I am not a fan of rap or hiphop other than for eminem or shinoda !. But 2 pac is one of the best creative geniuses ever to grace the earth . This I say from the bottom of my heart . RIP

И както Ту Пак пее в своята песен “Changes” “We ain’t ready, to see a black President”, така сега става ясно, че светът се променя. Политиките, хората, начините на живеене, начините на хранене, начините по които се отнасяме един към друг се променят. Дано, наистина, дано настъпи така мечтаната нова ера - ерата на Водолея.

Поздравявам всички вас с това велико парче на най-гениалния рапър:

Ето и текста:

“Changes”[1]
Come on come on
I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself
is life worth living should I blast myself?
I’m tired of bein’ poor & even worse I’m black
my stomach hurts so I’m lookin’ for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a negro
pull the trigger kill a nigga he’s a hero
Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares
one less hungry mouth on the welfare
First ship ‘em dope & let ‘em deal the brothers
give ‘em guns step back watch ‘em kill each other
It’s time to fight back that’s what Huey said
2 shots in the dark now Huey’s dead
I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere
unless we share with each other
We gotta start makin’ changes
learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers
and that’s how it’s supposed to be
How can the Devil take a brother if he’s close to me?
I’d love to go back to when we played as kids
but things changed, and that’s the way it is

[Bridge w/ changing ad libs]
Come on come on
That’s just the way it is
Things’ll never be the same
That’s just the way it is
aww yeah
[Repeat]

[2]
I see no changes all I see is racist faces
misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
We under I wonder what it takes to make this
one better place, let’s erase the wasted
Take the evil out the people they’ll be acting right
’cause both black and white is smokin’ crack tonight
and only time we chill is when we kill each other
it takes skill to be real, time to heal each other
And although it seems heaven sent
We ain’t ready, to see a black President, uhh
It ain’t a secret don’t conceal the fact
the penitentiary’s packed, and it’s filled with blacks
But some things will never change
try to show another way but you stayin’ in the dope game
Now tell me what’s a mother to do
bein’ real don’t appeal to the brother in you
You gotta operate the easy way
“I made a G today” But you made it in a sleazy way
sellin’ crack to the kid. ” I gotta get paid,”
Well hey, well that’s the way it is

[Bridge]

[Talking:]
We gotta make a change…
It’s time for us as a people to start makin’ some changes.
Let’s change the way we eat, let’s change the way we live
and let’s change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn’t working so it’s on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive.

[3]
And still I see no changes can’t a brother get a little peace
It’s war on the streets & the war in the Middle East
Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs
so the police can bother me
And I ain’t never did a crime I ain’t have to do
But now I’m back with the facts givin’ it back to you
Don’t let ‘em jack you up, back you up,
crack you up and pimp smack you up
You gotta learn to hold ya own
they get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone
But tell the cops they can’t touch this
I don’t trust this when they try to rush I bust this
That’s the sound of my tool you say it ain’t cool
my mama didn’t raise no fool
And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped
& I never get to lay back
‘Cause I always got to worry ’bout the pay backs
some punk that I roughed up way back
comin’ back after all these years
rat-tat-tat-tat-tat that’s the way it is uhh

[Bridge 'til fade:]
Some things will never change

Some things DO CHANGE!!!

Landsvägsrock när den är som bäst, Bruce Hornsby - The way it is En låt 2-Pac för övrigt samplade snyggt i den postumt utgivna hiten “Changes”.

Stop Fronting, you know you owned one of these back in the day.  I can’t lie even I had a couple, they always contained non-stop hits with always a couple questionable jams thrown in the mix.  Remember K7 “come baby come” Positive K “I got a Man” or even “Cantaloop” by US 3?  all classics put on to me by mtv party to go.     

1		Wu-Tang Clan		20,853
2		2Pac		7,755
3		Method Man		6,795
4		Ghostface		3,281
5		Kanye West		2,967
6		OutKast		2,706
7		Nas		2,627
8		GZA/Genius		2,528
9		Death Cab for Cutie		2,450
10		RZA		2,414

as you can see i am big wu tang clan fan , so anybody else have last.fm ? well add me if you dont

skimasksoldier.

I meant to publish this on the day but got a little behind so I am publishing it now.

I know that people get very emotional about this topic. Either you love Tupac or you hate him, it’s that simple for most. It really comes down to either you are a Biggie fan or a Pac fan, most people don’t straddle the line. Today, marks the 12th anniversary of the death of Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 — September 13, 1996) but his music lives on.

