Picture Perfect…
GENERAL By Beware on October 28, 2007 at 12:33 pm
This is the poster that hangs above my bed.
In three specific ways, it serves as an everyday reminder of not only why I love hip-hop, but also why I hate it.
Snoop represents the creativity and skill of the craft, while Pac serves as a better example of its means of personal expression than anyone ever could. On the other hand, Suge symbolizes the thing that makes our favorite form of music so popular in today’s covetous culture – greed.
Separately, in one way or another, these three used the art of Rhythm And Poetry to better themselves.
Together, they used it as a gateway into a life somewhere between a real-life Mafioso tale of rags to riches and a big-budget action movie. Although unaware of the potential outcome of their ravenous ways, maybe even uncaring, they used their star to take them to the clouds.
Undoubtedly, they never anticipated this lifestyle of flatulence and flashing lights would end up scattering them so far apart on the way down.
Suge has fallen the furthest, as his financial woes are constantly being made public, and his crown jewel record label is now being shopped across the market. Snoop is currently a pop-culture icon, rather than a revered rapper, who uses his clout to garner lucrative deals within every media outlet possible. Tupac’s untimely death, seemingly a result of his burgeoning Death Row days, has left him with a personally prophesied legacy that forever remains untouchable.
Personally, this poster serves as a daily reminder that the endless scope of this mold of music we represent can take peoples’ lives to levels that most can’t even fathom. It also tells me that if you get too caught up and forget about how you got there in the first place, that you’ll end up on the outside looking in. Or, even worse, possibly not looking at all.
Despite the damaging association these men had, from a fans’ point of view, their time together seems legendary.
In all actuality, it wasn’t even close. For 2Pac and Tha Doggfather, the following two collabos were the only ones ever released from their brief association at Death Row Records.
With such natural chemistry, it’s a shame it couldn’t have been more.
2Pac – 2 of Americaz Most Wanted Feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg
2Pac – Wanted Dead or Alive Feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg and Charlie Wilson
Stray Shots FIXED
VA-DJ_Coolbreeze-Grand_Hustle_Mafia-(Bootleg)-2007
Gucci Mane – No Pad No Pencil (Official Mixtape)
Hev. E. Hitta_Presents_Scarface-Southern_Royalty-(Bootleg)-2007-
DJ Clue, Chops & Jay-Z- I Came I Saw, I Conquered Mixtape (Hosted By Borat)
Keith Sweat – Greatest Hits (2005)
Methrone – My Life (2000)
Alicia Myers – Again (1981)
Rome – Rome
Najee – Day By Day
VA – Diggin’ On Blue (1999)
Stray Shots FIXED
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Freumst !
‘Gangsters drink for free’
http://www.zshare.net/audio/4421223425737b/
Club ‘Flow’ Banger ! dope
http://www.zshare.net/audio/4486797c6a5011/ Freestyle-flow 97
Greums…uhhh…why repost the Eric B. & Rakim links from yesterday lol?
Say what? Ya’ll don’t be seeing what he be doing? He’ll repost Loosies from days before too. ROFL! American Greumster 4Life
LMAO at everything in these comments thus far, but especially “Freumst !”
Man I see it all the time. It just confused me for a minute today.
Fuck it though, it’s Greums Da God aka Jason Bourne aka Mika Crack aka HiP-Hop It Lives, so gets that pass.
My son is like that fan who’s got his body painted, head shaved in the 20 degree weather, all b/c he’s supporting the team to the fullest lol.
^^LOL
On another note, could somebody please post TQ’s “They never Saw Me Coming”. I had it, but now I can’t find it, and when I look for it on the net it either all dead links, or it comes up in windows media format, and for some reason that is beyond me, my shit won’t let me burn windows media. So if someone could lend me a hand in mp3 format, I would be greatly appreciative.
lol, its for me !
i dont wanna search in other post, links that i want
so i repost that for me, on the new article section comment to download when i have time !
sorry, but homies lol,
and if a new person look this, he can used the link too …
thx Gotti
peace
woooww my english is so perfect ..!
