Why wouldn’t he? I don’t think 2pac was ever a hater. He showed love to most rappers. It was only when people dissed him that he turned. Eminem always showed 2pac love, I think it would have been the same.
Pac was all of our idol's back then. If you were graduating high school on the mid 90s, Pac was one of your heroes. Black white Asian didn't fucking matter. He was huge and was against the system, everything angry teenagers rally against.
It was wild. That whole east coast west coast thing was wild. And stupid AF.
Living in the Midwest nobody here cared. They acted like they had a side but everyone had all the great albums.
Kinda like this whole kendrick and drake.....and I live here in the west but can give 2 shits...people who want to be street related to it give a fuck, and I grew up in the hood and all this really is dumb as fuck.
Word. I love them both never got the drake hate but I'm late to music now. In your 40s you start listening to podcasts lol. I'm bumping shit now from last year and just getting into it. I don't really get oversaturated by one artist. I also listen tk everything you can imagine except country.
I'm 30 now, but growing up I would think all that was corny never really cared buy really did like the music from both....and the drake thing was about him being too cocky and kendrick put him in his place....but I just looked at it like kendrick just wanted to be relevant again starving for attention since we had not dropped an album in a good while. But i looked at it as corny too. I was like I can't believe we are gana just get a thrash talk album about beef with the cornies guy "Drake'", instead him making some real music. Almost as he don't know what else to rap about, so he Wentworth a rap battle album😑. Really got disappointed with this 😆
I'm white. In high school my 3 best friends were Mexican black and asain. We looked like a dei poster rolling in the new Yorker.
Marcus Charlie and Philip. Much love homies.
True but i think hed tell that eminem had actual skill and wasnt a culture vulture. Pac knew many white people in the ghetto. One of his speeches at blackexpo he even talked about how the enemy isnt white people, its the people in power, or something like that. Idk, i think pac was a thinking man and was always reevaluating his positions to make sure he stood for what he was saying so i think he would have come to like eminem.
It wasnt meant with any racist intention so i still think pac would be cool with him. I do think pac was a man who actually thinks and takes context into consideration. He wasnt like the angry mob that will use anything against you even if you didnt mean it that way.
I also think pac would have gotten along with eminems best friend proof and all of d12.
Pac also rapped “it’s not about black or white cos we’re human, I hope we see the light before it’s ruined” - he wouldn’t have disliked Eminem because he’s white. He wanted equality not further separation which is where we seem to be going
You can at least read the lyrics to bomb first and there are several examples of him dissing people who did not diss him and he was not retaliating - Mobb Deep, Nas, Jay Z come to mind. In fact, the original Makaveli covered had depictions of some of these people that were foul
Nas never did anything - just he was a better rapper - and PACs ego believed he stole his style.
it' s pretty hard to say and basically we can' t know, but there are 2 points that need to be cleared about pac
1: he was cool with white rappers
he give a shotout on house of pain (white rap group) in representin 93 and he was friend with vanilla ice
2: tupac didint diss anybody who diss him first, so I just think that doesn't matter that em was signed with dr dre, he could just be neutral to him, it just depends, we can' t know
This reminded me of a time I was at a concert and Chino XL came out as opener. I was like no way, Chino XL, the one who got dissed by pac on Hit Em Up 😭
One of nas's songs used the same beat pac did before and pac took some of the lyrics as sneak dissin. Idk if its true but he didnt call nas out for nothing.
That has nothing to do with why he died 🤦♂️
He died due to a california issue. One of his piru friends got jumped some crips the week before and he saw one of them on vegas and him and his buds beat tf out of him. The guy decided to drive aroind the strip looking for pac and got lucky. Sadly this is how alot of gang members go.
Rip pac you did so much for the black community and world as a whole ❤️ pac is the reason theres a big peace treaty on LA between the bloods and crips that is still being used today.
I think Pac in the hands of what Kendrick is in would've been an amazing voice.
Suge Knight ruined Pac and his vision.
Edit: I didn't downvote you, I agree with what you said.
Pac wasn't killed solely for his musical ego but it's hard to ignore it was playing somewhat of a factor.
Biggie was an industry hit job imo. Totally different deaths.
That makes no sense. Pac wasnt killed for his music at all, he was killed by a guy him and his crew just beat tf out of and guy was driving around the strip looking for revenge..
Biggie was probably hit by suge or the piru's, both were known to employee cops which were pretty sure helped in the hit. No clue why he thought cali would be safe for him less than a year later. Cali loved pac, that was a death trap for biggie.
Also i dont think pacs vision was messed up at all. Him and Suge were close friends and suge helped him after the industry blackballed tupac when he went to prison. He had many enemies and suge decided to help him. Pac was still going to rallies and helping the community and releasing amazing music. But being a young black male who spent his life being attacked by cops, racists and many of his own people wanting him to fail; he had alot of anger in him. Its what made tupac tupac. He embodied an entire generation of pissed off black males.
Tupac was the artsy type who loved ballet, acting, etc. He had to develop this 2pac gimmick when he did Juice and he started to live the gimmick after that. Suge in the 90s was terrorizing the entire entertainment industry and just overall conducting real bad business. When you look at how many young rappers these days have been killed through gun violence etc 2pac was really one of the first and definitely the most notorious.
Unfortunately he was living a life that invited that energy and especially since it was dead smack in the middle.of the rugged 90s gang bang era where Bloods & Crips type rhetoric was glammorized.
I do think Suge was a bad influence on him because Suge has proven since then to be a raging maniac who is incapable of staying out of trouble. Its a damn shame we had one of the most important and influential figures in entertainment being "managed" by this lunatic.
Ultimately Biggie and Pac died over nonsense they inherited.
I never thought that was directed at pac. Just a random studio gangster line that people decided to interpret.
Nas held pac in high regard. If Nas really had a problem with him, he could have had him easily stomped out in New York when Pac approached him and Nas still showed love. Pac was gonna delete his name off of the disses, but he was killed. So Pac even realized he was wrong about that one.
Icon or not, Tupac Shakur was a man. A human being who had flaws like jealousy and rage.
Tupac had beef with mobb deep who nas was cool with nas happened to use the same sample as Tupac on street dreams and then also linked up with Dre that hurt Tupac and made him see Dre as fucking with the enemy therefore nas became the enemy. On top of this nas’ the message sends shots towards Tupac “there’s one life one love so there can only be one king”. And then tells a story bout how he got shot which offended Tupac who had actually being shot.
I recently read that the beef with mobb deep was pretty one sided. There’s some quote from them saying something along the lines of “pac dissed us? We about to sell some records”
You have no idea what you are talking about. Nas was dissing the hell out of Pac because he felt like Pac was going at his homies.
He lies and claims he never dissed Pac now, because that’s what he had to tell Pac to keep things from turning violent.
