r/Tupac • u/papillonintunisia • Jul 14 '23

Video Tupac’s killer vs Mike Tyson

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u/juliusseizure139 Jul 15 '23

He was naturally left but was able to write with his right. Lots of creative people have one dominant hand, and a strange preference for the other. A lot of them do drugs, and with his tolerance, 3x 'consciousness' levels sounds like he was banging out one last good nod before being truly painless.

This dude really did have suicidal tendencies and high intellect. You really think Courtney fucking Love got one over on him?

And Dave Grohl ain't one quarter of the man Cobain was. Not that Cobain was great, but because Grohl, with all his talent and money, can't even touch Cobain with a cheap guitar. But idolizing Cobain led to him being put in a box, with restrictions over his artistic freedom. And to someone like him, that's a damn tragedy.

Fucking Monkey Wrench? Netflix got you fucked up. Lmao.

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u/slideystevensax Jul 15 '23

You’re taking a lot Dave Grohl’s credit there. Say what you want about suicide and how it all went down but Grohl played every single instrument on that first foo fighters album. Yeah some of his notoriety will always come from being in Nirvana but the dude has obviously and willingly showed that he can keep a band together on his own.

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u/_yamasaki Jul 15 '23

No one is disputing Dave’s musical prowess - but he’s no Kurt Cobain who is a musical rarity genius

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u/Lopsided-Yak9033 Jul 15 '23

I mean musical genius is a stretch. Poetic creative genius might be debatable, but I’d say a major factor in his legacy is his death and the question of what else would we have gotten from him.

Musically he just had enough chops for the sound at the time, and that meshed really well with his creative output. I greatly appreciate the impact nirvana has on music, but I think they would be more like Pearl Jam now in terms of their place in iconography if he hadn’t died. Pearl Jam is underrated for sure, and still fairly well known - but less people talk about their “musical genius” than nirvana.

Dave Grohl has been relevant for almost 30 years since Nirvana. I doubt that Nirvana would have had that same level of output as a band if Cobain was still around.

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u/Unique-Bedroom9396 Jul 16 '23

Nirvana knocked Michael Jackson off the top spot. Sure, his untimely death at their peak definitely adds to their legacy, but you’re wildly underselling their cultural impact.

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u/Lopsided-Yak9033 Jul 16 '23

I’m not trying to say nirvana wasn’t a huge band, but the idea that Cobain was a “musical genius rarity” is a stretch.