well I think this is simple and innocent comment. for me, it sounds that u dont have any special kind of accent in my ears. most of black people has some kind of different accent or sound in their voice so I could recognize many of them to be black just by hearing them speaking. Ur voice is not thay obvious in my opinion. and of course because ur english is 100% clean and there is no accent from any other backgrounds, thats maybe why you sound like you "talk white " like the guy said.
@@JMrealgamer i know i know and probably u guys also somehow understand what I mean. There is no need to start to make this sound like some kind of racist shit or anything.
The whole point was to make a song so catchy that the whole world would sing it and he would hear it everywhere he went. Hence 25 years later it’s still played on the regular and kids today know of the track.
He is trippin. Started out a bit Blinded by that east west beef bullshit. Grow up they are both gone and none of us should be carrying feelings over tracks from the 90s
I find it comic that he says he never heard this song before even though he was there when there was this West-Coast & East-coast rivalry back then and this was a song that was played a lot in the radio station back then
@@NilsDum You never heard any tracks like; Big Poppa, Juicy, Who Shot Ya?, Hypnotize, Mo Money Mo Problems, Going Back To Cali, Ten Crack Commandments, Sky’s The Limit, You’re Nobody (Till Somebody Kills You) ??? It doesn’t matter if you like 2Pac better or The Notorious B.I.G. But this is like a must do to hear their music out they were huge back in the 90’s and still loved and respected today
2Pac was born/raised in NYC. Him being betrayed/dissed by fellow east-coasters hit him hard, so he took it personal. I don't blame him for his anger here.
I know this. That doesn't change the fact that he was born & raised in NYC. Everyone knows the early years of a human being have the most impact. Psychology 101.
It’s not where you from it’s where you at - Big Pun. Pac left new your way before 13 he was way younger when he went to Baltimore he was 13 in Marine City in the Bay Area of California. His most formable years was in Cali. The kids I grew up with that where from nyc that moved to Cali eventually became Cali through and through. You spend jr high high school and your adult years in a place that will become your home 9/10
@@tofuguru941 It still doesn't matter because he clearly picked a side, no such thing as ''fellow eastcoasters''. It's not treason because of a east/westside thing but becaus he knew them personally.
the reason why hit em up is as legendary to this day as it is, isn't predominantly because of the bars or the wordplay but merely the pure anger. the whole song is just a moment of uninterrupted and genuine rage, while it just bluntly disses biggie and his entire crew. I like to think that there was very little writing time for this song and was just created off the top driven by the true emotions pac was feeling at the time. the attitude, the sampled instrumental, the biggie and puffy look-alikes in the video, the bright colours... its literally just a video of pac and his mates being assholes and enjoying themselves. iconic.
This is the greatest diss track of all time 🐐 “This is ain’t a freestyle battle, you niggas getting killed with your mouths open” that’s the point this isn’t a lyrical joint it’s meant to be strictly disrespectful... and it succeeded even diddy admitted that “Hit’em up hurts till this day” in his words.
2Pac is absolutely one of the g.o.a.ts. He was a poet IMO. I definitely think you should dig deeper into him. His song Dear Mama is emotional and still real - no sugarcoating for Pac...
People who weren't around at the time don't understand how real the east vs west beef was. Just listening to Tupac in some places in NY could get you hurt and I'm sure th same went for Big in LA.
I lived in NYC ... We all loved Pac. Born in 78 ... He said he was born in 86 so he was too young. Don't get it twisted, Big is the GOAT ... But EVERYONE in NY had Pac playing on the Kenwood !!
He wrote this to be straight to the point , he used biggies beat to diss him and this is definitely a brutal diss song , even puffy says this song still hurts him
I am born & raised in NYC. I was a teenager during this East coast West coast beef. I listened to Pac & Big & everyone in between. Pac is the 🐐. End of discussion!
One thing people usually overlook with Tupac is his age. He died at 25, meaning most of his music people love him for was recorded in a 5 year period between his first album in 91 and his death in 96. That's ONLY 5 YEARS OF working on his craft. All the other rappers from his generation have had decades to work and improve on their techniques. Eminem is a great example of how decades rapping can lead to mastery. It's amazing that Tupac makes it into goat lists and even top rapper's goat lists, and just based on 5 years of work. I hate to mention this name in the same sentence as Tupac, but for comparison, Lil Yachty has had more time to work on his "rapping" than Tupac had before his death. I sometimes ponder about a universe we're Tupac had decades to keep improving, how much better he would have become. Although based on his inspirations there's a good chance he might have done other things than rap. He might have moved on to acting or even politics.
It’s no might. Pac was already working on it at the time of his demise. He didn’t wanna rap forever. He said he was doing maybe a couple more;cause he felt like he’d mastered every style. So much so,if you noticed,Pac was the first rapper to sing his hooks. Go check out makaveli
He "might" have moved on to acting? You do know he was in multiple full feature film/movies, right? Seriously, look them up. All these within that 5 year time frame you mention. Crazy work ethic, and he left us with an AMAZING body of work.
I did chuckle over the presenter's shock that a hip-hop artist might use a revolver. Like, hey, don't sleep on revolvers...what they lack in capacity they often make up for in power!
Pac was a real straight forward rapper, storyteller type of vibe, he got some barz here and there obviously but he was the best rapper to get a point across and make simple raps hit hard like well thought double or triple entendrés punchlines mainly because of his delivery and aggressiveness, to me thanks to that and many other factors, he is one of the GOATs of rap
I still hold all diss tracks to this standard. Pac was angrier than Eminem when someone mentions his daughter. This was a declaration of war that probably got Pac and Biggie killed in the end.
