Cassidy firmly believes that 2Pac had a strong pen game that matched his passion for rap, and he has now elaborated on the late rapper’s creative brilliance.
In an interview clip published by The Art Of Dialogue on Thursday (January 11), he dissected the Death Row MC’s lyrical abilities and clever wordplay while addressing the doubts about his skillset.
“I believe he was super lyrical,” the Larsiny spitter said. “And I believe he was a revolutionary, like the type of lyrics that he was rapping wasn’t just trying to fit in or just trying to spit a hot rap, like it was a lot of points and messages and a lot of deep stuff in ‘Pac lyrics that you got to be at a certain place to even understand it.
“The majority of stuff that ‘Pac was trying to get across would go over your head and you’ll only listen to a small piece of it and think that’s not lyrical, because the lyrical stuff that he was doing, you not catching.”
He continued: “He was able to put conversation in rap form — make it rhyme, he was piecing up multiple syllables, he could use figurative language when he wanted, he could say stuff that was like double entendre stuff that had multiple meanings.”
Listen to the Philly native talk about ‘Pac’s genius at the 1:54 mark below:
During the same chat, the 41-year-old was also asked about Dr. Umar Johnson’s recent comments about Eminem being considered one of the greatest rappers of all time as a result of “white supremacy.”
“We gotta stop naming non-African people as being the best of any aspect of our cultural power because it is an insult,” Dr. Umar said during an interview on The Joe Budden Podcast at the end of last year. “I can acknowledge Eminem’s talent. But for you to put him at the top, that’s white supremacy.”
Disagreeing with said take, Cas said: “I do think Eminem is great. He proved it a lot of times. A lot of classic projects, a lot of classic songs, a lot of classic freestyles.
“He’s been making history over and over again and been doing records with all type of races, all type of different backgrounds. It’s hard to say that he ain’t great.”
He added: “I don’t want to make it based on race. It did start as Black culture; Black and Spanish people started Hip Hop, but I feel like Eminem been studying it since he was born.
“He knows a lot more about the culture than the average Black person, so I feel he deserves to get a pass.”
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People probably wanna hear about flying saucers and crazy space shit in order to sound lyrical. 2Pac didn’t need to rap about that to sound lyrical.
Please give me some 2pac bars that went over our heads. I was a fan of him but stop it. Yes his messages were deep and he know how to craft a verse but lyrical……. come on son
Give us some lyrical bars that are better than Pacs. There’s a lot of them but I want your take for reference.
The entire song Me and My Girlfriend is a double entendre. He is just as lyrical as Nas. If you’re basing lyrical on similes, metaphors, etc. Rappers like Too Short, Pimp C, Snoop just simply rap words frfr with great styles of course. Pac is in the same air as Nas, Kool G, AZ, those types. Biggie, Jay, Rakim BDK is on the other side of it but they are all lyrical in someway. The anomalies are Canibus, Em, Immortal, KRino etc
Nah, he rhymed Hennessy with enemy at least twice lol
You ain’t lying.
Prople who say Pac wasn’t lyrical probably aren’t very bright or lyrical.
PAC was not lyrical according to his haters…. but I can tell you one thing, PAC was more real than most of those haters 💯 who claims to be more lyrical than him.. PAC was more than just a musician but a revolutionary, you don’t box someone like PAC in one category PAC was a Black messiah to most black people across the world, no wonder Why we are still talking about him till this day.
PAC was not lyrical according to his haters…. but I can tell you one thing, PAC was more real than most of those haters 💯 who claims to be more lyrical than him.. PAC was more than just a musician but a revolutionary, you don’t box someone like PAC in one category PAC was a Black messiah to most black people across the world, no wonder Why we are still talking about him till this day
2Pac should get more credit than to dissect him lyrically, he acted, and guess appeared on diverse TV sitcom also interviews all over the world. Hell if you want my take on the whole big picture. I think the last sigmin on his life should’ve been an additional book to the Bible. lol
2pac wasn’t lyrical, he was a drawn ass basic ass and now a dead ass rapper.
Pac said himself he wasn’t trying to be lyrical. End of story. @7yeartheory