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."
We hear it' not the first time Blender has slammed TuPac. Thanks to Talk Dat Ish Entertainment's Tionna Smalls for the tip. Read more at the source......
Source: Reuters
My boy Juan wrote about Tupac in Blender on HN and to be honest I kinda think Tupac is seriously overrated. What makes him this rap god that people try to make him? I'll give credit where credit is due. He was good when he was alive but would he still be relevant today if he had never died?
ReplyDeleteMy opinion Mike is that many of us did not even know his talents as much as when he died. All his unreleased works shocked me. He was not overrated. Biggie was overrated by Puffy.
ReplyDelete