@@flingonber The only other rapper on this track who got Murdered was Kadafi, and it was an accidental shooting which had nothing to do with this beef.
@@flingonber “technically” Fatal’ girl was driving intoxicated. It’s why she was charged with vehicular homicide. Not the same as Pac being shot in a drive by. And there’s nothing disputed about Yak’s death. Him and Mutah’s cousin were drunk playing with a gun. The Outlawz have commented on this.
As a Tupac fan I loved this reaction! Keep em coming! Pac has a lot of good songs that have bars with Hit Em Up he wanted to focus more on dissing BIG and Puff and Junior Mafia then to rhyme!
Just a few notes: 2Pac did indeed sleep with BIGs wife, along a few other female members of Bad Boy Records as well, She has denied this happened but not only did 2Pac have a reporter witness them acting love-y dove-y while they were in the studio together but other witnesses said she hung around for almost a month. The beat is in fact based on one of BIGs songs called Get Money (Remix), with some people suggesting BIG actually heard/was informed of the original demo recording 2Pac made months earlier. This song started as basically a meme, they were joking about how everyone on badboy were ugly and had no talent etc but then in December 1995, Biggie went on a New York radio station and said this and that about Deathrow being in the city and that someone should do something about it, this led to members of the Dogg Pound having their trailer shot up on a music video set. Then 2Pac ran into Biggie at an awards show and they had a confrontation which ended with both sides entourages reportedly pulling guns, this is what led to this song being rerecorded much harder and with more violent imagery etc. The story about Mobb Deep was that during one of their live shows they called out something like "Getting fucked in jail, like 2Pac" About 2Pacs 2nd verse; he similarly to you, thought Hussain Fatal out shined his first verse and felt he had to do another verse to compete with Fatal. Most if not all of the Outlaws were from Jersey and 2Pac himself was from the Broncs, the released version of the video specifically stated this isn't about the East and was about Bad Boy 2Pac says something along the lines of "All my real niggas out in New York, keep it going strong, all you other bitches die slow". There is also approximately 2-3 seconds of silence in his outro because the mic was having issues that day, but he originally also called out Lil Kim and Jay Z in this too.
If you go into 2pac songs waiting for crazy punchlines or double entendres you are looking for the wrong thing. 2pac songs have more storytelling and emotional impact than crazy bars. See Brenda's Got a Baby, Shed So Many Tears, Dear Mama, Death Around the Corner etc. I like Biggie but I can't think of a Biggie song that I connected with emotionally. His bars were dope but he only rapped about the same superficial shit money women drugs over and over again.
@@adamkant439 so Tupac has a monopoly on introspection now? & even if it's true that Biggie doesn't have the same "emotional impact" (however it is that we're judging that), my point still stands... saying that Biggie "only rapped about the same superficial shit money women drugs over and over again" is pure uninformed hate.
Tupac as a rapper is well respected due to him making everything he said hold weight. His delivery was very potent. No one has had that same effect in the world of hip hop. Biggie is a better rapper due to punchlines and world play but pac made you feel however he wanted you to feel on a track. That is what makes him legendary. R.I.P to 2 greats.
14:53 thats truly a NY accent. also .. i forgot just how brutally honest Pac was at the begining and end of this song... he didnt need double entendres, just freaking layed dirty ass laundry out there. i love it. Probably not the best 2pac song to start with, but you did rip the bandaid off. lol
He definitely wrote it quickly and angrily. I know you're a Biggie head, but man Tupac definitely has bars. Maybe not in this song particularly, but go to Brenda's got a baby. Shit hits deep
It was Fatal's verse that pushed Pac to take his second verse up a notch. Pac was initially supposed to be done but jumped back in after Fatal and this is from interviews I've heard from Fatal in this song.
As little as Tupac used complex rapping in his whole career, this song was even less complex than his average song. It was more of a very direct very blunt diss and thats what made it so hard hitting and one of the best disses, the aggression is what made this so classic 🔥
@@sandman859 @Chris Martha Tupacs style can be quite simple compared to other technical rappers. His rhyme schemes and patterns were not heavy on the technical side such as a Nas, Krs, Kool g rap, gza etc. He was more about the message and lyrics in his songs which may have talked about complex things, i was meaning he didnt have as much complex technical ability in terms of his ryhmes imo.
Bro I forgot how disrespectful these actual lyrics were, your reaction when he started talking about mobb deep having sickle cell had me crying laughing 🤣🤣🤣
I think that Tupac knew when to be poetic and when to be direct. This was a time to be direct. He absolutely could have been more poetic, but he didn't need to be. Yes, you definitely missed out by limiting your exposure to hip hop artists in the 90s. I listened to them all, even though I grew up in Cali. I'd love to hear you get into WC, one of the members of Westside Connection with Ice Cube and Mack-10. He is very unique and very good.
