Reviews (page 7 of 7)
Classic but always bored me. The Lyricism is good but the songs are too boring and not unique enough to be 3+ minutes unless its REALLY telling a good story. I love what it's influenced more like Kendrick, Eminem, Wayne and kind of every big rap icon. Before this criticism seems stupid if you compare him to BIG he has aged much better and some of the songs sound like they came out not too long ago with much better beats too. I respect it and its historically relevant but i'm bored out of my mind.
Old school rap just isn't for me. I tried to focus on some of the lyrics but I just wasn't drawn in. There must be stronger albums by 2Pac.
When life gives you lemons, sell crack.
2Pac is a style over substance type of rapper. Why this over All Eyez on Me? Listen to Dear Mama and skip the rest.
uhhhhhhh Ima be honest I was hype to see this show up and there were not too many radio bangers. I thought I was a fan, I must not be...
Had some good songs. Just not a big fan of 90s hip hop
2/5 not really my taste
Oh man, here it goes. The first album of a genre that I typically can’t stand. I had some coworkers at a previous job who got a kick out of the fact that I couldn’t name a single song by 2Pac or recognize him when his songs came on. Even without the various incidents that happened around this man, I just couldn’t relate or being myself to care. Still, I’ll try to go into this with an open mind. I don’t relate to these lyrics at all. Not in the slightest. The beats are good, but that’s about it. It’s not so over the top that I actively dislike these songs, but I have no clue how this artist is considered one of the greatest, at least from what I’ve heard on this album. I imagine that’s partially due to the fact that he was lost before being able to make worse. Dear Mama is probably my favorite on here. Honestly surprised, better than I thought this would be.
Hip-hop rap rollo.
Nop
Tupac was just in the news again, I guess they finally arrested his (as yet alleged) murderer. Seems appropriate to have this come up. I wasn't a fan back in the day, but was certainly aware of the fued. Listening now the vibe is pleasantly chill and all the songs feel smooth and easy; mostly good, nothing especially great. None of the tracks strike me as exceptional, it's all just, you know, fine. Lyrically ... there are some issues. Overall I'm not convinced this album deserves a place on this list.
largely passed me by without much to note
Mediocre I'm afraid. Not interested in the 'was he a great or awful man' debate, but his rapping is uninspired and the samples and beats repetitive and one-paced. Also like many 90s albums waay too long. Not even any skits.
Listening to Me Against the World felt like the same song on repeat for an hour. The lyrics might be compelling, but the music doesn’t grab me at all.
Long, tedious, and gratuitous when it comes to extolling 2Pac’s questionable accomplishments and ego. Given how much I’d heard about this guy I was expecting a layered, confrontational LP with something to say, but it seems the best pac’s got is boasting over milquetoast, repetitive beats
Nothing really hooked me or drew me in here; it felt flat and overlong. You do get a sense of Tupac's magnetic charisma and his troubled life, but there are no tunes to carry it.
This brand of Hip-Hop/Rap/R&B is really something I'm not into. I can appreciate that 2Pac is truly one of the all-time greats in the genre but jeez I can't stand it at all. I really want not very much to do with this album or much of his music in general. Best: Dear Mama Worst: Young Niggaz
Every song sounds the same. The beats are very underwhelming and the flow is dated. Ugh. Yet another hip hop album that's way too long for its own good.
This isn't the first time I've tried to listen to Tupac and for some reason, he never clicks with me. Like, I guess there's a lot of intrigue and legend surrounding his early departure, but if you're literally rapping about it, doesn't it become a self-fulfilling prophecy at some point? I do love the old West Coast beats, so he has that going for him, but the paranoia and self-importance just feel so contrived. I don't know, maybe it'll sink in the next time I try to figure it out. Two stars for the beats.
overrated i liked most of the hip hop albums so far but this just doesn't do it
No I don't need any such rap before I die.
Gangsta rap? Sounds more like an audition tape for Boyz II Men.
Nice production and delivery. Loses a star for being a dick in real life.
but it was the listeners who lost
To my knowledge I'd never heard a 2Pac track before. From reputation, I thought it would be edgier than this fairly mellow, introspective album. Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: Dear Mama Date listened: 02/04/23
It's not really my genre, but this didn't really seem to offer anything musically. I guess if lyrics is your thing it might appeal but I don't think there's anything going on behind them.
Really enjoyed all the different drum loops, but that's about it. A bit of a struggle to listen to.
