Tupac just came across as more insightful. Some of his songs struck notes of humanity that moved the soul. He wrote songs very well and he wrote ALOT of them. He was a young teenager when he started writing. Biggie and pac appealed to a large audience and still do. Tupac had 44 singles, 4 studio albums, 11 compilation albums, 50 music videos and 6 albums that were released posthumously. BIG has five albums. 3 came out after his death. BIG Life After Death album, released shortly after his death, rose to No. 1 on the U.S. album charts and was certified Diamond in 2000. Thats rare in hiphop. Tupac around 75 million Biggie around 58 million Searching online has more facts to compare for a non bias statistical answer but im to lazy to do that. I like pac more. The real question is who stood to gain the most from there deaths. ******* P diddy.
I love both, and I agree furiously with Fractals. Rap is awesome, if you don't agree then you're either a country music fan or you've listend to T-Pain and lil Wayne. Listen to some Bad Meets Evil if you want rap thats newer, yet still good. I like Beastie Boys, Eminem and Slim Shady
Also here is a more seeious musical desscussion Rolling Stones or Guns 'n' Roses I vote rolling stones
Rap in general is bad. There are exceptional raps. Eminem is an exceptional rapper and tupac and 50 cent have exceptional rap "songs"
Hip hop or Rap is mostly junk prerecorded keyboard drums. Baggy pant" welfare fashion" gody gold chains, crotch grab". Wash it once in awhile" bad poetry about how tough their neighborhood is drivel. Warner Records Sony and others have had their biggest losses in this category. They take album $ buy bling and bankrupt their act. Rap represents a 800M loss for the music industry in 2009 it's peak. Since the US music industry is totally based on graff the genre survive but just barely. The labels have are and will not support the genre as it has no future. Example any popular Rap artist outside Eminem. Read the words out loud, deep huh. Black eyed Peas "Boom boom boom" huge hit , and the message? Zero.
I prefer music over "let's see who can rhyme the fastest about whatever the crap comes up in our heads while a random drum beat plays in the background."
I still have yet to see OP put an actual music debate on the table. Talking to a drum machine is not music.