This song was actually a poem he turned into a song. My favorite song ever

This song is MASTERFULLY poetic.

“My every move is a calculated step to bring me closer to embrace an early death” dies at 25 from fatal gun shot wounds.

I appreciate your view on this particular rap by Tupac, if you repeatedly listen to this rap you soon begin to learn that the pain depicted was real and sad and you begin to not dislike that it’s rap but a strong message of how one feels living in an environment of how one feels despair oppose to how those who don’t understands what that may be like.

Tupac was incredibly clever for his age, just 25 when he passed

2PAC was and still is BLACK EXCELLANCE. He was a prophet. I truly miss him and love him. So blessed that he was my era.

Rap means Rythm and Poetry.. Poetry but in a rhythm

music in the 90s people actually listened and paid attention to the lyrics where as today its the beat people focus on

The Hamonica was a sample from Stevie Wonders "That Girl."

Tupac's verse (the first verse) on Still I Rise is a brilliant example of poetry.

While rap relies heavily on a beat for rhythmic structure and que, one thing to remember with regards to Tupac is that he wrote his songs prior to hearing any beat. He'd usually write something and then be introduced to the actual beat and adapt it to the beat.

Since you are some kind of poetry guy, you should really check out Pacs actual poems. He has many of them online. They are amazing 👍

Tupac was one of the greatest artists of all time. Great review.

Just hear as much of PAC as you can please. And you will grow to understand and appreciate him way more

This was the song that got me into Tupac. I grew up around people that listened mostly to rap while I mostly listened to alt music. Some time in my early twenties, I heard this song and it just blew my mind. It was hella real and hella deep.

Great perspective. Also, "Changes" is probably the one you want to do.

Hip hop/rap told a story back then, and you could relate to it

25 When He Passed 22-23 When He Made That Song

''Pain'' by 2pac will blow you out of the water

Tupac was an actual poet. It's worth checking out if you haven't already.

Written by a 23 year old Tupac 🐐

Props to Stevie Wonder's "That girl" on the harmonica.

listen to unconditional love by pac! straight classic

Rap = Rhythm and Poetry

Unconditional love.. should be a good listen.

FINALLY somebody reacting to a song that doesn't pause it every 30 secs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There IS a God!

You're incorrect about that rap is heavily focused on beat and music etc. Those things only came in heavy later when it became main stream- which it did because the music and beats helped make rap appeal more to the masses. In it's original form rap consisted only of spittin'. 2pac is a prime example for that. He didn't want any fancy beats produced for his tracks at all but he realized that he had to, in order to sell records. HipHop on the other hand is probably what you were thinking about in terms of being heavily audiovisual and beat focused. There's a difference between rap and hiphip.

Hip hop is poetry in motion.

The fact that you are comparing rap to poetry speaks volumes!!

Tupac was a prophet

2pac "still i rise", 1st verse from pac is poetry in motion, with or without a beat, if those lyrics were released by anyone else outside of the hip hop community they would be lorded over. Its a shame that so much poetry, that comes with the stigma of rap hip hop music, is tragically overlooked.

Just listen to Tupac and he will guide your way through life.

What people don’t understand is that 2Pac wasn’t a rapper, he truly was a poet. He just added music to the background as he recited his poetry to make money.

Pac was the shit.

"The white fans listen to my music just as much as the black fans" 2pac

I'm so glad people take their time to listen his stories.he was more than a artist the way he spoke was from the heart and always got people to listen in every age.he was one of a kind

Tupac’s lyrics are one of a kind in that you could listen to them without a beat and they’d still have impact. (In the case of this track, the harmonica is the most impactful to accompany his lyrics). In Tupac’s later days, he rapped A cappella or over very simple, unfinished beats much of the time. This was how he had so many unreleased songs by the time he passed.

One of the best songs of tupac

love from Africa you good man

2Pac If I Die 2Nite plz 🔥

You can “rap” A Capella, the Beat is and always will be a selling to within mainstream. Love the reaction, 1st time viewer. Gained a Sub- from me 👍

Really want to watch this video but damn do I want that t-shirt!