I can appreciate this, i think, i just don't get much from it.
Not a fan of rap...
Raps never been my genre. I don’t really pay attention to lyrics in songs usually, and with rap that is pretty much the selling point. Tried to pay closer attention to this one and found them to be very unrelatable and pretty repetitive. Can hear the influence it’s had in todays music though
2Stars for 2Pac.
Hip-hop rap rollo
Vaikka länsirannikon räppi onkin yleisesti rentoa kuunneltavaa ei 2pac kuitenkaan niitä omia suosikkeja ole. Ihan hyviä biittejä ja ganstavinkunoita, mutta ei kuitenkaan mikään kappale jäänyt mieleen
Can’t believe that I’m saying this in the review but it’s pretty boring
Not for me
I am amazed that people still glorify this buffoon. Wonder if he was so hard because he was like Araldite?
Me Against The World starts well but fades quickly. It's easy to listen to musically but not easy to listen to lyrically, both from a hardship perspective and also that of 2Pac being a dirtbag and trying to reflect on it. 2/5.
very crude lyrics, sound ok.
Uhhh,,, quite boring and monotone. I lasted about halfway through. Just not a hip hop fan. Still better than Kanye album I was given through this
Genre: Hip Hop Favorite songs: Dear mama
supaboring
Not that great, no interesting beats and all the songs are the same. Apparently he released this just before going to prison for rape so it's difficult to mourn his violent death that he lyrically predicted, of course
There are a lot better hip-hop albums than this in my opinion.
Nope
Honestly this ain’t it. I thought I was going to like this a lot more but I just didn’t. Synths sound harsh and boring. Beats blend into one another. Oh well. 2.5/5
YB better. just kidding. i prefer the east coast sound to the west coast sound when the discussion is between biggie and Pac. I don’t love Tupac’s brand of g funk. I feel like it’s Less musically interesting than either of Big’s two releases. He had dj premier, puff, RZA, etc making beats for him. Pac had no one that I can pull off the top of my head. I hate that my review of this album that was pretty alright turned into a biggie PAC debate but I feel like they’re so intertwined that it’s ok. I used biggie to talk about how a lot of Tupac’s beats were flat as fuck and that’s why this album was just alright and nothing Special to me
Not the biggest 2Pac fan, so I can’t say this album really did anything for me. Probably won’t listen to it again.
Not my favorite genre to listen to but the music was good. The language was a bit much for me though. 2/5
Although I can appreciate the value of Rap Music for many people I can’t personally connect to it.
I found this album very listenable, considering I usually hate rape. I never really enjoyed it but I also never felt the need to skip a song. That doesn't sound great, but rap really doesn't get much better than that for me and I respect that - what I don't respect is 2pac as a person. Can't we stop idolizing sexual predators and violent criminals?
Typical 2pac, decent
Repetitive.
Its a 2 for me Pac. Baby baby
Not my favourite, though had some good beats. I just don't really like much rap.
Chill album, still not really my type.
meh
Overrated nonsense
Helt ok. Har ikkje så mye forhold til 2Pac. Får litt trekk fordi eg har hørt bedre album fra han.
Hmm
I'm not sure how I feel about this album. On the positive side, I really love/d 2Pac's voice - the deep and smooth way he'd deliver his lines, not in a rush but not lethargic either. He was really great - one of the best IMO. On the negative, the music is.... not quite there for me. I love that it predates trap beats which I hate - I love the sound/production of it - but not many of the songs/compositions in and of themselves are hugely memorable for me. Even though a lot of the lyrics are ehhh "too much" for me :P I did really enjoy "Old School" 5/10 2 stars
It was ok. He always sounds decent, not many of his tracks really blow me away. I prefer BIG and the east coast style more
Found the production a bit meh and those drums just scream 90s! Not really a fun listen. I clearly don't see why everyone else finds him so special. Not actively bad, but definitely not for me.
Dear Mama est cool Tout est écoutable en fond mais aucune des meilleures de 2Pac Du bon rap old school pas transcendant
i don't really enjoy his music
If rap did anything for me at all, it would be this kind of rap. Musically, this album has a lot to offer. But the vocal style indicative of rap just doesn't do it for me.
This has not aged well
It’s okay - nothing more. Me against the world is the high point and it itself isn’t particularly high.