We Still Think You Are The G.O.A.T.

The first time I heard Tupac was on my cousin’s “Me Against The World” CD and I have been hooked ever since, I was seven years old. Even as a young child his music touched me somewhere deep, I couldn’t really understand it at the time but as I got older I did. Tupac was a very complex individual and his music demonstrated that. From introspective tracks like “Keep Ya Head Up” and “Still I Rise to hard hitting viscerally charged tracks like “Hit Em Up” and “Bomb First”, Tupac Shakur was a man full of demons, trapped between who he was and who he wanted to be.

No disrespect to Biggie, I liked his music but I loved Pac’s. Both were cut down too soon in an example of how violence perpetuates and escalates itself until it becomes uncontrollable. The lyrical genius that was Tupac has yet to be surpassed in my opinion. Feeling nostalgic, I put Makaveli: The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory in my car and just let it bump. As I listened to songs like “Hold Ya Head” and “White Man’s World”, it become very apparent to me just how much what the community considers good rap music has changed. I mean I am a huge fan of Lil Wayne, T.I., Pastor Troy, Plies, and others but when you put their lyrical content and message up against Tupac they just don’t hold up.

People knock Tupac for being contradictory in his songs going from songs insulting women and calling for change to songs that degraded women and called for violence, I think he music was simply as complex as he was. In fact, the majority of his content from “Me Against The World” on was more focused on uplifting content and challenging the black community to be better. A lot of his later content that has been released posthumously shows how much growth he had made and from all available sources it seemed he was ready to make a huge change in his life.

Tupac Shakur was only 25 years old when he was killed.

When Tupac died he was 25 years old and he had plenty of time to do all the things he wanted or at least he thought he did. He was engaged to Kidada Jones, daughter of Quincy Jones, and appeared ready to finally settle down. Makaveli was the third and last album he was contractually obligated to release on Death Row due to “All Eyez On Me” being a double album, the first double CD rap album in history I might add. So he was essentially primed to leave Death Row to start his own label and finally take full control of his career.

After 12 years, a lot of today’s listeners don’t really appreciate Biggie’s or Pac’s music in the way they should. Today, the unchallenged “Greatest Rapper Alive” is none other than Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter probably followed very closely by Lil Wayne and T.I. All I know is this while I love all those guys, there is no doubt in my mind that they would not be as big as they are today if Pac and Big were alive, I mean how could they be? How could Jay claim the title of the King of New York if Big was still around, he couldn’t.

There are a lot of great rappers, but there can only be one G.O.A.T and to me that’s Pac. All you have to do is look at his body of work, his lyrical depth and versatility, the power of his records. The man could tell a story, he could move people to action and in his later years that would have made him a force to be reckoned with not only musically but politically as well. He was a young man on a journey and just when it looked like he was about to find his way, someone cut him down. No some will say you live by the gun then you die by the gun but all I say to this if you had been shot 7 times and lived in the high energy, violent world he lived in how would you be?

Last pic ever taken of Tupac only moments before he was fatally shot on Wilshire Blvd in Las Vegas.

For some only the numbers matter, well let’s talk numbers. Tupac has sold over 75 million records worldwide, the most of any other rapper in history save possibly Jay-Z, but I haven’t been able to verify. What makes that 75 million records even more impressive is that when you look at what is commonly recognized as his active period as a solo artist from 1991-1996, no other artist in the 50-74 million category even comes close to having as small of a window as Pac did. There have been over 10 posthumous releases of his music and they have all gone platinum.

All Eyez on Me was the fourth studio album,  a double album (the first double rap album ever) and was released on February 13, 1996. According to the RIAA, over 9 million copies of the album were sold in the United States by June 18, 1998 (the album has since reached diamond status though not officially recognized by RIAA because no recount has been requested). The man sold 9 million copies in the U.S. alone in two years, I mean who does that? No you can say sales were spurred by his death but even if noboby does those kinds of numbers. He followed this up with his last studio album, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory which sold 663,000 copies its first week making Tupac the first rapper to have 2 #1 albums in the same year.  One of his posthoumous releases Until The End Of Time was the best selling rap record of 2001 going triple platinum and beating out the likes of Jay-Z, DMX, and Ja Rule 5 years after his death.  Think about this in 2001, Tupac was by far the best selling hip hop/rap artist of all time and #20 all time as far as solo artist in any genre go.

