Tupac Shakur: The Life of a Born Rap Soldier

 

It's Saturday, the sun's rays of heat makes it another golden, California day...and June 16, 1971 is the day one of hip hop's greatest emcee's in the rap game - Tupac Shakur [aka: 2Pac, Makaveli] - was born. 

Anyone with half a brain and exposure to mass media pretty much knows, or will eventually hear about, the celebrated life and legendary lyrical 'spit-flow' of a born rap soldier:

 Tupac Amaru Shakur

While most rappers do just that - rap, Pac was, and obviously still is (2K12 hologram at Coachella), much more than an MC, or a thug for that matter. 

A spiritual-soldier of great intellectual fortune, Makaveli was blessed with unprecedented and unmatched skills (writer, actor, MC, activist, producer, poet, revolutionary, screenwriter, humanitarian) and a voice that penetrated the heart & soul of massive audiences the world over - one love! 

And even though murder was the case they gave him, executed in Las Vegas - 1996, Pac gave us all 100% real, raw, rough, and romantic insight into the mind of [a] prophetic genius who became a threat to many forces...and some might argue, even to himself.

Regardless of how his spirit transcended our sense of dimension, time and space -- the life and 1-LOVE-THUG-PASSION of Tupac Shakur, no-doubt, lives on...and rocks beyond the break of dawn. Happy 'born-day', Pac. Hit em up!

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Big SHOUT-OUT to his mother, Afeni Shakur,

and the 'party' that helped raise a son who reminded us of hip hop's universal message of [thug] love, peace and unity. 

   "A coward dies a thousand deaths... a soldier dies but once." -Tupac

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"Shakur has sold over 75 million records worldwide as of 2010,[2] making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. Rolling Stone Magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time." [source: wikipedia]

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well Respected in the Rap Game:

Tupac Amura Shakur

 June 16, 1971 - September 13, 1996

He was 25 years young

Tupac: Resurrection

Extra, Extra: Nas' new single - "The Don" bangs hard from NYC!

 

After 20 years in the game, Nas - "The Don" still bangs 'flowetically' hard, from NYC!

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It should come as no surprise that Nas' new joint, "The Don"  symbolizes what's likely to be another sizzling success from the rappers upcoming album - Life is Good, scheduled for release this summer (07.17.2K12). 

  

 

As he bangs loose on New Yorker's and MC's worldwide, Nasty Nas gets active [in] good life, swagg fashion. "The Don", 

rather harsh and matter-of-factly, reminds MC's and rap fans what two decades in the rap game can produce -- legendary, intelligent, poetic, and gritty flawless flow!

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DON'T ACT LIKE YOU DON'T KNOW; Nas...

is 

nasty

on the 

mic!

 

  

Celebrating the life of one of rap's greatest MC's - 'The Notorious B.I.G.'

Tomorrow, Friday, March 9, 2012 marks a date in hip hop history that fans, friends and family wish never occurred -- the murder of one of rap music's most 'illest' MC's, Christopher George Latore Wallace (aka:  The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, Big Poppa, BIG, The Black Frank White). 

No one could ever know if Brooklyn's king rap singer was ready to die on that fateful night in Los Angeles, California in 1997, he probably wasn't, but during his short time living, B.I.G. did it BIG! He spit dope rhymes with a flow so sick, and a swagg so smoov -- he took New York, hip hop and, ultimately, popular culture by storm...like being hypnotized!

With 17 million units of certified sales, street credibility and raw rap game, MTV, and more importantly -- the streets and hip hop fans, consider Notorious B.I.G. 

to be one of the greatest MC's of all time. 

Already a bonafide hustler and freestyle bad-boy on the streets of Brooklyn, by the time C. Wallace laced the track with game, his delivery was fierce, fabulous and flawless! In 1995, two years before he was killed, The King MC was named Billboard magazine's best rap artist of the year for serving up platinum hits like 'One More Chance' featuring R&B songstress - Faith Evans.

No question about it, when this instantly "classic" cut hit the club(s) the ladies were grabbin' dudes' and headed to the dance floor to get their smoov groove and grind on! 

While the list of hits and raw spit well-defined the persona of The Notorious B.I.G., those who knew him best...personally, and even those who loved his music, will forever celebrate and cherish the incredible gift and memory of Christopher Wallace.

"It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up magazine. Salt'n'Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine. Hangin' pictures on my wall. Every Saturday Rap Attack, Mr. Magic, Marley Marl, I let my tape rock 'til my tape stopped..."  ~Notorious B.I.G.

Christopher Wallace - The Notorious B.I.G.

May 21, 1972 - March 9, 1997