2cack
The instrumentals didn’t keep me engaged- I also couldn’t invest myself into 2pacs performance very well- generally not that’s good imo
Saved Prior: None Off Rip: If I Die 2Nite, Young N****z, Lord Knows, It Ain't Easy Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: I like his flow but it's kinda the same flow for an hour and there wasn't enough variation for me. Also did not care for any of these singles. 2.5 rounded down.
Any inspection of my previous reviews shows how much I love rap. But this has aged worse than famous rich men's photos with their buddy Epstein. It's so boringly self involved and tough, with the production sitting in a sort of bland 'make it like Dre' facsimile of 1993's best sounds. It would certainly appeal to 13 year olds, but on the strength of this album, that bullet did more for his legacy than his rhymes ever did. Cliche ridden and standard - how he and Biggie were ever considered rivals is a mystery to me.
I'm trying to get a bit more in to rap but it's the genre I struggle with the most.
I'm one minute into this and it's immediately aggressive, mysogynistic, gun toting woes of the poor black man's so-called American life. Depressing, unoriginal, unattractive and boring. Absolutely nothing that I, as a black man, can relate to in any shape or form or even believe in or find entertaining. It is so crass and ugly, not eloquent, interesting and far from clever. I will listen to the whole album since it's on the list and I've only ever heard a few 2Pac songs. I look forward to my opinion changing. A few songs in the middle (dear mama) were actually ok where 2pac almost sang. However, it's clear that I really do not have the taste for hard hip hop, just the easy listening gentler styles that are not gangster shooting thug mysogynistic. 2 out of 5 because he rhymes well and the backing tracks are well sampled and put together.
Doesn't hold up, and he was never comparable to Biggie. This is fine when it's 2Pac rapping, mostly, but the production isn't great, the chorus vocals aren't great, the guest features are nobodies, and some of the subject matter "oof."
still not a huge 2pac guy some of the end tracks were pretty good though 2.5
I just never could get into 2pac. I couldn't even finish this album.
Not terribly impressed.
Ah this is like 50% cool and 50% just plain boring. Heard it a lot when I was a teenager, lots of mates really loved it. I haven't bothered with it in years though. Intro is laughable, some ridiculous pretend newsbyte about how he got shot and walked himself out of hospital cause he's SO FUCKIN TUFF. Yet when he really DID get shot, he died. Oh, not before he went to prison for rape though. It's amazing that antics like this made him some kind of All Time Most Eligible Bachelor among girls at my high school. Rest of the album is mostly the same sort of stuff - "thug spirit", a whole heap of that "street philosophy" that r/im14andthisisdeep would identify with etc. The actual tunes aren't too bad, but these lyrics are fucking cringeworthy. 2/5.
I don't understand West coast rap, difficulty understanding lyrics and a similar background sound made all songs sound similar to me.
Simply can't get excited about this
Never been a fan
5/10
Ei mikään ihmeellinen, mut ok
Se deja escuchar, pero incluso gustándome más o menos el Rap y el Hip-Hop no ha sido este un disco para tener como imprescindible. Está bien "Dear Mama".
Stand out track - me against the world
I know about 2Pac as a part of pop culture, but I don't think I've heard any of his music. The album just ran together with no individual tracks standing out for good, and only a few that immediately stood out as something I did not like. The biggest problem for me is the subject matter and the language. This album was not made for me. Sometimes I sing along to music that I like. I could never sing along to any of this -- > I don't like this album.
Ik houd niet van rapmuziek. Deze plaat heeft soms echter wel relaxte beats. De pratende mannenstemmen heb ik verder niks mee. Favorieten zijn "Me Against The World", "Heavy In The Game", "Dear Mama". De rest is wel meteen een stuk saaier. Ik zou het album dan ook niet meteen aanbevelen. **
Vile, loser-culture lyrics, set to pleasing melodies. But hey ho, not as aggressively shouty & dreadful as I was expecting.
First lIsten. Ok for me. Too many N's and F's.... 2/5
Not very funky but I did find my head bobbing along to some of the beats. Overall, it's a bit dour - musically and lyrically. Kind of drones on. Also, it's too long - typical of the early CD era. Seems like he's trying really hard to be 'deep' and 'introspective' but to me it feels a bit put-on - especially with the fairly juvenile content of the lyrics. I guess given the macho pretensions of this genre/time period it's kind of to be expected. Also it's hard to separate the fact that he was in jail for sexual assault while this was released... So that adds an ick factor that's hard to get past. Haven't listened to much 2Pac compared to other 90's hip hop. Overall, not overly impressed with this.
