Remember when Pac got in the ring with real MCs.

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

hell yeah

treach ate em on 5 deadly venoms

spice 1 n mc eiht ate him on gangsta team

spice 1 ate him again along with mac mall on dusted disgusted

cube ate em on last wordz

c-bo n e-40 ate him on hard to find

I can't say he got ate.


Most rappers be on some basic shyt.


They'll be tight, but they're stuck in the confines of rap.


Pac was just on some deeper/introspective/damn near paranormal shyt.


It's hard to compare his style to other rappers.I think his music is more soulful/spiritual than he's given credit for.That's why he had such a high level of connectivity with people.



Genuine testimony/clear, simple truths/fire/conviction>>>>>All that lyrical miracle shyt.



I appreciate all that technical/lyrical shyt at times...."nikkaz don't get the picture till the guns are drawn"


I get a chuckle, but it's frosting with no cake.


That makes what Pac did even more amazing.Like I said before, it's easy for rappers to get stuck inside the confines of rap.Some rapper don't have the talent, vision, or the comprehension to go beyond being anything but a wordsmith.Pac remained a individual and took his level of connectivity up to a Bob Marley level....using rap as his format.It takes a muthafukkah with a lot of depth to do that.Other rappers showed you flashes of it, but no other mastered it, while at the same time, giving you the whole 360% of subject matter like Pac did



Like I said.....I appreciate the common rapper, but they're ordinary to me.

You can master the ordinary and be ordinarily great.Those are the ones that can't break out the confines, but they master the element of normality and manipulate that shyt through creativity and go beyond the average.Nothing profound, though.


I dig some of that shyt, but, to me...




They're broken bells....they don't ring true

 

[Still Benefited]

for the record i do love thuglife and believe it was pac's 1st classic. And I DO like his vocal performances better on thuglife/r u still down era better than aeom performances. You understand what i'm trying to say? His delivery etc.

Yea I get exactly what u sayin,and that's why I had to think about what I said originally...Thug Life got sum of pacs most classic verses to me that are as lyrically on point but delivery more on point then alotta songs on AEOM,but overal lyrically aeom is better...as a west coast nikka I loved hearin pac rip shyt over the current west coast sound....but his music is just overall meant to be universally soulful....its not to often ull hear me say a west coast nikka shouldn't rap over west coast beats....johny j wuz the perfect man for the job I think had they stayed connected.

 

[inndaskKy]

You don't want to go there bruh



"Clear my throat as I take off my coat"

It must have gone over your head that that line (which is actually different from what you quoted) was referencing a line from a classic Rakim song, the godfather of the east coast style you speak of. And yet you say it is a wack line compared to Red & Meth's verses..?


I do agree with you though that Pac tried to change his style up a bit for this verse and it made him stand out from the rest. But to say it was wack? Nah..

 

[mbewane]

2pac - Got My Mind Made Up {unreleased with deck verse} - YouTube

Never heard this version, for some reason never looked for it...Deck's verse sounds familiar...sound is kind of off too...this legit?

 

[Black Ball]

My nikka got 40 in my all time top 3.

My nikka. E40 in my top 5 favorite rappers of alltime. But I wouldn't know how to necessarily go about placing him on a objective Top rapper list.

He's got such a deep discog of dopeness & and one of best game spitters of alltime. Top notch story teller. Can rock any type of flow. 40 is so underrated & unfairly hated on.

 

[Roberto Dinero]

Daz said "Waddup"

Yeah, true, true. Daz had the worst verse. But yeah, I liked Pac's verse.

 

[realnigga513]

First off Pac=GOAT to anyone that disagrees.

I was listening to "Got My Mind Made Up" and at Pacs verse

So mandatory my elevation my lyrics like orientation
So you can be more familiar with tha nikka you facin
We must be based on nothin better than communication
Known to damage and highly flamable like gas stations
Sorry I left that ass waitin
No more procrastination give up to fate, and get that ass shakin
I'm bustin and makin motherfukkers panic
Don't take ya life for granted put that ass in the dirt
You swear the bytch was planted
My lyrics motivate the planet
It's similar to Rhythm Nation
But thugged out, forgive me Janet
Who's in control I'm acvtivatin yo souls
You know, the way the games get controlled
Yo, two years ago, a friend of mine
Told me Alize and Cristal blows your mind
Bear witness to the dopest fukkin rhyme I wrote

Why would Pac even make a track with these guys. Did The Outlawz get sick or something.

You got Meth, Red, and Inspectah Deck on a track and you come with this maaaaaan come on Pac . It's like the first time you saw The Rock take an L.

He should've done like Weezy and made it an interlude or something.

This is almost as bad as the time Kendrick destroyed three mcs on one track.


Anyone wanna link the song; I can't cause I'm at work.

Verse Four: Method Man

fukk you losers, while you fake jacks I makes maneuvers
like Hitler, stickin up [jews] wit german [lugers]
The Mr. Meth-Tical from Staten Isle
Will be back after this mess-age don't touch tha dial
Rarely do you see an MC out for justice
Got my gun powder and my musket -- blaooow!!
Melons get swellings, I paint mental pictures like Magellen
Half of my Clan's three deep felons
nikkaz best protect they joints for Nine-Nickel
Man I stay on point like icicles
Now who wanna test Tical then touch Tical
All up in your motherfukkin mouth
Head banger boogie
Catch me on tour with Al Doogie
Method Man roll too tight, you can pull me
Better take one and pass or that's that ass
Your vital statistics are low and fallin fast
Johnny Blaze out to get loot like Johnny Cash
Play a game of Russian Roulette and have a blast

Verse Five: Redman

Aiyyo, lyrical gas spittin tha criminal tactics
Non-believers get my dikk and genitals backwards
Let's face it, there's no replacement
Taste this, mad underground basement, shyt I'm laced with
Avalanche on ya whole camp when I'm splifted
Funk Doctor who? Spock bytch don't get it twisted
I got connects like Federal Express
to get the fresh package of bless, tha dogs can't fetch
Got the clear spot from tha rear block
to bust til every nikka here drop, men I fear not
Hold ya nose and blow out til ya ears pop
Since ya crew suit you to shift now you claim that you get's lot
With, this underground cannabis
I'm dangerous like John the bomb analyst
Then proceeds like keys
My degrees freeze consecutively like EPMD LP's
Lick off a shot and hit ya fam by mistake
So I erase the whole front row at the wake
I planned my escape in case jake or a snake bust it
I'm the one pushin the hearse in the first place
Confidence for you shaky ass folks
Pump for Rockafella for the day he got smoked
choke, off this anecdote got you ope
Get roast, by my lyrics Billy Dee .45 Coly
And I'm out for nine nickel [INS tha rebels]
[West, list this, this, this...]

WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT THEIR VERSES ?????????

 

[Still Benefited]

My nikka. E40 in my top 5 favorite rappers of alltime. But I wouldn't know how to necessarily go about placing him on a objective Top rapper list.

He's got such a deep discog of dopeness & and one of best game spitters of alltime. Top notch story teller. Can rock any type of flow. 40 is so underrated & unfairly hated on.

Truthfully we don't have the means to explain it yet....hopefully 20 ys from now my childrens children will grow up in a time where people can wrap they head around the shyt E-40 be spittin....he too far ahead of his time for our generation at large to understand...only a select few with the gift of recognizing game will know and understand it.