#ConfigArmy

@Configa’s Global Army of Creatives and Supporters.

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Support Independent Hip-Hop!! 🫡👊👊🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️

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An extremely rare case where I actually prefer the posthumous version to the original. The OG “I Wonda If Heaven’s Got a Ghetto” was released as the B-side to “Keep Ya Head Up” in ’93 and has that distinctive vocal sample lifted from En Vogue’s “My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)”.

The ’97 R U Still Down? Hip-Hop Version gives the same Pac vocal a completely different, cleaner and harder backdrop - and for once, I think the posthumous reworking actually improves the record. 🎤🔥

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One of the standouts from Ghostface’s 1996 debut Ironman. RZA flips Bob James’ legendary “Nautilus” break into something absolutely frantic, while Ghost, Rae and Cappadonna go nuts over it. And the video, built around footage from the Japanese anime Speed Racer, was the perfect match for the track’s energy. Peak mid-’90s Wu. 🎤🔥🐝👐

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Originally released on the Sunset Park soundtrack months before appearing on Ghostface’s debut Ironman, with RZA flipping two O.V. Wright samples into something dark, cinematic and unmistakably Wu. Ghost and Rae right in the middle of that ridiculous mid-’90s Wu run. 🎤🐝👐

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Keith Murray is one of those MCs who rarely gets mentioned enough when people talk about the great lyricists of the ’90s. Distinctive voice, ridiculous vocabulary, abstract wordplay, charisma and a completely unorthodox flow - nobody really sounded like him. Seriously underrated MC. 🎤🔥

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Crisp AF quality 🔥🔥🔥

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One for the Pac heads 👀🔥 The rarely seen beach version of 2Pac’s “Toss It Up” has circulated among fans for years, but was never the main officially released video. Completely different vibe from the darker garage version most people know - and Aaron Hall actually appears in this one too. 🎬🌊🔥

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Listen to Pac’s second verse on “Me Against the World” and revise this nonsense opinion that he couldn’t get technical. The internal rhymes, extended rhyme schemes, cadence and control are ridiculous - and he’s doing it without sacrificing the message. Pac could absolutely rap his ass off when he wanted to. 💯

With all this extra stressin'
The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath
When will I finally get to rest through this oppression?
They punish the people that's askin' questions
And those that possess steal from the ones without possessions
The message I stress: to make it stop, study your lessons
Don't settle for less, even a genius asks his questions
Be grateful for blessings
Don't ever change, keep your essence
The power is in the people and politics we address
Always do your best, don't let the pressure make you panic
And when you get stranded
And things don't go the way you planned it
Dreamin' of riches, in a position of makin' a difference
Politicians are hypocrites, they don't wanna listen
If I'm insane, it's the fame made a brother change
It wasn't nothin' like the game; it's just me against the world

#Tupac #2Pac

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2Pac performing “All Eyez on Me” at adult-film star Champagne Pendavis’ birthday party in March 1996 🔥

Also interesting to spot Pac’s then-bodyguard Kevin Hackie alongside him - Hackie later appeared in Nick Broomfield’s Biggie & Tupac documentary and claimed that Suge Knight had arranged Pac’s murder.

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The solo 2Pac version of “Bury Me a G” dates back to mid-1993, during the period Pac was developing material for both his next solo album and the emerging Thug Life project. His planned third solo album would later be advertised as Out on Bail, while the Thug Life version of “Bury Me a G” was ultimately released on Thug Life: Volume 1 in 1994. 🔥

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Good ear - there’s a reason for that! 👀 The original version of “Toss It Up” was even closer to “No Diggity”, but Blackstreet issued Death Row with a cease-and-desist, forcing them to rework the production. Even the released version clearly retains some of that original flavour though 🔥

This one will blow ya mind: https://t.co/NqTR6xgcVp

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That’s cos he went full Gemini on this 😂💥

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That’s a completely different conversation though. His impact obviously extends far beyond hip-hop or music: activism, social and racial commentary, poverty and inequality, manhood and vulnerability. He shaped culture and left his mark on acting, poetry, academia and generations of people who connected with what he represented. 💯

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Sunday relax mode activated ✅: chilling like a villain 😂😎 👐 Hope y’all are goooood! 🫡😁

#SundayVibes #WeekendVibes #GoodVibes #Selfie #WuTangClan

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I blame Diddy for ever taking BIG out there when the streets were still ridiculously hot after what happened to Pac….

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Put me and my brother @Speech__ into the Hotel Lobby challenge and the AI decided we’re the same height. Either he’s had one hell of a growth spurt or someone’s put me through a hot wash 🤣🤣🔥

#HotelLobbyChallenge #Quavo #Takeoff #HipHop #AIVideo @ADtheBand

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Next level work ethic - Rest In Peace to both Pac and Johnny “J” 🙏
I sampled these interviews right here:

https://t.co/yBtwoz2rd5

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Beyond DOPE 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Really saddened to hear about UKHH legend Sway passing. I had the pleasure of meeting him a few times over the years, the first time 20 years ago now, and he was a genuinely good guy and a dope performer. Far, far too young. He was right at the forefront of UK hip-hop during one of its strongest eras and played a real part in that period when the scene was absolutely thriving. Rest in power, Sway 🙏🕊️

#Sway #SwayDaSafo #UKHipHop #UKHH #HipHop

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30 years ago today, we lost the great Tupac Amaru Shakur. 🙏🕊️

Hard to even comprehend that it’s been three whole decades. I still remember those six days in September 1996, hoping somehow he was going to pull through.

Pac was so much more than a rapper. He was a poet, an actor, a critical thinker, a revolutionary voice, a mass of contradictions and, in hindsight, almost too prophetic. He had an extraordinary ability to put anger, poverty, injustice, love, fear and vulnerability into words. His stature has only grown - and so much of what he spoke about feels even more relevant today than it did during the short time he was here.

And something even many other lifelong Pac fans still don’t know - this is his actual resting place.

After Pac was cremated, his family and friends gathered in Malibu with the intention of releasing his ashes into the Pacific. Only a small portion were scattered there. During the ceremony, a huge wave suddenly hit Afeni and knocked her over - something some of those present interpreted as a message from her son. Afeni ultimately kept the majority of Pac’s ashes with her.

In 2002, Afeni returned to her native Lumberton, North Carolina, where she had built a home on a 56-acre property. She later had her son’s ashes buried there beneath the headstone you see in this video.

For nearly 30 years, most of the world believed Pac had simply been scattered to the ocean. All that time, he had been resting quietly on his mother’s private land.

30 years later, his music, his words, his influence and his spirit are still everywhere. There genuinely will never be another one. I’m glad he finally received at least a small measure of the justice he had been denied for so long.

Rest easy, Pac. Life goes on… but you will never be forgotten. 🙏

1971 - 1996

#2Pac #Tupac #TupacShakur #HipHop #RIP2Pac

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Salute for reppin this classic 🫡🔥🔥 #Configa #Hastyle #figafiga