Andre Jaquet

1y

Give me 1 (one) 2pac album as consistent, tight, focused, exceptional, and conceptual as ready to die. One with 0 weak songs (ignoring interludes obviously)

Water Giver

1y

Literally MATW and 7Day Theory

Strictly 4 Niggaz is also very cohesive lol, although it only has like 2 hits

The no cohesion meme is from his post death albums and AEOM - but also 2apacalypse his debut isn't really cohesive as a project and has many different sounds

Stop it

Andre Jaquet

1y

Me against the world is not as good as ready to die, it’s more front loaded. 7 day theory has weak songs. Neither have almost every single song as an iconic incredible song

Water Giver

1y

Name the weak songs

Andre Jaquet

1y

White manz world, life of an outlaw, hold ya head, toss it up r def weaker than the rest of the album
It gets bogged down by bad mixing, unnecessary features making songs a lot longer than they need to be, and can get formulaic.
Still an amazing album but it ain’t no ready to die lol. Basically every single song on ready to die is equally as classic

Blasphemy is one of the best songs ever tho despite the annoying 40 second intro

Water Giver

1y

Toss it Up is literally a hit

White Manz World is literally one of most known deep cuts and scathing commentary

Life of An Outlaw is iconic

Hold Ya Head I'll give you, although the beat is hard but it is an average 2pac song that can fit anywhere

1/4

Big also got weed carrier verses from Junior Mafia we can talk about, if we gon use that as a metric

Water Giver

1y

7Day Theory having bad mixing I have never seen a critic tho lmao not even from niggas with times on the stoop

Water Giver

1y

NYC specifically Hot97 also did a lot of propaganda against Pac after Big died

That's literally where the "Pac isn't lyrical" narrative started n the blown out Hennessy jokes n s*** started too, even tho Pac was considered lyrical when alive and people like Nas told them they're wrong after Pac died

Then in the 2000s they started saying his catalog has too many "misses" even tho it was beloved alive and still selling like crazy

Then the 2010s they started doing the "people loved him for his spirit, not the music" bullshit

Literally like some Cold War s***

2words

1y

They actually started the “they loved him for the passion/spirit despite his lyrical shortcomings” in the 2000s too, when Jeezy came out there were a lot of backhanded comparisons made in MTV lists and s*** like that saying that jeezy was like pac because he wasn’t a lyricist or talentedbut had passion and work ethic

Thank you for the insight on the hot97 stuff tho, it’s clear that there’s propaganda at play with this, the narrative is crazy

Andre Jaquet

1y

Ready to die better than any pac album argue wit ya auntie more consistent, better flows, consistently amazing hooks, every song is amazing

2words

1y

All Eyez and Makaveli are better than ready to die. “Pickle juice drinking” is amazing to you?

Andre Jaquet

1y

White manz world, life of an outlaw, hold ya head, toss it up r def weaker than the rest of the album
It gets bogged down by bad mixing, unnecessary features making songs a lot longer than they need to be, and can get formulaic.
Still an amazing album but it ain’t no ready to die lol. Basically every single song on ready to die is equally as classic

Blasphemy is one of the best songs ever tho despite the annoying 40 second intro

2words

1y

White manz world a weak song

Hold ya head a weak song

Andre Jaquet

1y

All eyez is not better than ready to die lol and neither is 7 day theory

2words

1y

Ready to die is more uneven than people acknowledge. Friend of Mine and respect are misses

Andre Jaquet

1y

My point is ready to die is consistently the same level of amazing the entire way thru except for the skits, there’s a clear hierarchy of makaveli or all eyez on me songs

2words

1y

Hold ya head and white manz world are not on a low part of any hierarchy. Friend of mine is tho

NorthShoreWhiteGuy

1y

i mentioned Hypnotize in my most recent post. I'm just saying, California Love is one of those songs that almost everyone knows instantly, rap fans and non-rap fans. My 65 year old Tom Petty & Carlos Santana loving dad knows California Love word for word, that's my point

2words

1y

Ready to die is more uneven than people acknowledge. Friend of Mine and respect are misses

Poolboy Q

1y

Yall are being pretty generous calling all these 2pac songs “hits” he has like 4 true hits and pretty much same with Big who may have 5