TheDarceKnight
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Lack of news is driving me crazy
I remember my mom and her friends actually going on a trip to lasVegas the day after 2pac got shot. I was young at the time (9 years old) and I remember people being optimistic that he would make it. A few days later we hear the announcement on 92.3 the beat. They start playing life goes on. My father goes to the wherehouse music store to buy all eyez on me but it was sold out. He came back with the me against the world album. Before that my mom just had a bunch of 2pac singles. I remember always listening to the cassette single of How do you want it/California love. The anticipation for makavelli was something else. I used to record songs from the radio. I remember being so excited about recording "Pour out a little liquor" in whole Also I grew up in Compton, so the word about Orlando was swirling. My elementary school was actually in south side crip territory. Very interesting. He didn't live too far from there. It was a war in Compton.I’ll never forget. I came home from school and like normal I was listening to the radio and they were playing Pac. Nothing out the ordinary considering it was ‘96. I switched to the other station just to see what they were playing before I went back to Pac. They were playing Pac also, and it still didn’t register to me yet. Just thought it was a coincidence. So I went back to the other station and let that song finish. Then the DJ played the official recording where his death was announced. And they were like “he’s gone.”
I just sat in my room listening to the radio that whole afternoon through evening. They were playing a lot of non album cuts and even unreleased songs too that later showed up on his posthumous albums. I didn’t even go to speak to anyone in my family nor did I tell them because I was just at a loss of words.
Wow, that’s crazy that you were actually there. I’ve seen that clip a bunch of times watching Nas pace back and forth before he got into it. I know the show must go on, but I know that had to have fukked Nas up considering he was supposed to meet with Pac again after they squashed their beef.
Hard to compare it cause there wasn’t social media the way there is now, I remember it feeling like longer than a week at the time, it was also basically the last week of summer holidays for students so everywhere was bustling with youths, just remember everybody being outside and mad groups of ppl and you would get updates from ppl face to face like “yo I seen they said this on Entertainment Tonight, or they said this on BET or MTV”. I remember everyone feeling really hopeful that he would pull through up until like day 4 or 5 and then a definite shift in energy. Everything feels different when you’re young tho too, and for my generation a lot of us looked at Pac as more than just a rapper or entertainer, right or wrong a lot of ppl in that 12-18 bracket viewed him as a leader and someone who you kinda modelled some of your behaviours after, or aspired to be like, the positive aspects and the negative ones. But to answer your original question, I think in general everything moved slower during that era and not having your face Burried in a phone is a big part of why.
I tried to pattern myself to brotha lynch in middle school, that didn’t end wellspot the fuk on ...geez. This is exactly how it was.
and yeah even as a kid I tried to pattern myself after Pac, Tyson, and my older brother
Boy I took that shyt hard, Everybody did, It was like I matured by 7 years after that happened. shyt was sobering. To me at least. I still walked around with 2pac in my head basically being my inner guide for a long time. Sounds corny but that's how I initially came to find myself as a person by moving the way I thought Pac would move in a given situation. It was so hard wired in me that I didnt think about it. Eventually I grew into my own but that foundation was always there. Had nothing to do with Pac's thug side, IT was just his aura and the way he carried himself in general, particularly with women. yeah That help a teen me tremendously lol.
Why can’t u put Pac in there? It’s not restricted to the first 3 albums is it? Because Pac has one of the greatest 3 album runs of all time in hip hop. His just happened to be his last 3. And X was always in my personal top 5-10 list. nikkas legit couldn’t tell me shyt about X back in the day. I always felt me and @FreshAIG was the biggest X fans on this site.
I tried to pattern myself to brotha lynch in middle school, that didn’t end well
She was afraid I would catch on fire if I entered the church.
Ma dukes made you go to church every day after that huh?
She was afraid I would catch on fire if I entered the church.
Lack of news is driving me crazy