Pretty much agree with you there, I'm not gonna pretend I know about underground hip hop theres a lot of stuff I've heard and loved but most mainstream rap nowadays doesn't grab me like it did in the 90's and I really hate all these Tupac records that have come out after he died, they're not very good which is why he didn't release them.imo rap died when pac did. I have over 180 directorys of pac music and rarely listen to any new stuff, only person I know with more than me is stryk. The songs hold up today and given the chance I'd take pac over any other rapper anytime. All this new stuff has no heart man, very generic, especially fiddy's crap.
It's hard to imagine now but I truly believe that in hundreds of years into the future 2pac's music will be looked back on and analyzed as much as some of the great poets of the last 2000 years. It will be a great way to understand street life from our times.. a true prophet of our times, and you never realize prophet potential when your alive in the same era, it's always hundreds of years later when they are reffered to as prophets.
Nothing better than playing something like Stranglehold with a 2pac custom soundtrack!
Some people listen to pac, some people hear him.
50 Cent does talk a lot of shit, but so does Kanye. At the MTV Awards he apparently went off on one shouting "That's two years in a row, man ... give a black man a chance" after Justin "Micheal Jackson Wannabe" Jackson beat him.