“Fake thug, no love. You get the slug, CB4 gusto, your luck low”. There’s no chance that was about Biggie and not Pac. He’s literally talking about him having bad luck (getting shot) being an actor, and then calls him a freak and a prostitute. A huge dis the NY kept throwing at Pac is that he was secretly gay.
Nah I disagree, Pac had that “a friend of my enemy is my enemy” energy. And Em would no doubt ride or die for Dre. So IMO, if PAC was alive he might have beefed with Eminem too lol
No. There were a ton of artist cool with PAC’s enemies that he showed nothing but love towards. He only dissed the ones that took sides.
Meth was super cool with Big, and Pac never went at him. Did the opposite. Showed him crazy love.
When RZA got his chain jacked, Pac went out of his way to get it back for him. Just out of respect.
i think it’s more likely eminem patched the relationship vs joining in. eminem has never really disrespected any legends, like ever. he normally just shits on the bums.
Nah. If pac went at em, em would have def responded. It would have been career suicide for him though, since it was so early in his career. He’d be done before he could truly become the goat he is today.
Em doesn’t really discriminate when it comes to retaliating. He even dissed Snoop who’s 100% a legend. Yeah, Snoop said something first, but that just goes to show that Em doesn’t only target bums.
Wasn't it toy soldiers em mentioned staying out of the dre/suge beef out of respect for shit he knew nothing about?
As someone who was a little to young for Tupac but listened to Em (growing up) . Em seemed to know who were pillar rappers he couldn't go at/disrespect and still have support. I think that's why Em shelved the renegade song with Royce da 5'9 and instead did the one with Jay-Z. But this is just imo
True but Pac was going after everyone affiliated with his enemies. This is gonna piss ppl off but I doubt Eminem’s career would’ve taken off because if Pac didn’t die that gangsta rap era would have lasted longer and a white dude dissing on Brittney Spears and Christina Aguilera wouldn’t be taken seriously.
Hmm... y'all both make some really good points. Can you imagine an Eminem vs. Tupac beef?! Like, fully fledged no holds barred? Holy shit.
But, as was stated, it was very early in Em's career. But Em was a lot crazier back then, just not as skilled. But what if the beef happened later, after Em had dropped a few bangers?
The other point about the gangsta rap era still continuing is a good one as well. Maybe Em wouldn't have blown up at all? But I don't know... the whole reason he did was because he was different but still skilled, so who knows. I'm just thinking that an all out Em vs Pac beef is something I'll ask God to show me when I die, along with a 94 or 95 NBA Finals of the Houston Rockets vs Chicago Bulls, only IF Jordan didn't retire.
I think he would have blown up anyway because one of the biggest factors of his overnight success was that he was able to appeal to a demographic that wasn't normally listening to hip hop anyway. Pac still being alive wouldn't change that a large portion of people who were turned on to Em weren't listening to artists like Pac much at the time. I think Pac would have had a bigger impact on how hip hop culture viewed Em rather than whether he could even have a career at all.
I feel like you are someone who waited to get into rap until you saw a safe white person.
I’ve listened to underground rap, roots, talib kweli , all the conscious stuff too.
If Eminem CD was one of your first you wouldn’t get it. I doubt you were listening to hip hop in the mid 90s to even understand what was going on, the sheer amount of ppl 2pac went after in songs, etc. all the unreleased tracks listen to ‘watch ya mouth og version” or “war games” on YouTube then tell me if 2pac was gonna go easy on Eminem. It’s just history. Eminem was Pop Rap at least that’s how he started.
That era ended with 2pac dying.
“bust at Bad Boy, Mobb Deep and murder The Firm
When you scream "Fake thugs," who the fuck you mean?
Get more cream than all of y'all, nigga, fuck yo' team
Now Dre wanna switch sides, tricks hide in war
Last year, I'd shed tears, but I don't cry no more
Plus Jay-Z tried to play me, won't last long
Go ask King Sun how it feel to have your ass gone”
“Fuck what you say we untouchable
Now that we done shook Doc Dre
He ain't made a beat in six years, swear he the shit
Won't get no record sales sucking Nas dick”
Bro, all I was responding to was you saying that Eminem wouldn't have been popular if Tupac was still alive. I never argued about whether Tupac would have gone easy on Eminem lmao.
He was the biggest rap star in the world. Hit em up was the most brutal diss record at the time. Even if you believe Eminem is a better rapper it doesn’t matter. 2Pac had a loyal following. I can just imagine the Vanilla Ice references now.
Eminem was a no namer. Again what white rapper flourished before 2pac died? Beastie boys? Get a grip youngin and admit Eminem was your first rap cd and be done with it.
2Pac went against a whole coast.
Eminem went after Moby, Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, and Britney Spears. 3 girls and a 80 lb dance music DJ.
I can’t see thru dimensions I just understand history and was actually around back then. You were playing gameboy advance with snot running down your nose at best.
You really think that Tupac would have prevented white rappers from getting big??? Lmao, this shit is funny.
Honestly, Eminem wasn't even the first rapper I ever listened to. My thing is that you seem to love the idea of Tupac destroying Eminem's career more than what it could have actually been in real life, especially considering the fact that Hit Em Up never received the amount of response disses it was supposed to.
It's hard to say what Tupac would have felt about the "Don't date the black girl" track Eminem recorded in his teens. Tupac hated the elites and established order. He was a big advocate. That's why they killed him.
Definitely not sense before his death he was beefing with Dre and was on suges side who hated Dre and Snoop. So that alone would've automatically made them enemies. But outside of that, I don't see someone like tupac liking eminem. I think he'd diss him for how he treated his wife and mother and the way he acts and raps but even if he didnt he still had beef with dre and snoop so that would've soured any potential relationship they could've had. It sucks we'll never know unless Dre or Snoop could answer it, but I'd say no just from how things were at that time and from what type of person tupac was and believed in.
I don’t think Pac had any expectations of white people. He had expectations of brothas. That’s why he used to voice his opinion bout guys like MC Hammer.
Pac was fucking with white rappers long before Eminem. That’s who he was talking about when he said Rest In Peace Biggie Smalls. It wasn’t the Notorious B.I.G.. they where in fact different people.
They literally rapped in the same studio and Pac even tried to get him signed. It was a dude he had known for a long time. But once again, they literally rapped in the same studio.
Rapping in the same studio isn’t really anything meaningful.
As an example, the first studio that I recorded projects in as a teenager, I brought a friend to hang out, he was blown away it was the same studio Alanis Morissette used. However, if you asked her about me, I doubt she considers me a friend or that her fans think we are running in the same circles just because we recorded in the same studio.
I don’t remember a single interview in print, video or radio where Tupac mentions a white rapper friend named Biggie Smalls. I would need something more than typical internet rumors to believe otherwise.
