Tupac Named Most Overrated Artist
by on September 3rd, 2008
Popular music magazine, Blender, has named legendary west coast mc, Tupac Shakur, the most overrated artist ever.
According to Reuters, the list takes aim at "places, trends and other junk in rock," with the Grammys at No. 7, encores at No. 12, Pink Floyd at No. 14 and "the music you loved as a teenager" at No. 23.
Tupac, who is regarded by many to be one, if not the, greatest rapper of all times, topped the list due to his "larded records with self-mythologizing, mediocre filler."
The rapper, who Blender says was "decent with rock star-like charisma," was killed during an unsolved drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996.
The full list will be available in Blenders October issue set to hit news stands everywhere next week.



























he had meaning to his songs, he had REAL beef, and no matter how many records he sold or how much money he got he always remained the same
fuck blender
RIP 2Pac
Bottom line is, Pac isn’t the most overrated artist ever. You don’t sell 70 something million records and influence 182929839283 rappers by being overrated. That list is bullshit. The Grammy’s should, by far be the most overrated thing in music history. Most artists that deserve a Grammy for the most part NEVER receive one. Grammy’s = popularity contest
Blender magazine messed up big time with this shit.
of course saying something like this will bring more attention to the magazine
but what type of overrated are we speakin about
a huge amount of people feels he’s the goat, and u disagree with him being the goat. that type of overrated
or
u actually LISTEN to his music and say… THAT SHIT IS STRAIGHT WACK or just not good overrated
i really think most is the first one
i also take it as disrespect to hip hop to pick a RAPPER out of all the artists in all the different genres to be the most overrated. just had to be hip hop
not feelin that
RIP 2PAC
You give bullshit magazines like BLENDER a chance to BLUNDER and make ridiculous statements about culture’s and/or genre’s they DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT!
Fuck is a Blender?
~Be Eazy!
Co sign everybody except N.O.504, WTF man?
anyways fuck blender anyone that knows anything about hip hop knows pac was a monster. i wouldnt say hes better than big l or maybe even nas lyrically, hes definitely up there as a legend. rip mayne
anyways fuck blender anyone that knows anything about hip hop knows pac was a monster. i wouldnt say hes better than big l or maybe even nas lyrically, hes definitely up there as a legend. rip mayne
most overrated ARTIST of all time? no. like ol boy said, Elvis is probably my pick.
most overrated RAPPER of all time? i’m not sure about that one. my vote would personally go to Lil Wayne.
all i have seen in these post has been stuff like “he was the realest” and “he had real beef” and “he influenced rappers”. this all might be true, but just because you are real, and you beef, and you influence other people does not mean you’re not overrated. He is probably the most influencial rapper of all time, but that doesn’t mean that his music can’t be hyped up. that doesnt mean that ever song is a classic. that doesn’t mean no other rapper is better than him. TUPAC’S PERSONA/EMOTION WAS MORE INFLUENCIAL THAN ANYTHING. they were basing it on the music. Tupac’s icon statis was bigger than the music, and sometimes i think people get that confused. at the end of the day it is all opinion so you don’t have to agree, but there are other rappers that are better than Tupac. I think that his death and his personality is what makes him so untouchable to people. that’s also the reason why people act like there could be no one better….
i’m not saying i agree, but i will say i could understand where they are coming from.
you may now proceed to trash my honest opinion. :)
Been getten worried that
these square muthafuckers with nerves
sayin they can get with us
but picture me gettin’ served
My own mama say i’m thuged out
my shit be bumpin out tha record store
as if it was a drug house
my lyrics bang like a Crip or Blood
nigga what ?
It ain’t nothin but a party when we thug
and there I was
a young nigga with heart
ain’t had shit to loose
pullin’ my pistol on them fools
you know the rules
D-R-E you got me heated
my words like a penatentary dick
hittin’ bitches where it’s most needed
money and weed
Alazay and Hennesse
To my Thug niggas in lock down
witness me
bail on these ho’s in floss mode
tha life of a Boss Playa
fuck what ya thought tho’
my enemies deceased
die like a bitch
when my album hit tha streetz
Niggas Can’t C Me
2PAC=GREATEST OF ALL-TIME
Fuck the vibe brackets … this by far is the craziest shit
… I would tell niggas to boycott the Blender magazine, but I guess we’ve unintentionally been doin that the whole time anyway … the only blender I kno is to makes shakes and shit
A: Not long, just about 12 years.
oh wait…you’re a Weezy fan…of course…
Yes.
Is Biggie overrated?
