So, who’s the next Tupac?
I’ve never been one to look for the next anything.  Seems a futile mission, especially as nostalgia begins to obscure good sense.  But still, where is the next Pac?
I ask that because it hit me a few minutes ago — how influential has Tupac really been?
Who do you hear that just drips with Pac’s influence?  I hear him in T.I.  I hear him a bit in Weezy.
But when I hear younger cats, I wonder if they’ve listened to a single Pac album.
So really, how influential has Tupac’s music been?
The only thing I hear is the de-emphasis of metaphor.  I wish they would have soaked up some other part of Pac’s game.
I’m curious to see if I’m the only person that sees this.  Unfortunately, I’m not able to quite explain what I mean.  I think you know, though.

So I do a lot more radio now.  I’m not in a position to expand on that here as of yet, but I will.  Anyway, I do more radio now.
Today was the first time I was physically threatened on the air!
Old school shit, too.  The chokeout.  Well, lemme be more specific…
“You’ll know it’s me.  I’ll be the 6-4, 235 white man choking a little black man.”
Well, at least he keeps it above the belt.

…I’m on the air with Ric Flair.  Fuckin right.

So I’m wearing out this new Ice Cube album — in short, it’s what you’d expect from the man that did “Death Certificate” when he grew up, now that he’s making money with cookie cutter movies and doesn’t have to make cookie cutter records.  It just ended, and that meant going to the next song in the iTunes library, arranged in alphabetical order.
Well, let’s just say it’s a big shock to go from Cube to Ideal’s “Get Gone.”  Perhaps you remember the classic scene in teh video when buddy takes the magazine out of his lady’s head and puts her out.  I believe it was a Jet magazine.
Resurrected Angry Cube into the smoothed out R&B?  Not what I expected.
Though, at the same time, you could kinda say it fits. The anger and all.