is Nipsey Hussle this generation's Tupac??

Unfair to compare them. Nip was bigger than rap. There are people who have never heard his music that are hurt over his death because he had a genuine love to help the black community and his passion was contagious. He was bigger than a crip, LA, Cali, West Coast. His vision is something that all black American's need to help overcome our situation. We should be taking key points of his mission and everyone of us incorporate it into our lives. We wont tho. We will wait until the next pac, or nipsey hussle is raised and gun him down just to martyr them. We really need to protect our heroes. Im sick of seeing them die young.
 
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Unpopular opinion here:

Nipsey Hussle is legit about that life.
Pac was not about that life like Nipsey.
I simply cannot see you going to Art School, working as a ballet dancer, being a background dancer for DU and all of a sudden you're a street thug.

That said, Pac's legacy and impact will reverberate far longer than Nipsey's will.




@2:17 I wish dude would ve never gone the thug route.........but once white kids started buying rap music the whole "Thug life" bullshit took off.....Man homeboy was on set with some of the biggest names in comedy at the time....Aykroyd, Chase, Candy.......man rap was fun back then......

we went from black kids wearing hoodies with HBCUs on it..........to thug bullshit
 
To me he is because of what his content was about. He may not have been known to the masses but he had a major impact. I am still torn up over this. I remember when Pac and Biggie died and for me it feels the same. Plus I am a big Nipsey fan and a big fan of Pac and Big.
 
I don’t know one Nipsey song. Shit what I know him from is the movie Animal with Vhing Rhames. For all he did he was still in the hood. That shit never works out.
 
Music and media are consumed different. If 2Pac came out 10 yrs ago, would he be as big a star as he was in 94-95, 96?
 
hell no....everything about pac was (imo) was used and sucked dry by suge to the very end...nipsy grind was different from start to finish
his attitude was different,,the hood and gang he claim was the real deal...just totally two different people pac and nipsy was...
 
If Nipsey has the amount of songs in the vault like Pac did I could see it with this generation.
 
This shit is too fresh. Have this convo 6 months from now. But I will say no. People are just in the moment. I was 16 when Pac died. Shit hit me HARD. This hit me hard too....just cant say.


But just think about this....

what if social media existed back when Pac was around? The Nipsey death is enhanced by social media.
 
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PAC was thug life until he died. Yeah he talked a little about niccas doing better, but he didn't put that into action as far as I know.....but his music was banging and is still banging today....I know a dozen songs word for word

I couldn't tell you even one song that Nip sang.....narry a one, but his action in the community was stellar...from stores to technology...he was doing it big.

Completely different people......
well that was the thing with pac he rep-thug life but wasnt a thug or gang affiliated that was the part of pac the actor but when it came to community
involvement there was none cause suge wanst having that shit,,wasnt no money for pac to invest with...
 
I say yes, Nipsey just started to show his greatness. You can hear the growth in his music from Slauson Boy 1 to Slauson Boy 2. Victory Lap was the best rap album of 2018, and he preached ownership like few young artists ever did. Few cats are able to build the relationships Nip built in his short time in the game. Nipsey's murder hit me hard, I've been bumping his shit all week.
 
I don’t know one Nipsey song. Shit what I know him from is the movie Animal with Vhing Rhames. For all he did he was still in the hood. That shit never works out.

You're an idiot

I read your post and think this muthafucka can't be this stupid....yet you continue to top yourself time and time again
 
If Nipsey has the amount of songs in the vault like Pac did I could see it with this generation.

Go look at iTunes or Spotify

The great thing about Nipsey owning his work was that pretty much all of it is available on streaming services.

So his kids will be able to eat off that forever
 
hold on let me go ask my 16 year old son if he ever heard of nippsy hustle .......brb


. . edit

Damn i wish i could have record his response lol

I said have you ever heard of nippsy?

He said. "not before he got shot the other day.. and why are people trying to compare him to pac. are they crazy? lol
 
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The closest thing we got to Pac is K.DOT.

Nipsey is in a different league because it wasn't about his music. It was about his beliefs on investing in self/community. Music was just the platform he used.

*edit* K.Dot is the pac of this generation musically. I do not think K.Dot would have linked up with folks like Suge. Kendrick seems like he have a better radar to figure out who's a snake, or not.
 
Bruh no disrespect but most people don't even know who Nipsey Hussle is\was...especially East Coast people. Pac was a household name. From classic movies Juice, Above the rim, Poetic Justice. Guest starring on a different world. Death Row versus Bad Boy. All eyes on me sold what 5 million copies?..........Come on man silly thread. Nipsey Russell's death will be talked about for another maybe week :dunno:
 
Bro, I've never in my life seen a cat that could trash artists in the worst way (Jay-Z, Dre, etc.) and still receive props.

For some reason, Pac was loved 360 degrees. The chicks were in love with him and the dudes wanted to be him. Like it or not, he's the biggest thing that's ever come out of hip hop...and quite possibly, that ever will.
 
Pac was the Elvis Presley of hip-hop. We just haven't had entertainers at least in music that big or as influential. But then again were in a different era.
 
I don’t know one Nipsey song. Shit what I know him from is the movie Animal with Vhing Rhames. For all he did he was still in the hood. That shit never works out.

Same here, not one song. But I did hear a little about what he was doing. When he played in The Wrath of Cain in 2010, I was googling " Snoop Dogg's little brother", sounded just like him and looked like him. I did not know shit about him.



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Fuck the songs. It was about his acts of altruis
PAC was thug life until he died. Yeah he talked a little about niccas doing better, but he didn't put that into action as far as I know.....but his music was banging and is still banging today....I know a dozen songs word for word

I couldn't tell you even one song that Nip sang.....narry a one, but his action in the community was stellar...from stores to technology...he was doing it big.

Completely different people......
Fuck songs. Its about his actions. Pac aint have shit on Nip
 
Bruh no disrespect but most people don't even know who Nipsey Hussle is\was...especially East Coast people. Pac was a household name. From classic movies Juice, Above the rim, Poetic Justice. Guest starring on a different world. Death Row versus Bad Boy. All eyes on me sold what 5 million copies?..........Come on man silly thread. Nipsey Russell's death will be talked about for another maybe week :dunno:
And all the shit you just named, because back then, the music pool was a lot smaller, he was an actor too. Social media opened that mf up. A lot of bullshit rose to to the top, but a lot of real ones did too. I been on Nipsey Hussle since 09, I don't know where yall niggas been.
 
Music and media are consumed different. If 2Pac came out 10 yrs ago, would he be as big a star as he was in 94-95, 96?
If juice came out 10 yrs ago it would've made more money now than it did back than... You do know juice is considered a classic... Hell imagine if they did juice in 2009 but it still took place in 91...mad people from that era would've loved it even more
 
And all the shit you just named, because back then, the music pool was a lot smaller, he was an actor too. Social media opened that mf up. A lot of bullshit rose to to the top, but a lot of real ones did too. I been on Nipsey Hussle since 09, I don't know where yall niggas been.
Ehhh the talent pool today sucks... People would latch on more now with an artist with more substance than some mumble mouth Nig talking about codine
 
Yes, he is a loss comparable to when we lost Tupac.

I'm in my 40's and didn't feel much actual grief when Stack Bundles, Chinx, XXXtentacion or others passed recently.
I was respectful, but had no real grief. This shit fucked me up tho.

When certain impactful, artistic people get their lives cut short, I believe it transcends age groups that share the culture.
Can you think of another time in the last 10-15 years when a rapper's death had folks aged 14-60 grieving simultaneously?

I know the ? was this generation. But I think the community's collective response makes it undeniable.
 
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