It was all a dream
 

I used to read word up magazine

Salt n Pepa and heavy d up in a limousine

Hangin' pictures on my wall
Every Saturday Rap Attack, Mr. Magic, Marley Marl

When I die..
 

Fuck it I want to go to hell

Cause im a piece a shit it ain't hard to fuckin tell

When I was young I preferred Pac.

When I grew up a bit it was Biggie 4 ever.

Still, nothing gets the blood pumping like the old nolimit shit.. Especially being from the nolia.

I preferred biggie over pac growing up. I felt pac was one dimensional. But then I stumbled on shit like:



And




^listen to the flow in that second video. How many rappers and rap groups blew up off that flow?

Dude was lightyears ahead of his time.

Pac definitely cared more about people than big.

The 90's was better

I never understood the whole east coast/west coast battle, to me that's like trying to decide whether Alkaline or Kartel are the better artist. it depends on my mood and what I'm listening to at that moment. Kartel has a more serious history and a deeper impact as a freedom fighter with a far more wide-ranging opus but he's way older than A so not exactly a fair comparison.

same with Biggie and Tupac; would B have been able to sustain his genius over decades? We'll never know :/

I just know I'll still be listening to Tupac 20 years from now. He is fucking timeless.

Tupac was my first introduction to third wave feminism, I didn't know it existed outside my home at that time until I discovered bell hooks that same year.

have any of y'all seen the hip hop as mechanism of resistance against oppression episode of Minaj's Patriot Act? if not, so worth watching.

Agree about Tupac, timeless classic for now

@jesse

The whole east/west thing was wild for me because in the Bronx we knew pac was born and raised in NYC.

So it's like, wtf? Suge took advantage of pac after pac got shot and fabricated a real war over musical jealousy... Got a dude who started out as a revolutionary NY based rapper talking about "to live and die in la" and claiming piru.

When pac first came out, his name was "mc New York"... Then he became the best LA rapper lol.

Shit was retarded to us. The entire rest of the world fell for it tho.