Germans, Tupac, Dre and Dispositions to Excellence.
Tupac with all of the bad examples from his Thug Life ideologies is arguably the greatest rap artist of all time, even though he died at 25. Just in case we don’t realize how much of an outlier his accomplishments are; let me ask, what were you doing at 25?
It has been twenty-three years after his death; Tupac Shakur is still making music. His relevance doesn’t just come from music, but the trueness of the concepts he held. In a world where so many people are consistently inconsistent with where they consistently want to be, he was consistent and worked extremely hard in telling that thug story so excellently. Even though their music videos showed women, nightclubs and champagnes, the messages were deep regardless. Behind the scenes, away from the lights camera action, they weren’t just clubbing like the music videos depicts. They slept in studios delivering excellent art. I feel it’s something Nigerian artists need to learn. How else can someone explain how he’s produced 15 albums -10 of which is posthumous. In a period of five years from 1992-1996 he created a dozen albums, eight feature films, countless commercials, music videos and even two books of poetry.
