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

[Will Ross]

No pac music was not even on no street shyt compared to others. The media made pac a bad guy

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

he def had some kinda complex going on

love pac

 

[Voice of Reason]

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

I’ve been saying this for a while. Men love “thugs” more than women.

 

[Koba St]

I don’t get the Drake comparison. Nobody, not a single person believes Drake is some dangerous bad boy rapper. He’s probably the least threatening rapper ever in existence. Even less than Will Smith

Whether or not Pac was faking his image at least he had some genuine menace to him and was actually involved in some grimy shyt. I think there were some parts of his thug image that was faked but also some were genuine.

 

[Kairi Irving]

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.

Pac & Lil Wayne has had the biggest influence on rap imo, so many not really tough guys out nowadays

 

[Bolzmark]

A lot of the fascination with Pac is his “ThugLife” image this is a fact.

 

[DON MA MA]

This was his highschool interview that showed he wasn't on the shyt he created an image around as a rapper.

Even jada didn't want him back then cause he was too square for her. While she was selling drugs after school, he was delivering pizza. I remember some interview where a gay dude in his drama class was talking about how compassionate & non judgemental he was.

Fast forward to the 90s, they both in LA now he's the gangsta and she's the Actress.

 

[sayyestothis]

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.

U corny breh. U 20?

 

[Kairi Irving]

U corny breh. U 20?

You implying you're cool?

 

[Voice of Reason]

I don’t get the Drake comparison. Nobody, not a single person believes Drake is some dangerous bad boy rapper. He’s probably the least threatening rapper ever in existence. Even less than Will Smith

Whether or not Pac was faking his image at least he had some genuine menace to him and was actually involved in some grimy shyt. I think there were some parts of his thug image that was faked but also some were genuine.

ll and pac had static over women that’s why he said this.

 

[Juggalo Fred]

This could describe thousands of rappers including Cube and Dre, why LL crying about Pac specifically? Must be jealous people view Pac as the GOAT (well, next ICP of course)

 

[Kairi Irving]

This could describe thousands of rappers including Cube and Dre, why LL crying about Pac specifically? Must be jealous people view Pac as the GOAT (well, next ICP of course)

ICP is trash cac

 

[Juggalo Fred]

ICP is trash cac

 

[Kairi Irving]

NVM

 

[seabreeze80]

Jada said something similar.