It’s crazy if he was still here he would be in his fifty’s

Masterpiece

Just makes me so sad he was 25 years old when he was murdered im 23 to think he was 2 years older then me and had so much talent it'll neve be seen again

I was 12 when this came out I related to that album so much that I felt he was speaking for me telling the world what it was like to be young and black I recorded this song off the radio ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

need to react to 2pac's LETTER TO MY UBORN CHILD

Wow. I'm so surprised with your initial perspective of that. Like I thought you would react one way and then you said about policy makers listening to it to help give them some insight and it kinda blew my mind. Such a great perspective

The good dies young . 2pac and outlawz

The title of the song says it all.

Pac on big screen you on small. Suffered through the years and she’d do many tears

Suburbanites will never feel the feeling In This song, however for a person like me this song brings me to tears because it is my reality...all my friends died before age 21, gunned down in the streets...

Nas- I gave you power.

favorite Pac song!

Another song that does a really good job at painting a vivid picture of an environment is "Respiration" by Black Star. Highly recommended, with a lyric video.

I had to study some Tupac in my poetry unit in highschool

Listening to this back in 95 when there wasn't so quick a access to the lyrics like we have today. I sat there listening to the song over and over writing down each word until I had the lyrics (you know i HAD to have that CD). This left me with one strong impression of this song. The whole song feels like a man about to commit suicide reflecting on his life as he is falling to the floor, begging the Lord to let him in Heaven's door. He knows the result will be baptism in eternal fire, but every move has been a calculated step to bring him closer to a early death. Now there is nothing left. He's completed all the steps to get him here and now it's time to end it. Will I survive to see the morning sun? God forgive me because here I come.

Rapping can be acapella. Plus, in 50+ years of the genre we've heard numerous artist that rhyme off-beat, intentionally. Try 'Jazz Hands', or 'Bloodsandwich' by Aesop Rock. Phenomenal acapella beginnings. And a must if you're a lyrics guy.

I watched a lot of your videos, I’m interested to see your breakdown of this song with lyrics ; you gained a sub btw 👍

He was a Poet author genius

When you think about it, Pac mentions The Lord many times in this song. Its like hes singing this song like its a prayer

Rap is poetry, not complex poetry but poetry nonetheless, original poetry/songs was the songs of Moses aka book of psalms

Tupac also wrote poetry. I believe it was Vibe magazine that published them after his death. (I think his mother shared them).

My dad isn’t a rap fan, but he loves this song!

This song fucking slaps

I don’t agree it relies on beats. They accompany each other cos it’s music rather than literature like poetry. But u can have aCapellas

2pac - Papa's Song

I recommend Only God Can Judge Me by 2Pac

Tupac was more of a prophet.

You should do more of tupac🙂

The harmonica is a sample from Stevie Wonder's "That Girl."

🐐🐐

Stevie wonder played the harmonica in so many tears.......

DMX - Lord Give Me a Sign. Please-Thanks.

You should do videos with lyrics on the screen so you can break it down better

Just bumped into you, really enjoyed your breakdown and insight. If you have not checked out the artist Lupe Fiasco, I highly highly recommend him. Hurt Me Soul, Mural, Wav Files, many many more. Amazing writer.

Im English so the laws where you are they aint like that here (thank the lord)....But the song and the words he says are TOO true and relatable too people from all over the globe...i like how there are 4 versus rather then 3...and the production is fantastic....Me against the world is the best album he ever did...I went too London with my mate too HMV too get cds....brought that album Too short cocktails and Spice 1 Amarikkkas nighmare....the total cost was 55 pounds but it was 95/6 so alot of money....but all we wanted too do was go and boom them on a cd system with dope speakers...all 3 albums are fly and guess who is on all three?? ....PAC....anywya peace. and god bless

Hi Kirk, Can you listen to I seen a Man Die by Scarface? He was apart of the rap group Geto Boys and they also made an iconic song called My Mind is Playin Tricks on Me written from Scarface’s point of view being a manic-depressive sufferer and other verses relate to different mind states. Thank You! I’d love to hear your analysis

"Holla if u here me" by tupac

Pain- 2Pac

Wished you would've went in more on the lyrics. That'd be interesting. Still liked it, gonna look out for more.

