LL Cool J: "2Pac Had To Put On A Gangsta Image For The Dudes To Like Him"

[Tom Foolery]

Pac OD'd on the Thug Image. I hated it.

 

[Kairi Irving]

Drake grew up in Harlem, Baltimore, Oakland during the crack era? Mother a black panther? His uncles, step father, god father all street legends? Drake shot at two officers? Drake made a song like Trapped, and Brenda’s got a baby at age 19?

you Cac’s are funny

He wasn't an a street nikka, all that shooting shyt was for his image to make him appear hard

So what he wrote deep songs? That literally means nothing, he grew up in the hood like me and everyone else but he was not a gangbanger or drug dealer


Imagine coming from a black panther background but doing stupid shyt making songs about riding on other nikkas lol


once again, fanboys blinded by celebrities and romanticizing a fake image.

 

[Worthless Loser]

Doing too much is what got him killed. Just be yourself.

 

[Carlton Banks]

2pac always had a bad boy image as an artist so I don't get where he's going with this. On his debut album he has a track called "I Don't Give A fukk" and always had that rebel to society vibe in his music. If anything it was the other way around and his gangsta image helped him get more women.

 

[semicko82]

Tupac was never a gangsta rapper until he went to Death Row, and he still had respect before he went the super thug route

 

[3:30]

He’s not wrong. Men love that image he portrayed more than women. “He’s a real man ,not like this soft fakkit generation of men” - a grown ass man who claims he’s straight

What the hell is wrong w you

between this and LL referring to men as “the dudes”

Zesty thread OP

 

[Stick Up Kid]

He wasn't an a street nikka, all that shooting shyt was for his image to make him appear hard

So what he wrote deep songs? That literally means nothing, he grew up in the hood like me and everyone else but he was not a gangbanger or drug dealer


Imagine coming from a black panther background but doing stupid shyt making songs about riding on other nikkas lol


once again, blinded by celebrities and romanticizing a fake image.

kick rocks cac

 

[Cadillac]

That badboy /street aspect of Pac was there from day 1 of 2pacalypse tho

How could he have possibly developed a female fanbase and not a male fanbase via being a thug.

When that shyt was there in his debut album

 

[NO-BadAzz]

Nikkaz talk alot of shyt but that's after I'm gone....

What song did he say this (nevermind)

 

[Kairi Irving]

kick rocks cac

You can't be black if you still think pac was some tough nikka off camera

 

[Black Steph Curry]

However nikkas claim tupac lived his life it was prolific enough to have dusty nikkas who were barely even alive when he died critique and scrutinize it 24 years later. They don't build statues for critics.

 

[The God Poster]

He’s not wrong. Men love that image he portrayed more than women. “He’s a real man ,not like this soft fakkit generation of men” - a grown ass man who claims he’s straight

He is wrong seeing as MATW went #1 before he switched directions . I can’t imagine only females bought that.

it’s my favorite album

 

[HandyWithTheSteel]

 

[Kairi Irving]

However nikkas claim tupac lived his life it was prolific enough to have dusty nikkas who were barely even alive when he died critique and scrutinize it 24 years later. They don't build statues for critics.

No, sensible people don't worship celebrities. you sound like someone that's infatuated with status, you
might as well be a woman

 

[Erratic415]

Tupac was never a gangsta rapper until he went to Death Row, and he still had respect before he went the super thug route

His music didn’t fit the gangsta rap genre as we see it, but he always seemed to have that image whenever he was on TV.

Throughout 1993-94, there was always shyt on the news with the gangsta rap controversy. “Is Rap Too Violent?”, MTV specials, etc....and the cover boys always seemed to be him and Snoop. Snoop facing a murder charge and Pac facing charges for shooting 2 cops and the sexual assault charge were always brought up.

Tupac was the “crazy thug”