If Pac never died...

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By 2001 he would have been where 50 cent is now. The quality of 50 cent music never changed but the music and type of fans did. 50 cent was at that Tupac level riding the whole Eminem Dre co-sign the way Tupac was riding that Death row wave...

the only differnce would be that Tupac would have transitioned into a much better hollywood career that 50 cent could only dream of...but hardly anybody can find a way to stay relevant music wise with changing trends outside of Jay Z who has somehow talked his way into being relevant in every era of Hip Hop so far...His style would have been dated and overexposed by the shiny suit era and the the eventual southern music boom...

If Biggie stayed alive i think he ends up like Jay Z doing all sorts of stuff outside music and still able to make relevant music ...only question mark would be if he stayed signed with Bad Boy or formed some sort of Roc-a-fella thing with Jay Z but I don't think Jay would have let Biggie fall off. They would both have shined in that grown and sexy phase since Biggie was the one to kind of start that with the whole bubbly, coogi sweater laid back flow
 

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before anyone accuses me of Treason at one point Ice cube was probably one of the top rappers and considered one of the greatest of all time but i bet hardly anybody is buying an Ice Cube record in 2013 and nobody bought them in 2001 either

Tupac would have been a g-funk relic just like Ice Cube
 

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I agree. Tupac like 50 had a limited vocabulary, a repetitive artist who's career would not have gone the distance. Died at the right time to become an immortal.
 

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Naw let these nikkas tell it he would be the top artist today :heh:
 

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before anyone accuses me of Treason at one point Ice cube was probably one of the top rappers and considered one of the greatest of all time but i bet hardly anybody is buying an Ice Cube record in 2013 and nobody bought them in 2001 either

Tupac would have been a g-funk relic just like Ice Cube

Cube basically abandoned music for movies and even though Pac would have started doing more movies than music he would have headed a label (which would have made crazy money and stayed in business unlike 50) and he still would have dropped a soundtrack for everyone of his movies (unlike Cube) which would have sold like crazy because people loved Pac and you couldn't tell any of them that some of his music was garbage. Unlike 50 people genuinely loved Pac and anyone that would have went at him wouldn't have survived so he wouldn't have caught the backlash that 50 did. 50's biggest reason for his fall wasn't his music it was because people just started to not like him.
 
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PAC WAS KOO BUT HE WOULDNT BE LENGENDARY BY TODAY STANDARDS IF HE WERE STILL ALIVE, AND IM BEING MODEST CUZ IM NOT MUCH OF A PAC FAN:yeshrug:
 

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2pac fukkin sucked anyway
The west coast has never produced a top 10, let alone top 20 rapper.

I mean outside Cube, which other rapper is lyrically on the same level as Rae, Ghost, AZ, naus, King Hov, Rakim?

two packs was an average mc. He reminds me of Wale :ld:
dr. dre, :rudy:
eazy-e, fake thug that died from having gay sex with mc ren :heh:
ice tea? nikka rap name is ice tea :pachaha:

Don't get me started with the corny bay area rappers :russ:
 

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Cube basically abandoned music for movies and even though Pac would have started doing more movies than music he would have headed a label (which would have made crazy money and stayed in business unlike 50) and he still would have dropped a soundtrack for everyone of his movies (unlike Cube) which would have sold like crazy because people loved Pac and you couldn't tell any of them that some of his music was garbage. Unlike 50 people genuinely loved Pac and anyone that would have went at him wouldn't have survived so he wouldn't have caught the backlash that 50 did. 50's biggest reason for his fall wasn't his music it was because people just started to not like him.

this is a fair assessment truthfully we will never know and it would have been up to Tupac to guide his career like that. If he did pump out soundtracks to his movies then that would have been a vehicle to keep him relevant

but the unknowns would be if he would have kept being a loudmouth into the tmz and social media era he would have been over exposed

i also think his music and vocabulary for rap was limited but he hid that with pure emotion and energy
another thing is would he have gotten that Eminem co-sign and went with Aftermath because he probably would have fit in really well and could have extended his career.

truth is when someone dies at the height of their career they become mega God status as we saw with Pac and Biggie so all that post death love and attention would have never existed and natural career paths would have taken place
 

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The west coast has never produced a top 10, let alone top 20 rapper.

I mean outside Cube, which other rapper is lyrically on the same level as Rae, Ghost, AZ, naus, King Hov, Rakim?

two packs was an average mc. He reminds me of Wale :ld:
dr. dre, :rudy:
eazy-e, fake thug that died from having gay sex with mc ren :heh:
ice tea? nikka rap name is ice tea :pachaha:

Don't get me started with the corny bay area rappers :russ:

oh my god nikka i am dead as fukk, this is all so fukkin true as well
 

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The west coast has never produced a top 10, let alone top 20 rapper.

I mean outside Cube, which other rapper is lyrically on the same level as Rae, Ghost, AZ, naus, King Hov, Rakim?

two packs was an average mc. He reminds me of Wale :ld:
dr. dre, :rudy:
eazy-e, fake thug that died from having gay sex with mc ren :heh:
ice tea? nikka rap name is ice tea :pachaha:

Don't get me started with the corny bay area rappers :russ:

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no one can ever stay on top forever. one thing i will say is unlike biggie's turn to being more mainstream 2pac's sound was actually going less commercial. whether listening to the 7 day theory, or the original version of still rise, and the few tracks he did for soundtracks before he died, he was going for a different kind of untapped sound. on top of that he was getting better as an mc than he ever was before. i think he would've banged out a few more albums and then just picked up acting for the rest of his life. i honestly don't think he'd sit there and put out the type of bullshiit all these other older rappers have been doing.
 
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The west coast has never produced a top 10, let alone top 20 rapper.

I mean outside Cube, which other rapper is lyrically on the same level as Rae, Ghost, AZ, naus, King Hov, Rakim?

two packs was an average mc. He reminds me of Wale :ld:
dr. dre, :rudy:
eazy-e, fake thug that died from having gay sex with mc ren :heh:
ice tea? nikka rap name is ice tea :pachaha:

Don't get me started with the corny bay area rappers :russ:


WELL NOW DEY GOT KENDRICK WACK ASS... DAT BOII SUICIDAL :what:
 
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