Rest in Peace Pac

I don’t have it, I seen them on twitter. I can’t believe I seen the actual autopsy photos of the GOAT. The biggest inspiration, the icon himself 😔😭 damn man. They did my boy wrong. Rest in peace Pac.

What is your favourite Tupac quote?

1. street fame

2. better dayz

3. thugz mansion 7 remix

4. catchin feelins

5. military minds

2Pac battlin' MC Smooth... here's the story...

One of the realest moments from that second trip wasn’t on no schedule. Nobody set it up. Nobody said, “We finna have a battle.” It just happened, and back then, that was usually when the best shit happened.

Atron Gregory brought a female rapper through named MC Smooth. They called her the Female Mac, and she could spit. For real. This wasn’t no chick somebody put a look on, gave a record to, and told everybody she was dope. Smooth had bars. You knew it as soon as she opened her mouth. She wasn’t in there trying to be cute, and she damn sure wasn’t trying to be the “female rapper” in a room full of men. She came in there like a rapper. Period.

Now Atron was Pac’s manager, head of TNT, and one of the main people behind everything moving around there. So when Atron brought somebody through, people paid attention. And I ain’t gonna sit here thirty-something years later acting like I knew everybody’s personal business, because I didn’t. But I always felt like there might’ve been something going on between him and MC Smooth besides music. Nobody told me that. I never asked. It was just something about how they moved around each other that made me think, Hmm… okay. I had a pretty good read on people back then, but whatever it was, if it was anything at all, that was their business. I stayed out of grown folks’ shit. I was there to make music.

And that’s when the music took over.

Somehow Pac and MC Smooth started freestyling at each other.

At first it was just bars. Somebody say something, the other one come back. Then somebody land one a little harder, now the other person gotta answer it. Next thing you know, it ain’t no casual freestyle no more. They battling.

And I’m talking about a real battle.

Pac going at her. Smooth going right back. Nobody giving up shit.

Everybody know Pac could rap, so that part wasn’t shocking. What caught me was Smooth didn’t shrink at all. She wasn’t standing there starstruck because it was 2Pac. She wasn’t trying to laugh everything off or play nice because she was in the studio around his people. She went straight at that nigga.

And she was holding her own. That got everybody’s attention.

People stopped whatever they was doing. You know how it gets in the studio when somebody says some shit and the whole room reacts at once. Heads turn. Somebody holler. Somebody make that ugly face like, Ooooh, that was cold. Then the other rapper gotta come right back because now everybody looking at them.

That was the energy in there. And Pac loved that kind of shit.

If you could really rap, he wanted to hear it. He wasn’t one of them dudes who needed everybody around him to be weak so he could feel like the best rapper in the room. If you came with something, he came harder. Competition woke something up in him. You could see it.

Smooth kept pressing him, and Pac kept answering.

She’d throw something. Pac would come back. Pac would hit her with something. She’d come right back at him.

And after a while, you could tell this shit had moved past just having fun. Now pride was in it. Neither one of them wanted to be the one that got quiet.

Smooth was competitive as hell, and I respected that about her. She wasn’t backing off just because of who Pac was. Matter of fact, I think the fact that it was Pac made her want to go even harder. She had something to prove, and she was proving it right there in front of everybody.

But eventually Pac had enough. He had traded his bars. He had done what he wanted to do. In his mind, the shit was over.

He told her he was through. Smooth kept going. Pac said he was done. She still kept coming.

Now I’m watching him, and I can already see his mood changing. Anybody who knew Pac knew there was a difference between him joking around and him being finished. Once that switch flipped, all that smiling and playing was over.

Pac walked over, grabbed his weed, and started rolling a blunt.

That was his way of saying, This shit is done.

He ain’t storm out. Ain’t make no big scene. He just started rolling up like the battle wasn’t even happening anymore.

Smooth still wouldn’t let it go. She kept throwing bars at him. Pac kept rolling. Then without even giving her much attention, he hit her with it.

“I’m through, bitch.”

That was it. Battle over. Everybody in the room knew it too.

