lo just becuz i don't like him doesn't mean i don't like rap and hip hop. lmao. and theres nothing wrong with tupac.
eminem is the shit, slim shady lp and marshall mathers lp is awesome, some of my favorite rap cds. hes newer cds werent nearly as good though. if you listen to him rhyme closely its fucking awesome and more creative than all the mainstream shit put out today.
You, my friend, are gravely mistaken. As far as white rappers, listen to: Atmosphere sage francis lil wyte and how come no one has mentioned the beastie boys?
Eminem is slightly amusing, but that's it. it's too juvenile and gimmicky. I did kind of enjoy that one really early song 'Fucking Crazy', but I was on several drugs the one time I heard it. the best rapper of all time is currently in my sig.
^ and which crackhead is he? im sorry theres just so many black rappers that look like crackheads i cant distuinguish them anymore =o
I've always been a pretty big fan. Love the SS & MM LP's, not so much the later stuff but some songs are still good. I'd say he probably impacted my life quite a lot, and like you Green he was the first artist I got real big into. I've been listening to Immortal Technique ALOT recently, due to a thread Relayer made here a while ago... I read it and thought I'd check him out, so I did and well.... incredible. 'The Point of no Return' is probably my most listened to track. There's a track called Dance with the Devil and it's amazing. It's really quite chilling, dark, cold and sad..... but it is so real. The imagery that song creates in your mind is just unlike anything else I've ever heard. It takes balls to make such an honest (yet painful), thought-provoking and true to real life track.
i said i dont want a discussion about hip hop, since i dont give a rats ass about it. eminem is different, imo hes actually talented. just fyi im talking about an artist, not a style =)
he's just overglorified white trash. rap tends to glorify everything negative about black people. it seems to be more about disrespecting each other and degrading women than anything else. it also glorifies materialism and encourages stupid behavior. it's marketed to really young people who are impressionable. because of it, i've ran into countless suburban kids who think it's cool to behave like something they're not. kids who have lived sheltered lives and would otherwise not behave like that. but we can't entirely blame music for stupid behavior either. people make choices to do dumb things.
my sister was obsessed with him when he was fashionable. she was litterally in love with the guy. I just think he's incredibly commercial and his voice is very annoying.
Eminem was making music when i was a kid. he just went by a different name. vanilla Ice hahahahahahahahahahaha i was one of the few kids in my middle school that actually did not like Vanilla Ice.
Wu tang is pretty much head and shoulders over any other hiphop performers, i'm a wu-banger for life but I still like eminem he used to be amongst my favorites but the newer stuff went into a style i didnt really like with that said, supposidly eminem now is like 260lb's and all he does is play video games and order take out now lol
the whole commercial rap scene is pretty pathetic. these people have no talent.. just hoes in their clips, with huge asses
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/music/tupac-shakur/ Tupac Shakur One-time dancer for Digital Underground turned fake gangster rapper, Tupac Shakur sold shitloads of albums for Death Row Records. He was planning on moving to a different record label, so Death Row CEO and active Bloods gang member Suge Knight probably had him killed so that he could keep the rights to Tupac's unreleased material. The press blamed the murder on the fake intercoastal rivalry between Bad Boy Records and Death Row which resulted in two extremely rich men -- Knight and Puff Daddy -- who further capitalized off of speculation regarding the "retaliatory" murder of obese rapper and drug dealer Notorious B.I.G. America sure loves its dead, rich black men: after death, Tupac released many times more music than while he was alive and has found time in his busy schedule to appear in three movies. Timeline 16 Jun 1971 Lesane Parish Crooks born, Brooklyn NY. 1972 Name changed to Tupac Shakur. 1990 Joins Digital Underground as a dancer and rapper. Nov 1991 Releases his first solo album, 2pacalypse Now. Dec 1991 Files a $10 million lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department for alleged brutality. 1992 Appears in the movie Juice. 1992 Forms Thug Life. 1993 Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. 1993 Appears in the movie Poetic Justice, opposite Janet Jackson. 1993 Arrested a number of times, variously for using drugs in his limo, threatening another rapper with a baseball bat at a concert, and allegedly shooting at two off-duty policemen in Atlanta. 18 Nov 1993 A 19-year-old Brooklyn woman accuses Tupac and three pals of sodomy and sexual assault. 1994 Appears in Above the Rim. 10 Nov 1994 Dropped from the movie Menace II Society after punching director Allen Hughes. Incarcerated for 15 days. 29 Nov 1994 Acquitted of sodomy and weapons charges, convicted of sexual assault. 30 Nov 1994 Shot four times during a robbery in New York City: he loses $40K of jewelry. 7 Feb 1995 Sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison, which he begins serving at Riker's State Penitentiary. Apr 1995 Me Against the World debuts at #1. May 1995 Marries girlfriend Keisha Morris from prison. Oct 1995 Suge Knight posts Tupac's $1.4 million bail; Shakur promptly signs a record contract with Knight's label, Death Row Records. 1995 Assumes Makaveli as an alias, after Machiavelli. 1996 Appears in Bullet, with Mickey Rourke. 1996 Marriage to Keisha Morris annulled. 1996 All Eyez on Me. 7 Sep 1996 Standing up through the open sunroof of a BMW 750 sedan, rap artist Tupac Shakur is talking to some women at a Las Vegas street intersection when a white Cadillac pulls alongside. Gunfire erupts, and Shakur is shot four times. 13 Sep 1996 Dies in hospital. Nov 1996 Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, released under his Makaveli alias. 1997 Stars in Gridlock'd with Tim Roth. 1997 Stars in Gang Related with Jim Belushi. Nov 1997 R U Still Down (Remember Me). 1999 Still I Rise. 2000 The Lost Tapes. 2000 The Rose That Grew from Concrete. 2001 Until the End of Time. 2002 Better Dayz. 2003 Appears in Tupac: Resurrection.