I’m not saying it’s not true it just seems like a stretch.
If I was inTupac’s shoes knowing the( notorious BiG )was using biggie smalls as a name and knowing he had his tremendous buzz, ( they were close before he blew up so he knew) I wouldn’t be saying RIP biggie smalls without clarifying which person I was talking about in 1994. That would be obviously playing with fire, he would have to know. I refuse to believe Tupac was that dumb, or was unaware of biggie’s street rep in 1993/1994 he was all over mixtapes and features before his album.
If he was a friend of the white one and wasn’t telling him to change his name even in 93, then he wasn’t really a friend, biggie was huge already. It’s straight up obvious anyone mentioning biggie smalls outside the white guy’s mom or his manager was talking about the dark skinned guy with a laid back flow from Brooklyn, he had zero recognition with name outside a trademark.
https://2paclegacy.net/who-really-is-biggy-smallz-biggie-smalls-the-story-behind-one-of-the-most-common-names-in-rap/
Idk maybe check this article out on the history or Biggie Smallz aka Tim Bigalow. He only managed to ever record 3 songs before he died, the producer was Johnny J, you know tupacs producer. They literally ran in the same circles and where friends. He knew who the white Biggie smallz was long before he knew who the Notorious B.I.G. It’s pretty well documented. I hooked you up with a link. Start there and research further. But your take is just… wrong.
This isn’t worth even the time I’ve already spent on it. And I refuse to argue with random anonymous strangers online over something that is ultimately stupid and pointless. Here let me make you feel better about this whole interaction. You Win. There now you should feel better about the whole thing and should be able to let it go no that you’ve won.
It’s much more proactive to seek the truth.
My mind wasn’t made up, I just require good evidence. the white kid rapper didn’t fit with what I know to be true. The internet is full of rumors like that and those links are all based on the same rumor without first hand accounts.
Here’s first hand account, in an interview of a very close associate of Tupac, recently done setting the record straight.
The biggie smalls in question was a friend and member of their entourage. (live squad) hard as it is to believe, yet another person with the same nickname.
The man speaking, His brother Stretch, was a close friends with Tupac and is featured as the other rapper on the song “ God Bless the Dead”. In his verse he starts by saying “ yo big” as a shout out to thier biggie smalls.
I think this clears it up considering it’s one of the people in the crew involved in making the song.
About min 5 he starts talking about it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sZS6ebdp7js
I’m like DJ Khalid up in this bitch. Cuz here another one
https://www.therevolverclub.com/blogs/the-revolver-club/how-a-14-year-old-rapper-made-biggie-change-his-name
Absolutely. Pac was fucking with white rappers long long before Eminem came into the picture. The only reasons this question is even being asked is because Eminem is white, and most rappers in the 90’s didn’t fuck with white rappers. But Pac did, and clearly had appreciation for talent.
https://boxden.com/showthread.php?t=3097103&page=2
And they just keep coming. Crazy what happens when you know what your talking about and not just talking out of your ass about some shit you clearly don’t know anything about.
Brother see how it however you want. There plenty of links and since your in here chatting it up with me I know you could use google. But your minds made up, believe whatever you want. However the truth is out there if you want to see it. Anyways I’m over this have a good night.
Who the hell knows? But if he’s like most of us in hip-hop. He would have thought Eminem was dope for the first 4 albums and everything after that has been lyrically dope but sonically aweful.
I think Pac would respect Em’s talent but I don’t know if he would like him as a person. Em being close with Dre would prevent any desire for either of them to be close. As others have mentioned, some of Eminem’s catalogue conflicts with a lot of Pac’s message.
I feel like Pac definitely would like him he probably would be telling Dre jokingly “I’d didn’t know that white boy could rap”. They would’ve had couple of songs together for sure
Nah. PAC respected his grimy upbringings, appreciated the hardships a bit more I think than em. At least in his lyrics. Maybe they’d like to chill together tho, balance one another
I think Pac wouldn't like him at first but would warm up to him later on as he learned more about him. When Em first blew up a lot of people just looked at him as this sort of jester figure
Most likely they’d of loved each other. They are around the same age, and have similar interest and love of the arts. Not just rap, but beyond.
Also, both can be extremely goofy at times. Add in that Eminem would’ve viewed Pac as big bro, and he’s ridiculously respectful of people he views in that light. It’s actually pretty sad that they never had a chance to meet.
Feels like different eras. But they only missed each other by a few years.
You know what's funny ppl say if Tupac was alive lil Wayne would be a cook when lil Wayne was already in and rapping meanwhile Eminem was working as a cook.
I doubt they'd be cool especially if Dre picked him up he probably would've spoke on it and Eminem would have to take the suge route where Dre told him never mention suge,but in Paca case he'd be way more aggressive.
You heard 7 day theory and saw back of the album, Dr Dre was in Pacs firing line Eminem would have been too. Unless Dre and Pac made up before Em signed with Dre, Guaranteed Em would have took a few strays.
I think it all depends on how the Pac and Dre beef would have played out. If Pac stays with Death Row and keeps calling out Dre for leaving I think they become enemies. If Pac leaves Death Row (Some say he was putting out albums as fast as possible to got out of his contract). I think he links back up with Dre and we get some Pac+Em features on The Chronic 2001.
You mean the guy that was saying derogatory things about black women? …… pac was a radical leftist and black power to the core. To the point he refused to talk to a white cop while literally dying because he seen that person as an arm of everything he stood for……. Not sure but I don’t think those comment would have sat right with Tupac. As they don’t with me.
Pac would love Em. The issue is, he and Dre were on bad terms when he died. I’d hope like Cube and Dre and Cube and Eazy E, they could squash that stuff.
No one knows because everyone is relying on what was at the time. Todays timeline and events would be different based on what happened between now and then IF he was part of it all. Culture, politics, affiliations, everything that influences the world and how it changes and personal experiences that didn’t get to happen. It’s highlighted now even in cancel culture with Eminem’s upcoming release in a world very different from his first release and all that has happened between and that’s for the same artist.
We could hope, but maybe those who love both wouldn’t love both and maybe we still would. ✌️
Nah I don’t think so because PAC would go to prison for breaking parole and after release he would still be signed in Death Row. And Eminem was signed by Dre who he had beef with back in the day. And PAC was pro black and wouldn’t accept a white rapper blowing up so quickly but at the end I think they would squashed their beef.
It depends solely on of he would’ve been cool with Dre and Snoop by then. If they hadn’t we may well have seen some diss tracks to start of Eminems signing
If he stood up to Heavy D for Vanilla Ice when Heavy was hating and criticizing Ice because he was a white rapper then I don't see why Pac wouldn't like Eminem.
