{"id":225815,"date":"2026-04-07T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=225815"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:23:27","slug":"brandon-shaw-explains-the-connection-between-tupac-and-bach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/brandon-shaw-explains-the-connection-between-tupac-and-bach\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Shaw explains the connection between Tupac and Bach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZLXHXkenOuI?si=QmDWq20RDT7ISxOC\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In his newest top-notch video essay, <strong>Brandon Shaw<\/strong> of <strong>Digging The Greats<\/strong> explains the musical connection from<strong> Bach<\/strong> to <strong>Tupac Shakur<\/strong>. He applied the Six Degrees of Separation theory to musical evolution, and this particular connection may come as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"225816\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/brandon-shaw-explains-the-connection-between-tupac-and-bach\/tupac-to-bach-thumbnail\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tupac-to-Bach-Thumbnail.avif\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tupac to Bach Thumbnail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tupac-to-Bach-Thumbnail-540x304.avif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tupac-to-Bach-Thumbnail-1024x576.avif\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-225816\" src=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tupac-to-Bach-Thumbnail.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tupac-to-Bach-Thumbnail.avif 1280w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tupac-to-Bach-Thumbnail-540x304.avif 540w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tupac-to-Bach-Thumbnail-1024x576.avif 1024w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tupac-to-Bach-Thumbnail-768x432.avif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his newest top-notch video essay, Brandon Shaw of Digging The Greats explains the musical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dig-of-the-day","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-WKb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225817,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225815\/revisions\/225817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}