Yes.
Are they both garbage?
No.
Are any of these artists the most overrated artist of all time?
NO.
They might as well be saying they think the entire hip hop genre is pointless. That’s messed up.
You niggas need to realize we need to preserve our shit! I don’t want to hear no one talkin wreckless about Pun, Big L, Jay-Z, Nas, Biggie, Pac, Dre, Snoop, Too Short, DJ Primo, Busta Rhymes,Eminem,I’m sorry that i’m forgetting people, but respect the niggas that took the game to another level. Respect the niggas that’s left countless records for us to enjoy..Respect their influences..I don’t even fuck with Too Short, but I know he’s a legend in the game and deserves respect..Protect this shit man.
As much as I am for controversy and throwing in some salt into a perspective, “mediocre filler”? Dogg. What. On. Earth.
Pac wasn’t just big because of his music, it was the message behind the man that catapulted my negro into the stratosphere. They’re trippin’.
And Pink Floyd over-rated? Are they fuckin’ … retarded? I know foo’s that HATE rock, put in Dark Side of the Moon and decided they forgive white people for the small pox on blankets.
I wonder if that shiznit was just a publicity stunt on their part. But I mean. They’re crazy. They don’t even know what they’re doing.
The whole world gots Love for Pac, but it’s unlike anything LA. He’s a hero out there. You got madd racial tension in LA, and Pac is probably one of the few artists that transcends that. Muh’fuggers hate “mallates” but Love Pac ’cause he was real.
I mean … and that’s LA. Doods riot when their team WINS championships.
The most overrated artist of all time is another high grossing deceased artist but it definitely ain’t Pac, it’s Elvis..He was a sorry singer, stole from blacks and the list could go on and on..Fuck blender and whoever typed that bullshit article needs their hands put in a blender while it’s going full speed on puree..
michael jordan has 6 championship rings, let’s put him as the most overrated basketball player
denzel washington, the most overrated actor, why not??
FUCK THIS ARTICLE
FUCK YALL HATERS
2PAC IS NOT OVERRATED IF ANYTHING HES UNDERRATED HE DEFINED HIPHOP IF IT WASNT FOR HIM MOST HIPHOP FANS WOULDNT BE HIPHOP FANS THEYD BE LISTEIN TO COUNTRY SHIT
REAL TALK FUCK DEFSOUNDS TOO FOR POSTING THIS BULLSHIT!!
HOLLA AT ME
FREE TURK.
like somebody else said. u can say he’s not the goat, but overrated.. hell naw
i also would like to read or hear wayne actually say what he said. cause we all can name a few things he copied from pac, as well as 99% of all artists these days. thats not overrated. and im talkin musically and non-musically. copying is copying. but i wouldnt call it that. lets just say, paying homage
2 OF THE GREATEST DEAD OR ALIVE.
N’synce (the boy band) holds the record for most 1st week sales with like 2.5 mill or some shit like that. Pac is no where near there in the first week.
MY MAIN POINT IS
as a hip-hop fan i have more right to say this than fucking blender does.. blender is for fucking emo pussy hair band fucks boys. fuck blender, thats would be like defsounds saying the beatles were overrated
most overrated.. wow. so fucking what, anyways..
pac has some fine hits.. but dude could have been something greater for us (the black community) than somebody who made great songs, got shot.. & then got shot again 7 months later. i respect him as i do everyone.. but dude had alot of people ready to listen to his ideas on really changing some things in our community & all he could come up with was some bullshit thug life movement.
Lil man chill out..I respect what you saying but you was still pissing in the bed when Pac got killed..You was 6..What in the hell do you know about Pac? He was way more than a rapper..
imma take a guess at how old you are.. you’re calling a 19 year old a “lil man” yet you’re on a hip hop website, where no one even knows of you, takin shots at anyone you can.. 39. i bet you’re 39 you old son of a bitch
Boy you stupid as shit..You don’t even realize you talking about the same thing..The Thug Life movement wasn’t about what you think it was nigga..Do your research and stop bumping your gums just to do it..I swear niggaz stay on some dumb shit because they scared to read or research…
When the article come out, we bout to get that dude’s name, find his picture, and post it up online … since he’s feelin so good about his self
BITCH YOU AINT HAVE TO BUT THAT PIC UP HAVIN PAC LOOKIN GAY
AND WHY POST THIS STUPID ANTI HIP HOP/ RACIST ASS BLOG
BITCH IS YOU STUPID
He is not overrated, just very very respected. you want someone who’s overrated, take elvis, there’s overrated for ya right there, but they won’t put that in their mufuckin magazine will they. blender, never read their magazine and never will.