Fun fact : Eminem actually produced a few tracks for a pac project can’t remember which one but look it up I think he just made 2-3 beats or something like that not sure if they got used or not but I remember hearing this story years ago.
Pac the type of person to respect you until he felt disrespected by you. And given how Eminem idolized Pac, it would likely be all love. Now, Pac’s beef with Dre could have prevented them from being friends after Em signed to Aftermath, but Em himself would not have dissed Pac then now or ever. People forget that a lot of fuel for PAC’s rage came from Suge gassing him up and feeding into Pac’s paranoia about these rappers “taking shots” at him, when half those motherfuckers didn’t even want beef with Pac. Like how Nas stopped his show when the news of Pac dying broke, and literally held a moment of silence mid performance for him. I feel a lot of cats were very much “wtf I wasn’t trying to start shit with this dude, I like this dude’s music?” when Pac started running down fools in his lyrics. To me that is all a product of Suge feeding Pac misinformation or just doubling down on his insecurities about other rappers lyrics.
I leaning towarfs he wouldn't want to work with Eminem… because there were several white rappers around when Pac was alive and he didn't work with any of them. House of Pain, Vanilla Ice, 3rd Bass, etc.. The only X factor here is that he worked with Jon B… but Jon B was an RnB artist.
Plus, at the time of Pac's passing, he didn't like Dr. Dre.… and Dre was working with Eminem. It's tough to say. When Eminem first came out, he was goofy… but, then again, so was Shock G. Tough call. I think Pac only ever interested in working with people he respected.
Well, Tupac didn't even think white people should rap. Yeah, he was cool with a few when he was still trying to come up, but after he made it he was pretty clear. Here's a clip...
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx5sYkZLgi4Bvfq97ltqsuFkqrMsQ_vzZx?si=ndtoJS0tDvzlFLrB
not super sure if the irony was the vibe for Pac.
The commercial artist that Eminem became, I don't think is on message with what Pac was riding for to be honest.
I don't see why not. I think Pac would enjoy Eminem's antics and he would like how much of a menace Eminem is, given that Pac was a menace himself. Plus, Eminem is close with Dre. If Dre and Snoop like Eminem, why wouldn't Pac?
He would be jealous of him because he's a better rapper and had a movie that was more well received and grossed a ton more money than any movie Tupac had ever made.
A breakdown of your reasoning as to why Pac is a better rapper would help rather than some asinine comment. How's that supposed to enlighten anyone. Pac is and always will be a legend for any number of reasons but I, an older head, fail to see how as a straight MC he's better than Em, especially younger Em. I couldn't give af about the money/movie shit you responded to, I'm talking as a rapper. Above all else Pac had impeccable flow and cultural impact at the time but as a rapper rapper, he was often repetitive and had average technicals at best. Hell Pac isn't even the best rapper of his generation. I'm sorry, I don't think it's as cut and dry as you state.
Why wouldn’t he? I don’t think 2pac was ever a hater. He showed love to most rappers. It was only when people dissed him that he turned. Eminem always showed 2pac love, I think it would have been the same.
Pac is Em’s idol
Pac was all of our idol's back then. If you were graduating high school on the mid 90s, Pac was one of your heroes. Black white Asian didn't fucking matter. He was huge and was against the system, everything angry teenagers rally against.
i wasn’t born when Pac was around, i just grew up listening to him and studying what he stood against
It was wild. That whole east coast west coast thing was wild. And stupid AF. Living in the Midwest nobody here cared. They acted like they had a side but everyone had all the great albums.
Kinda like this whole kendrick and drake.....and I live here in the west but can give 2 shits...people who want to be street related to it give a fuck, and I grew up in the hood and all this really is dumb as fuck.
Word. I love them both never got the drake hate but I'm late to music now. In your 40s you start listening to podcasts lol. I'm bumping shit now from last year and just getting into it. I don't really get oversaturated by one artist. I also listen tk everything you can imagine except country.
I'm 30 now, but growing up I would think all that was corny never really cared buy really did like the music from both....and the drake thing was about him being too cocky and kendrick put him in his place....but I just looked at it like kendrick just wanted to be relevant again starving for attention since we had not dropped an album in a good while. But i looked at it as corny too. I was like I can't believe we are gana just get a thrash talk album about beef with the cornies guy "Drake'", instead him making some real music. Almost as he don't know what else to rap about, so he Wentworth a rap battle album😑. Really got disappointed with this 😆
Yea it's corny. But out of all those songs they did about each other nothing hits as hard as not like us 😆
Black, white, Asian, Hispanic, goddamn it That don't mean shit to me Fuck your ethnicity
I'm white. In high school my 3 best friends were Mexican black and asain. We looked like a dei poster rolling in the new Yorker. Marcus Charlie and Philip. Much love homies.
That’s cool man but the lyrics I quoted are from a Kendrick song as well. “Fuck your Ethnicity” from Kdot’s first studio album.
You know what they say about meeting your idols.
em's idol was Biggie Smalls AKA Christopher Wallace
look it up, he even made a portrait of Pac and gave it to his mom
He even wrote Pac's mom a letter
Aka soup llove from Jurassic 5
He would have BOMBED on em if he heard that posthumous album.....
Pac never liked culture vultures. Guess y'all never heard 'Whyte man's world'
True but i think hed tell that eminem had actual skill and wasnt a culture vulture. Pac knew many white people in the ghetto. One of his speeches at blackexpo he even talked about how the enemy isnt white people, its the people in power, or something like that. Idk, i think pac was a thinking man and was always reevaluating his positions to make sure he stood for what he was saying so i think he would have come to like eminem.
Not if he heard that Mixtape of Eminem calling Blak people monk3ys
It wasnt meant with any racist intention so i still think pac would be cool with him. I do think pac was a man who actually thinks and takes context into consideration. He wasnt like the angry mob that will use anything against you even if you didnt mean it that way. I also think pac would have gotten along with eminems best friend proof and all of d12.
\*White Man'z World", not "Whyte"
I spelled it that way for a reason..
What reason?
Pac also rapped “it’s not about black or white cos we’re human, I hope we see the light before it’s ruined” - he wouldn’t have disliked Eminem because he’s white. He wanted equality not further separation which is where we seem to be going
He was East Coast & affiliated with Dr Dre there definitely is a possibility.
Calling Detroit East coast is like calling Idaho west coast.
Pac hated on Dre, snoop, biggie. He wasn't a hater lol ?
There's quite a difference from retaliating to someone talking shit, and being a hater.
