury, robert palmer, ian dury, john lennon, there are better people to cry over, why was he shot? was he in some sort of gang? didn't he shoot someone??
no....no one is as great as Tupac...none of the people whom I did not know that you mentioned. He did not shoot anyone, he was not in a gang, he spoke the truth and was shot for this truth
-------he was no angel you know_------------------ Prison sentence Shakur in a police mug shot (March 8, 1995)Shakur began serving his prison sentence at Clinton Correctional Facility on February 14, 1995. Shortly afterwards, he released his multi-platinum album Me Against the World. Shakur is the only artist ever to have an album at number one on the Billboard 200 while serving a prison sentence. The album made its debut on the Billboard 200 and stayed at the top of the charts for five weeks. The record album sold 240,000 copies in its first week, setting a record for highest first week sales for a solo male rap artist at the time.[30] He married his long-time girlfriend, Keisha Morris, while serving his sentence. This marriage was later annulled. While imprisoned, Shakur read many books by Niccolò Machiavelli, Sun Tzu's The Art of War and other works of political philosophy and strategy.[31] He also wrote a screenplay titled Live 2 Tell while incarcerated, a story about an adolescent who becomes a drug baron.[32] In October 1995, Shakur's case was on appeal but due to all of his legal fees he could not raise the $1.4 million bail. After serving eleven months of his one-and-a-half year to four-and-a-half year sentence,[33] Shakur was released from the penitentiary, due in large part to the help and influence of Marion "Suge" Knight, CEO of Death Row Records. Knight posted $1.4 million bail pending appeal of the conviction, in exchange for which Shakur was obligated to release three albums for the Death Row label.[34] Life on Death Row Records Image of Shakur, Snoop Doggy Dogg, and Suge Knight during Shakur's tenure on Death Row (1996)Upon his release from Clinton Correctional Facility, Shakur immediately went back to song recording. He began a new group, Outlawz, and with them released the diss track "Hit 'Em Up", a scathing lyrical assault on Biggie Smalls and others associated with him. In the track, Shakur claimed to have had intercourse with Faith Evans, Biggie's wife at the time, and attacks Bad Boy's street credibility. Though no hard evidence suggests so, Shakur was convinced that some members associated with Bad Boy had known about the shooting beforehand due to their behavior that night and what his sources told him. Shakur aligned himself with Death Row's CEO Suge Knight, who was already bitter toward Sean Combs and his successful Bad Boy label; this added fuel to building an East Coast-West Coast conflict. Both sides remained bitter enemies until Shakur's death. In February 1996, Shakur released his fourth solo album, All Eyez on Me. This double album was the first and second of his three-album commitment to Death Row Records. It sold over nine million copies.[35] The record was a general departure from the introspective subject matter of Me Against the World, being more oriented toward a thug and gangsta mentality. Shakur continued his recordings despite increasing problems at the Death Row label. Dr. Dre left his post as house producer to form his own label, Aftermath. Shakur continued to produce hundreds of tracks during his time at Death Row, most of which would be released on posthumous albums such as Better Dayz and Until the End of Time. He also began the process of recording an album with the Boot Camp Clik and their label Duck Down Records, both New York-based, entitled One Nation. While incarcerated in Clinton Correctional Facility, Shakur read and studied Niccolò Machiavelli and other published works, which inspired his pseudonym "Makaveli" under which he released the record album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. The album presents a stark contrast to previous works. Throughout the album, Shakur continues to focus on the themes of pain and aggression, making this album one of the emotionally darker works of his career. Shakur wrote and recorded all the lyrics in only three days and the production took another four days, combining for a total of seven days to complete the album (hence the name). The album was completely finished before Shakur died and Shakur had complete creative input on the album from the name of the album to the cover, which Shakur chose to symbolize how the media had crucified him. The record debuted at number one and sold 663,000 copies in the first week.[36] Shakur had plans of starting Makaveli Records which would have included Outlawz, Wu-Tang Clan, Big Daddy Kane, Big Syke, and Gang Starr.
Personally I can't stand rap, and I don't think it's music. And even if it were I prefer something closer to my own civilization, not that alien African stuff, makes me sick.
Hey I remember when that happened, and not too many knew who tupac was until he was killed, most rappers become more famous after they are killed.
It's poetry to a beat (and that's a very generous usage of the word 'poetry'). Personally, I feel it's subhuman rot for second class brains. I've heard it called 'nignoise' - which for legal reasons is an acronym.