Helt okej
Meh
Not into rap or hip hop. Doesn’t stand out to me as anything special over other hip hop artists.
His voice was deeper than I expected it to be. Not my kinda rap music, can’t see the hype.
Dear Mama is a great song but I couldn't sit at my computer and listen to this entire album.
I know he's important but I just can't seem to really get into this album. There's so many more great hip-hop albums out there. Too many slow jams, it just kind of plods along. This isn't one for me. BT: Young Niggaz, It Ain't Easy, Death Around The Corner
2Pac, nooit gedraaid, weet nu dan ook waarom. Kan er weinig mee
Hmm tja....2Pac. Een 'legende'. Ik snap het ergens wel, maar na een minuut of 40 had ik toch meer dan genoeg gehoord. Waarschijnlijk staan er nog 36 platen van hem in deze lijst dus op naar de volgende!
4
Powerful lyrics, but unfortunately I probably won't listen to this many more times.
Much like Raekwon yesterday, not my genre but I tried to listen with an open mind. Didn't love it but respect the work. 2 stars.
Another 90s hip hop album I wasn't too stoked about. Ok beats and bass. Gets repetitive quickly. Seems like a lot of 90s hip hop albums are an hour + and repetitive. Not really my thing.
Not for me
2 - TERRIBLE
I don’t really click with this genre at all, I did listen however and yep, it’s not for me. Sorry.
An album full of paranoia about being killed by someone who would be murdered the year after it was released. As a concept it's fascinating. But there's quite a few cringey moments and it goes on too long so overall I was very underwhelmed. Honestly, I'd probably have given it 2 or 3 stars, there were a few songs I really enjoyed, but listening to this album meant I had to hear a man who was convicted of sexual assault (and was in prison for it when the album was released) say "if you tell me you don't want it, that's a lie". Disgusting, I'm team world. Favourite song: Old School (or Death Around The Corner) Least: Temptations
Conscious hip hop and West Coast rap built from soulful samples, restrained beats, and a constant flow of apathetic vocals feels like being read a diary written in a locked room—but from my perspective, the person reading it is so emotionally detached that I struggle to believe the writer is being fully honest, which keeps me at a distance instead of drawing me in. Semantically, the album clearly aims for emotional weight and vulnerability, while the vocals lack a sense of lived experience and presence that would make that vulnerability convincing.
Like me rating this album
I am not super into rap and this is just boring and repetitive to me. I totally understand people love this but it's just not for me. I couldn't get through the whole album, every song sounds the same to me.
Found it quite dull
Ooh look, another over-long rap album! And, unlike some of the others, I came away from this with literally nothing interesting. He sounds like a shitbag, so I guess I don’t feel bad. 2/10 Marginal
The Generator gave me the third Rap Record in a Row, that's too much. Didn't listen.
I had no idea 2Pac was so lame and awful
When my granda died, my mother and I didn't have any family support. Years of poor mental health had left her with few friends as well. It was, as she reminded me implicitly, if not explicitly, me and her against the world. Just the two of us. It's not a great mindset: a little paranoid, a lot of pressure, frequently dispiriting. In my mother's case, it was also meant she didn't take any shit from anyone. She worked hard - too hard probably - and she loved me a lot. I loved and appreciated her unresevedly. I recognise the mother in Dear Mama easily. But, then my problem with Dear Mama is precisely that. Anyone could recognise this vague sketch of a woman holding up a family, sacrificing everything for her children. And all she gets for it is "appreciation." This is the standard tough guy's consideration of his mother, seeing her only as a sacrificial layer in the shaping of the self. It is no more sophisticated than getting the word mom tattooed on his forearm. There is no emotional cost to me in "appreciating" everything my single mother did for me. If anything, "appreciation" only reifies the expectation that a mother should harden and diminish herself for her child. The emotional challenge in thinking about my childhood is in recognising the price my mother was forced to pay by the circumstances in which we found ourselves. Years of loneliness, hopes and dreams unfollowed, social and familial judgment, ingratitude from a child who, to be fair to me, didn't know much better. It wasn't her and me against the world, because the world was indifferent, it wasn't even taking part of the fight. Really, it was just me and her and it is tougher work for the child to recognise the humanity in their parent than the other way around. If Dear Mama represents the pinnacle