R.I.P. Tupac Amaru Shakur
“BLENDER”….LOL THE NAME ITSELF IS A WASTE OF TIME, THEY JUST MAD BECAUSE PAC IS STILL GETTING MONEY WHILE RESTING IN PEACE.
WAS THEY SAYING THIS WHEN “GHETTO GOSPEL” WENT TO #1 DIDN’T THINK SO.
You give bullshit magazines like BLENDER a chance to BLUNDER and make ridiculous statements about culture’s and/or genre’s they DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT!
Fuck is a Blender?
~Be Eazy!
People don’t acknowledge that artists like nas,jay,big L surpassed pac lyrically….nowdays…if you say anhyone is better than pac..people get hyped….but if you look at his bars word for word…he ain’t in the same league as those that are placed ‘below’ him….
“i wake up in the morning and i ask myself is life woth living should i blast myself..im tired of being broke evn worse i black..my stomach hurts so im looking for a purse to snatch”
and it’s fuckin tru, he is damn overrated, BUT! he is a cool rapper, but JUST a rapper nuttin else.!
Fuckin overrated!
you want overrated? peep your lil waynes, young jeezys, rick rosses, and all these ENTERTAINERS who don’t know art from a coloring book!
fuck blender and MOTHAfuck the reccession! probly nothin but a buncha fake sentiments and even more shallow unfocused rhymes and the same tired ad libs. ABC rapper!
keep Pac material alive!
alot of Veterans right now are having a hard time right now with the way the games been changing and i dont think Pac wouldve been able to adapt to the way hip hop is goin right now
OK theru8543 this is your opinion and I can respect that/ but imo I feel Pac was changin the game when he was around and could adapt in todays style of music, I mean he touched on err thang in subject matter!!
As for the rest of wut you had to say I can agree with you in alot ways im from that golden era, so I def understand where you comin from, Pac started gettin fame from Brenda’s got a baby, then Juice came out and he blew up from there, now 2pacalypse Now is a street claasic Killacashtro, feel me? I understand wut you sayin tho/ and Me Aganist The World in my book is a Classic…..
But as for this article from Blender! wow thy really sound dumb as hell but at the end of the day its jus sum other ppl opinions, so wut eva and fuck them, lol
R.I.P Pac
Deeee-troit
A coward dies a thousand deaths
A soldier dies but once
[Verse One]
They say pussy and paper is poetry power and pistols
Plottin on murderin motherfuckers ‘fore they get you
Picturin pitiful punk niggaz coppin pleas
Puffin weed as I position myself to clock G’s
My enemies scatter in suicidal situations
Never to witness the wicked shit that they was facin
Pockets is packed with presidents, pursue your riches
Evadin the playa hatin tricks, while hittin switches
Bitches is bad-mouth, cause brawlin motherfuckers is bold
But y’all some hoes, the game should be sewed
I’m sick of psychotic society somebody save me
Addicted to drama so even mama couldn’t raise me
Even the preacher and all my teachers couldn’t reach me
I run in the streets and puffin weed wit my peeps
I’m duckin the cop, I hit the weed as I’m clutchin my glock
Niggaz is hot when I hit the block, what if I die tonight
[Chorus]
If I die tonight [repeat 3X]
“Tonight’s the night I get in some shit” – [Dr. Dre]
[Verse Two]
Polishin pistols prepare for battle pass the pump
When I get to poppin niggaz is droppin then they done
Callin the coroner come collect the fuckin corpse
He got it by killer, preoccuppied with bein boss
Revenge is the method, whenever steppin keep a weapon close
Adversaries are overdosed over deadly notes
Jealous niggaz and broke bitches equal packed jails
Hit the block and fill your pockets makin crack sales
Picture perfection pursuin paper with a passion
Visions of prisons for all the pussies that I blasted
Runnin with criminals individuals with no remorse
Try to stop me my pistol posse’s usin deadly force
In my brain all I can think about is fame
The police know my name, a different game, ain’t a thing changed
I’m seein cemetary photos of my peers
Conversatin like they still here, if I die tonight
[Chorus]
[Verse Three]
Pussy and paper is poetry power and pistols
Plottin on murderin motherfuckers ‘fore they get you
Pray to the heavens three-fifty-sevens to the sky
And I hope I’m forgiven for Thug Livin when I die
I wonder if heaven got a ghetto for Thug niggaz
A stress free life and a spot for drug dealers
Pissin while practicin how to pimp and be a playa
Overdose of a dick, while drinkin liquor when I lay her
Pistol whippin these simps, for bein petrified and lame
Disrespectin the game, prayin for punishment and pain
Goin insane, never die, live eternal, who shall I fear?
