LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Dead rapper Tupac “2Pac” Shakur, the hip-hop icon who sold more records after he was murdered than during his brief career, is the most overrated person in music, according to music magazine Blender.
Shakur tops a tongue-in-cheek list that also includes “places, trends and other junk in rock,” Blender said in its upcoming October issue, due on newsstands next week.
Other overrated finalists included the Grammys at No. 7, encores at No. 12, Pink Floyd at No. 14 and “the music you loved as a teenager” at No. 23.
Shakur, a “gangsta” rapper who showed his sensitive side in movies, was killed during an unsolved drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. More than a dozen albums have been released in the ensuing years, and his image is almost as ubiquitous as that of Che Guevara or Bob Marley.
But while Shakur was a decent rapper with “insane rock-star charisma,” according to Blender, he also “larded records with self-mythologizing, mediocre filler.”
It’s not the first time the pages of Blender have been used to bring down Shakur a few notches. In its June issue, rapper Lil Wayne listed him among his top five rappers, but then admitted: “I can’t front: I was never into Pac.”
As for the Grammys, the music industry’s top awards, Blender said sitting through the ceremony was “like watching paint dry on Celine Dion’s forehead.”
And encores were notable chiefly for allowing bands to go backstage and do drugs while fans wonder if they should beat the rush to the parking lot, Blender said.
Veteran British rock band Pink Floyd, meanwhile, were responsible for “unbearable LSD slapstick” and “self-important bombast.” And Blender warned that teenagers’ brains “can inflate a great band to Christ-size proportions” and turn a bad song into the most meaningful.
via SpineMagazine
FUCK all HATERS!
Who’s the fuckin pinheaded pencil pushin idiot that comes up with this bullshit.. I’ll second the notion. FUCK all HATERS!!
fuck uz 2pac was remembered coz hiz lyrics came from the heart!! all i got to say is “keep ya head up” ….. btw 2pac and lil wayne were mate’s
FUCK SPINE MAGAZINE
tupac was the best rapper to ever live and will always be remembered!
Whoever wrote this article is not only biased to broad concept, but lacks the basic depth of a fucking toddler. Anyone who has ever listened to Tupac’s lyrics intently cannot rationally say that there is no point to his music. I guess this pencil dick just needs to open his mind. And get some pussy!
JA Shakur
Ya know I honestly cant believe that lil wayne would say lil wayne’s is a freestyle rapper. I love his music but it dont mean shit. 2 Pac shit came from the heart and honestly when i listen to his music it makes me think and understand what hes been through and to a point has made me look at life a little different he was a straight up guy and said what he thought and didnt brag about his money and shit he an honest guy and in my eyes the best rapper who ever lived…
ya fuck whoever wrote this. tupac is the greatest rapper to have ever lived. the (i told you so) really pisses me off. fuck blender magazine, fuck spine magazine, and fuck whoever wrote this. Tupacs songs have more meaning than any other artist ive ever listened to.
the haters are actually all the guys hatin’ on the truth … 2pac was alright, but he was overrated … and to call him “the greatest mc that ever lived”?! n**ga please … y’all don’t know scat about music, if you’re serious about that.
rakim, baby … but y’all fools wouldn’t understand, anyway.
As someone who held a great appreciation of Pac’s music while he was alive I think when people label him among the greats its is due to the personal connection that he was easily able to establish through his lyrics; it was as though he was talking to you personally.
Pac was not the greatest lyricist or at least he did not display himself as such because it is clear that he was well-read and highly intelligent. Based on what they each displayed to the world if he and BIG would have gone verse for verse Pac would’ve have lost but in passionate communication of his point (whatever it was in a particular song) Pac is unmatched by any emcee or rapper before or since. The closest might be Ghostface because though I don’t always get his point but his passion is off the charts.
So is Pac overrated….Not at all! He is just loved by a wealth of people who may not be able communicate as clearly as he could but still want the world to know how they felt about him. Couple this with the fact that whomever felt the need to write an article about it 13 years after his death during a period when I can easily forget a rapper 13 seconds after the track ends definitely makes him worth being listed among the greats…where on that list depends solely on what you like in an emcee
fuck all you haters. i am 14 years old have lived in the gehtto and i can honestly understand every think pac speaks about through his music. he is the only rapper who i can truley relate to and no matter who you are you can relate to pac in someway. He was without a dought the realist rapper who ever existed. rest in peace macaveli
Tupac is the best 4 ever ya
the don Makaveli ,forgive them
i just read dis crap!!!!!!!fuck lilwayne he aint gat no records,he aint no legend en he wont be remembered 4 his money tupac sang frm de heart and abt wat he saw in the ghetto we dont give a fuck abt wat u think bt i am sure de world will 4eva rememba pac fuck wayne
FUCK WHOEVER SAID THIS BOUT TUPAC HE WUZ THE BEST RAPPER TO LIVE I GUESS BITCHES THAT CANT GET PUSSY HAVE TO HATE SOME TIMES
FUCK SPINE MAG AND BLENDER MAG
HI PAC REST UR HEAD COS U SAID U NEED A PACE YA U GAT THE PLACE NOW….PEACE-OUT….NAGGA PAC!!!
Yea fuck Spin magazine in its about to be bankrupt ass.
You can see from the responses what the people think..we’d all lose that magazine and be happy about it..yet Tupac is still mourned more than ten years later.
When Spin goes bankrupt in the next couple of years no one will give a shit more than ten minutes later. Tupac was flawed for sure but a great artist who’s sense of style and overall flow is matched by Biggie and old school rappers alone..makes Jay Z sound like an amateur..and Jay Z makes Lil Wayne sound like an amateur.
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And pardon my language.