It's like that, y'all know it's like that.

Anyone that disagrees is either sentimental, a consensus-chasing follower, or one of them casual-ass rap fans whose opinion ain't worth a damn.

An assorted album of tracks Nas was too foolish to even end up releasing are better than any single album Pac ever made.

I wanna hear your bullshit objections before I start bothering to explain to you further why you're either stubborn, stupid, or a bit of both.

But make no mistake.........Pac Lost.

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its like he bit his style but added more to it and made the finished product better

before Pac in terms of actual music, everyone bit Pac's mythology a bit particularly after the fact.

But I don't remember anybody hearing Illmatic & goin 'thats Pac!'.

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>before Pac in terms of actual music, everyone bit Pac's
>mythology a bit particularly after the fact.
>
>But I don't remember anybody hearing Illmatic & goin 'thats
>Pac!'.


actually when listening to his later stuff like "God Son" is where I see it

and he *was* a legendary persona, a very engaging MC & a dude with countless classic songs.

But his batting average is lower than Nas song-for-song & Nas has made a lot of missteps/spotty-albums over the course of his now two decade career.

But Pac is dead.

Therefore he would have been some revolutionary figure rather than a dude who figured out a way to shake Suge's sheisty ass, got rich, happy, had a family and ended up on a sitcom.

Nas should or at this point does pretty much knows he's got one central skill that he excels at, which is rap his fucking ass off.

Dude can illustrate scenes with casual details in a way that nobody I've heard before or since can.

When he gets into other areas whether it be getting into acting like Pac (he made DMX look like Mean Streets-era Deniro & Juice-era Pac look like On The Waterfront Brando by comparison), mogul-ing like Hov (I won't even bother mentioning his terrible underlings or failed label), or trying to be worldly/political like KRS/Chuck/etc it does not & will never work.

But as a straight-up MC/artist, there aint that many that could hang before, during, or likely after.

And Pac falls short of Nas as a straight-up rapper.....it's not really that close.

I'm embarrassed for whoever is my age (35) that would actually disagree because I know most of them wouldn't have even entertained the discussion during dude's living years if someone tried to pretend otherwise.

It's okay to admit it.

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I agree. We are the same age and I feel you. I was on college in 1994-1998 & I always thought Nas was much better than Tupac. I love Pac music but getting killed like that and then looking at his lyrics from Me Against the World though his final album made him a legend. Nobody called him a legend before then. In 1996 Nas was lyrically better than 2pac and was riding high with It Was Written. (for those who thought it was commercial go review it again)...now Tupac was the West Coast king at the time with All Eyes on Me but I always thought Nas was better..I'm not bias on the coast thing either as I reside in NC. Pac was a great MC to me though.

it should have been titled 'Pacs Son' instead. But really..you can try this corny, mc skill thing but that doesn't change the fact that Nas isnt seeing Pac in any way. But Nas is still top 5 all time no doubt

I'm not here to evaluate these rappers tastes or applaud their decision-making ability (after all, a bright/thoughtful dude like Tupac's fate ended up in the hands of an amoral sociopath like Suge Knight).

I'm talking about who's a better MC top to bottom.

Nas was a shitty live rapper in the 90s. Luckily so was Pac so that's a wash. The mid-90's was like the nadir of live rap really but that's a whole different post.

Nas put out at least two albums while both were living that were better than any Pac made or any his camp put out later.

Nas has moments of actual verbal dexterity that you will fuck yourself up trying to rhyme along to from a technical level.

Pac has elongated syllables & echo-chambers/stacked-vocals.

His biggest 'what the fuck he say?' rewind moments are rants rather than rhymes.

Nas gave you the minutia that added up to the masterpiece, Pac gave you the grand statement that leaned heavily on his own mythology that was later sealed with his tragic death.

Pac grabbed the kind of borderline-cliche/simplistic-sloganeering type of phrases that Maya Angelou gave Janet for the movie & flipped them in a convincing way by sheer force of his personality.

Nas casually tosses off lines either subconsciously or unconsciously that will end up becoming those cliches a generation or two down the line.

If you are a true fan of this genre & divorce yourself from the emotion of it, you will admit to yourself that this is not close.

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>Nas put out at least two albums while both were living that
>were better than any Pac made or any his camp put out later.
>

If you think that It Was Written is touching Me Against the World, All Eyez On Me or Makaveli then...

All Eyes Me is trassshhhh. its a bunch of dope singles a few cool album cuts and about 20 filler songs.

Me against the world is pretty good but still like 5-6 fillers.