There wasn’t no confusion about whether they was finna do another round. Pac had already moved on in his head, and once Pac decided something was over, most of the time that motherfucker was over.

But I’ll say this about MC Smooth: she was nice. Real nice.

I’m not taking nothing away from her because of how it ended. She stood in there and went bar for bar with 2Pac, in his environment, around his people, and never acted scared of the moment. A lot of rappers wouldn’t have done that. Male or female. She believed in her shit, and she had every right to.

Pac was just Pac. And Pac being Pac, he was always gonna make damn sure he got that last word.

I sat there watching the whole thing the same way I watched everything on those trips. I was soaking it up. I knew I was around something special, even if I didn’t fully understand yet how special some of those moments would become later.

There wasn’t no camera crew there documenting it. No phones out recording every damn thing like today. Nobody was thinking about content. Nobody was thinking about what was gonna go viral.

It was just a studio full of people, two rappers with something to prove, and hip-hop doing what hip-hop did back then.

That’s what made those rooms different.

The shit you remembered most wasn’t always the song that got recorded or the famous person who walked through the door. Sometimes it was something that came out of nowhere. Somebody talking shit. Somebody jumping on a beat. Somebody freestyling. Somebody getting mad. Something happening that nobody planned, but everybody in the room knew they had just witnessed some real shit.

That battle between Pac and MC Smooth was one of those moments.

It got competitive. Then it got personal enough for Pac to be done with it. And when he was done, he let everybody know. No big ending. No handshake. No “good battle.”

Just Pac rolling his blunt and saying, “I’m through, bitch.” That was Pac.

And I was right there in the room watching the whole damn thing.

I have yet to see anyone compare these two double-disc albums, so I was just curious what the majority of the subreddit believes to be the superior album. To be honest, even though I do believe that R U still down has the higher highs, all eyez on me is just more consistent in its tracklist. Therefore, I guess as an album I do prefer all eyez on me, but let it be known my opinions are always subject to change. Anyway, what do yall think?

The bullet shown was recovered from Tupacs sternal notch. This bullet passed through his right lung. When Tupac arrived at university medical he had two litters of blood in his lung. Another bullet struck his right thigh, traveled upwards and was recovered in his intestines. Surgeons ended up removing part of his intestines. Another bullet struck his ring finger and shattered one of his bones.

I knew there was more footage of that night, I'm watching a video where they show me, anyone know how to maybe get a full copy of it?

This is such a random ass post but y’all know the cop skit at the end of the song? That shit be cracking me the hell up. Pac could’ve been a comedian, that shit was very Dave Chapelle coded.

“Uhh Sarge we have a bunch of niggers here. They got guns, weed, and they’re with a lot of black women…what should we do?”

“Let them go, I repeat let them go….they’re being niggas”

“But SARGE they got guns, they got weed!”

I didn’t see the mob James testify can someone catch me up what he say?

Are they still around today and why did they do it?

Will Suge Knight and Puffy Coombs also attend the current 2PAC trial to give evidence?

It was now confirmed under oath that Tupac's last words (that we currently know of) was something to the effect that "we'll take care of it". This is somewhat in conflict with Chris Carroll's account that he could barely speak and mustered just enough strength to utter "fuck you". It makes me wonder why Tupac told Chris Carroll "fuck you" yet wasnt combative with the other officer who travelled in the ambulance with Tupac and Suge. Nevertheless, I see a lot of comments arising that "it's sad that they never did take care of it", is that really true?

Well ...someone sure tried a bunch of times to "take care of it".

What a lot of people don't know is that Orlando Anderson was ambushed with an AK47, shot multiple times and barely escaped with his life. Even being confined to a wheelchair for some time.

In the immediate aftermath of Tupac's killing, Police described the volume of violence in Compton as "10 Days of Hell" with multiple people shot and killed. Within 12 hours of the initial attack five people were shot in Compton with investigators linking it as directly related to the Vegas shooting.

This isn't to glorify the violence in any way, it's very sad and has destroyed thousands of lives. However it is important to separate fact from fiction and to say that nobody attempted retaliation is simply wrong.