Kendrick Lamar had een aantal weken geleden een tribute geschreven aan Eazy-E voor Paper magazine en vandaag is het de beurt aan Eminem om zijn held te eren namelijk Tupac Shakur. Lees hieronder een aantal lines uit zijn verhaal:
Eminem hoorde 2Pac op zijn 18de voor het eerst en was gelijk groot fan:
“The first time I ever heard Tupac was his verse on “I Get Around” with Digital Underground. I was 18 or 19 years old and I remember thinking, “Who is this?” He stood out so much. Once I heard that, I got his first album, 2Pacalypse Now. I saw the video for “Brenda’s Got a Baby” and I remember thinking, “Holy shit.” By the time he got to Me Against the World, it was him at his pinnacle. He’s off and running. He knows what he wants, and he’s figured out how he wants to be and how he wants to sound — everything. I would probably put that up against anything as far as a classic hip-hop album goes.”
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Hij prijst Pac om zijn schrijftalent en woordkeuzes:
“The way he chose which words to say with which beat was genius; it’s like he knew what part of the beat and what chord change was the right place to hit these certain words… to make them jump off the track and make you feel what he was saying,” he said, adding, “His ability to touch people’s lives like that was incredible.” “Pac was the first one to really help me learn how to make songs that felt like something.”
Hij spreekt vol lof over Pac’s presentatie in interviews maar geeft ook aan dat Biggie een groot voorbeeld voor hem was:
“He was a superstar in every aspect of the word. You just wanted to know that guy. Like man, I wanna hang out with Pac.” “He was just so good at evoking emotions through songs and I picked up so much from that. Biggie had that as well,” “I would have a hard time believing that it was all accidental. It was true genius.”
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