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Friday, December 11, 2009 | 7:40am
So What Does 2Pac Mom Think About Vatican Love For Her Son?
Afeni Shakur is surprised by Pac’s inclusion on Papal playlist of influential MySpace Tunes.
Earlier this week I shared a bit of some odd news that the highly controversial, late Tupac‘s 1998 single “Changes,” from his 1998 posthumous Greatest Hits album was selected on the Vatican’s Myspace playlist of what it perceived to be its Top 12 influential songs. Pac’s mother, activist, Afeni Shakur says she was very surprised by the announcement.
“This came as such an amazing surprise – it’s not something I would have ever thought possible,” Shakur told AllHipHop.com in a statement. “I give thanks every day, knowing Tupac’s words and music continue to have such an incredible effect on people worldwide. My son was always striving to reach out to as many people as he could, and he changed the world in doing so.”
Tupac was the only hip hop selection and is on the list alongside one of history’s great musical minds, Mozart.
“It’s a testament to Tupac’s genius that his music can have this kind of impact more than ten years after the fact,” Interscope Geffen A&M Chairman Jimmy Iovine added. “This is an unprecedented honor to his legacy, as well as for those who had the privilege of working with him during his lifetime.”
Do you see Tupac as this musical genius? Maybe I’m jaded because I grew up in an era when it was either Pac or BIG and you couldn’t be from Brooklyn or the East Coast for that matter and not ride for Notorious. But critically speaking I always thought his music was rhythmic and entertaining even insightful and conscious but groundbreaking? I don’t know. Maybe I just don’t see why everyone thought what he was saying was so different from what lets say Public Enemy was.
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I feel you but i dont agree. I think he was a musical genius. His music had more feelin and was way more personal. He didnt just speak to a race like public enemy and most other rappers he speaks to the world. Maybe Im bias cuz Im a Pac fan but, you got to realize dat wasn’t nobody makin no rap song like Brendas got a baby and dear momma. It was either you a gangsta or you was all about the lyrics. Homie I can go on all day but Im sure you goin be flooded wit comments about dis one.
Pac changed the way the world saw the inner city youth by his actions and/ or by his words;
he made you listen or pay attention; and, he wouldnt and couldnt be ignored. At a time when Rap music was intended strictly for inner city youths, he made it a call for attention by all, even the Vatican. AND THEY PAID ATTENTION! Pac, influential? YEP!
What can I say about Pac? Juan I know you from the East Coast so I understand that you’d disagree to an extent. But I gotta agree with InkByDink because he’s right. Nobody was making the kind of music that Pac was doing. Pac was versatile, he could get you hype, make you dance, make you laugh, cry, happy, sad, mad and any feeling a person could have, there is a Pac song out there to match that feeling. Thats why most rappers wish they could accomplish what he accomplished…of course they want to be alive to do it though. Pac is very influential and very diverse and one of the best to ever do it. Thats why he’s different from Public Enemy or KRS One, or any other rapper out there. I don’t care if you were a gangsta rapper or just a nice lyrical mc, no one has been able to be comparable to Pac. POINT BLANK. Sorry Hov…….
Amen!