Jul 3, 2017 2pac would have never accepted Eminem. A white guy dominating hip hop? 2pac was too obsessed with black people - white people issues to sit calmly watching Eminem take over something that should have been black music. There's no way he would have been supportive of Eminem. Plus the fact Eminem got signed by Dr. Dre, and 2pac had a beef with him just prior to his death, which would have only escalated further had he not died. Here's an alternative timeline I'm 100% sure would have happened or actually happened in a parallel universe: 2pac did not get shot or got shot and survived. Whatever the case, he lived to see 1999. Eminem blew up. Dr. Dre and this white guy are all over the map, attracting millions, especially white people. As 2pac did not really care for white people messing with black stuff, seeing how white people already stole too much from his black nation, he would have immediately started resenting Eminem. He wouldn't care for Eminem's skill and talent. All he would have seen is a white guy sticking his nose into something that doesn't belong to him. 2pac would have openly dissed Eminem and maybe even threaten him, especially with Death Row connections. Eminem, being a loudmouth back in 1999./early 2000s, wouldn't take that from 2pac. Sure, he thought highly of him, but now he dissed him and all the love would have faded away fast. Eminem would have responded with a diss and things would get heated up. It's highly likely Eminem would have hit a nerve. 2pac, being creatively inferior to Eminem would certainly lose when it comes to words and raps, but in order to save his face, or just to retaliate against the assassination of his character, would resort to violence. It doesn't take much for Suge Knight to get involved and that violence to take disproportional measures. 2pac and Suge Knight would have arranged Eminem's murder. Eminem would have become another rapper dead for popping off at the mouth with s--- he shouldn't have said. So, while Eminem is humble towards memory of 2pac and respects him, that's only because he died before all this could have played out.
Jul 3, 2017 Tupac was going to leave death row the moment he fulfilled his contract but he didn't get the chance.
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Jul 3, 2017 Tupac announced a new partnership with Knight as the label boss of Death Row East 3 days before he was shot in Vegas. He wasn't leaving.
Jul 3, 2017 This isn't true. 2pac praises Eminem in The Defiant Ones. And he would of never let his mom give the rights to his music for Loyal to the Game.
Jul 3, 2017 He died too young into his career I'm pretty sure if he was still alive by then he could've evolved as most artists do.
Jul 3, 2017 Eminem and Tupac were basically born at the same time (eminem was born a year after Pac)... If we only judged eminem on his music he created prior to 1998 (when he was 25 and the age when Tupac was murdered) against Pac's whole catalog... eminem doesn't seem that creative and diverse. Eminem definitely benefited by being a semi-joke rapper until he was 30 because he was perceived as being younger than he was... He used to lie about his age and say he was 2 or 3 years younger than he was in his mid 20's... Which is a weird thing to do in normal life, but an obvious marketing ploy. He also benefited from having a long life and not being riddled with bullets.... Pac could have just kept getting better and better for all we know... Or stopped rap altogether and became an Oscar winning actor or a congressman or something...
Jul 3, 2017 Was actually saying something like this to someone the other day, Pac definitely wouldn't have f----- with Em. Even aside from the Dre affiliation and the race issue, Pac probably would've found the disses to his mother and Kim super disrespectful. This is insane tho
Jul 3, 2017 Stopped reading when I saw "2pac creatively inferior to Eminem" tbh the concept is interesting and I've thought about this before but that comment ruined your argument
Jul 3, 2017 I like 2pac, but Eminem is a lot more creative. In addition to that, 2pac's music lacks humor. I mean, it's literally 100% humor-free, even though 2pac was funny in a lot of interviews.
