Tupac tops Blender’s “Most Overrated Artist” List
It’s not like Blenders opinion holds that much weight and I am sure they’ll sell a few zines off the controversy alone, but they kind of have a point. (Runs and Ducks). I respect Pac, “To Live & Die In L.A.” & “Picture Me Rolling” fit somewhere in my top 20 list of all time, but outside of that I’ve found it hard to get into the music. Believe me I’ve tried. I can’t figure out if it’s the production or the Outlawz that make most of his albums intolerable. I digress…
The Blender “Most Overrated” issues hits stands next month. They better be ready for some death threats. Pac fans are not to played with
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – 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.”
It’s not the first time the pages of Blender have been used to bring down Shakur a few notches. In its June issue, rapper Lil Wayne listed him among his top five rappers, but then admitted: “I can’t front: I was never into Pac.”
As for the Grammys, the music industry’s top awards, Blender said sitting through the ceremony was “like watching paint dry on Celine Dion’s forehead.”
And encores were notable chiefly for allowing bands to go backstage and do drugs while fans wonder if they should beat the rush to the parking lot, Blender said.
Veteran British rock band Pink Floyd, meanwhile, were responsible for “unbearable LSD slapstick” and “self-important bombast.” And Blender warned that teenagers’ brains “can inflate a great band to Christ-size proportions” and turn a bad song into the most meaningful.
Are you people serious TUPAC overrated , it’s obvious someone hasn’t been doing their home work.
Hey dude stick to Rock n Roll and what you know.
This has to be the most obsurd article in the history of hip hop, the idiot that even thought of puttin this out need a serious chin check
WOW
September 4, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Dude it’s not just the music mannnn, The music is not the only thing that makes fan buy their music.it’s bigger than that. something more to it that attracts million to buy. At the end of the day you are not just buying the music you are buyin into the individual and what they have to say. Personality, swagger, look and content to your music.
Bob Marley,
Marvin Gaye
Tupac all stood for something. In the era of gangsta rap TUPAC was the end all no other arist was coming close to his style of music, ishhh was a perfect ten. he pioneered the style of
Jah Rule
50 cent
DMX
and every hardcore rapper after him.
please study you hip hop and its history before you put these stupid azz articles out people.
September 4, 2008 at 9:56 PM
Yo dude don’t get me wrong Pac is an architech to all of this. I’m just saying I personally think alot of his music sounds dated. I can’t sit through an entire album
Are the writers at Blender sensationalist morons? Yes.
Are they completely out of their lane? Yes
Is listening to a Tupac album in it’s entirety hard for me? Yes
These are just my opinions man.
Questioning my Hip-Hop authenticity because I dont agree with your opionion is silly
oh yeah
Biggie>Tupac
PROPS!
September 4, 2008 at 9:58 PM
Seriuosly nowadays who can you listen to for a whole album,
why do you think the ringtone game is so sick. no one is buying albums from artist, they take the 3-4 songs they like and make a Biggie folder/Nas folder/Pac folder, whoever is hot at the time folder/my favorites , etc….
Classic albums are things of the past because the whole hip hop game is twisted.
of course the music is date, the dude, dropped these songs in the early 90′s
ITS 2008 and he is still better than 90% of the rappers out spittin from his grave album after album
Huhhhhhh?
September 4, 2008 at 10:10 PM
So let me guess , your next article will be about biggie.
So that mean Biggie is overrated too then.
There is no possible way you can say Pac is overrated and not Biggie.
September 4, 2008 at 10:17 PM
The majority of joints I listen are from the early – mid 90′s
I’m not really disagreeing with you
I didn’t write the Blender article fam.
I’m just saying I’ve never been the biggest pac fan
September 4, 2008 at 10:18 PM
on some real… this really isnt the first time Pac has ended up on a list like this. Another magazine listed him there a year or two ago. i really only like a couple of Pac tracks also. Dude was a poet, but great poetry doesnt always translate into song.
oh yeah Biggie>>>Pac
September 5, 2008 at 5:36 AM
u can’t be over rated if u have a positive influence over so many people. yea his lyrics weren’t the best but he stood for something and died for what he believed in. tupac> overated.
September 5, 2008 at 6:02 PM
3x 24oz=my beer content so let me be clear
Tupac was not overrated
He was killed for the message that he preaching..YES preaching
he was one of the messengers that was given to the Human Race.
was he the best?? I know he was the Bravest.
Dear Mama, Brenda got a Baby..this was Pure
Please don’t start the arguement Big vs. Pac
I give Props to Tupac because he stood Toe to toe with Biggie in battle and DESTROYED big w/ one lyric “I fu*ced your Bitch”.
This was like Nas vs. J-z w/ ether.
Destruction..Pac> big
September 5, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Powerful posting!
Ether steez on the reply
I was wondering when my team was gonna rep. The Tupac Stan from above was going in on me.
No back up…
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September 5, 2008 at 10:50 PM
LETS BE REAL PEOPLE, PAC IS AVERAGE ON THE MIC, and is the biggest hypocrite in hop’s history because he’d do a song so meaniful, and the next song on da album would be about b’s and hoes…. he’s a legend because of his followers, but he would never be a great rhyme slayer to me
September 13, 2008 at 3:59 PM
I’M NOT SUPRISED HE’S #1 ON THIS LIST, SO HOW CAN U SAY HE’S >THAN BIG IF HE’S UP FOR CONSIDERATION ON AN OVERATED LIST, COME ON MAN HIS MUSIC IS WIGGITY WACK LOL…. SIKE NA SOME IS GOOD
September 13, 2008 at 4:02 PM
it seems like blender read my mind cause ive been sayin it for years.
September 13, 2008 at 4:05 PM