Another technique Tupac was known for was stacking or layering his vocals, which added another dimension of warmth and rawness to his voice. This technique is often used by rappers to emphasise certain rhythms, words and phrases. Stacking vocal lines is very difficult to pull off, if not done well it can disrupt the flow of intricate patterns and phrases can be hard to make out.
You can hear his voice transition from being quite full to quite husky as he hangs on the final words. To nail the same rhythm and tone quality every single take is very challenging. But Tupac, who had studied jazz and poetry as well as theatre, had an incredible control of rhythm and was able to layer his vocals very effectively without compromising flow or cohesion. In , Tupac served a nine-month sentence on charges of sexual assault, something he strongly denied. The period between his release from prison and his death almost a year later was very intense.
He came out of jail firing shots; he had a lot to say and made a huge amount of music in this time. He dived into a world of gangster rap, formed a new group called Outlawz Immortalz and signed to the notorious record label Death Row Records. In terms of his approach to production, he wasn't focused on the musicality of the songs. Instead he had a real urgency to make music. You can hear this intensity and urgency in Tupac's delivery on tracks like Hail Mary, from his posthumous album 7 Day Theory.
Tupac didn't feel the need to be spending time in the studio choosing the right beat or the right kick. In October of , Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas that still hasn't been solved. He was Not that it was an act, the person that the world knew, because that was him, too. I adored him - he liked to play and laugh. He was my favorite rapper before I even started rapping.
Just the cool dude that I looked up to…So, even as a seven-year-old kid, eight-year-old kid, I could hear 'Pac's early albums and feel the truth. It was like he talking about stuff that I relate to. Game is another West coast rapper who always pays tribute to Pac. Thanks Pac for that! Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Rolling Stone. Log In. To help keep your account secure, please log-in again.
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Pac contested his perceived two-faced identity. Then he say hoe and this and that. They have to sit they politically correct ass down and figure out what it is they want. In a piece explaining why rap beef did not need to return to the intensity of the 90s , writer Craig Jenkins dug up a thread from a forum called Rec. But as we get further and further away from the time when he was actually alive, it is unrealistic to expect every newcomer to rap to idolize someone who died either before they were born or during their early childhood.
Few people born in the early 90s are diehard EPMD fans. People born in the mids are unlikely to grow up and be devout followers of Lupe Fiasco and Kid Cudi. And the same applies to those born in the mid-to-late 90s when it comes to Biggie and 2Pac.
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