Immortalized Outlaw
THE GENERAL
PAC was too much then and now, the fact people discuss him everyday makes him on another level. I love NY and forever will, either let him rest or respect him at age of 25 his music lives on.
It's sad to see how little people really know about Pac, even on a board like this. Most cats have a completely one-dimensional vision of what he was about and grossly misinterpret his every action and word.
And then people wonder why hip hop is dead, when people are more interested in learning about new wack artists instead of studying its legends..
"The fame is an illusion.."
The "W" is from West Coast gang culture but people like Mc Eiht had been repping it for years. Ice Cube was on some East Coast ish for a while everyone knows that. Even Ice-T wasn't happy about his fake West vs East bs. Ice put himself in the middle of a Blood, Mack-10 and a Crip, WC (Who had been throwing up the 'W' as well.) and played a role. So I gotta agree with Pac.
Yeah I said it... Ra is lyrically over rated. Someone give me a dope bar from Ra
There's too many dope Rakim bars to quote, found a random one...
Verse 1:
Do you ever sit back and get a little too high,
start thinking what happens to you when you die?
Does your soul rest where your coffin is,
or is death just a metamorphosis?
Does life go on in the mental form,
If we live a good life will we get reborn?
Is it a heaven or we trapped in hell?
Where do we go from here, nobody came back to tell.
If we reincarnated or perish in time,
could you shine when darkness inherits your mind?
And your eyes closed for good, you out the galaxy now,
Is this subconscious dream my reality now?
Listen to brain, with no physical frame,
Could we return to the hood on a spiritual plane?
Ask yourself,If I pass tonight,
Am I prepared for what's after life?
used to paint this flow, on ancient scrolls
And learn ta, make this dough, where gangstas roll
Think like the late great Capone when the bank is closed
It's cats that claim they bold, but they ain't this cold
I'm from New York City even pretty chicks act up
nikkas get clapped up, you stack up, they stick that up
Put the strap up, you think my name was "Kid back up"
Big nikkas (spittin' noise) pick that up, or lift that up
Raised by gangstas and gamblers, hustlers, con artists
And convicts, killers and dons
Drug dealers, playas and pimps, smooth talkers
Stick up kids, thugs, real nikkas and gods
Haunted by every soul that lay dead in the turf
Close by every spirit, that never made it to birth
Since the Moon separated from Earth
That's why they say I'm the greatest that ever orchestrated a verse
It's the
R Rugged and rough that's how I do it
A Allah who I praise to the fullest
K Keep it moving, I Stand alone
M It's my crown, my world, my throne
Aiyyo, we toast to that, it's the cat that broke backs
To a soul slap, a smoke a track, how dope is that
Poet for rap, wrote backs that most slack
That know rap before they turned coke to crack
To my dogs hearin' sirens on and firearms
Outcome die in wars or behind iron bars
The boulevard, tire frauds when I evolve
Try and rob, my dialogue, I am God
Chicks moan just to get next to my throne
And sniff my cologne and get Ra alone
Sex spot's at home, I'm testosterone
Caress spots, stress drops, bedrock's the bone
Hit the floor, it's hot for 2003
Hit's galore, who rock a style as wild as me
Rest assure, when I rock dance crowds and scream
Bis-Mi-Allah A-Rahman A-Rahim it's the
pac has never released a better diss track than krs.