Style marker
32nd-note pair
2Pac often inserts a pair of 32nd notes into a line otherwise comprised mostly of 8th and 16th notes.
He did it on his earliest recorded verses as a member of Digital Underground and continued throughout his career.
Several other artists in the early '90s, including Digital Underground, used sixteenth-note triplets over swung beats to create a similar effect, but 2Pac is unusual in doing it consistently over straight percussion.
References in later music
Eminem
Eminem's rhythms sometimes contain a pair of 32nd notes, often to fit an unrhymed syllable into a multisyllabic rhyme scheme. In 2003's Soldier, the accompanying lyric suggests an intentional stylistic reference to 2Pac.