of 2Pac's reflection and introspection on Me Against the World, as most of the reviews her suggest, then it is poor work. It isn't reflection - it is navel-gazing. It incorpates his mother into the self-aggrandizing and myth-making of his ego-project. She is a mere avatar of the good mother, with none of the interiority that 2Pac indulges for himself over and over again. If he can't consider real humanity and full personhood for the mother he "appreciates," should we be surprised when he extends no humanity to anyone? No, because this is grandstanding, not art. 1 R.E.M’s album ‘Reveal’ (not on this list) turns 25 today. The same age that Tupac Shakur was when he died. 25 years is so little time really. It seems like only last week I was giving Reveal a first listen, wondering what the hell had happened to R.E.M. Absolute shite. The fall off is largely accounted for in Bill Berry’s absence I’m sure but there are other glaring issues. Something like a lack of confidence in Michael Stipe’s delivery (this would only get worse on subsequent albums). An all-too-blunt thirst for public approval - sniffing round for the Automatic sound on All the Way to Reno, and mugging for the stadium crowds on I’ll Take the Rain. The chorus of Imitation of Life is R.E.M sunniness by numbers - almost a joke that someone might make about Out of Time R.E.M. The music is a terrible clutter; lots of mucking around with keyboard voices and effects, no identity, no conviction in the material. What is going on at the start of ‘The Lifting’? That cheap synth strings sound flailing around for a theme under the clunk clunk clunk of the piano. It sounds like kids in a practice room. And then in comes Stipe with a retread of the lyrics of ‘Daysleeper’. Here was a pathetic, pitiable R.E.M that I had simply never heard before. What was going on? 1/5
I’ve never properly listened to much Tupac, and I didn’t care for this at all. So dull and repetitive. I enjoyed New School. Other than that i got much more enjoyment from reading about his and his mum’s lore tbh.
Nope - not for me.
Not for me 1/5
even slaapverwekkend als alle andere rap... shoot me!
Asi by som to nemal hodnotiť, pretože rap nepatrí medzi moje obľúbené žánre...aj keď je Tupac legenda... Preto len 1. Sorry
A child murdering violent rapist telling me how bad he’s had it. Go fuck yourself cunt! Anyone idolising this piece of shit need to give their heads a wobble. Shit album as well
Boring hiphop
I don't care. At all.
He can’t decide if he’s proud to be a gangster or regrets that it’s what he has to be. I guess it’s both at the same time. He also seems to be actively wishing for and courting death, while lamenting all the death that surrounds him. I suppose I relate to ambivalence, but that’s about it. Another album I can’t say is bad, but I really disliked it. Not for me.
Nicht mein Stil
Jeg hørte et halvt album. Det var mere R&B-fløde, end jeg havde forventet. Men stadig kedeligt.
I have no idea why, but this album was like an instant boredom ray. It took 3 or 4 sessions to finish it... and it's only an hour long! My ears just had such an instant reaction every time. Utterly bizarre. Maybe it's really repetitive? I can't remember, as it took me more than a week to finish!!!
Used to love his music back in the day. Now... he was just a thug who could bring music to the world. If he could have done that without the thug bit, it would have been so much better, and he would still be alive today. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
★☆☆☆☆ Me Against the World is the kind of rap I absolutely hate: relentlessly self-serious, grievance-soaked, and convinced that brooding equals depth. Track after track leans into paranoia and self-mythologizing, mistaking intensity for insight and repetition for emotional weight, with little variation in mood or texture to give the listener any air. Yes, it’s influential and earnest, but that doesn’t make it engaging—its joylessness, monotony, and clenched-fist worldview turn what’s often praised as “raw” into something I find exhausting and deeply unenjoyable.
If thats why he was killed, he deserved it
A lot of people complain there’s too much British 80s music on here, for me it’s hip hop. ( I do like a bit of old skool ) I never grew up in the the hood, east side or west side so no of this has any relevance to my life in the northwest of England!
This was the first time I'd ever listened to a Tupac song, much less an album. Also, the last.
Too much profanity.
I have said it in many reviews already. I enjoyed rap when it was fun. Once it was no longer about fun stuff, it was no longer fun. I did find that if you just listen to each song of this album up to the first chorus, and then skip to the next, you pretty much get the idea. Every song is the exact same format, and with this method, you only have to waste just under 20 minutes of your time.