You can at least read the lyrics to bomb first and there are several examples of him dissing people who did not diss him and he was not retaliating - Mobb Deep, Nas, Jay Z come to mind. In fact, the original Makaveli covered had depictions of some of these people that were foul Nas never did anything - just he was a better rapper - and PACs ego believed he stole his style.
it' s pretty hard to say and basically we can' t know, but there are 2 points that need to be cleared about pac 1: he was cool with white rappers he give a shotout on house of pain (white rap group) in representin 93 and he was friend with vanilla ice 2: tupac didint diss anybody who diss him first, so I just think that doesn't matter that em was signed with dr dre, he could just be neutral to him, it just depends, we can' t know
>2: tupac didint diss anybody who diss him first, He came at Nas for literally no reason at all.
And De La Soul
This reminded me of a time I was at a concert and Chino XL came out as opener. I was like no way, Chino XL, the one who got dissed by pac on Hit Em Up 😭
I also went to a concert with him as an opener and my first thought was Chino XL fuck you too.
Pac took issue with De La’s song ‘Stakes is High’, which he perceived to be taking shots at the lifestyle he was living.
He made up with Nas right before he past, he told Nas he would censor his name on the Makaveli album, but died prior to doing it
Yes. People should listen to Death Row East by Nas. It explains a lot
Doesn't change the fact the statement wasn't factual, but you are correct
One of nas's songs used the same beat pac did before and pac took some of the lyrics as sneak dissin. Idk if its true but he didnt call nas out for nothing.
Pac was dissing everyone, that's why he didn't see 26.
That has nothing to do with why he died 🤦♂️ He died due to a california issue. One of his piru friends got jumped some crips the week before and he saw one of them on vegas and him and his buds beat tf out of him. The guy decided to drive aroind the strip looking for pac and got lucky. Sadly this is how alot of gang members go. Rip pac you did so much for the black community and world as a whole ❤️ pac is the reason theres a big peace treaty on LA between the bloods and crips that is still being used today.
I think Pac in the hands of what Kendrick is in would've been an amazing voice. Suge Knight ruined Pac and his vision. Edit: I didn't downvote you, I agree with what you said. Pac wasn't killed solely for his musical ego but it's hard to ignore it was playing somewhat of a factor. Biggie was an industry hit job imo. Totally different deaths.
That makes no sense. Pac wasnt killed for his music at all, he was killed by a guy him and his crew just beat tf out of and guy was driving around the strip looking for revenge.. Biggie was probably hit by suge or the piru's, both were known to employee cops which were pretty sure helped in the hit. No clue why he thought cali would be safe for him less than a year later. Cali loved pac, that was a death trap for biggie. Also i dont think pacs vision was messed up at all. Him and Suge were close friends and suge helped him after the industry blackballed tupac when he went to prison. He had many enemies and suge decided to help him. Pac was still going to rallies and helping the community and releasing amazing music. But being a young black male who spent his life being attacked by cops, racists and many of his own people wanting him to fail; he had alot of anger in him. Its what made tupac tupac. He embodied an entire generation of pissed off black males.
Tupac was the artsy type who loved ballet, acting, etc. He had to develop this 2pac gimmick when he did Juice and he started to live the gimmick after that. Suge in the 90s was terrorizing the entire entertainment industry and just overall conducting real bad business. When you look at how many young rappers these days have been killed through gun violence etc 2pac was really one of the first and definitely the most notorious. Unfortunately he was living a life that invited that energy and especially since it was dead smack in the middle.of the rugged 90s gang bang era where Bloods & Crips type rhetoric was glammorized. I do think Suge was a bad influence on him because Suge has proven since then to be a raging maniac who is incapable of staying out of trouble. Its a damn shame we had one of the most important and influential figures in entertainment being "managed" by this lunatic. Ultimately Biggie and Pac died over nonsense they inherited.
Pac took issue with Nas for some lines on It Was Written, most notably the ‘Fake thug, no love, they get the slug’ line on ‘The Message’.
I never thought that was directed at pac. Just a random studio gangster line that people decided to interpret. Nas held pac in high regard. If Nas really had a problem with him, he could have had him easily stomped out in New York when Pac approached him and Nas still showed love. Pac was gonna delete his name off of the disses, but he was killed. So Pac even realized he was wrong about that one. Icon or not, Tupac Shakur was a man. A human being who had flaws like jealousy and rage.
I don’t think it was directed at Pac either, but Pac was overly-sensitive at this point and seeing threats everywhere, even where there were none.
seconded, on the hyper-sensitive part. He also thought Snoop and Dre were "traders", i.e. not really on board with Death Row, to the extent Pac was.
And biggie
Tupac had beef with mobb deep who nas was cool with nas happened to use the same sample as Tupac on street dreams and then also linked up with Dre that hurt Tupac and made him see Dre as fucking with the enemy therefore nas became the enemy. On top of this nas’ the message sends shots towards Tupac “there’s one life one love so there can only be one king”. And then tells a story bout how he got shot which offended Tupac who had actually being shot.
I recently read that the beef with mobb deep was pretty one sided. There’s some quote from them saying something along the lines of “pac dissed us? We about to sell some records”
Prodigy was a guest on LA,LA which is a diss to snoop Tupac and other west coast rappers prior to tupac dissing mobb deep
Lol u right but mobb deep was talking shit at live shows until pac ran into em in ny 😅
Jealousy. He studied Nas, I wish he could've put his ego aside.
He came at nas because nas stole his beat from all eyes on me
You have no idea what you are talking about. Nas was dissing the hell out of Pac because he felt like Pac was going at his homies. He lies and claims he never dissed Pac now, because that’s what he had to tell Pac to keep things from turning violent. “Fake thug, no love. You get the slug, CB4 gusto, your luck low”. There’s no chance that was about Biggie and not Pac. He’s literally talking about him having bad luck (getting shot) being an actor, and then calls him a freak and a prostitute. A huge dis the NY kept throwing at Pac is that he was secretly gay.
Nas dirtied his name
Nah I disagree, Pac had that “a friend of my enemy is my enemy” energy. And Em would no doubt ride or die for Dre. So IMO, if PAC was alive he might have beefed with Eminem too lol
No. There were a ton of artist cool with PAC’s enemies that he showed nothing but love towards. He only dissed the ones that took sides. Meth was super cool with Big, and Pac never went at him. Did the opposite. Showed him crazy love. When RZA got his chain jacked, Pac went out of his way to get it back for him. Just out of respect.
The beef with Dre would’ve most likely been short lived
He and House of Pain even played at the same event the year before that too. I think it was KMEL Summer Jam show
He dissed Dre and Dre and Eminem rode together. He’d totally diss Eminem especially if he talked shit. IMO.
i think it’s more likely eminem patched the relationship vs joining in. eminem has never really disrespected any legends, like ever. he normally just shits on the bums.
Nah. If pac went at em, em would have def responded. It would have been career suicide for him though, since it was so early in his career. He’d be done before he could truly become the goat he is today. Em doesn’t really discriminate when it comes to retaliating. He even dissed Snoop who’s 100% a legend. Yeah, Snoop said something first, but that just goes to show that Em doesn’t only target bums.
