2Pac Friday
16 February 2024
With Valentine’s Day two days ago, this is a very appropriate song to open up the post-Valentine’s Day Weekend.
With 2Pac does have a decent amount of romantic-ish songs or love-ish songs, that is mainly because he has a large catalogue. Such songs are definitely constitute a great minority of his work.
But there are some great ones!
Including this one.
Sure, this song is an extended metaphor that is really about 2Pac’s love of his gun or guns over time rather than about a specifically girlfriend or girlfriends, it is still an amazing song and perhaps his best love song.
This is a quintessential 2Pac song as all 3 verses and the choruses are performed by 2Pac alone. He is credited as the lone write on the song and the lead producer, something 2Pac was only beginning to get more involved in just before his tragic death and we can only speculate what great songs he would have produced had he lived longer.
This song also features one of 2Pac hardest lines as the 3rd verse opens:
I love finger f***ing you […]
The song also ends hard and abruptly with with repeated refrain:
Lost in the whirlwind, ninety-six, Bonnie and Clyde
Me and my girlfriend
Me and my girlfriend!
The last “Me and my girlfriend” almost sounds like “Meet my girlfriend!” and invokes the mental image of 2Pac pulling a gun on you.
Hopefully you didn’t pull a gun on anyone this Valentine’s Day, but you did listen to some 2Pac and will listen to this classic 2Pac track with someone special! The love doesn’t end even though the 14th has passed. You can still celebrate!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy 2Pac Friday!