What if Pac...

[Tonio1986]

What if pac would have died in the 94 shooting, do you think he would be a legend too and also mostly considered as the best today?

 

[JarG]

we talked about that few weeks ago

 

[Tonio1986]

sorry I didnt notice that.

 

[Butt Rubber]

pretty easy answer, being No.

he'd probably be in the same catagory that eazy e or odb are in

 

[bigCASH]

no...because one of the things that made him the biggest rap artist was the quote unquote east coast west coast war...which really was just a beef between BIG and Pac...but that beef created "hit em up" which just took him over the top and made him more famous than he ever dreamed

 

[DeeezNuuuts83]

Taking bullets and surviving works wonders for the careers of rappers, not only because it gives them more credibility and appeal, but it gives the rappers more firepower (like Pac and 50). On the other hand, taking bullets and not surviving gives a rapper 15 minutes of posthumous fame, and then silence forever (like Biggie and Big L... Pac was an exception since the first thing I said applies to him).

 

[jm5471]

i dont think he would be as big as he is now but i think that he woulda been up there with exceptional rappers because of me against the world

 

[Think_ThuGLiFE]

If he died in 94 , no makaveli , no deathrow , no songs comin out every year.... Really DeeezNuuuts83 sumed it up pretty well. 15 mins of fame the silence..... the fact 2pac comes out with an album every year , doesnt seem likes hes dead which is a good thing 4 us .

 

[bigCASH]

Taking bullets and surviving works wonders for the careers of rappers, not only because it gives them more credibility and appeal, but it gives the rappers more firepower (like Pac and 50). On the other hand, taking bullets and not surviving gives a rapper 15 minutes of posthumous fame, and then silence forever (like Biggie and Big L... Pac was an exception since the first thing I said applies to him).

that's not neccessarily true...because there are tons of rappers out there who have been shot a lot of times and their careers have gone nowhere...mainly because they didn't know how to market it...50's whole career is basically based on being shot nine times then he had one of the most successful debut album...so what i'm trying to say is that being shot isn't everything it helps(lol now a lot of people are going to get themselves shot to get a rap career started) but there is a lot of rappers out there who have been shot, stabbed or whatever and their album flopped and they were forced to turn back to a life of crime on the streets because they are truly real gangstas...unlike most these G-unit/shady characters...and i call them characters cause they are all just playing the role

 

[SnakeWesker]

Well, for one, he may have had a better rep with the media, since then he wouldn't have been found guilty of sexual abuse.

 

[DeeezNuuuts83]

that's not neccessarily true...because there are tons of rappers out there who have been shot a lot of times and their careers have gone nowhere...mainly because they didn't know how to market it...50's whole career is basically based on being shot nine times then he had one of the most successful debut album...so what i'm trying to say is that being shot isn't everything it helps(lol now a lot of people are going to get themselves shot to get a rap career started) but there is a lot of rappers out there who have been shot, stabbed or whatever and their album flopped and they were forced to turn back to a life of crime on the streets because they are truly real gangstas...unlike most these G-unit/shady characters...and i call them characters cause they are all just playing the role

I see what you're saying and you do have a point, but my point was that getting shot furthers the careers of people who are already in the rap music industry, with at least an album already out. I'm sure there are a grip of people who got shot THEN became rappers; those guys probably didn't go too far (with the exception of The Game). But of course for the guys already rapping, they had to have had some popularity in order to utilize the whole "getting shot" ordeal and publicizing it and using it to sell.

 

[Pittsey]

Well, for one, he may have had a better rep with the media, since then he wouldn't have been found guilty of sexual abuse.

He wouldn't have been cleared of rape either. So he'd still have a rape charge hanging over him.

 

[tupacmansion]

I think he would have still been a legend, but he wouldn't have been as popular as he is today.