I personally think that there is a world for Eminem, and a world for Pac, to me Eminem is as close to the equivelant of Pac as we are going to get, now I know you have the Commons, Talib's, Masta Ace's and so on, but they will never sell like Pac therefore they can never be the equivelant. Eminem is one of the only rappers that anyone you talk to knows of, non hip hop fans included. Eminem is also like pac in the fact they sell to all races and genders, not like Wu-Tang who are highly respected, but name a girl you know who owns and bumps Wu-Tang regularly, same with LL find me a guy that says he can still roll around and bump LL without feeling like a chump, LL is for the ladies. as much as we hate to say it, eminem transcends race the same way Pac did, I know white girls, white guys, black girls and black guys that listen to both of them.
I think the problem with your post prasad is that you feel Eminem doesn't talk about situations relevant to most hip hop heads, but to me, as much as I love Pac and will till I die, there was very little he ever rapped about that was relevant to me, it was about feeling. and whether you agree or choose to disagree with his subject matter Eminem also raps with feeling, I know "mockingbird" will never be "keep ya head up" and become an anthem, but at the same time "mockingbird" has a ton of feeling and it is relevant to Eminem as a person. I know there are tons of filler songs on the Eminem cd's and to me the only true filler song for Pac was "what's ya phone #" but again, Eminem is not Pac and he never will be. I think it is hard for people to compare Eminem and Pac, because as many people that feel Eminem is a genious and is a great rapper, there are that many or more that feel he is killing the game and watering it down. Pac never watered down the game, but at the same time we all know he was great and everything he could have and probably would have done if he had lived past 96, but no-one can be sure and who knows, maybe Pac would have dropped a wack cd and had some of his base fans saying "what was Pac thinking releasing that as a single?"
I have great respect for both as artists, but at the same time I realize they both had people telling them what to do, for Pac controversy sold and Suge wanted Pac spitting that fire on Death Row because he knew that would sell records and Suge being no dummy knew that if Pac kept the "keep ya head up" and the "I ain't mad atcha" type songs comin he would have that additional fan base coming from the women and more R&B oriented heads. at the same time for Eminem poppy shit sells for him, and I am pretty sure Dre and Jimmy Iovine push for him to do the "just lose it" and "the real slim shady" because they know that flashy first single while alienating the hip-hop heads will get the "trl" crowd to buy the cd and push 1 million units in a week. They are/were both puppets to the machine that they were riding, but in the end, they are/were both great artists that sold tons of records and made many songs that someone somewhere could feel and compare to something that happened in there life.