Em never mentioned Suge despite Suge Knight / Dre beef... I highly doubt Em would've ever went at Pac
Wasn't it toy soldiers em mentioned staying out of the dre/suge beef out of respect for shit he knew nothing about? As someone who was a little to young for Tupac but listened to Em (growing up) . Em seemed to know who were pillar rappers he couldn't go at/disrespect and still have support. I think that's why Em shelved the renegade song with Royce da 5'9 and instead did the one with Jay-Z. But this is just imo
Em kinda disses Suge on Bully from Raw and Uncut
Em was ready to fight Suge outside of the music video for In Da Club… he was one of the only ones who went outside actually.
True but Pac was going after everyone affiliated with his enemies. This is gonna piss ppl off but I doubt Eminem’s career would’ve taken off because if Pac didn’t die that gangsta rap era would have lasted longer and a white dude dissing on Brittney Spears and Christina Aguilera wouldn’t be taken seriously.
Hmm... y'all both make some really good points. Can you imagine an Eminem vs. Tupac beef?! Like, fully fledged no holds barred? Holy shit. But, as was stated, it was very early in Em's career. But Em was a lot crazier back then, just not as skilled. But what if the beef happened later, after Em had dropped a few bangers? The other point about the gangsta rap era still continuing is a good one as well. Maybe Em wouldn't have blown up at all? But I don't know... the whole reason he did was because he was different but still skilled, so who knows. I'm just thinking that an all out Em vs Pac beef is something I'll ask God to show me when I die, along with a 94 or 95 NBA Finals of the Houston Rockets vs Chicago Bulls, only IF Jordan didn't retire.
I think he would have blown up anyway because one of the biggest factors of his overnight success was that he was able to appeal to a demographic that wasn't normally listening to hip hop anyway. Pac still being alive wouldn't change that a large portion of people who were turned on to Em weren't listening to artists like Pac much at the time. I think Pac would have had a bigger impact on how hip hop culture viewed Em rather than whether he could even have a career at all.
I feel like you are the type of person who only wants gangsta rap and no other type of rap.
I feel like you are someone who waited to get into rap until you saw a safe white person. I’ve listened to underground rap, roots, talib kweli , all the conscious stuff too. If Eminem CD was one of your first you wouldn’t get it. I doubt you were listening to hip hop in the mid 90s to even understand what was going on, the sheer amount of ppl 2pac went after in songs, etc. all the unreleased tracks listen to ‘watch ya mouth og version” or “war games” on YouTube then tell me if 2pac was gonna go easy on Eminem. It’s just history. Eminem was Pop Rap at least that’s how he started. That era ended with 2pac dying. “bust at Bad Boy, Mobb Deep and murder The Firm When you scream "Fake thugs," who the fuck you mean? Get more cream than all of y'all, nigga, fuck yo' team Now Dre wanna switch sides, tricks hide in war Last year, I'd shed tears, but I don't cry no more Plus Jay-Z tried to play me, won't last long Go ask King Sun how it feel to have your ass gone” “Fuck what you say we untouchable Now that we done shook Doc Dre He ain't made a beat in six years, swear he the shit Won't get no record sales sucking Nas dick”
Bro, all I was responding to was you saying that Eminem wouldn't have been popular if Tupac was still alive. I never argued about whether Tupac would have gone easy on Eminem lmao.
How would he be popular if 2pac destroyed him early in his career? Don’t even think that soft TRL era woulda happened with Pac still around.
How exactly do YOU know that Pac would have destroyed Eminem? You see multiple dimensions now?
He was the biggest rap star in the world. Hit em up was the most brutal diss record at the time. Even if you believe Eminem is a better rapper it doesn’t matter. 2Pac had a loyal following. I can just imagine the Vanilla Ice references now. Eminem was a no namer. Again what white rapper flourished before 2pac died? Beastie boys? Get a grip youngin and admit Eminem was your first rap cd and be done with it. 2Pac went against a whole coast. Eminem went after Moby, Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, and Britney Spears. 3 girls and a 80 lb dance music DJ. I can’t see thru dimensions I just understand history and was actually around back then. You were playing gameboy advance with snot running down your nose at best.
You really think that Tupac would have prevented white rappers from getting big??? Lmao, this shit is funny. Honestly, Eminem wasn't even the first rapper I ever listened to. My thing is that you seem to love the idea of Tupac destroying Eminem's career more than what it could have actually been in real life, especially considering the fact that Hit Em Up never received the amount of response disses it was supposed to.
Only Pac know the answer to that
It's hard to say what Tupac would have felt about the "Don't date the black girl" track Eminem recorded in his teens. Tupac hated the elites and established order. He was a big advocate. That's why they killed him.
Its not "they" who killed him. Do you live under a rock? Today we know it was Orlando who had nothing to do with the "evil big media corporate"
Pedo Diddy had him killed.
diddler?
It depends on if him and dre were still beefing. If they were pac prolly wouldn’t fw em
Definitely not sense before his death he was beefing with Dre and was on suges side who hated Dre and Snoop. So that alone would've automatically made them enemies. But outside of that, I don't see someone like tupac liking eminem. I think he'd diss him for how he treated his wife and mother and the way he acts and raps but even if he didnt he still had beef with dre and snoop so that would've soured any potential relationship they could've had. It sucks we'll never know unless Dre or Snoop could answer it, but I'd say no just from how things were at that time and from what type of person tupac was and believed in.
I don’t think Pac had any expectations of white people. He had expectations of brothas. That’s why he used to voice his opinion bout guys like MC Hammer.
Pac was fucking with white rappers long before Eminem. That’s who he was talking about when he said Rest In Peace Biggie Smalls. It wasn’t the Notorious B.I.G.. they where in fact different people.
god bless the dead
Yezzir
Highly doubt anyone including pac knew who the other biggie smalls was pre-internet. Ask anyone to name a song he had and it would be crickets in 96.
They literally rapped in the same studio and Pac even tried to get him signed. It was a dude he had known for a long time. But once again, they literally rapped in the same studio.
