Although pac blatantly studied cube he had also surpassed him.Up to strictly for my niggaz most of pac's hard hitting stuff was just cube mimicry. It wasn't until me against the world that he really came into his own. But by then he had created a street poetry that was indelible and cube's observations were getting stale.

Most of ice cube's early stuff seems really juvenile now and a lot of the later stuff was cube doing chuck d. Death certificate was his most fully realized album, predator and lethal injection don't really compare.

I'd rather listen to the thuglife orpac/outlawz album than westside connection any day. And give me any posthumous pac release over any post lethal injection release.