Rap music, with its roots in competitive battling, has always been a platform for artists to assert their dominance, address grievances, or defend their reputation. Throughout hip-hop history, this competitive spirit has boiled over...
Tupac Amaru Shakur, aka 2Pac, was murdered in 1996 at the tender age of 25. Whereas his death was shocking and to many of us painful even, it wasn’t necessarily surprising since he was openly...
Being officially released through Def Jam and Jigga’s own label, Roc-A-Fella Records, on 10 October 2002, “’03 Bonnie & Clyde” served as the lead single to “The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse”, which...
“Me and My Girlfriend”, though not being released as a single, is one of the most-popular tracks from The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (aka “Makaveli”). That’s the Tupac album that came out on 5 November...
“All Eyez on Me” is the title track to Tupac’s fourth-studio album, which proved to be the rapper’s last LP in terms of those which actually came out while he was still alive. The Suge...
The term “ridah” is one of those colloquialisms that everyone knows what it means, especially the likes of those who are familiar with 1990s’ African-American slang. But at the same time, it doesn’t particularly have...
As far as a rapper being able to stick to a single topic throughout a full three-verse solo outing, few, if any, have been more effective at achieving that end than Tupac Shakur (1971-1996), who was...
Kendrick Lamar’s “Mortal Man” begins with a reference to Nelson Mandela, symbolizing the rapper’s view of himself as another freedom fighter and leader. In the lines that follow, Kendrick asks a plethora of questions,...
Tupac Amaru Shakur, known by the stage name 2Pac Shakur, was one of the highly-rated American rappers, actor, and songwriters in the 1990s. He won the hearts of many music lovers with his works which...
2Pac’s “Brenda’s Got a Baby” is based on a subject which many people, including Tupac, perceived as a problem in African-American communities especially. And that is girls getting pregnant before they have the wherewithal to...