B.I.G. was dope, but Pac would have ended EVERYONE's careers. Mobb Deep wouldn't be around that's for sure. [Just an opinion,] I don't think "Crunk" would be as big, because Southern rap be a higher quality. Overall, I think the quality of rap would be better if both of them were still alive and doing their thing.
Pac was thinking of ending his career before Suge bailed him out of jail. In that sense Suge was the best thing that happened to him. The legends of Pac and B.I.G. will live on forever. They were taken away in their primes, but I agree with what others said here; They probably wouldn't be as big if they were still alive. Pac would have built a name for himself outside of music because he was born to lead. He would've led some something big.
We all live live short lives in comparison to the age of our universe. Sometimes I think "Damn, I'm older than Pac was when he died". That trips me out because I've always had this image of him being older even though I knew his age. I guess he exhibited wiseness beyond his years. He got to live 25 years though, I know peeps that lived less, so in that sense he's still lucky. I'm sad that both Pac and B.I.G. died, but in a way they are lucky because peeps will be still talking about them in hundreds if not thousands of years to come. How many of us will be able to claim that?
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