Pac is still the best selling rapper of all time with over 75 million albums sold and counting.

In the end a lot of people only knew of Tupac Amaru Shakur what they saw on TV and read in magazines but his real fans know the truth, that he was a complicated soul that was only with us for a short time but has had a profound change on our culture and lives he influenced. He was much more than a thug, he was a poet, actor, writer, producer, and executive. He said in an interview once that he didnt think he would live long and he didn’t but I think he served his purpose. His true fans still miss him like the day he left us. He was truly ahead of his time. In closing, I leave you with this quote from him that I think says everything you need to know about him.

“I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”

-Tupac Amaru Shakur

* All statistics used in the post are the most recent and accurate I could find and if anyone has any more accurate or up to date statistics with a reference I will be happy to update this post.

Source: Nahright,Reuters

Okay these cats at Blender are obviously smoking something. I am not going to even go on a rant because it is a waste of time. I will let his die-hard fans rip them a new a**hole and just watch it unfold.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dead rapper Tupac “2Pac” Shakur, the hip-hop icon who sold more records after he was murdered than during his brief career, is the most overrated person in music, according to music magazine Blender.

Shakur tops a tongue-in-cheek list that also includes “places, trends and other junk in rock,” Blender said in its upcoming October issue, due on newsstands next week.

Other overrated finalists included the Grammys at No. 7, encores at No. 12, Pink Floyd at No. 14 and “the music you loved as a teenager” at No. 23.

Shakur, a “gangsta” rapper who showed his sensitive side in movies, was killed during an unsolved drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. More than a dozen albums have been released in the ensuing years, and his image is almost as ubiquitous as that of Che Guevara or Bob Marley.

But while Shakur was a decent rapper with “insane rock-star charisma,” according to Blender, he also “larded records with self-mythologizing, mediocre filler.”

It’s not the first time the pages of Blender have been used to bring down Shakur a few notches. In its June issue, rapper Lil Wayne listed him among his top five rappers, but then admitted: “I can’t front: I was never into Pac.”

As for the Grammys, the music industry’s top awards, Blender said sitting through the ceremony was “like watching paint dry on Celine Dion’s forehead.”

And encores were notable chiefly for allowing bands to go backstage and do drugs while fans wonder if they should beat the rush to the parking lot, Blender said.

Veteran British rock band Pink Floyd, meanwhile, were responsible for “unbearable LSD slapstick” and “self-important bombast.” And Blender warned that teenagers’ brains “can inflate a great band to Christ-size proportions” and turn a bad song into the most meaningful.

(Reporting by Dean Goodman; editing by Jill Serjeant)

gangsters, bitches, crips, bloods, lowrider, bandanas, chemises à carreaux, funk, weed, barbecue,….

from the 90’s / G FUNK, BITCHES!

Boyz n the hood - More Bounce To The Ounce

2 Pac & Dr Dre - California Love

Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg - Nuthin’ But A G Thang

Warren G - Regulate

EAZY E- REAL COMPTON CITY G’s

N.W.A. - Express Yourself

ice cube -gangsta nation

The Game has paid a macabre tribute to his hip-hop heroes Tupac Shakur, Eazy-E and the Notorious B.I.G. in a new song - by stepping into their shoes for the last 10 minutes of their lives.

The Los Angeles-based hitmaker claims the new track “Never Can Say Goodbye” off of his third album L.A.X. offers his version of the late icons’ final moments.

He explains, “I wanted to be in Biggie, Pac and Eazy-E’s shoes the last 10 minutes of their lives, so I wrote verses as if I were. In their last moments, they knew they were going to die, or at least felt like they might.”

The Game insists he can put himself where they were before they passed - because he almost died after getting shot.

He tells King magazine, “I got shot and felt like it was over for me. I’ve got something in common with them (Shakur, Eazy-E and Notorious B.I.G.), except I didn’t pass; I came back to life.”

Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. were both killed in shooting incidents in 1996 and 1997 respectively, and N.W.A. star Eazy-E lost his life to Aids in 1995.

Rakim is #1. Hiptics.com Photo.

This is interesting. It’s by Henry Adaso for About. You can see the Complete List HERE.

Here’s the Top 10

1. Rakim
2. KRS-One
3. Big Daddy Kane
4. Nas
5. The Notorious B.I.G.
6. Jay-Z
7. 2 Pac
8. Kool G Rap
9. Chuck D
10. Scarface

Is Rakim The Greatest? Hiptics.com Photo.

Who makes your Top 10?

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