Blender Magazine Calls 2PAC The Most over-rated Musician Ever
While we are all entitled to our own opinions who ever wrote this nonsense should get their Hip-Hop Card revoked. Blender Magazine is known for saying stupid stuff but this has to take the cake. If you do not like 2PAC or his music, that is one thing but to disrespect his honor, his legacy, the type of heartfelt music and lyrics that he brought to the game. To neglect all of that and to call his the most over-rated musician just shows the lack of understanding that people have with respect to Hip-Hop and artists who truly have made a difference in the game as we know it!
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 theGrammys 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 ofChe 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.
MARK GILBET
he is not the most over rated musican ever this guy stayed in the studio and in the club or at a sports event more than anybody so he had and still got material that can be put on a cd and all it needs is a picture and a title so that mag can fuck off.
Kayrab
Over-rated? yet you are still talking about him. Fact remains is dood was and is a legend. How can a legend be over-rated, how can someone who has inspired all across the world be called over-rated? How can a household name brand like 2pac be called over-rated? Fuck man- i could go on and on and on but won’t. You are entitled to your opinion though. Keep the converation alive if nothing else
MSTABIGMIKE
LIVING PROOF THAT FREEDOM OF SPEECH AN OPINION IS STILL ALIVE IM JUST GLAD THIS GUY DOESNT WORK AS AN A&R AT A LABEL LORD KNOWS WHO HE WOULD AN WOULD NOT SIGN..
Mike Belgrove
My boy Juan wrote about Tupac in Blender on HN and to be honest I kinda think Tupac is seriously overrated. What makes him this rap god that people try to make him? I’ll give credit where credit is due. He was good when he was alive but would he still be relevant today if he had never died?
Chimbles
Well scratch this noise anyways… 2pac is alive and well! I have proof, just check out my website
http://chimbles.com/tupac-is-alive/
ShaeZero
Blenders just goin for that free publicity.There just jealous “jealous got me straped” f Blender, f Mike Belgrove and F ALL YOU HATERS. If you aint got nothing better to do. Go research some of Tupac’s poetry. Peace…don’t let your meat loaf