The entire rise and fall of Death Row records is simply fascinating (It’s amazing the company lasted as long as it did) This track was just free form hostility (As brilliant as 2Pac was he got in bed with the devil when he signed with Death Row and drank the West Coast/East Coast kool aid!) Easy E put out a track going after Dr. Dre after the entire NWA/Ruthless Records debacle (As important as this time period is for Rap it was a double edged sword it went from Pro Wrestling to members of record labels being gunned down and murdered (Once 2Pac & Biggie were gone rap to some extent died it’s now very “Produced” selling a brand not so much real music! The Death Row IP is now owned by a toy company (Its hard to buy into 2Pac’s legacy with this track if you are unfamiliar with his back catalog the entire All Eyes on Me double album is simply fantastic in every way 👍
@@sandman859 I agree 100% But, R U Still Down is actually almost as Good as All Eyez on me (It gets overlooked due to the way it sounds many tracks were more or less demos I guess DeathRow didn't want to take the tracks and clean them up or add any Production behind it (So that double album never really hit into mainstream (It's very rough around the edges but, so overlooked imo
I'm your age, I grew up in California. I know exactly how you feel man. I'm a grown ass man and deep down I still feel the same way about NY that you do about CA. Respect for hanging in through the song, I know that shit hit deep hahaha
🤣 that was the most awkward reaction to this track I've ever seen man 🤣 It's cool tho. Just because someone is reacting to something you swear by doesn't mean the reactor has to like it. I respect your honesty
Good reaction, Pac has a whole lot of good music. You can feel him when he's mad, sad, happy, all that, he makes you feel what he says. He's not always the most technical rapper, but he paints a picture and makes you feel his lyrics. Also good group the Outlawz were all based out of NJ. In Pac's and the Outlawz words, there was no east west beef for them, it was a beef with Puffy, Biggie, Bad Boy and a few other individuals. The media made this in to a East / West beef
I heard this as a kid here in Australia when it came out, loved the feel and all the profanity. But getting older, learning more about the context has been important and makes it more enjoyable. Thanks for your insight into that era, although I already knew about the whole East Coast West Coast tension, I hadn't really heard someone talk about this track the way you did. I'll never fully understand of course because I didn't grow up in California or New York, but the music still awesome AF
That was the thing about Pac. You aren’t going to get hit with doubles and triples all day. Pac is coming straight at your neck! No twisting his meanings or intent. His words are body blows!
I listened to everything in Orlando. Pac, Big, nwa, 2live crew, tribe, puba, Geto boys, Shan, PE, run DMC, Beastie Boys EPMD, too many to name!!!. And …and all the slow jams!! Late 80s and 90 were solid bro.
This may come as a surprise to many Americans, Tupac was bigger and had more fans in Nigeria in the 90s as any artist that ever made it out of America at that age. We rap his lyrics bar for bar, this very diss track still make people go crazy in bars, clubs and shows. Same as Nas Hate me now. It comes as a surprise that many people didn't idolize him like we from Africa did. But your explanations were clearly understood.
It's still hard for me to listen to Biggie, this feud was burned into us at a young age. I remember I used to walk to school with a girl that was related to him. She stopped right there and started crying half-way to school when she learned 'Pac died. I think half the school went home that day, that's how big this was, and how small the world felt in the old days.
I feel ya bro. I'm from Chicago You took that personally. Lol Pac was dynamic empathetic and poetic in articulating his messages. He had stories bars and several writing styles Plus he was different than Dr Dre in production style. He would get people in the booth to drop a verse, whoever finished a verse was on the song and they spliced that into a single... pressed. Dre will edit line by line and you rarely get a 1 take artist song like D O C getting funky... even with EMINEM Love him as a poetic story teller. Brenda got a baby. CHANGES , violent. Great catalogue
Exactly right, sir. He wrote it quick and in anger/hurt. It’s not really classic Pac, but it shows the passion of the man. If you explore Pacs earlier stuff, it’s pure poetry put to music. It’s beautiful. I’d really REALLY recommend you check out more music and more about the man himself. He was so far ahead of his time. Such a sad loss that he’s not around now. I’m sure he would be a very prominent public figure.
I think you’re looking for too much, I think the reason this song is so highly rated is because it’s just an all out attack. Not trying to hide anything in cleverly written lyrics, just saying how he feels
Great reaction. The way you described growing up in NY while this was going on, that the people in CA felt the same. It was such a deep hatred that it ended up turning to violence, getting both PAC and Biggie killed. Just like today the media and record labels can be blamed for this. They encouraged it for record sales. And we lost 2 of the best there was. Pac was never bar heavy in his music, his lyrics were simple yet had more meaning in them than a most technical and bar heavy rappers. Listening to Pac... he made you feel whatever emotion he was feeling when he wrote the songs. “Life goes on” “I ain’t mad at cha” “ Keep your head up” are great examples. That being said, as far as dis track who won and who lost...Biggie buried Pac with his song “who shot ya” it was just a better dis track. Pac was more of a fuck you I will kill you and everyone on Bad Boy. That’s not really how a dis track should go.... that being said... I am a huge Tupac Fan and never listened to more than 3-4 Biggie songs.
I know you have more of an influence from Biggie and may not have had the chance to experience 2Pac's songs, would love to see you check out some of his greatest songs.. IMO those would be Hail Mary, Only God can judge me, or Running (which has a verse from Biggie)
I recommend watching the biggie or 2pac films to get some more backstory on this track. Pac got shot in a hotel in NYC and was fed information that Biggie was involved. Before this they were friends, shortly after he dropped this track which led to the east/west war that led to both of their deaths.
