Best selling doesn't make him exempt from being overrated.
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Album Rating: 4.0
tupac is definitely overrated. biggie is where it's at, dude.
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yeah tupac really isn't as good as he is made out to be but w/e
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yeah what these guys said
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Album Rating: 4.0
cosign, tupac is overrated as fuck, he had like 15 albums and biggie murked him after only releasing one album in his actual lifetime
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tupac has had some good shit but yeah biggie and lot of others are leagues better
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CALIFORNIA LOOOOOVE
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thats right i said fuckin leagues
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Leagues
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Biggie had better flow, Pac had better lyrics. Biggie's lyrics weren't bad at all but they're much less substantial than Tupac's.
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Album Rating: 4.0
what makes lyrics substantial?
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Societal insight in my opinion. Biggie told a lot of stories about the streets much like Tupac, though Biggie's interpretation of positive thinking wasn't as clear, frequent, or detailed. Around that time, the realistic and relevant connection hip-hop had with the streets was a prominent reason for even performing rap in the first place, and while it is tossed around in modern times it is hardly as necessary, to digress. Biggie taught about and acknowledged the social happenings in the society he stemmed from, but Tupac's lyrics were far more eager to outline solutions for that society, which has always been and still is a problem for humanity. This Message Edited On 02.06.09
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Album Rating: 4.0
i don't think you have to make relevant social positions to have substantial lyrics, i think that's a main problem with criticism of hip hop. shit, i don't even think you need to have "positive thinking" to have substantial lyrics. i'd rather hear a hot line, interesting metaphors, and clever rhyme schemes than someone who isn't necessarily a better rapper rap about stuff that i might personally agree with.
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Positivity isn't necessary but its literally unhealthy to constantly encourage its opposite. I don't doubt the effectiveness of Biggie's depressing murder tales and other things like that, and Biggie does have happy songs, but the bad outweighs the good (morally) and in my opinion, a balance is more necessary than raw talent in one area. Especially in rap, since the lyrics are a form of spoken poetry, and the relativity that has to its demographic is a strong judgment factor.
I prefer Biggie's rapping style to Tupac's because he's more rhythmic and can really jive. But Pac will always be the more intellectually inclined rapper in my book.
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Album Rating: 4.0
see i just don't think that having socially progressive lyrics makes you automatically more intellectual. there's a blog i read that made a post about this.
http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/000673.html
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oh so scythers that guy
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lol
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I just watched the video for California Love and Dre's verse is actually pretty awesome.
Oh, and on topic; fuck Lil' Wayne.This Message Edited On 02.06.09
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he's not amazing but he's not that bad
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I don't like him 
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