Big Daddy Kane “Pac would have been the Michael Jackson of hip hop”
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Gtfoh
Youngblood Priest
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He ain't lying tho. Pac was THAT dude when he died.
blackestofpanthers
God forgives, you are forgiven.
He IS the Michael Jackson of hip hop
Toe Jay Simpson
Searchin’
I could see Pac becoming famous to the degree that later generations didn’t even know he rapped. Like Will Smith.
IllmaticDelta
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Pac is the Bob Marley of HipHop
Plankton
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Stop it. Pac was that dude when he died because commercially he was hot in 96. 96 was his biggest year but he never had a year like that prior. Heavy D was bigger then Pac every year prior except 96 (and 1993) and Heavy D was the first rapper to ever do a song with MJ. I'm not trying to say Heavy D was MJ, I'm just saying Pac was never MJ levels like that while alive. One good year does not equal MJ level because Hammer and Coolio also had big years as well.
Peep Heavy D on In Living Color in 1992. Pac and Puffy are in the background because Heavy D is the superstar while they are still on their way to climbing up to that level. How you MJ when you playing the background to someone bigger?
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Grand_Verbalizer
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Striving For Greatness
Get Certs or Die Tryin
And Michael Jackson beat his ass!
My Girl is Bow Legged
JUST DO IT LIKE
I get the sentiment but this is always a pointless statement cause we'll never know. if snoop or cube got cut down in their prime we'd be saying the same shyt and look at them now
Plankton
Superstar
Was just going to say this.
Not Mike, Bob.
Though I understand what Kane was trying to articulate. A cultural icon via his music, but way way bigger than the genre, that's exactly what Pac is.
I like that he pointed out that Pac was wild before he got big, this gets lost in a lot of conversations because of one or two videos where he comes off soft.