To be really honest I think we have had and still have people that match or come close. You cant deny that he didnt became a rap icon but I do feel like that he gets overrated. The majority of these people dont know shit about rap tho. There are plenty rappers that I like better than Pac.
No disrespect, bro but who ever came close? Pac was rapping about sh*t in his life that hadn't even happened yet and it all came to pass.
Violent "jacked by the police didn't have my I.D./ I said 'Excuse me. Why you tryin to rob me?'" Long before the incident with OPD on Broadway....
I Get Around "Cause it's a lot of real G'z doing time/ Cause a groupie bit the truth and told a lie" Almost a whole year before the sexual assault charges (or sexual misconduct).
Outlaw "picture me blasted surrounded by niggaz in mask" Way before he was shot [the first time] this was recorded.
Ain't Hard To Find "I heard rumor I died murdered in cold blood dramatized/ pictures of me in my final state you know mama cried" Obviously recorded before he was murdered and that infamous autopsy photo "leaked"
Against All Odds "Probably be murdered for the shit that I said
I bring the real,
be a legend, breathin or dead" Recorded at a time when he couldn't have possibly known that he'd sell more records after his demise than during his life.
This dude lived out a real life gangster flick (i.e. Boyz, Menace), predicted the plot twist and the ending, recorded it on wax and did it all while we watched. Who came close to that? Lot of dope rappers, but no more Tupacs.