Tupac

[Kevmaster]

I dont usually like the gangsta rap (i like classic & new rock, and 'pop'/dance rap) but i love tupac's stuff.

hes a great freakin artist man!

[fcpchop]

yea tupac was a great raper, but there were weird things about his death. If I remember correctly they didn't allow anyone to go to the hospital where he was at before he died, also they didn't do an autopsy(sp). Alot of people thought he was faking it espically since the whole Makaveli thing, and they thought he would just come back one day. But I never bought that, if he is alive, I doubt he would ever come back. #1 he would be in big troblem because that is illegal, #2 it would all be for nothing.

[drg]

Tupac was a different from other "Gangsta Rappers" because rather than being a gangster and a thug, then rapping about it and becoming a rap star, he rapped about being a gangster and a thug, THEN lived it (i.e. he was a fake gangster rapper at first). Many people thought that was a very dangerous life to lead, and in the end they were probably right. Tupac started out as a backup dancer for Digital Underground. Some theorize that Death Row's Suge Knight, a real gangster, had him killed to keep the rights to all of his remaining albums, as Tupac had been planning to move to another label. The whole east-west, Biggie Smalls thing was just used as cover, this story says.

An interesting part of his story is that Tupac was exposed to the ideals of class/race struggle and revolution throughout his early life, because his mother was an activist with the Black Panthers.

[Chris42050]

I never understood that rumor about Suge Knight having Tupac Killed. First of all when Tupac was shot, Suge was in the car with him and got shot himself. I beleive in the head too. I can think of a million better ways to kill someone than being in the car with him and having a car load of guys roll up and do a drive by.