React to tupac ed gordon inteview

It's not a different art form, no two poems are the same. Poets do not have rules, because rules rarely have feeling..... Hip Hop comes from ancient forms of communication. It's poetry with music, that is the ONLY difference...........Hip Hop artist are story tellers.

Can u react to Nas - I gave u power. You will be completely blown away. Absolutely.

I think your of on your analysis. Your saying they are completely different, I agree, in terms of categorically, music is not poetry, but writing lyrics for a song is not different from poetry, the beat provides a tempo, just as poetry is written at a certain tempo/rhythm, your assuming that if there's no beat there, the lyrics could not be rhythmic when said by the writer, but a acapella flow can create the rhythmic effect without a beat so it just comes down to tempos but essentially it's the same mental process to get deep, insightful, lyrics that are universally meaningful, or "poetic", and write them onto paper. So, it's not the same thing in the end, but the process to get to the end is fundamentally the same, if the rapper chooses to uses that style.

Hey kirk Check out this poem I wrote and preformed it as a rap . Listen closely to understand what I’m referring to when I say another baby being tossed in the trash just after being born.

I suggest hold ya head by 2pac, it’s from his last album which he recorded a year after this song dropped, he reminisces about the year prior and the things he has gone through. He was literally living 100 miles an hour and gained wisdom even within all the drama. Ps. The music video is not interesting at all since he was in jail when it was recorded and they had to use b roll footage from brendas got a baby music video and stills from a magazine interview.

Organized Konfusion - Stray Bullet Goodie Mob - Cell Therapy Outkast - Get Up Get Out Nas - Ain't Hard To Tell / Halftime Ras Kass - Soul On Ice (the whole damn album!)

Bless up from London. Would love you to do damien marley ft nas - patience (Bob marley son) 2pac - blasphemy

Gotta disagree with what you said about how Hip-Hop relies on the beat. You can go to MC circles and look up the videos of MCs freestyling without beats, just words flowing out of their brain. Nowadays "rap" (if you can even call it that) relies on the beat but Tupac was a real MC. Respect and Peace

Immortal Technique - Point of No Return

Hi, I'm Brazilian and how can I start to study poetry? Great video btw ..🔥

With your poetry background, I’m curious what you would think of Aesop Rock. I promise it would give you a lot to talk about.

The Rose That Grew from Concrete. The Book...

I like when he said I know my Destiny is hell but did I fail

Harmonica sample from Stevie Wonder .. That Girl.

I like your thought on policy... If the "thought" thinks it, (like the mind already convinced the person is bad, and the place called Hell, was a place the the person thinking is already convinced exist for him and is waiting for him, so it's only a matter of time;) Once the thought is convinced, (it's going to Hell,) then every action by that human, good or bad in reality, is under the notion and willed by tge thought..."Hell is waiting for me." Imagine being preconditioned from the beginning "Heaven" is for you... 42 years old, and I reflect back on my conditioning everyday... Environment is the molder/sculpture of people. Encourage and reward the ill... Ill shit will happen everyday, all day around that person, even worse, spread.. Negativity is contagious. The 90's were all about adukts teaching the youth to be precarious, about telling them the consequences of behavior, and why to be precarious of that... And then 9/11 happened, and tge terms were no longer local, but global. Couple that, (partner that) with technology advancement exponentially... Well, I wouldn't be surprised if today's youth would look at the 90's, the reasons and policies of the 90's, as something very taboo, foreign, and just "OLD." Only a few years ago for those who lived then, but for todays youth, the 90's might as well have been 500 years ago... Making Laws that govern is just a signature with the quill on parchment taking only a moment, but dictating and affecting whole lives and environments of whole generations... Reforming that policy, getting rid of a bill or law past, takes almost 10x's the effort, time, and money to accomplish.. Anyway.. Thanks man..

foreshadowing

I’m not sure but I feel like this video was made after his death. Haven’t done any research but it just looks and feels that way.

Listen to "Do for Love" and also talk about what you thing of his wordplay or rhyme schemes. Only seen 2 if your videos and have yet to hear you give an analysis of his pairing or words