If you really want to get some perspective on Tupac, you should react next to Treach/Naughty By Nature "Mourn you til I join You" he talks about Pacs love for New York. Its such a heart wrenching video and makes it so obvious who his people were. (And it wasn't Snoop 🙄 who used Pacs death for his own purposes, Imo ☹️)
I grew up outside of either beef zone.... in middle of the US... we just got the top albums so if we were listening to hip hop we heard both... and they both were great until people started dying... crazy times
Great reaction! I absolutely understand your reaction and thoroughly appreciate you letting us share this semi-painful moment with us! 😂 Definitely look forward to more exploration in this vein!
Yo this was a great reaction! I'm from LA and grew up back at that same time, and was all into it too back then, and fully connected with your reaction. I remember how intense and widespread it was.
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This guy talk white
Can you expand alittle on what you mean by this comment?
@@MrLboydReacts I don’t mean it to be offensive, just interesting to me 👍👍👍
well I think this is simple and innocent comment. for me, it sounds that u dont have any special kind of accent in my ears. most of black people has some kind of different accent or sound in their voice so I could recognize many of them to be black just by hearing them speaking. Ur voice is not thay obvious in my opinion. and of course because ur english is 100% clean and there is no accent from any other backgrounds, thats maybe why you sound like you "talk white " like the guy said.
He talks how you probably didn’t expect. You can’t speak a color. You can’t even speak the pigmentation of one’s skin. Lol!
@@JMrealgamer i know i know and probably u guys also somehow understand what I mean. There is no need to start to make this sound like some kind of racist shit or anything.
2pac wasn't sending a complex hip-hop battle diss track he was sending a literal declaration of war over a beat.
One of the best opening lines ever... "F your bitch and the clique you claim". Damn, thats brutal.
His best starting line I ain't no killer but don't push me, revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting p@@@y
@@kennethcook3127debatable
He's simply a legend
The whole point was to make a song so catchy that the whole world would sing it and he would hear it everywhere he went. Hence 25 years later it’s still played on the regular and kids today know of the track.
That's what i'm saying, here in europe u can still hear 2pac's music in clubs and shit especially hit em up, he's literally everywhere :)
He is trippin. Started out a bit Blinded by that east west beef bullshit. Grow up they are both gone and none of us should be carrying feelings over tracks from the 90s
Truth. It’s so catchy this man reacting to it in 2022
@@foureyes1244 noooo euros stay away from our culture
And I still sing it to this day. It’s a songggg! They need to get over it.
this track is not a diss track, it's a straight up death threat
The reason why you don’t see this as a classic diss track is because he’s dissing your favorite rapper. I get it 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I find it comic that he says he never heard this song before even though he was there when there was this West-Coast & East-coast rivalry back then and this was a song that was played a lot in the radio station back then
@@teknul89tbf I was a huge 2pac fan back then as well, and I’ve never listened to a biggie song.
@@NilsDum You never heard any tracks like; Big Poppa, Juicy, Who Shot Ya?, Hypnotize, Mo Money Mo Problems, Going Back To Cali, Ten Crack Commandments, Sky’s The Limit, You’re Nobody (Till Somebody Kills You) ???
It doesn’t matter if you like 2Pac better or The Notorious B.I.G. But this is like a must do to hear their music out they were huge back in the 90’s and still loved and respected today
uhhh...this isn't a diss track this is a declaration of war. "so F peace, I'll let these N know it's on for life"
This song is death treat. 😂
2Pac was born/raised in NYC.
Him being betrayed/dissed by fellow east-coasters hit him hard, so he took it personal.
I don't blame him for his anger here.
pac left New York at the age of 13
I know this.
That doesn't change the fact that he was born & raised in NYC.
Everyone knows the early years of a human being have the most impact.
Psychology 101.
It’s not where you from it’s where you at - Big Pun.
Pac left new your way before 13 he was way younger when he went to Baltimore he was 13 in Marine City in the Bay Area of California. His most formable years was in Cali. The kids I grew up with that where from nyc that moved to Cali eventually became Cali through and through. You spend jr high high school and your adult years in a place that will become your home 9/10
@@tofuguru941 It still doesn't matter because he clearly picked a side, no such thing as ''fellow eastcoasters''. It's not treason because of a east/westside thing but becaus he knew them personally.
@@mustafashaqur9694 He was older than 13 in Baltimore. He went to the Baltimore School for the Arts which is a high school.
the reason why hit em up is as legendary to this day as it is, isn't predominantly because of the bars or the wordplay but merely the pure anger. the whole song is just a moment of uninterrupted and genuine rage, while it just bluntly disses biggie and his entire crew. I like to think that there was very little writing time for this song and was just created off the top driven by the true emotions pac was feeling at the time. the attitude, the sampled instrumental, the biggie and puffy look-alikes in the video, the bright colours... its literally just a video of pac and his mates being assholes and enjoying themselves. iconic.
Absolutely 💯
Here here.
Agreed!!👍
Yup
Pac will always be better than BIGGIE
This is the greatest diss track of all time 🐐
“This is ain’t a freestyle battle, you niggas getting killed with your mouths open” that’s the point this isn’t a lyrical joint it’s meant to be strictly disrespectful... and it succeeded even diddy admitted that “Hit’em up hurts till this day” in his words.
I agree💯
naaaaah "No vaseline" is da best.
Exactly
No vaseline is way better
@@slzash no it not interactive as hit em up
By far, still the hardest diss track EVER!!RIP PAC FOREVER 🙏❤🙏
I would argue that statement. To me it’s #2 after No Vaseline by Ice Cube
Hardest in history.
