Drake said, unequivocally, he isn’t dissing Tupac Shakur on “Fear.” He’s just pointing out that he was too young to fully feel the impact of the music icon at the time of his passing.

“I never cried when ‘Pac died,” Drake raps on the song from his So Far Gone EP. “But I probably will when Hov does/ And if my tears hold value, then I would drop one for every single thing he showed us/ And I’ll be standing in a puddle.”

Recently calling in from Toronto, Drake explained his lines.

“A lot of people also sort of don’t understand the meaning of that line,” Drake said. “It’s not necessarily that I don’t love West Coast hip-hop or that I don’t love ‘Pac now that I’m 22, but that line was just said to show how new I am to hip-hop. And like I said, I was 9 when that happened, so it didn’t really affect me. But that song in general was just one of those things that took awhile to finish because it was an opportunity to say a lot of the things on my mind. That always feels good as a rapper, when you can get your thoughts out.”

via:MTV

I didn’t think that line required a explanation, who could have possibly mistake that line for a diss?

Listen:Drake – Fear

In this final segment from VIBE’s lost interview with 2Pac, the gone-but-not-forgotten rapper speaks about his movie Gridlock’d, meeting his father for the first time, and his views on God and religion. R.I.P. 2Pac.

In some down time during VIBE Magazine’s candid 1996 interview with 2Pac, VIBE plays fly on the wall as Pac talks on the phone with Suge Knight.

In the third clip from this lost interview with 2Pac from 1996, the impassioned poet speaks on accusations that Puff Daddy knew about his shooting and being badmouthed while locked up.

In yet another clip from VIBE Magazine’s candid interview with 2Pac from 1996, the musical icon discusses leaving the streets, falling in love and Bill Clinton.

It’s been 13 years since 2Pac died on the 13th day of September 1996, yet the void he left in hip-hop–let alone black culture–is gaping, For his anniversary, VIBE revives the fallen icon, if just for a couple minutes, with the first in a series of previously unreleased interview footage from May ‘96. As he discusses a unified rap nation and where he’d be in 2016, ‘Pac is everything we remember: Candid, passionate, prophetic. Rest in peace, Tupac Amaru Shakur.

Here’s part 2 of VIBE’s lost interview with Pac. In this segment, recorded circa 1996, he speaks on Biggie and the Quad Studios shooting incident.

VIBE.com

I don’t even know where to start after a headline like that, man those Tupac stans are going to loose their minds when they read this…

Reuters reports:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Dead rapper Tupac “2Pac” Shakur, the hip-hop icon who sold more records after he was murdered than during his brief career, is the most overrated person in music, according to music magazine Blender.

Shakur tops a tongue-in-cheek list that also includes “places, trends and other junk in rock,” Blender said in its upcoming October issue, due on newsstands next week.

Other overrated finalists included 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.

I personally thought Pac was the greatest way before he died but of course his death made him even more of an iconic figure and the same can be said for B.I.G., I mean Biggie only had two albums and he’s “Top 5 Dead or Alive“. To say Pac is overrated is crossing the line but will definitely help them sell more copies of the magazine because of it. What do you guys think?

New music from Tupac, Resist The Temptation featurng Amel Larrieux (No clue who that is) and Dope Fiend’s Diner.

Tupac ft. Amel Larrieux – Resist The Temptation

Tupac – Dope Fiend’s Diner