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Originally Posted by realtalk92
If anybody listens to REAL Hip Hop they know that 2pac is far superior to Biggie lyrically and music wise. .
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I find this particularly interesting too, but for different reasons.
If we're talking about 'REAL' hip-hop, surely we mean the embodiment of the founding principles of hip-hop.
Because if that's the case, I don't remember 2Pac having a particularly illustrious career as a DJ nor street dancer nor graffiti artist.
Surely again, 2Pac lost a lot of his credibility as a 'real' hip hop artist when he fled New York. As surely if we're talking about how authentic an artist is in hip-hop they should be at the the source of all things hip-hop.
If you mean 'real' in terms of how authentic the artist was in regards to what they were saying and conveying. I'm sure 2Pac went to drama school. Doesn't sound very thuglike to me. But what would I know, I'm obviously not of a position to comment on what is 'real' in a largely manufactured and unauthentic landscape.