Makaveli (imo) is pac's best album, but it's nowhere near Illmatic, and while it's very close to IWW, IWW is still better.

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>>Nas put out at least two albums while both were living that
>>were better than any Pac made or any his camp put out later.
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>If you think that It Was Written is touching Me Against the
>World, All Eyez On Me or Makaveli then...

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Most consistently dope lyrics over a longer period of time (93-present) than your favorite rapper.True story. For all the shit that gets talked about "over peeps heads","corny 5% speak",bla bla bla,he's got Platinum albums. Still sounding as good as ever in 2011,(see,"Nasty" and his verse on Wayne's LP).

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Then I laughed .....

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nas, to me, as far as emcees go, is just truth. 'pac...well, i think he's underrated by his haters and overrated by a lot of his fans.

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But you are right on all counts. I'm actually amazed there are not so many Pac fans that want to engage you here. Time heals, I guess, i.e., folks must be over Pac's death and mythology by now.

on the short list for the greatest rapper to ever live.

I always go back to that Blaze Magazine list, which in my memory was the first major publication to rank MCs like that 1-50 & I don't remember there being an outcry over Pac not being in the Top 5 or so (think he was 7/8 at that point which was late '98 or early '99).

I also find it funny to those who say Jigga is a revisionist historian & wasn't thought of like that in the mid-to-late 90s that he was already in the Top 10 right behind Pac by the time Volume 3 dropped.

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Nas lyrically is arguably top 5. Pac was still a really great artist. Bomb you know what this argument sounds like? lol

MJ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kobe but even less of a natural comparison

>Bomb you know what this argument sounds like? lol
>
>MJ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kobe but even less of a
>natural comparison

and for the record, I love Pac as well, he just ain't on Nas' level & most of the reason why he gets put above him by the masses are for things outside of the actual music.

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>>Bomb you know what this argument sounds like? lol
>>
>>MJ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kobe but even less of a
>>natural comparison
>
>and for the record, I love Pac as well, he just ain't on Nas'
>level & most of the reason why he gets put above him by the
>masses are for things outside of the actual music.

The kinda water is wet nature of this comparison is MJ v Kobe-like.

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Lol, that shit must've hurt your soul...... nas got the personality of a tree stump... While X stole Pac's whole live nigga steez.


And that nigga Nasir put gods son on his belly.. was pac's biggest stan


You livin fantasy's nigga i reject your deposit

You made my point better than I could have with that idiocy.

I already said in this post that Nas can't act.

Jigga, Rakim & KRS can't act either.

Nor is Fresh Prince coming up in a 'Great MC' conversation, so take that dickrider bullshit you just spewed out & shove it back up your gaping asshole before we have to start fumigating in here.

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It's takes more than clever lines for Nas to be better than the goat. Pac was the total package....what your fav MC strived to be.



this is comin from a huge nas fan.... quit making shock posts

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dam bomb..you actin like someoe said pac was in the top 20..

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Like Kurt Cobain the way he delivered his words it made you connect and feel everything he was trying to get across but really not that great lyrically. This is where hardcore fans of both get confused and seem to think that the feelings they get from it is from how lyrically gifted they were. I enjoy and listen to both but if another person tried to deliver the same song it'd never be as good (Hence why most Nirvana covers either sound corny or forced).

Nas on the other hand actually is an extremely gifted lyricist that has a way with words that few come close to. Both had questionable taste in beats at times but 2pac imo would have had a harder time in the late 90's if he lived than Nas (He really liked cheap sounding beats). At the end of the day I mean I don't think it really matters who's better, I doubt anyone will stop listening to 2pac just b/c Nas is better. Does 2pac still have crazy obsessed fans or has that slowly faded out as his followers realized that he's actually dead?

i'll give u that nas is the better rapper, but so what.
2pac had stronger songs and thats what matters to most people
imo 2pac doesnt get enuff credit as a songwriter.
that nigga had some of the most unconventional hits in his time.
brendas gotta baby, keep ya head up, dear mama, so many tears etc.
which showed 2pacs reach as an artist and songwriter
so if u wanna compare the 2 on music alone, 2pac no contest.
and we can go song for song nigga.
nas has had the advantage of living longer too
and his body work still aint touching a nigga who died 15yrs ago.
in fact, go look at nas greatest hits album
and then go look at 2pacs greatest hits.
if u wanna big up nas, just big up nas.
cuz u cant say anything to tarnish 2pacs musical impact.

>i'll give u that nas is the better rapper, but so what.
being a better rapper is a fairly crucial part of the equation generally, brushing it off as if that's nothing when comparing two legendary rappers kinda shows where you're at.