Look I get that he speaks the experiences people have that most of society doesn't get to see but musically this is really limited.
Not for me, repetative
Nope.
Meh meh meh. Tried to be open minded but yuck.
Awful
I’ve never liked 2Pac or gangsta rap, so approaching Me Against the World felt like the start of a long day — and unfortunately, that feeling never quite lifted. There seem to be far too many albums like this in the 1001 challenge, and this one did little to change my mind about the genre. To me, 2Pac remains overhyped and overrated, perhaps further elevated by the mythology surrounding his untimely death. The music and production are the album’s saving graces: the sampling is strong, the beats are well-crafted, and occasionally the instrumentals shine through. My main issues lie with the lyrics and themes. Much of the content feels dated and at odds with today’s culture, and the writing often comes across as simplistic rather than profound. What many praise as raw honesty or emotional intensity simply feels, in my view, bleak, repetitive, and unappealing. That said, there are moments where the production carries the tracks — “Heavy in the Game” features a great sample, and a few other beats caught my attention. Favourite track: Me Against the World was decent, and I enjoyed the “Just Be Good to Me” sample in Heavy in the Game. These two tracks might just nudge the album up to a 2/5. Least favourite track: Honestly, most of the album blurred together. Album artwork: A standard ’90s rap cover — moody, minimal, and predictable.
jag tror inte jag gillar hiphop?
I was surprised how forgettable I found it. I didn’t pay a lot of attention to his lyrics so probably could’ve gotten more out of this one. Rating: 1.5
Nope. I find nothing about this album or style of music engaging, interesting or inspiring. It’s pop music of the middle 90s. This doesn’t appear worthy of the accolades that martyrdom brought it. Not for me. 1/5
Never bought into the idolisation of Tupac, whose early death has granted him a near untouchable status in Hip Hop/Rap circles. I listened very carefully what Tupac had to say so I could get as close to understanding him as possible. I then came to the conclusion that you can be a great poet and have a lot of great points to make about injustice but if it's just not very interesting to listen to as music...I'm bored. Also, 30 years of parody of the gangsta lifestyle on television and in video games hasn't done this any favours. Tupac frequently refers to 'yet another funeral' and his friends clogging up morques, at which point I ask myself 'Is it any wonder?'. Seems they all had a deathwish and if you f**k around, you eventually find out. A review from the time said it best that the only thing greater than Tupac's persecution complex was his inflated self-regard. There was IMO far superior hip-hop/rap artists and albums in the early 90s than this offering.
Not a rap fan
Not a rap fan
As far as I'm concerned, this is yet another pointless Rap / Gangsta-Funk album.
Hip Hop, 41 eme album =>1/5
Not for me
I hate rap music.
What a slog. It drags on and on with stiff drums, plodding beats, and murky mixes. Definitely shows its age, in my opinion. Delivery is blunt and unvaried, songs blend together—total stagnation. Where’s the development? Strip away the mythology of Tupac Shakur, and you’re left with an empty relic that I had no need to listen to before I die. A trudge through monotony. 2/10
YaDiYaDiYa-rap. Same old same old. Stale. It’s a no.
Trash
Not even worth reviewing.
Maybe it's because I'm not from America, but I don't get this type of music, over an hour of absolute rubbish.
This is exactly the rap I do not like.
He's got better albums. No one track actually stuck with me
Nothing here for me.
Can't stand this shit
Bad
He says it's Me Against The World, and so if he's asking me to take sides, I'm taking the world. the beats and rhymes on this album are nondescript, and I mean that in the most damning way. If you can rock the mic then I'll give you a lot of latitude (see: Biggie Smalls), but this just sucks and is such a disappointment for we who first heard him guest-starring on Digital Underground tracks. Sorry but not even close to my top 1001.
Gangsta rap is just not for me. I don’t care about it and I don’t connect with it. 2pac spends most of the album bitching and moaning. The song about his mother was nice though
This guy and this record are some of the reason why this kind of stuff has a massive bias with me. Crap by a person that NEVER should have become a person of public interest.
I'd never (knowingly) heard 2Pac before, but this is not what I expected, based on the hype. Tedious and predictable.
Nope.
ALL EXPLICIT
No thank you for the Rap Hip Hop stuff.