I'm a Brooklyn Native born in 84 and 2pac been my favorite rapper since Brenda's Got a Baby.
I'm also a huge biggie fan btw...
2Pac is absolutely one of the g.o.a.ts.
He was a poet IMO. I definitely think you should dig deeper into him. His song Dear Mama is emotional and still real - no sugarcoating for Pac...
Can't agree more. There is a reason 2Pac is revered as one of the greats. dig into his catalog and find out.
Yeah he definitely gotta listen to pac
Yes it is hard to believe he died so young. He put out a lifetime of work.
He actually was a poet, look up "The Rose That Grew From Concrete".
@@princess-kira I know he wrote poetry, but not everyone that writes poetry is good at it 🙂 Pac was...
I lived in California during the east coast west coast beef so the fact that you were humble enough to react to this song I give you props.
People who weren't around at the time don't understand how real the east vs west beef was. Just listening to Tupac in some places in NY could get you hurt and I'm sure th same went for Big in LA.
Facts.. I can relate bcuz growing up in LA I didn’t fuck with biggie or east coast rappers
I lived in NYC ... We all loved Pac. Born in 78 ... He said he was born in 86 so he was too young. Don't get it twisted, Big is the GOAT ... But EVERYONE in NY had Pac playing on the Kenwood !!
Waz in Cali the same time … good 👍 timezz
West side!
He wrote this to be straight to the point , he used biggies beat to diss him and this is definitely a brutal diss song , even puffy says this song still hurts him
2pac is the best rapper in the world👑🖤❤️ Legends never Die
I am born & raised in NYC. I was a teenager during this East coast West coast beef. I listened to Pac & Big & everyone in between. Pac is the 🐐. End of discussion!
One thing people usually overlook with Tupac is his age. He died at 25, meaning most of his music people love him for was recorded in a 5 year period between his first album in 91 and his death in 96. That's ONLY 5 YEARS OF working on his craft. All the other rappers from his generation have had decades to work and improve on their techniques. Eminem is a great example of how decades rapping can lead to mastery. It's amazing that Tupac makes it into goat lists and even top rapper's goat lists, and just based on 5 years of work. I hate to mention this name in the same sentence as Tupac, but for comparison, Lil Yachty has had more time to work on his "rapping" than Tupac had before his death. I sometimes ponder about a universe we're Tupac had decades to keep improving, how much better he would have become. Although based on his inspirations there's a good chance he might have done other things than rap. He might have moved on to acting or even politics.
It’s no might. Pac was already working on it at the time of his demise. He didn’t wanna rap forever. He said he was doing maybe a couple more;cause he felt like he’d mastered every style. So much so,if you noticed,Pac was the first rapper to sing his hooks. Go check out makaveli
He "might" have moved on to acting? You do know he was in multiple full feature film/movies, right? Seriously, look them up. All these within that 5 year time frame you mention. Crazy work ethic, and he left us with an AMAZING body of work.
Had 2pac lived he would have gotten into politics
@@jonthancrisp5713 FACTS.
He was already a great actor in great movies
Respect. That's why 90's era is such a Unique generation.
Unique ain't the word it was the GREATEST HIP HOP ERA LEAD BY THE GOAT TUPAC .
90s was the best times for rap and hip hop and R&B 💯🔥🔥
Baggy clothes
Facts!🤘😎💯
Magic vs Bird kind of rivalry
"my 44 make sure all your kids don't grow" the 44 is referring to his gun
I did chuckle over the presenter's shock that a hip-hop artist might use a revolver. Like, hey, don't sleep on revolvers...what they lack in capacity they often make up for in power!
2pac don't make classic music he makes timeless music💯💯💯
from new york and i love 2pac cause a teen form the 90 he was rapping how i was feeling dear mama is the best song he made
Pac was a real straight forward rapper, storyteller type of vibe, he got some barz here and there obviously but he was the best rapper to get a point across and make simple raps hit hard like well thought double or triple entendrés punchlines mainly because of his delivery and aggressiveness, to me thanks to that and many other factors, he is one of the GOATs of rap
Hip Hop History.. period!
I still hold all diss tracks to this standard. Pac was angrier than Eminem when someone mentions his daughter. This was a declaration of war that probably got Pac and Biggie killed in the end.
Biggie yes, Tupac not so much, dude had gangsters AND feds hunting him
@@flingonber The only other rapper on this track who got Murdered was Kadafi, and it was an accidental shooting which had nothing to do with this beef.
This is trash compared to na vaseline. This song overrated heavily
@@flingonber what was the deal with that? Somebody else driving?
@@flingonber “technically” Fatal’ girl was driving intoxicated. It’s why she was charged with vehicular homicide. Not the same as Pac being shot in a drive by. And there’s nothing disputed about Yak’s death. Him and Mutah’s cousin were drunk playing with a gun. The Outlawz have commented on this.
As a Tupac fan I loved this reaction! Keep em coming! Pac has a lot of good songs that have bars with Hit Em Up he wanted to focus more on dissing BIG and Puff and Junior Mafia then to rhyme!
💯
Tupac bars were always focused on being raw though, it not that have to puzzle out the 5 different meanings kinda of Bars
@@Wandering_Warchyld yes I'm aware
And Will Smith thinking slapping someone makes him Pac..