Wow. Rome. I haven’t heard that name in years.
why is tupac in a corset?
Greuns Sinatra does it HIS way!
hilarious
Greums
damn these little azz Treo buutons
buttons?
damn you fat fingers!
@ boogie: Coz he’s tight like that.
http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=15532
why pay such a guarantee, then he must remain at his place, it’s a bad trip for him, and pay this, for then making 3 years of prison I think minimum, (lol with Prodigy) perhaps but if T.I. takes more, kind 5 years its would be large shocks for the hiphop, and imagines if he takes more but I do not think, because not paid 3 million for then making 10in jail, it would be abusive, misusing
http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=15517
Ski’s reasonable doubt !
Low key, Pac was one of the worst dressed rappers out there (think I’m crazy!?!? Break out ya All Eyez On Me booklets…)
Same for Eminem. Jumpman everything…LMAO or is it LAMO…LOL
Thank Greums for grantin me this moment of clarity, this moment of honesty, TSS’ll feel my truths
All through my Hard Greums Lifetime, A Greumsy and a Greums,
I gave you Volume after Volume of my work
So you can feel my truths.
From my Greumprint beginnin to that Greums Album endin’
Listen close you’ll hear what I’m about,
G****, feel my truths.
I built the Greumnasty by bein’ one of the realist G**** out, Way beyond the Reasonable Greums y’all can’t fill my shoes
Greumseeze you did it again, you a genius G**** !”).
What more can I say to you ? You heard it all
broadcasting LIVE from SportsCity, USA…. Patriots 52, Redskins 0
bow down
At with the pending sweep tonight by the BoSoxs ^your day will be complete!!
honestly my head is going to burst if i have to wait any longer for the american gangster group rip.
WHERE THE FUCK IS IT????
Snoop represents the creativity and skill of the craft…
that isn’t so much true these days, lol.
Let that Bitch Breathe…
does it make me fat for wanting more stolen bases tonight? lol
“For those not in the know” http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/fan_forum/tacobell/#rules
that’s a hov quote.
Pac really was one of the worst dressing rappers of all time.
Maybe not so much at first, but towards the All Eyez On Me days, hells yes. Dude stayed in some leather get up. LMAO. Duke above said “corset”….bwuahahahahaha….so true though.
But yo, like wouldn’t someone have the decency to tell him “Yo Pac, that shit isn’t jumpin’ homie–not on the West Coast.” I mean, you never saw anyone else sportin’ the bondage-esque shit did you? There’s a reason for that.
Much love to Pac though—clothes definitely don’t make the music, and I think that’s obvious with him. But if rappers sounded the way they dressed, the shit would be even more in the can than it is now.
^
That’s why they’re called yes men. As long as the weed, liqour, & chicks are flowing, they could give a damn bout what Pac was wearing. But when I saw that “corset” in the picture earlier today, I just closed the page. My brain wasn’t even ready for that earlier today.
And to Greums: My Man, do you. (c) Frank Lucas.
I think that leather joint pac was rocking threw a bunch of people for a loop. But in the same all eyes on me booklet, pac has on the 1st Grant Hill Fila’s and the denim look which i thought was ill. I seen him in interviews and shooting dice and shit wearing classic air max’s and shit i used to fiend for. But he just didn’t give a fuck and think he wanted to separate himself from everybody in the game. No one can truly understand except for the man himself. What about those four-finger rings and shit he made everyone wanna wear em’
I fucks with comment #19.
And fellas, you’re talking about Pac’s style like that pic was taken yesterday. That shot is over 10 years old. Styles change.
It’s still kinda suspect, though, huh? lol
^ I have this convo w/Retro all the time. A lot of the OGs from Cali that I’ve ever spent w/time or witnessed were always flashy when they got “suited & booted” as one used to say. It’s funny that Jay mentions Mauris in the first track on the album b/c those dudes swore by them in all colors.