Filth
Negros, pandillas, armas, balas, y listo. El retrato maleante de U.S.A y sus negros fundamentalmente. De música nada más que bajos y el ritmo típico.Sobrevalorado en extremo
the first song is alr the lyrics are okay there not bad but not good the voice is Lowkey good oms and the background music is good too and so is the beat. the next song is good and the voice and the lyrics are really good to like these songs They are actually Lowkey good its like the same thing as the other one.
No music!
2PAC Against My Ears! I have never been a fan of pure rap music, especially of the gangsta variety, and this album only exemplifies my distaste for it. Overtly self-indulgent, misogynistic obscene songwriting littered with profanity which is supposed to be taken as ‘poetry’? Musically there are digestible grooves here, however the vibe is completely offset by such offensive lyrics and tripe subject matter. It is laughable that Mr. PAC seemed to think that the world owed him something for the many perils he directly caused for himself. I mean wasn’t he incarcerated at the time this was released? 2PAC’s attempt to brand himself as a martyr right at the onset of the ‘Intro’ track was immediately a turn off and nothing that I heard throughout the rest of the recording redeemed itself for me. 🎧 Classic Track- ?? 🎧 Hidden Gem- Old School (if not for the vulgarity) 🎧 Least Objectionable- Dear Mama 🚫 Skip Track- nearly all as I lost count of how many N* & F* bombs were delivered to my ears. Fu** The World was particularly egregious! I’m hopeful that other rap & hip hop records on this list can help redeem the genre for me. This garbage was certainly not it. 🖼️ Album Artwork: ❌- Hideous Click the thumbs up icon below if you enjoyed my take on the album :)
First deep dive into 2Pac and man I did not like this. Just bad rap over bad R&B beats. One of the things this list has shown me it’s that I really dig East Coast Hip Hop and could care less about West Coast.
biggie smalls is the illest
A family of gangsters, to live and die by the gun and machismo bullshit. His music is average and simplistic, but thanks to his violent death, he’s become immortal. Let sleeping thugs lie.
This being my primary exposure to rap when I was younger and in school is probably why I fought hip hop for so long.
Rrrrrrubbish.
I couldn't even get through the first song. Tupac was a horrible human being and this album reflects that.
Take out all the b*tches and n-words and this album only goes for about 10mins.
Garbage music by a garbage human being.
I never liked gangsta rap, and that extends to Tupac, the undeserving martyr of the genre. I find his flow monotonous, and the tracks are musically just terrible. It is true that, unlike many gangsta rappers, he does show the occasional modicum of human emotion and a tiny glint of vulnerability. He loved his mother! I could have died of shock! But it is not enough to outweigh the violence and misogyny that The worst thing about Tupac were his efforts to live up to his image. The assaults, the beatings, the gun violence, the rapes are not just (unpleasant) features of his lyrics, but he did them in real life too. It seems almost inevitable that he would die in a hail of bullets. I think he wanted it. The introduction of the albums seems to almost revel in his legal issues and street violence issues. He is obsessed with his own imminent death. Charisma, prolificacy and reasonable flow are not actually enough to warrant the praise that has been posthumously heaped on Tupac. This is a garbage album; nasty, unpleasant, monotonous and musically bland.
Yeah, we get it. He almost got killed. I have never liked the 90s gangster rap and hip hop - It’s just too far from my reality. Tupac was a real asshole - read up on it. He was a rapist, was violent and a murderer… maybe people should stop idolizing him I am not into the hip hop genre, so that doesn’t help either
Muzikaal zit er nog wel enige variëteit in, maar uiteindelijk is dit de zoveelste doodvermoeiende sacherijnige kletsplaat vol onwelgevoegelijk taalgebruik.
I just can't appreciate this genre.
Wack album, to say nothing of 2pac himself. High 1.
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So Many Tears has an okay vibe. His flow is good. I'm pretty sure it's okay if someone doesn't hear this before they die. This came out the same year as Liquid Swords. Nothing on this even comes close. I get bad vibes from Tupac.
RAP
Nope. I'm not impressed by how many F bombs can be dropped in 30 seconds. Next please.
Too serious for me. I prefer more laid back, playful rap. For most of this Tupac was talking about his life and struggles he’s been through, but I don’t know or care enough about him to be engaged by it. Musically it all sounded the same. Can’t see myself listening again.
