In one of my own original pieces for Medium’s newly launched Cuepoint, I spoke to original HipHopSie.Com co-creator and fellow Las Vegas DJ, Warren Peace, about the time that 2Pac strolled into the DJ booth and Suge Knight’s 662, and destroyed his Biggie vinyl. Read here, true believers…
Yeah, I don’t hate either one, I just think their catalog’s are not flawless. Pac had one classic, Me against the world, a few good early career albums, and a double album that was half incredible and half garbage. Biggie had Ready to Die and the double album that was 1/3 incredible and 2/3 crap. I liked Pac’s affiliations too, I loved the bay area sound and Pac was very influencal in the bay with Digital Underground, e-40, too short, and ray luv and mac mall. The bay area sound was so dope until the hyphy crap ruined it for me.
Word. I put KRS-One at the top spot because of his versatility, longevity, and importance to Hip Hop culture/education. 2Pac was a paranoid schizophrenic, who could make you believe you were friends with him one minute, but flip out on you the next. Just ask the Hughes Brothers, Biggie (who’s unavailable for comment), and Snoop Dogg. He’s 100% to blame for the East Coast/West Coast thing (along with the media), but he has one of the greatest rap personalities and flows in Rap history, and is beloved worldwide. Unfortunately, Biggie was only revered in the US, specifically Brooklyn.
You could tell pac was a schizo just by his catalog. Brenda’s got a baby, what’s up with the love, dear mama, and then contrast that with the misogynistic terrible songs, I could tell he was a walking contradiction. KRS just stands for everything that makes Hip Hop so powerful, plus the guy has countless classics from BDP to his solo stuff.
what a story tho….probably better to just listen to suge when he says to leave the east coast records alone for the night….
both artist are classic lyrical styles/bravado that have been copied by a lot of artists, though pac did a lot of felonious tactics to keep people buying his records and talking about him. kinda like what at lot of artist have been copying since his death 50, Dipset,etc. but hey michael jax started that crap.
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