Tupac - Hit Em Up. Was it a hype?

[Mr P-nis]

Wassup people, long ago Ive been here and it wont be long.

But I was thinkin and I need to ask to yall Pac fans too.

When Hit Em Up came out in the states, how big was the hype around the song? Like did you hear it everywhere pumpin' out people their speakers, cars, or whatever. What were the thoughts of people when they hear it. And what was the thought of you when you heard it. Cause Im from Europe and I was young so I never had the chance to live with it. So tell me what you know!

Is this the greatest battle song you ever heard? I think it is in the way of expression and how he meanted it and around the facts.

Greetz,

AJ.

 

[Mo-D]

Well im from Australia. Im 21 now so i was only 12 when it came out.

But i remember it perfectly, my brother was 19 and him and his friends bumped it all the time. Every under age dance party i went to until i was 18 (legal age to go clubbing here) played Hit em Up as the night closer and everyone would sing along to it.

Everyone knew the words, even the girls! I remember the DJ played it at a school dance party and the teachers went crazy about it, but yeah the song was played non stop everywhere!!

Now they dont play it so much at the 18+ clubs unless its a dedicated Hip Hop night and even then your lucky if they play it between 50, Gay unit and Em. (hip hop is so shitty right now).

Not the greatest battle song in hip hop history but easily the most venomous and siuation-relevant song to drop.

Peace
Mo-D

 

[SonOf2pac]

i was only 2 but i remember it well... my brother was 7 and all of him and his friends were bumpin that shit like crazy... I HIT EM UP... those were my first words i spoke... HIT EM UP

 

[Youn-N-Restless]

i was only 2 but i remember it well... my brother was 7 and all of him and his friends were bumpin that shit like crazy... I HIT EM UP... those were my first words i spoke... HIT EM UP

LMAO

 

[yak pac fatal]

i went to cali over the summer and they were all stil bumpin it

 

[Think_ThuGLiFE]

I even remember in 98 when GH hit ever where i went i would hear Hit Em UP outside while ppl were driving , or at my boyz house someone would always play it ect.

I think it was 1 of the best war/diss records ever. Saying he fucked biggies wife .... it was a good war move i think cuz it seemed 2pac was in that war type of state (Sun Tzu ,Machiavelli) .

 

[TraynAllDay]

i was only 2 but i remember it well... my brother was 7 and all of him and his friends were bumpin that shit like crazy... I HIT EM UP... those were my first words i spoke... HIT EM UP

LOL

 

[nail_polish]

my brother told me when he was in high school and let some his friends hear the track they warned him to dont bring it again because there were a lot of peeps from bedstuy who were in the school and they were gonna mess him up for disrespectin the brooklyn area like that...i think he got scared afterwards cause i didnt see him bringing any of his 2pac cds to class only wu-tang

 

[PacRideOn50]

I'm from New Jersey and the first time I heard the song was actually on some ghetto show called Urban Expressions that used to come on Sat. night on some ghetto channel I never watch. It was actually the video and they showed it often. First time I saw it I was stunned.

 

[Nick]

my brother told me when he was in high school and let some his friends hear the track they warned him to dont bring it again because there were a lot of peeps from bedstuy who were in the school and they were gonna mess him up for disrespectin the brooklyn area like that...i think he got scared afterwards cause i didnt see him bringing any of his 2pac cds to class only wu-tang

lmfao now thats funny

 

[Exodus]

my brother told me when he was in high school and let some his friends hear the track they warned him to dont bring it again because there were a lot of peeps from bedstuy who were in the school and they were gonna mess him up for disrespectin the brooklyn area like that...i think he got scared afterwards cause i didnt see him bringing any of his 2pac cds to class only wu-tang

LOL classic funny

 

[Jeremy]

They played the clean version on the radio alot out here when it came out. We thought it was the biggest diss song everr made. My friends and I were amazed when we heard it for the first time.

 

[FATAL N FELONY]

When I was at the bus stop I remember this one truck that use to pass by that dude would always jam Hit Em Up. And just 2 or 4 weeks ago I heard it on the street again.

 

[Saint33]

I was too young for to apreciate Hit Em Up at the time, i didnt realize how big it was. But now tha i think about it, it had to be huge, my sister who was a teen at the time and who was hard core rock and metallica shit, she even listened to it. Every time her friends came over thas wut they wer bumpin. I remember my sis bought all pac's tapes cuz of tha song. But she only listened to tha song, all the rest she didnt like.

 

[khk811]

I was in hs when the cali love single w/ hit em up on it came out. The song was HUGE, some people thought it was funny, but most took it seriously (hating bad boy, etc). I still hear it get played around here. I'm the cali sf bay area.

 

[Ay-G]

its the greatest diss track off all time, plus the east coast west coast beef, god damn, you best beleive it had a crazy ass hype. fuuuck.

 

[DeeezNuuuts83]

Personally, I was 12 when it came out on the How Do U Want It maxi-single, and I bought it right away, not even knowing about the song. I just listened to the CD all the way through and was just going crazy listening to Pac just call out all these rappers the way he did. I brought it with me to school (I was in 8th grade) and just told all my friends about it, they went nuts listening to it too. I also remember a week or two later, MTV did a report on the song, only furthering its popularity and notoriety.

 

[LyricalDisguise]

those were my first words i spoke... HIT EM UP

HAHAHAHHAhA

 

[killahill187um]

hit em up was the song that got me listen 2 pac

 

[ApacalypseNow]

this will alwayz be a classic joint, itz one of the, if not the, greatest diss tracks off all time, its the only one ppl actually remember the words to besides ether.