>2pac had stronger songs and thats what matters to most people
>imo 2pac doesnt get enuff credit as a songwriter.
>that nigga had some of the most unconventional hits in his
>time.
>brendas gotta baby, keep ya head up, dear mama, so many tears
>etc.
He wrote better songs about women & better sentimental radio cuts, that's about it.

The only songs of those that I still bother playing on my own on that list is So Many Tearz.

>which showed 2pacs reach as an artist and songwriter
>so if u wanna compare the 2 on music alone, 2pac no contest.
oh it's no contest, just the other way.

>and we can go song for song nigga.
we could, however you don't think rapping matters.

>nas has had the advantage of living longer too

that 'advantage' is a double-edged sword, particularly since most rap careers are measured in dog years & Nas has still got one 20 years in while Pac punched his ticket to immortality 15 years ago.

>and his body work still aint touching a nigga who died 15yrs
>ago.

Nas' work up through '96 trumps any Pac album.

>in fact, go look at nas greatest hits album
>and then go look at 2pacs greatest hits.

Pac is a better 'hits' artist for the most part, shit Pac's greatest hits is better than any album he made while alive, Nas has a better song-for-song ratio, is a much more gifted MC, & has left much of his best work on the cutting room floor.

If Nas had died like Pac five years into his career with people taking care of his unreleased material's release, he'd be looked at much differently by the music-industry mythologists.

>if u wanna big up nas, just big up nas.
>cuz u cant say anything to tarnish 2pacs musical impact.
>
I don't think stating Nas is better should be tarnishing anybody's musical impact, y'all just get butthurt over someone stating the obvious.

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all Nas has really has is lyrical skills with his writing, but he didn't switch up as much as Pac.

Pac didn't start off strong and then fade he still kept you interested.

most folks when it comes to Nas loved him at first, and took him as good and then lost interest.

Nas is one of those dudes had he stayed focused and not gone for shock value he would be higher.

Nas is a Odd Artist. somewhere between common and Jay Z is where you might find him and I mean this, Nas is a Platinum selling artist, but he tends to settle and never gets beyond that next level with that other audience.

he is one step further than common but a step off from Jay z and that eats at him.

Nas's colabs aside from a few didn't hit like Pac's.

Pac pulled a 360 between Me against the world and all eyes on me.

Pac has more replay value IMO and as much as I respect Nas as a All time Great MC, he just never held my attention as much as 2Pac.

Pac just had a raw way of bringing it.

Nas is a would have, should have and could have been better MC than what he settled for IMO.

Pac moved me more.

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>Pac just had a raw way of bringing it.
>
>Pac moved me more.


NO emcee ever has seen Pac on the level of emotional honesty combined with correct lyrics
Many cats can write good lyrics but nobody can deliver them shits like Pac
I'ma jack your slang, but these turkey muthafuckas is trippin bruh

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and got a honorary pass in death,etc.. the Man had a way of rapping and nailing his point with such conviction and honesty that people felt it like that.

Nas on the lyrical tip had that for a moment, but he was confussed and lost his energy before he got where he needed to go with it.

the irony of 2Pac was that he had a underdog attitude and approach which was raw and it was flawed and yet he connected way more than said rapper that might could take him in a Battle, but the presentation and the way things are delievered they weren't touching Pac.

Nas never hit folks like Pac did. as respected for his talents sure, but as far as being that game changer and making you feel every word and leaving that type of energy on his every word? NAW!

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>all Nas has really has is lyrical skills with his writing,
>but he didn't switch up as much as Pac.
>
>Pac didn't start off strong and then fade he still kept you
>interested.
>
>most folks when it comes to Nas loved him at first, and took
>him as good and then lost interest.
>
>Nas is one of those dudes had he stayed focused and not gone
>for shock value he would be higher.
>
>Nas is a Odd Artist. somewhere between common and Jay Z is
>where you might find him and I mean this, Nas is a Platinum
>selling artist, but he tends to settle and never gets beyond
>that next level with that other audience.
>
>he is one step further than common but a step off from Jay z
>and that eats at him.
>
>Nas's colabs aside from a few didn't hit like Pac's.
>
>Pac pulled a 360 between Me against the world and all eyes on
>me.
>
>Pac has more replay value IMO and as much as I respect Nas as
>a All time Great MC, he just never held my attention as much
>as 2Pac.
>
>Pac just had a raw way of bringing it.
>
>Nas is a would have, should have and could have been better MC
>than what he settled for IMO.
>
>Pac moved me more.