Don’t shed a tear for me nigga I ain’t happy hear
I hope they bury me and send me to my rest
Headlines readin MURDERED TO DEATH, my last breath
Take a look picture a crook on his last stand
Motherfuckers don’t understand, if I die tonight
[Chorus]
*************************************************************
This aint better than average ???
FUKK THAT UN NAMED MAGAZINE..by the way…Prince…
fuck blender
although biggie is a better rapper, tupac is more influental, spoke more on his mind
You still a nigga bc you ignorant bitch..Now as I said before the The Hate U Gave Lil Infants Fucks Everyone..Thug Life wasn’t about being a thug you dumb broad so read a mufuckin book because it’s the same thing…I hate ignorant niggaz like you that spew bullshit opinions not knowing whether it’s fact or not..Stupid niggaz like you beget more ignorance..
I don’t bitch nor am I a ho..It’s a shame that Pac made uplifting songs for ignorant BITCHES like you that niggaz ran through and treated like HO’z to get this kind of bullshit..Learn your history or shut up bitch..They teach college courses on Pac for a reason..Because he was more than what dumb ass niggaz like you thought..Now go research or shut the fuck up NIGGA and I don’t mean this in a Pac type way either..Dig that..
BlazeONE
TILL THIS DAY I STILL HEAR PAC SONGS SUBBIN THRU THE STREETS OF CALI AND ALWAYS WILL.
I hope BLENDER goes down 4 this. They disrespected a LEGEND just 2 make a $1.
Can i get an AMEN.
BlazeONE
2 fingers
BlazeONE
i question his realness cause he didnt have a criminal record til after he blew up and he didnt start yellin thug life and get the tattoo until after his jail sentence. i aint hatin on pac he is definetly top 5-10 and i will always respect the message he had cause no rappers today get emotional or passionate like pac did and you could feel all that when you listen to him. im white to and his messages were for black people to unite and get out the hood and i was feelin that just cause the emotion and passion he put behind it.
BIG was more real but even his lifestyle was exaggerated, i read the book written by his mother voletta wallace and she says he wasnt in the streets hustlin like his songs said but he was still out there cause he wasnt goin to school and he wasnt stayin around in his house all day…
another thing wit pac, no body said anything about the greatest of all time until he was dead. same thing with BIGbut you gotta think if they were still alive would they still be making classics or would they turn into the garbage that some veterans have done idk..nobody does or ever will kno.
one more thing….if elvis is most over-rated for taking black music i guess blender got this shit totally fucked up then caus eminem should be the most over-rated rapper ever right???????
didnt think so
BLACK WALLSTREET BITCH!!!
Tupac was one of the greatest and Blender Magazine has their shit mixed up…damn im late on this one hahah
FUCK BLENDER
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FUCK BLENDER
and HE IS overated
he aint even that good
MAKIN HIM LOOK GAY WIT DAT SHIRT! DATS WUT FAKE ASS NIGAS DO. U CANT GIT A REAL OF HIM LOOKIN GAY? NAWWW NEVER DATT…. U GOTA USE FAKE MADE UP SHIT!
FUUCCKKK DEFSOUNDS.COM! IM GOIN TO HIPHOPGAME.COM OR SOHH.COM OR HIPHOPDX.COM RAPDX.COM FUC DEFSOUNDS.COM DEY BE GETIN SHIT OFF THESE WEBSITES ANYWAYS..
FUCK DEFSOUNDS.COM AND DEY BULSHIT.
LET PAC DA GREAT VETERANNN REST IN PEACE.
FUC DEFSOUNDS.COM
FUC JOKESTA!
2PAC 4EVER. WEST COAST 4LIFE.
o_o FUCK DEFSOUNDS.COM
1ST OFF.FUC YO BICH AND DEFSOUNDS. WEST SIDE WEN WE RIDE COMIN EQUIPED WIT GAME..
FUC BLENDER
FUC BLENDER
FUC BLEDER
FUC BLEDER
WTF IS BLENDER? NEVER SEEN DAT SHIT IN DA STORE.
AND NEVER GON GIT IT ANYWAYS.
FUC BLENDER
thats just their opinion!
anyway fuck these bitches who ran that publication. i would say im gonna boycott, i wish i could, but its hard to start if you never buy in the first place.
ps i hope nobody hacks into blenders website and destrys it from the inside out
signin out…..ggggggggggg unitt
signin out…..ggggggggggg unitt
sign out Los angeles, CA