while i don't agree, his people resonated with the masses, he was immensely influential and he embodied "realness" to many people.

personally, i don't think the music is there. to me, makaveli and me against the world are his best albums, and neither are spectacular (and i bought 2pacalypse the day it dropped, so i was checking for him since "brenda's got a baby" and "if my homie calls"). pac was the GOAT rap star in terms of merging real life and music, but people don't even remember or know most of the tracks off his first two albums. you can't say that about anyone else in the GOAT convo.