Rapping in the same studio isn’t really anything meaningful. As an example, the first studio that I recorded projects in as a teenager, I brought a friend to hang out, he was blown away it was the same studio Alanis Morissette used. However, if you asked her about me, I doubt she considers me a friend or that her fans think we are running in the same circles just because we recorded in the same studio. I don’t remember a single interview in print, video or radio where Tupac mentions a white rapper friend named Biggie Smalls. I would need something more than typical internet rumors to believe otherwise. I’m not saying it’s not true it just seems like a stretch. If I was inTupac’s shoes knowing the( notorious BiG )was using biggie smalls as a name and knowing he had his tremendous buzz, ( they were close before he blew up so he knew) I wouldn’t be saying RIP biggie smalls without clarifying which person I was talking about in 1994. That would be obviously playing with fire, he would have to know. I refuse to believe Tupac was that dumb, or was unaware of biggie’s street rep in 1993/1994 he was all over mixtapes and features before his album. If he was a friend of the white one and wasn’t telling him to change his name even in 93, then he wasn’t really a friend, biggie was huge already. It’s straight up obvious anyone mentioning biggie smalls outside the white guy’s mom or his manager was talking about the dark skinned guy with a laid back flow from Brooklyn, he had zero recognition with name outside a trademark.
https://2paclegacy.net/who-really-is-biggy-smallz-biggie-smalls-the-story-behind-one-of-the-most-common-names-in-rap/ Idk maybe check this article out on the history or Biggie Smallz aka Tim Bigalow. He only managed to ever record 3 songs before he died, the producer was Johnny J, you know tupacs producer. They literally ran in the same circles and where friends. He knew who the white Biggie smallz was long before he knew who the Notorious B.I.G. It’s pretty well documented. I hooked you up with a link. Start there and research further. But your take is just… wrong.
Here’s another article showing there connection http://wikibin.org/articles/biggy-smallz.html
None of them are first hand accounts from close associates or Tupac himself.
This isn’t worth even the time I’ve already spent on it. And I refuse to argue with random anonymous strangers online over something that is ultimately stupid and pointless. Here let me make you feel better about this whole interaction. You Win. There now you should feel better about the whole thing and should be able to let it go no that you’ve won.
It’s much more proactive to seek the truth. My mind wasn’t made up, I just require good evidence. the white kid rapper didn’t fit with what I know to be true. The internet is full of rumors like that and those links are all based on the same rumor without first hand accounts. Here’s first hand account, in an interview of a very close associate of Tupac, recently done setting the record straight. The biggie smalls in question was a friend and member of their entourage. (live squad) hard as it is to believe, yet another person with the same nickname. The man speaking, His brother Stretch, was a close friends with Tupac and is featured as the other rapper on the song “ God Bless the Dead”. In his verse he starts by saying “ yo big” as a shout out to thier biggie smalls. I think this clears it up considering it’s one of the people in the crew involved in making the song. About min 5 he starts talking about it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sZS6ebdp7js
Believe whatever you want.
I’m like DJ Khalid up in this bitch. Cuz here another one https://www.therevolverclub.com/blogs/the-revolver-club/how-a-14-year-old-rapper-made-biggie-change-his-name
Uh oh… here’s another one https://ifunny.co/picture/mystery-rapper-s-the-biggie-smallz-was-a-kid-rapper-6P5AueYk9
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Absolutely. Pac was fucking with white rappers long long before Eminem came into the picture. The only reasons this question is even being asked is because Eminem is white, and most rappers in the 90’s didn’t fuck with white rappers. But Pac did, and clearly had appreciation for talent.
https://boxden.com/showthread.php?t=3097103&page=2 And they just keep coming. Crazy what happens when you know what your talking about and not just talking out of your ass about some shit you clearly don’t know anything about.
It’s also crazy that Chris Wallace was still alive and well in 94 and bigalow was killed in either 93 or 94
Yes the insinuation would be “you’re dead” figuratively as in rap battle stuff.
Brother see how it however you want. There plenty of links and since your in here chatting it up with me I know you could use google. But your minds made up, believe whatever you want. However the truth is out there if you want to see it. Anyways I’m over this have a good night.
Who the hell knows? But if he’s like most of us in hip-hop. He would have thought Eminem was dope for the first 4 albums and everything after that has been lyrically dope but sonically aweful.
I think Pac would respect Em’s talent but I don’t know if he would like him as a person. Em being close with Dre would prevent any desire for either of them to be close. As others have mentioned, some of Eminem’s catalogue conflicts with a lot of Pac’s message.
LOL @ these clown ass Eminem fans. When PAc died he was on bad terms with Dre and when Eminem's racist tapes dropped Pac woulda destroyed him
No destroying em be fr.
Ion think he’d fw Em when he said nigga on that one track tbh but they’d probably squash it
No
Pac will definitely like Em. Only reason not to like Eminem will probably be his beef with Dr. Dre
Pac went after Dre and Snoop so he’d go after Eminem too.
I mean, he was only a year older than Eminem When he died wasn’t he? So I don’t see why they wouldn’t. Not like it was some generational gap.
I feel like Pac definitely would like him he probably would be telling Dre jokingly “I’d didn’t know that white boy could rap”. They would’ve had couple of songs together for sure
No. Stop reaching.
Hard to say. I always felt like Tupac wouldn’t have liked Ja Rule just as much as 50, so Tupac and Em being friends isn’t far fetched
Em has a baby Deadpool hand
PAC wouldn’t like nobody lol
I doubt Pac would care about him, and if he did, it'd probably be to call him out for disrespecting his mother and fucking with Dre
Another 1
Maybe not because Em makes fun of 🧚 💅 🌈 and Tupac was playing a character and was very limp wristed in real life
Maybe but he didn’t play into it
I mean we'll never truly know. But he may have liked him at first, but probably not after those racist tapes leaked lol.
Nah. PAC respected his grimy upbringings, appreciated the hardships a bit more I think than em. At least in his lyrics. Maybe they’d like to chill together tho, balance one another
Gotta ask him
It's hard to say but Pac might be the only one who could gatekeep Em back before he blew up. Pac's endorsement was crucial af
I think Pac wouldn't like him at first but would warm up to him later on as he learned more about him. When Em first blew up a lot of people just looked at him as this sort of jester figure
Maybe, but then again maybe not.
Most likely they’d of loved each other. They are around the same age, and have similar interest and love of the arts. Not just rap, but beyond. Also, both can be extremely goofy at times. Add in that Eminem would’ve viewed Pac as big bro, and he’s ridiculously respectful of people he views in that light. It’s actually pretty sad that they never had a chance to meet. Feels like different eras. But they only missed each other by a few years.
Nah Pac was very pro Black
They’d have not worked together but been cool on the side
"If Tupac had a water balloon fight with Eminem would he win" the next goofy question probably
You know what's funny ppl say if Tupac was alive lil Wayne would be a cook when lil Wayne was already in and rapping meanwhile Eminem was working as a cook. I doubt they'd be cool especially if Dre picked him up he probably would've spoke on it and Eminem would have to take the suge route where Dre told him never mention suge,but in Paca case he'd be way more aggressive.
PAC would have respected Em because Em has amazing talent.
Probably a similar relationship Eminem and Nas had
You heard 7 day theory and saw back of the album, Dr Dre was in Pacs firing line Eminem would have been too. Unless Dre and Pac made up before Em signed with Dre, Guaranteed Em would have took a few strays.
