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Namelessv1 1st September 2001 07:14

My 1st pic amp...
 
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Well, i got sick of that namby pamby pop stuff, and since i cant do sports skins anymore, i did this.
http://dawg4life2k1.freeservers.com/pac.jpg
I hope AOL doesnt make winamp.com take this down, too.

Mr Jones 1st September 2001 07:17

Dude, that poll isn't going to help matters.

Namelessv1 1st September 2001 15:47

Is there anything that will help?

Mr Jones 1st September 2001 15:54

Dude, AOL are not the bogey men here, if they have been told to remove something by a copyright owner, they have to comply, cock knocking them with stuff like that is pretty pointless really.

Anyhooo, nice skin, who is he any how?

Namelessv1 1st September 2001 16:03

Tupac Amura Shakur
Probably the most popular west coast rapper in the 90's.
Had his life taken in 1997, in Las Vegas in a drive-by shooting.
There's been 5 cd's released under his name since his death.

Mr Jones 1st September 2001 16:06

:p That would explain why I've never heard of him:p , probs means as much to me as a Matt Johnson skin would do to you, if I ever did one that is.

Still nice tho :)

The Only Lynx 1st September 2001 16:11

2pac is dead

Namelessv1 1st September 2001 16:16

I guess there aint any rap fans in here.

dekt 1st September 2001 18:08

Yes there are...
 
I just happen to think Tupac was a better actor than rapper (see Gridlock'd).

The skin is okay but the thing I would change is the green background on the vis and song title areas which cover the '2PAC' lettering. Like his green wings though ;) (only joking).

Namelessv1 1st September 2001 18:26

Ive seen Gridlock'd, but how do you figure he was a better actor than rapper? I mean, he really didn't have any competition.

e-blackadder 1st September 2001 18:59

<<-------Will cheerfully double dare Mr Jones to do a "Kevin Bloody Wilson" skin. Would have picked Jasper Carrott, but I already have one in the preliminary stages.:cool:

On topic, nice 2pac skin. Definitely the highest quality one I have seen yet. Careful though, the "green wings" are borderline objectionable content. ;)

Mr Jones 1st September 2001 19:10

I'd love to, but...

A) Didn't find the subject funny whatsoever
B) Already on with something for the boys ;)

Namelessv1 1st September 2001 19:13

Well, it really isnt promoting the use of "green wings".

e-blackadder 1st September 2001 19:22

(Picked KBW for being offensive, not funny. Bad joke, watch it die an agonizing death. :D )

Promoting the use of green wings isn't the prob. It's showing a pic of the green wings that's a new no-no. I dunno with 2pac tho. The green wings aren't exactly clear and prominant. It would be a tough call. To bad you couldn't have a "with" amp and a "without" amp.

Welcome to our brave new world... *sigh*:rolleyes:

Namelessv1 2nd September 2001 03:28

Geez, the creative expression nazi's are marchin in.

cappy17 2nd September 2001 14:50

Nice work, Dawg. I like the way you've carried the green theme through and the consistent look to the controls.

It feels just a bit shy of finished, though. Something's missing and I'm not sure what... more green details, perhaps, elements to tie the pic together? hmm.

OK, I'll bite: what's the deal with the green wings? I noticed they looked like wings, which I thought was neat, but apparently they have a specific reference?

dekt 2nd September 2001 17:01

Dope wings
 
It's just a cannabis leaf positioned behind him which happens to make it look like wings (kind of appropriate cos he's dead). I don't have a problem with it at all. He talks about smoking in nearly every track he did so you're hardly poisoning his memory are you?

As for the acting/rapping thing. Tupac was an actor who became a rapper and I think he was better at the former cos I wasn't into his music that much. Just my opinion.

RanDom_ErrOr 2nd September 2001 17:34

OFF Topic:-> my god you all actually thought that those were wings??? what the fuck were yall smoking cuz its gotta be some pimp ass shit!
oh boy
[hysterical_laughing_at_the_forum]damn[/hysterical_laughing_at_the_forum]
:D
ON Topic:-> Any way kickass skin

skubba_bob 2nd September 2001 18:09

i.....
 
i would like it if you could go to my thread at:

http://64.12.38.241/showthread.php?threadid=58981

Wildrose-Wally 2nd September 2001 21:45

[edit]already said[\edit]

Namelessv1 3rd September 2001 04:32

Nah, nah, 2pac was always a rapper first. Thats what got him out of the ghetto. The acting came after the success. And as for the pot smoking, he didnt really talk about it rhat much, at least not in a glorifying way.

e-blackadder 3rd September 2001 05:15

Off topic:
Quote:

2pac was always a rapper first. Thats what got him out of the ghetto.
Shot in a driveby, in retalliation for the killing of Notorious BIG in New York if I remember right. Rapping didn't get him far enough out of the ghetto I guess.

On Topic: It's not 2pac's opinions of "green wings" that matters. It's AOL's. And they tend to frown on it a bit. (So much for doing a "Cheech and Chong" skin.)

PS: Damn, Dawg. Either you have crappy luck, or AOL is making this up because they hate every skin you ever did. You can't win, can you? :rolleyes:

Namelessv1 3rd September 2001 05:24

Pac was killed 6 months before biggie. What happened was the gang associated with Suge Knight (Deathrow CEO) beat up a guy associated with a rival gang. Supposedly, they retaliated by doing a drive by. Their target was Suge, but Pac got hit. 5 shots in the chest. Suge got grazed in the head. Lucky bastard. Pac was killed for no good reason.

e-blackadder 3rd September 2001 05:59

So was BIG killed in retalliation for 2pac? I seem to recall (although granted my knowledge of Rap Trivia is pretty thin) that one was killed because of the other. As to 2pac, about the time I had gotten shot in the testicles and lived to tell it, I would have changed my name and moved to Wisconsin or somewhere similarly boring where I'd have stayed in a bomb shelter forever. Talk about being in the wrong place all the time...


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