>all Nas has really has is lyrical skills with his writing,
>but he didn't switch up as much as Pac.
>
>Pac didn't start off strong and then fade he still kept you
>interested.
>
>most folks when it comes to Nas loved him at first, and took
>him as good and then lost interest.
>
>Nas is one of those dudes had he stayed focused and not gone
>for shock value he would be higher.
>
>Nas is a Odd Artist. somewhere between common and Jay Z is
>where you might find him and I mean this, Nas is a Platinum
>selling artist, but he tends to settle and never gets beyond
>that next level with that other audience.
>
>he is one step further than common but a step off from Jay z
>and that eats at him.
>
>Nas's colabs aside from a few didn't hit like Pac's.
>
>Pac pulled a 360 between Me against the world and all eyes on
>me.
>
>Pac has more replay value IMO and as much as I respect Nas as
>a All time Great MC, he just never held my attention as much
>as 2Pac.
>
>Pac just had a raw way of bringing it.
>
>Nas is a would have, should have and could have been better MC
>than what he settled for IMO.
>
>Pac moved me more.

>all Nas has really has is lyrical skills with his writing,
>but he didn't switch up as much as Pac.
>
Nas has a great rap voice, is eons better as a writer, & for better and/or sometimes worse has switched up his flow/approach/persona more times than Pac even if you only included him up through Pac's lifetime.

>Pac didn't start off strong and then fade he still kept you
>interested.
>
well, no rapper started off as strong as Nas did but getting murdered 15 years ago has certainly helped Pac not 'fade'.

We didn't get to watch him get rich, get comfortable, put away the angry young man schtick, focus more on acting & become borderline irrelevant in terms of music like Ice Cube.

Nas despite his missteps is still releasing #1 albums that go at least Gold or Platinum, headlining tours & making music his sole focus without becoming a pure nostalgia act.

>most folks when it comes to Nas loved him at first, and took
>him as good and then lost interest.
>
>Nas is one of those dudes had he stayed focused and not gone
>for shock value he would be higher.
>
>Nas is a Odd Artist. somewhere between common and Jay Z is
>where you might find him and I mean this, Nas is a Platinum
>selling artist, but he tends to settle and never gets beyond
>that next level with that other audience.
>
I don't really know exactly what this all means but you've said yourself that you don't really consider yourself to be a big fan of rap music as a genre.

I will agree Pac is more digestible to casual fans of rap while living and then even more so in death with all the tacked-on mythology & added sense of gravitas.

>he is one step further than common but a step off from Jay z
>and that eats at him.
>
>Nas's colabs aside from a few didn't hit like Pac's.
>
>Pac pulled a 360 between Me against the world and all eyes on
>me.
>
I think you mean 180 but Nas pulled just as much of one from his debut to his second album, however both were better than any album Pac released.

>Pac has more replay value IMO and as much as I respect Nas as
>a All time Great MC, he just never held my attention as much
>as 2Pac.
>
>Pac just had a raw way of bringing it.
>
>Nas is a would have, should have and could have been better MC
>than what he settled for IMO.
>
>Pac moved me more.

Fair enough, I disagree.

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i'm a big enough fan of the genre and you forget i was with it from back in the day. i just don't feel it has the shelf life of other styles of music which we have discussed in here many a time, because things in rap are so trendy, new sounds, new slang, new logos, etc.. only a very few ever make it beyond a certain point and that is a fact.


now back to the topic at hand.

other rappers have died, but Pac just had that "IT" and he was raw with his.

a product of the Black Panthers and then getting into the hollywood scene and the music game. dude had message songs, feel good songs, uplift material, party songs.

2Pac was the peoples champ period. Nas is a cat who hit big and wanted the same very thing Pac had and he just didn't move the people in the same manner on that level.

Nas worked with quite a few of the same folks as Pac and what happen?

folks want to say well Pac died and it is a Sympathy party? that is a Major (L) if there ever was one for you because

it proves just how much important Pac was than Nas will ever be that folks are still talking about Pac 15 years later, still embracing his music

you still see Pac clones

you still see acts being compared to him,etc..

Nas has his place and i know deep down the Pro Nas crowd wishes it was more, but Nas just never brought the goods near enough and settled quickly.

being a skilled MC and writing skills is Great, but what else are you going to offer over time and time again?


Pac struck a cord that hasn't been matched nearly fully.

he was that raw breed mixed with complexitys and being accesible in a twisted way.

in truth Nas is easier to digest than Pac when you think about it, because Nas has been accesible as well, but his problem is over thinking and wanting to be more than the material he is working with calls for.

to some folks Nas's career has been dead for 15 years.