Nigga PAC was with them all the time. Mr killuminati was just a BIG joke
Kadafi is Pac cousin. They all grew up in NYC. They all knew Junior Mafia back then that's why this hit hard. Those dudes rapping are the Outlawz
"my 44 make sure all your kids dont grow... oh well umm, hopefully it's six kids..." 😅😅😅 you win that round, MrLboyd...
Just a few notes:
2Pac did indeed sleep with BIGs wife, along a few other female members of Bad Boy Records as well, She has denied this happened but not only did 2Pac have a reporter witness them acting love-y dove-y while they were in the studio together but other witnesses said she hung around for almost a month.
The beat is in fact based on one of BIGs songs called Get Money (Remix), with some people suggesting BIG actually heard/was informed of the original demo recording 2Pac made months earlier.
This song started as basically a meme, they were joking about how everyone on badboy were ugly and had no talent etc but then in December 1995, Biggie went on a New York radio station and said this and that about Deathrow being in the city and that someone should do something about it, this led to members of the Dogg Pound having their trailer shot up on a music video set.
Then 2Pac ran into Biggie at an awards show and they had a confrontation which ended with both sides entourages reportedly pulling guns, this is what led to this song being rerecorded much harder and with more violent imagery etc.
The story about Mobb Deep was that during one of their live shows they called out something like "Getting fucked in jail, like 2Pac"
About 2Pacs 2nd verse; he similarly to you, thought Hussain Fatal out shined his first verse and felt he had to do another verse to compete with Fatal. Most if not all of the Outlaws were from Jersey and 2Pac himself was from the Broncs, the released version of the video specifically stated this isn't about the East and was about Bad Boy 2Pac says something along the lines of "All my real niggas out in New York, keep it going strong, all you other bitches die slow".
There is also approximately 2-3 seconds of silence in his outro because the mic was having issues that day, but he originally also called out Lil Kim and Jay Z in this too.
If you go into 2pac songs waiting for crazy punchlines or double entendres you are looking for the wrong thing. 2pac songs have more storytelling and emotional impact than crazy bars. See Brenda's Got a Baby, Shed So Many Tears, Dear Mama, Death Around the Corner etc. I like Biggie but I can't think of a Biggie song that I connected with emotionally. His bars were dope but he only rapped about the same superficial shit money women drugs over and over again.
"Suicidal Thoughts" was superficial shit??
Juicy was a great song. But there was a lot of Tupacs influence in that track
@@sedaotieno That whole song is literally influenced by tupac and even that one is nowhere close to the same emotional impact!
@@adamkant439 so Tupac has a monopoly on introspection now? & even if it's true that Biggie doesn't have the same "emotional impact" (however it is that we're judging that), my point still stands... saying that Biggie "only rapped about the same superficial shit money women drugs over and over again" is pure uninformed hate.
Nothing but 💯% TRUE FACTS 2PAC real life in his rap that we don't see more of today listen and learn 2PAC FOR LIFE✌️
Biggie and Pac started out as good friends, you should react to the freestyles they did together.
2pac is the best rapper of TIME
Tupac as a rapper is well respected due to him making everything he said hold weight. His delivery was very potent. No one has had that same effect in the world of hip hop. Biggie is a better rapper due to punchlines and world play but pac made you feel however he wanted you to feel on a track. That is what makes him legendary. R.I.P to 2 greats.
14:53 thats truly a NY accent. also .. i forgot just how brutally honest Pac was at the begining and end of this song... he didnt need double entendres, just freaking layed dirty ass laundry out there. i love it. Probably not the best 2pac song to start with, but you did rip the bandaid off. lol
Lol I love how this video was the first time I noticed his New York accent. He couldn't help himself in his passion. As a New Yorker, I loved it.
The sickle cell line always makes me die laughing.
He definitely wrote it quickly and angrily. I know you're a Biggie head, but man Tupac definitely has bars. Maybe not in this song particularly, but go to Brenda's got a baby. Shit hits deep
"Hopefully it's six kids 😬"
I'm fucking dying 😂😂
You only need a few shots to the balls.
It was Fatal's verse that pushed Pac to take his second verse up a notch. Pac was initially supposed to be done but jumped back in after Fatal and this is from interviews I've heard from Fatal in this song.
This the most classic Diss tune of all time come one nearly 30 years still relevant behave
You’re missing out on the greatest poet in hip hop history! His poetry is legendary! Biggie was a better MC, but no one wrote better than Pac
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@@logic.4218 😐
2pac lyrics you felt it with your soul
Biggie was a better mc that's laughable
I absolutely loved this song as a kid, mostly for the profanity
As little as Tupac used complex rapping in his whole career, this song was even less complex than his average song. It was more of a very direct very blunt diss and thats what made it so hard hitting and one of the best disses, the aggression is what made this so classic 🔥
And yet he's been inducted into rock n roll hall of fame.....
@@margoswikehardt2067 Yes well deserved imo
Tupac has many deep and complex songs dealing with current events and issues of the time… I’m not sure what u mean.
@@sandman859 @Chris Martha Tupacs style can be quite simple compared to other technical rappers. His rhyme schemes and patterns were not heavy on the technical side such as a Nas, Krs, Kool g rap, gza etc. He was more about the message and lyrics in his songs which may have talked about complex things, i was meaning he didnt have as much complex technical ability in terms of his ryhmes imo.
