Big Daddy Kane “Pac would have been the Michael Jackson of hip hop”
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All he had to do is one R&B album or a feature with Jodeci and he would've
snoop is the michael jackson of hiphop
nikka is known globally... even lil kids today thats 4. know who snoop is... and they wasnt born 5 yrs ago
nikka is known globally... even lil kids today thats 4. know who snoop is... and they wasnt born 5 yrs ago
livindajetlife
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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?
Lmao
TrapHouse Rock
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Kane is bugging only one emcee came close to the gloved one....
If that's the case then there is zero value of being the Michael Jackson of Hip Hop in 2025 besides soft shoeing for Trump.
Basically.
But again, I don't think Kane really meant to compare Pac to mike as an entertainer but as an entity. Like you can't get no bigger than that but still, being that famous and that 'popular' for the sake of being popular had Hammer dancing for popcorn chicken on tv for white folks.
The most modern day equivalent would be Drake as much as I hate the comparison and Drake sure as fukk ain't no 2pac...who's the Bob Marley of this generation is the question, because that was akin to Pac's presence than just being an iconic celeb.
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Tommy Gibbs
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The problem when judging rappers that die at their peak without reaching their full potential is that we don't get a chance to see them fall off or make subpar albums. So the argument goes, "he would have never fallen off". If Nas would have been killed a month before the release of IWW, we never would have got Nastradamus, and other albums that were average. So he would have been judged off of 2 classics, Illmatic and IWW and everyone would be saying, "he would have had 7 or 8 classic albums had he lived.." We hear it all the itme about Kid Hood. People say he would have been a Redman type of MC. We simply don't know that..
Tommy Gibbs
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yep. Death makes everyone love you and place you on levels they normally wouldn't. Dilla's last year of living, he could barely get placements He had about 10 placements in 05 and only 2 of them were somewhat mainstream (Common and Kweli). He dies and all of a sudden he's every rapper's favorite producer, but none of these mfers were reaching out to him for beats in 2005
Snoop and salt didn’t have a number 1 song in the 90s. pac had 2
to be mike you had to dominate
2pac never did
nas was selling on par with him in 96
all eyez on me was fading until he died
Pac sold 7 mill 95-96 alone
You an I both know Nas ain’t never seen numbers like that in his life
Iverson_64
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AEOM was already the best selling rap album of 1996 before he died.
No he didn’t lolPac sold 7 mill 95-96 alone
all eyez on me liftetime sales were 5 million as of 2011
the only reason it’s diamond because double albums count as 2
so in 1996 with all eyez on me and Makaveli he probably sold like 2-3 million
Plankton
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Pac sold 7 mill 95-96 alone
He said "dominate" and Fugees were a powerhouse in 96 selling more then Pac because double albums count as two so Pac didn't dominate 96 while alive. He shared it with The Fugees.