I think it all depends on how the Pac and Dre beef would have played out. If Pac stays with Death Row and keeps calling out Dre for leaving I think they become enemies. If Pac leaves Death Row (Some say he was putting out albums as fast as possible to got out of his contract). I think he links back up with Dre and we get some Pac+Em features on The Chronic 2001.
How old are the ppl in this section talkin because everyone is everywhere
You mean the guy that was saying derogatory things about black women? …… pac was a radical leftist and black power to the core. To the point he refused to talk to a white cop while literally dying because he seen that person as an arm of everything he stood for……. Not sure but I don’t think those comment would have sat right with Tupac. As they don’t with me.
Pac would probably think Em was crazy lol on the mic and in the head
I’m sure once he heard foolish pride he would have been riding on em.
Yes
I think they would have sex
Pac would love Em. The issue is, he and Dre were on bad terms when he died. I’d hope like Cube and Dre and Cube and Eazy E, they could squash that stuff.
Did they not meet each other and were friends? There is a letter from Eminem to Tupac I believe.
Lol no
Tupac would have ended eminem ,especially after hearing his song about black women
No one knows because everyone is relying on what was at the time. Todays timeline and events would be different based on what happened between now and then IF he was part of it all. Culture, politics, affiliations, everything that influences the world and how it changes and personal experiences that didn’t get to happen. It’s highlighted now even in cancel culture with Eminem’s upcoming release in a world very different from his first release and all that has happened between and that’s for the same artist. We could hope, but maybe those who love both wouldn’t love both and maybe we still would. ✌️
Nah I don’t think so because PAC would go to prison for breaking parole and after release he would still be signed in Death Row. And Eminem was signed by Dre who he had beef with back in the day. And PAC was pro black and wouldn’t accept a white rapper blowing up so quickly but at the end I think they would squashed their beef.
Em and Pac are both very progressive, enough said
It depends solely on of he would’ve been cool with Dre and Snoop by then. If they hadn’t we may well have seen some diss tracks to start of Eminems signing
I feel like he wouldn’t have minded him. If anything they might have gotten cool
The way Em loves and adores Hip Hop, Pac would love him.
Probably not. Pac didn’t like Dre. Em came up under Dre so he wouldn’t like him either.
If he stood up to Heavy D for Vanilla Ice when Heavy was hating and criticizing Ice because he was a white rapper then I don't see why Pac wouldn't like Eminem.
Pacs mom gave em some of his most treasured stuff they would have killed it together
Fun fact : Eminem actually produced a few tracks for a pac project can’t remember which one but look it up I think he just made 2-3 beats or something like that not sure if they got used or not but I remember hearing this story years ago.
Pac the type of person to respect you until he felt disrespected by you. And given how Eminem idolized Pac, it would likely be all love. Now, Pac’s beef with Dre could have prevented them from being friends after Em signed to Aftermath, but Em himself would not have dissed Pac then now or ever. People forget that a lot of fuel for PAC’s rage came from Suge gassing him up and feeding into Pac’s paranoia about these rappers “taking shots” at him, when half those motherfuckers didn’t even want beef with Pac. Like how Nas stopped his show when the news of Pac dying broke, and literally held a moment of silence mid performance for him. I feel a lot of cats were very much “wtf I wasn’t trying to start shit with this dude, I like this dude’s music?” when Pac started running down fools in his lyrics. To me that is all a product of Suge feeding Pac misinformation or just doubling down on his insecurities about other rappers lyrics.
I leaning towarfs he wouldn't want to work with Eminem… because there were several white rappers around when Pac was alive and he didn't work with any of them. House of Pain, Vanilla Ice, 3rd Bass, etc.. The only X factor here is that he worked with Jon B… but Jon B was an RnB artist. Plus, at the time of Pac's passing, he didn't like Dr. Dre.… and Dre was working with Eminem. It's tough to say. When Eminem first came out, he was goofy… but, then again, so was Shock G. Tough call. I think Pac only ever interested in working with people he respected.
Well, Tupac didn't even think white people should rap. Yeah, he was cool with a few when he was still trying to come up, but after he made it he was pretty clear. Here's a clip... https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx5sYkZLgi4Bvfq97ltqsuFkqrMsQ_vzZx?si=ndtoJS0tDvzlFLrB
“Ain’t nobody tryna heeeeeaaar.. them white boy raps”
This a really nice photoshop
not super sure if the irony was the vibe for Pac. The commercial artist that Eminem became, I don't think is on message with what Pac was riding for to be honest.
All I know is, if PAC was alive when Em was around, Em never would’ve used the hit ‘em up beat on quitter.
Pac would be cool with em im sure
Pac was a dancer for digital underground.
They did meet Túpac did say he can rap n was surprised by how good he was but would say how annoying he was n that em wasn’t a normal rapper
I mean why don't somebody just go to Cuba and ask Pac himself what his opinion and thoughts are about Em
After the release of the racist tapes I think PAC would have considered Em a colonial devil .
Yes..
Yall are so dorky
Yes!
I don’t think he would’ve like Eminem honestly.
Probably. Em doesn't front for nobody and Pac would appreciate it
You asking a bunch of people on reddit who don’t know pac from nowhere if pac would like somebody. Yall fan boys something else
Fr it’s at least 10 Eminem posts in this sub everyday
Akil and em
I feel like he and Dre would be in better terms by than, they would probably be chill
I don't see why not. I think Pac would enjoy Eminem's antics and he would like how much of a menace Eminem is, given that Pac was a menace himself. Plus, Eminem is close with Dre. If Dre and Snoop like Eminem, why wouldn't Pac?
Pac would’ve loved Em…this doesn’t need a deep dive of any kind…He would’ve spotted his talent and his energy a million miles away.
i agree. i think Pac would've respected Em's work ethic and lyricism
I feel like Slim could make Pac laugh so yea probably..
He would be jealous of him because he's a better rapper and had a movie that was more well received and grossed a ton more money than any movie Tupac had ever made.
A better Rapper? Eminem Stans must get exiled from Hip Hop community lol
A breakdown of your reasoning as to why Pac is a better rapper would help rather than some asinine comment. How's that supposed to enlighten anyone. Pac is and always will be a legend for any number of reasons but I, an older head, fail to see how as a straight MC he's better than Em, especially younger Em. I couldn't give af about the money/movie shit you responded to, I'm talking as a rapper. Above all else Pac had impeccable flow and cultural impact at the time but as a rapper rapper, he was often repetitive and had average technicals at best. Hell Pac isn't even the best rapper of his generation. I'm sorry, I don't think it's as cut and dry as you state.
Imagining them kissing ☺️
Pac would hate his winey, cringey voice. Why we even talking about this? There are insane levels between the two, Eminem is overrated as fck.
Who says they haven't?