And Greums man, you win. TSS is all yours. You’re the gatekeeper & the silly dude who farted in class when the teacher said to read quietly lol. Fuck’em yo. Kick yo shit homie.
But yo, you can always throw the links in a text file to save’em for when you have a few mins. That’s what I do.
Ronnie, even back then I was like WTF is this dude wearin’?! I was a senior in high school then, and I sure wasn’t the illest dressing dude on the block. Shit, I was probably sportin’ a Hilfiger shirt, with some Abercrombie cargo shorts and a pair of Barkleys I wore for basketball season. But even at that period of horrible fashion sense, I could see Pac came out the crib wrong the day of that photoshoot. And not that I sit there and judge men and their attire, but that shit shocked me.
But on the other hand, I have seen a gang of pics with Pac sporting some ill Nikes.
ESPN is great & I’ve gotta master their style b/c those fools on this morn had all this statistical data saying how the Skins-Pats game was going to be a great matchup…and just as I figured, the Pats handed them their on a platter lol.
I’m tired of baseball. Bring on the Pats-Colts next weekend!
Saw IV: Another Winner!!!
“Sweeeate”
Saw IV? word? I donno about “another” nor about “winner”. I find the storyline increasingly diluted, which is sad considering how much peeps supported the franchise.
Nah bro. The series has thrived by some clever writing. In rap terms I’d say it was like Nas meets Jeezy. Provactive enough to get your mind’s wheels turning but still give you that ’shit’ to keep the dollars rolling in.
8/10
On another note, could somebody please post TQ’s “They never Saw Me Coming”. I had it, but now I can’t find it, and when I look for it on the net it either all dead links, or it comes up in windows media format, and for some reason that is beyond me, my shit won’t let me burn windows media. So if someone could lend me a hand in mp3 format, I would be greatly appreciative.
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if you send that to me, I will convert it to what ever format you need..
Yo.. maybe I’m hitting the wrong link but the Shots don’t look right. (good stuff in there notwithstanding) I was gonna dl the Najee and sip cognac tonight.
hey I’m in my 30’s thats what I do.
Belve. Beware did a joint on TQ not to long ago. Hit the search and see what it do
I’m not mad or upset or anything but the Stray Shots link goes to a changetolink page with all of Joe Buddens shit, which I ABSOLUTELY love, but maybe I can get the link to the Albums posted…
Good read. At home i have 3 relative paintings. A Suge that faces across to paintings of Dre and Eazy. Your article was perfect and if you subtitute the guys in my paintings with the guys in your posters it would pretty much fit to a T.
Good to see The Section still kickin ass.
Here’s my last joint free for y’all.
Ball5:North American Union
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M5XVGJA9
Damn, I’ll fix those Shots later. These joints been up for hours & aint nobody say shit lol?
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/features/id.905/title.salaam-remi-made-you-listen
–> Salaam Remi speaks on his work ethics, collaborating with Nas and future production projects.
http://allhiphop.com/blogs/features/archive/2007/10/25/18785677.aspx
Nas between Innovation&controversary :
Chuck D, Cormega, David Banner, weight the pros&cons
Damn, still hanging rap posters in your bedroom??
Belve…
See if this works….
TQ – They Never Saw Me Coming
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KOFEIYWB
One of my fav albums OAT.
Yo, that’s not a corset. Its a girdle.
Tres-
Yes. I like rap, not white walls.
Beware…
There you go. Thanks for the repost because I’m like Greums.. too busy going forward to look back
http://rapidshare.com/files/66065655/TQ_-_They_Never_Saw_Me_Comin_.rar.html
“Undoubtedly, they never anticipated this lifestyle of flatulence and flashing lights would end up scattering them so far apart on the way down.”
I once had flatulence that scattered everyone so far apart. Maybe you meant opulence? LMAO
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