Cassidy firmly believes that 2Pac had a strong pen game that matched his passion for rap, and he has now elaborated on the late rapper’s creative brilliance.
In an interview clip published by The Art Of Dialogue on Thursday (January 11), he dissected the Death Row MC’s lyrical abilities and clever wordplay while addressing the doubts about his skillset.
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“I believe he was super lyrical,” the Larsiny spitter said. “And I believe he was a revolutionary, like the type of lyrics that he was rapping wasn’t just trying to fit in or just trying to spit a hot rap, like it was a lot of points and messages and a lot of deep stuff in ‘Pac lyrics that you got to be at a certain place to even understand it.
“The majority of stuff that ‘Pac was trying to get across would go over your head and you’ll only listen to a small piece of it and think that’s not lyrical, because the lyrical stuff that he was doing, you not catching.”
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He continued: “He was able to put conversation in rap form — make it rhyme, he was piecing up multiple syllables, he could use figurative language when he wanted, he could say stuff that was like double entendre stuff that had multiple meanings.”
Listen to the Philly native talk about ‘Pac’s genius at the 1:54 mark below:
During the same chat, the 41-year-old was also asked about Dr. Umar Johnson’s recent comments about Eminem being considered one of the greatest rappers of all time as a result of “white supremacy.”
“We gotta stop naming non-African people as being the best of any aspect of our cultural power because it is an insult,” Dr. Umar said during an interview on The Joe Budden Podcast at the end of last year. “I can acknowledge Eminem’s talent. But for you to put him at the top, that’s white supremacy.”
Disagreeing with said take, Cas said: “I do think Eminem is great. He proved it a lot of times. A lot of classic projects, a lot of classic songs, a lot of classic freestyles.
“He’s been making history over and over again and been doing records with all type of races, all type of different backgrounds. It’s hard to say that he ain’t great.”
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He added: “I don’t want to make it based on race. It did start as Black culture; Black and Spanish people started Hip Hop, but I feel like Eminem been studying it since he was born.
“He knows a lot more about the culture than the average Black person, so I feel he deserves to get a pass.”
