Friday, September 5, 2008

2Pac Overrated? WTF?


Blender Magazine released a list of The 33 Most Overrated People, Places, Trends and Other Junk in Rock and 2Pac was #1 on the list. Read the entire list by clicking above or just read below what they said about Pac. My two cents-2Pac music > 98% of current rap artist catalogs

1. 2PAC
He had insane rock-star charisma. He admirably conceived of a gangsta rapper as a principled rebel. His booming baritone gave bass­lines competition for the most-trunk-rattling part of a hip-hop song. Hell, even Juice hasn’t aged nearly as badly as you’d expect. But while Tupac’s musical highs were epic—the pro-feminist “Keep Ya Head Up,” the terrifying “Hail Mary,” the boisterous “California Love”—that still leaves 15,837 other songs. He was a good rapper, not a great one: The guy larded records with self-mythologizing, mediocre filler that wouldn’t have made Biggie’s “give to Lil’ Cease” file. Maybe someone in his retinue could’ve stepped in during one of those legendary 96-hour recording binges and said, “Pac, instead of laying down this 14-minute rant about how Sun Tzu taught you how to take down the East Coast, how about some Yahtzee?” The man: awesome. The music: somewhat less than awesome.

2 comments:

Big D said...

I can agree with that! Bamma had NOTHING on Biggie! Pac didn't get good in the game until he went to jail! That bamma B.I.G was a beast on his first ever joint... Supercat's song. Biggie > 2Pac!

LU said...

Liked BIG better...