Best díss song!!! No slick dissing!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Gotta dive deeper into Tupac’s catalog. He’s got some bangers. One of my favorites is Cant C Me
Bro I forgot how disrespectful these actual lyrics were, your reaction when he started talking about mobb deep having sickle cell had me crying laughing 🤣🤣🤣
I think that Tupac knew when to be poetic and when to be direct. This was a time to be direct. He absolutely could have been more poetic, but he didn't need to be.
Yes, you definitely missed out by limiting your exposure to hip hop artists in the 90s. I listened to them all, even though I grew up in Cali. I'd love to hear you get into WC, one of the members of Westside Connection with Ice Cube and Mack-10. He is very unique and very good.
Man I love this reaction my whole family from NY so I understand your point of view but I'm a big 2pac fan so I'm riding for pac
“This is going to be unfortunate” 😂😂😂😂 that made my day. I’m laughing so hard right now
That shit was FIRE and you know it
2pac was not into complex rhymes and stuff like that. His thing was raw emotion, story telling, delivery and his voice.
Ambitionz Az a Ridah is another fantastic track by Pac! Loved the reaction!
I absolutely lost it at “well.. better hope it’s 6 kids” to the 44 line 😂😂😂
People in NYC was still bumping Tupac around that time, I remember
Tupac for Life!!
Definitely need more 2Pac...I get the East coast feeling but he's just too iconic and goated to not check him out.
😂I knew he was gone freak out when the “Sickle cell” line popped up
The entire rise and fall of Death Row records is simply fascinating (It’s amazing the company lasted as long as it did) This track was just free form hostility (As brilliant as 2Pac was he got in bed with the devil when he signed with Death Row and drank the West Coast/East Coast kool aid!) Easy E put out a track going after Dr. Dre after the entire NWA/Ruthless Records debacle (As important as this time period is for Rap it was a double edged sword it went from Pro Wrestling to members of record labels being gunned down and murdered (Once 2Pac & Biggie were gone rap to some extent died it’s now very “Produced” selling a brand not so much real music! The Death Row IP is now owned by a toy company (Its hard to buy into 2Pac’s legacy with this track if you are unfamiliar with his back catalog the entire All Eyes on Me double album is simply fantastic in every way 👍
his 1st album is great. strictly 4 my n_ggaz is the best album. 2pac gives only the best. the absolute rap champion.
That All Eyez on me double album may be the best rap album of all time.
@@sandman859 I agree 100% But, R U Still Down is actually almost as Good as All Eyez on me (It gets overlooked due to the way it sounds many tracks were more or less demos I guess DeathRow didn't want to take the tracks and clean them up or add any Production behind it (So that double album never really hit into mainstream (It's very rough around the edges but, so overlooked imo
Tupac said the W stood for war
This was a time in Philly Errrrrrrrbody was banging this CLASSIC 🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️
“Until the end of time” is a great Tupac song.
I'm your age, I grew up in California. I know exactly how you feel man. I'm a grown ass man and deep down I still feel the same way about NY that you do about CA. Respect for hanging in through the song, I know that shit hit deep hahaha
Same - Los Angeles
RIP Pac, RIP Kadafi, RIP Biggie !!!
Everything Pac said is real!
I heard it in Ireland in 96, how did a new yorker not hear it
definitely need more 2pac reactions, "Unconditional Love" is a must
Since you're not the "biggest" *Tupac* fan React to some of his songs like *(Dear Mama) (Brenda's Got a Baby) (Keep Your Head Up)*
perfect list
*Changes
@@joshuacabonce changes is more political (still relevant today) also the ones I listed have no curse words something many people don't realize
🤣 that was the most awkward reaction to this track I've ever seen man 🤣 It's cool tho. Just because someone is reacting to something you swear by doesn't mean the reactor has to like it. I respect your honesty
I frickin love the song Brenda's got a baby and dear mama
Good reaction, Pac has a whole lot of good music. You can feel him when he's mad, sad, happy, all that, he makes you feel what he says. He's not always the most technical rapper, but he paints a picture and makes you feel his lyrics. Also good group the Outlawz were all based out of NJ. In Pac's and the Outlawz words, there was no east west beef for them, it was a beef with Puffy, Biggie, Bad Boy and a few other individuals. The media made this in to a East / West beef
And that other guy you liked was Hussein Fatal, he passed away in 2015
Mob Deep dissed Pac and THUG LIFE while Pac was locked up
I heard this as a kid here in Australia when it came out, loved the feel and all the profanity. But getting older, learning more about the context has been important and makes it more enjoyable. Thanks for your insight into that era, although I already knew about the whole East Coast West Coast tension, I hadn't really heard someone talk about this track the way you did. I'll never fully understand of course because I didn't grow up in California or New York, but the music still awesome AF
Wow man, on the fact that you never really encountered Pac,
Be happy, you have so much to discover from this beautiful, yet troublesome soul.
edit: Check out "Thug Style" by 2Pac. It's more technical and you might appreciate it more.
So glad you are listening to Pac. Brenda's Got a Baby is a great story based song for reaction
"He wrote this extremely fast" 😂
Pac wrote everything fast
That was the thing about Pac. You aren’t going to get hit with doubles and triples all day. Pac is coming straight at your neck! No twisting his meanings or intent. His words are body blows!
I listened to everything in Orlando. Pac, Big, nwa, 2live crew, tribe, puba, Geto boys, Shan, PE, run DMC, Beastie Boys EPMD, too many to name!!!. And …and all the slow jams!! Late 80s and 90 were solid bro.