As I have said many times now on here I hate Rap music so this album is not on a winner with me. Much less so having read about the album and 2Pac. My background and former career mean I have no sympathy whatsoever for anyone living by the sword and dying by the sword. Such people have no place in my life and I refuse this music to be let inside my home to pollute my ears. Law abiding honesty is possible by anybody despite the disadvantages they may have born with into this world. To sing about their problems and expect the world to sympathise and follow their misguided examples compounds my loathing of such people. 0.00000000000000000000001/5 29/6/24
Didn't get into it. 1/5
Sorry 2Pac, I don't get the hype, all sounds the same.
Gangsta rap
Gear: DCA ÆON 2 Noire Artwork: Bravo-Starschnitt Mix: radiotauglichst weichgespülte Bass Cannon aus der Konserve 🥫 Musik: katastrophal, schrecklich, desaströs, ungenießbar, ruinös, gesundheitsschädigend, charakterlos, laienhaft, armselig, elend, arm, miserabel, erbärmlich, mitleiderregend, bedauernswürdig...und dabei leider gar nicht mal so gut gealtert Wertung: 📻/5
Rap. I don’t like
Not my cup of tea.
Not for me
Garbage
Never was a fan but expected a lot more than this.
God this shit SUCKS!!!!!!! Nigger this. Mother-fucker that. Killing, guns, the hood. What a life. And it ALL sounds the same. Complete and utter garbage. It only gets the one star because I can’t give it zero. What a waste.
Again Rap&HipHop
Not for me.
"They say pussy and paper is poetry, power and pistols." Well, "they" sure say a lot of stupid shit in an irritating, lecturing, mock-bravado style using other people's music for lack of ability to create their own. "They" are boring.
I listened to the ‘Intro’ and part of the first track. I refuse to listen to more because of his criminal convictions and because the ‘music’ was boring.
Nicht meine Musik...der Großteil plätschert irgendwie belanglos daher.
Rap’s die leichte Blues Elemente ausweisen. Klare saubere Stimmen aber in einem Genre, dass mir weder vor- noch nach teilweisem durchskippen der Songs zusagt. Einen herausragenden Titel habe ich auch nicht gehört.
p758. 1995. 1.5 stars. Starts off with the usual tedious, toxic masculinity driven, foul mouthed, misogynistic (c)rap, changes to decent lyrics with some serious points to make before returning to type on "Fuck The World" and "Death Around The Corner". In addition a lot of the tracks sound the same and just bleed into each other. There are better ways to spend 1 hour and 5 minutes of your life than listening to this.
Probably the most overrated Shakur and 90s rapper
I have to say, I didn’t hate this as much as I expected to. Not to imply that I leaked it. There’s no redeeming value here. The lyrics are mostly misogyny, plus glorifying violence, drugs, guns, whatever. Lots of profanity and constant use of the “N” word. No melodies, just rapping over snips of rhythm. Frankly, it all blurs together for me. Obviously a lot of people appreciate Tupac, and rap / Hip Hop. And that’s ok. But it’s not for me. 1/5
I'm really not a rap person
Oh no.. waste of time. So overrated..
Don't think I've ever listened to any 2Pac before now. And unlikely to do so again. Based on reputation alone I was expecting so much more from this but it came across as the most generic "hey baby, you're fine" 90s R&B imaginable. I have no doubt plenty of guys got lucky from playing this after a 3rd date, but..................... it's a no for me Clive.
Meh
It felt like I was being talked at. Far too many songs, super self indulgent, but some nice production.
Boring. I know it's not aimed at the likes of me and that it's all "real" et cetera, but it simply doesn't do anything for me. I can appreciate its strengths, but I can't be arsed listening to it.
This is going to fuck up my algorithm. Not a fan, but not as bad as I thought it would be. Did not give it a second listen.
It's a strange combination to mix smooth r&b with this sterile rap. I understand it was popular back then but it sounds so contrived now. Carefully produced and polished. Not for me.
bad sounds, bad lyrics, bad length, bad person.
Meh. I guess I'm not a hip-hop fan. I tried to make an effort with this, did a bit of reading around the artist and the context the album was recorded in, hoping it would being it into focus. The thing is, trying to listen to the lyrics was exhausting and without it the whole thing just droned on.
Meh
Sorry, but I can't stand this music.
chillin & vibing
Terrible music….
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Jemundur minn hvað þetta er leiðinlegt.
Hip-Hop. 0.5/5
Nope.
Done good tracks. Rest patchy.
Rap is not music.
Blurg, blah, burm, burp! More garbage from the crew that killed rap. I hate this shit.
Nope
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garbage