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that his acting was at least on par with his rapping (and in my opinion long-term would have eclipsed it once he got opportunities to be in better films than straight-to-video Mickey Rourke joints).

But if you don't think that his actual life story (dude was like living/breathing performance art) & then subsequent death that made him a martyr has greatly swayed the perception of him to put him on some kind of GOAT list ahead of guys like KRS or Nas who are far superior MCs with better catalogs than I don't know what to tell you.

We'll just agree to disagree.

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you can talk all the Hollywood talk about him dying you,etc. and guess what that novelty and fanfare can carry you for a year, 2, 3 maybe 4 or 5, but how do you explain away 15 years?

and suge knight outta give up his Hood Pass for those corny studio tracks he put on pacs voice after he died and guess what? they still sold.

folks breathed his words and sentiments.

Nas had that one time and point and then settle for shock value and gimmicks.

lets see one Man died before his time and the other man's career died before its time. you know who is still remembered.

you going to have to take a Major (L) for this because in another thread i said the average rap artists prime and peak or that the general public cares about you is 2-3 years tops much like a Running back, and this cat still got folks talking and catching feelings 15 years after he passed?

not to mention he influenced Biggie.

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I've also never tried to say that Pac didn't have something that made him connect with folks, he clearly did/does.

That's not the end-all be-all for me.

I don't care if I ever hear 'Dear Mama' again.

Nas' debut doesn't really have a hit on it yet is often regarded as maybe the best album the genre's produced (and miles beyond any album Pac ever put out, because Pac was really more a 'songs' artist than an album artist, not that there's anything wrong with that since you could say the same thing about James Brown).

Pac having posthumous hits over wack-ass Mister Mister 80's cuts or muzak-versions of Bruce Hornsby with schmalty vocals over it only further proves the point that the people gobbling up that bullshit are in a lot of cases as corny as Suge & them were in raping this dude's corpse.

I'll take my own favorite 40 Nas songs over my favorite 40 Pac songs.

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i mean if a cat builds a catelog that is how they are remembered and also Pac had songs that weren't hits and believe me I know cats who will wait until there mother or father is asleep and jack there diamond cross's from around there neck and be like Gator from Jungle fever and pawn it for a Makaveli bootleg disc etc..

dude had a appeal and reach that Nas couldn't pay Columbo enough money to solve that mystery.

you see Man you gotta have the hits and then you got the other stuff.

Pac reinvented himself into many characters all on the same label.

early pac from digital underground had the message songs, party songs and in between

then he went thug/poetic

then on to death row

i mean his career shows you the balance of complexity and contradiction all wrapped into one and it worked that man struck a chord no matter what rabbit he pulled out of his hat.

Nas tries that and folks only want his poetic smarts they ain't buying him any other way and it messes with him because he just doesn't connect beyond.

Pac was so bad you could take a chris deburg song and play it behind Pac and folks would eat it up. he just connected man and it is beyond a hit record though that doesn't hurt.

i dig nas back in the 90's and i think he is one of the Greatest MC's ever, however he can't carry 2Pac's Doo Rag and he knows it.

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who have essentially turned into hip-hop's version of Elvis fans.

Or one of those deluded folks who thinks 2Pac would have started the revolution by now when the reality is he'd be ten times more likely starring on a TBS sitcom.

I liked Pac but it ain't that serious & he ain't on that level.

Nas amongst others is clearly a better MC & the stuff I'm reading in reply throughout this thread generally falls into one of those three categories I laid out in the OG post.

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>Nas despite his missteps is headlining tours & making music his
>sole focus without becoming a pure nostalgia act.


That makes him a nostalgia act...

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to do the same.

He's played over 100 shows in the past year in theaters/ampitheaters/festivals playing basically his entired most recent album with Damien Marley with a few old hits tossed in.

So, no.

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he is not better than Pac he wants to be Pac and get the accaliam and the love all around that Pac gets but he just don't have it.

the way to connect with the command man that Pac has and Pac was smarter.

In his interviews Pac always made sense and showed his real intelligence.

In interviews nas always sounds like a bumlbling idiot an ole smart dumb nigga.

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"F you Im better in tune with the Infinite"

a nonsensical term like 'command man'.

Pac is a better interview subject than Nas, a better actor than Nas, a more engaging personality than Nas, likely score higher on an IQ test than Nas...........you can have those all day.

Nas is a better rapper, period.

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Nas is an all time great MC.

Tupac was cool.

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And Nas defintely tried to swagger jack Pac at several
points.

Pac is the most swagger jacked rapper in history,
by far.

But again -- Nas is my #1 all time, so its neither here
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