Pac is best you east coast need to study.. RIP to the true goat
i can tell this reaction really hit you in the heart MrLboyd.. Keep rockin' steady my brother. Peace
This may come as a surprise to many Americans, Tupac was bigger and had more fans in Nigeria in the 90s as any artist that ever made it out of America at that age. We rap his lyrics bar for bar, this very diss track still make people go crazy in bars, clubs and shows. Same as Nas Hate me now. It comes as a surprise that many people didn't idolize him like we from Africa did. But your explanations were clearly understood.
Tupac isn’t always bar heavy. He’s a storyteller. He does have bars, but that’s not what makes him brilliant.
2pac is the GOAT! That's it, PERIOD! 80s baby here
Greatest dis track ever...2pac= goat
It's still hard for me to listen to Biggie, this feud was burned into us at a young age. I remember I used to walk to school with a girl that was related to him. She stopped right there and started crying half-way to school when she learned 'Pac died. I think half the school went home that day, that's how big this was, and how small the world felt in the old days.
Now it's time to react to Eminem's 'Quitter' It's a really disrespectful and hard diss towards Everlast. And btw this dude had a heart attack
I feel ya bro. I'm from Chicago
You took that personally. Lol
Pac was dynamic empathetic and poetic in articulating his messages. He had stories bars and several writing styles
Plus he was different than Dr Dre in production style. He would get people in the booth to drop a verse,
whoever finished a verse was on the song and they spliced that into a single... pressed.
Dre will edit line by line and you rarely get a 1 take artist song like D O C getting funky... even with EMINEM
Love him as a poetic story teller. Brenda got a baby. CHANGES , violent. Great catalogue
I ain't mad at cha too
“That’s disrespectful” lmao oh lordddd you can tell he was ready to call the cops 😆😆
I was in my late teens in ny when this song dropped. People was still bumping this track Brooklyn
Ironically, Tupac was born in Brooklyn, NY. He just didn’t spend any time in NY really. He moved around a lot.
was he not born in Harlem instead of Brooklyn?
@@NkanyeziN Pac was born in Brooklyn. Moved around NY and publicly claimed that he is from The Bronx.
Exactly right, sir. He wrote it quick and in anger/hurt. It’s not really classic Pac, but it shows the passion of the man.
If you explore Pacs earlier stuff, it’s pure poetry put to music. It’s beautiful. I’d really REALLY recommend you check out more music and more about the man himself. He was so far ahead of his time. Such a sad loss that he’s not around now. I’m sure he would be a very prominent public figure.
I think you’re looking for too much, I think the reason this song is so highly rated is because it’s just an all out attack. Not trying to hide anything in cleverly written lyrics, just saying how he feels
This was bumping in the clubs
I was born in 86 in morocco and i grew up hating puffy and Biggie cause i liked Tupac.
Great reaction. The way you described growing up in NY while this was going on, that the people in CA felt the same. It was such a deep hatred that it ended up turning to violence, getting both PAC and Biggie killed. Just like today the media and record labels can be blamed for this. They encouraged it for record sales. And we lost 2 of the best there was.
Pac was never bar heavy in his music, his lyrics were simple yet had more meaning in them than a most technical and bar heavy rappers. Listening to Pac... he made you feel whatever emotion he was feeling when he wrote the songs. “Life goes on” “I ain’t mad at cha” “ Keep your head up” are great examples.
That being said, as far as dis track who won and who lost...Biggie buried Pac with his song “who shot ya” it was just a better dis track. Pac was more of a fuck you I will kill you and everyone on Bad Boy. That’s not really how a dis track should go.... that being said... I am a huge Tupac Fan and never listened to more than 3-4 Biggie songs.
I know you have more of an influence from Biggie and may not have had the chance to experience 2Pac's songs, would love to see you check out some of his greatest songs.. IMO those would be Hail Mary, Only God can judge me, or Running (which has a verse from Biggie)
Keep ya head up & brendas got a baby would be good for this channel too
What about against all odds
I recommend watching the biggie or 2pac films to get some more backstory on this track. Pac got shot in a hotel in NYC and was fed information that Biggie was involved. Before this they were friends, shortly after he dropped this track which led to the east/west war that led to both of their deaths.
2pac is the greatest rapper ever
Creating song that will never vanish
When you say “do you see this right here?” 😂 That was the rawest we’ve heard you yet lmao!!!
If you really want to get some perspective on Tupac, you should react next to Treach/Naughty By Nature "Mourn you til I join You" he talks about Pacs love for New York. Its such a heart wrenching video and makes it so obvious who his people were. (And it wasn't Snoop 🙄 who used Pacs death for his own purposes, Imo ☹️)
He also had a song on Me Against the World and he bigges up New York
@@thomashester2 Old School
I grew up outside of either beef zone.... in middle of the US... we just got the top albums so if we were listening to hip hop we heard both... and they both were great until people started dying... crazy times
Your loss… Biggie was about $$ & things, Tupac was about the heart
You can only hear what your mind is ready to hear
"Oh they did finnish" savage asf XD
Great reaction! I absolutely understand your reaction and thoroughly appreciate you letting us share this semi-painful moment with us! 😂 Definitely look forward to more exploration in this vein!
She wanted to sleep with him. Learn the backstory. He has so much respect for women.
Lmfao @ 02:38 his face drops
Yo this was a great reaction! I'm from LA and grew up back at that same time, and was all into it too back then, and fully connected with your reaction. I remember how intense and widespread it was.