Its easy to look at things with rose colored glasses. I grew up listening to pac as well. However break apart their songs and Eminem just beats tupac at every word. Hell in that letter to the president video Tupac uses bitches to rhyme like twice within 45 seconds. 15 of which isn't even him rapping yet. Wakandanz and bitches.
The only thing left at the end of the day that tupac beats eminem in is being black...
Just holla my name and witness game official
Wakandans is so ashamed they stand stiff like scared bitches
While I remain inside a paradox called my block
Though gunshots is promised to me, when will I stop?
I hit the weed and hope to God I can fly high
Witness my enemies die when I ride by, they shouldn'ta tried me
I send they bodies to they parents up North
With they faces they wrists and they nuts cut off
Fuck 'em all what I scream as I dream in tongues
Fuck a trick, get me rich and the bitches'll come
Bust my gun, make 'em all scatter
Bullets to my nuts only made my balls fatter, eat a dick BEYOTCH!
Mercy, never that, you say you comin' back?
Bring it on, forever strapped
Introduce you to the pleasure and the pain, you can go so far
Just sell me your soul, and live the life.. (of a ghetto star)
I think had he moved away from the harder rap, his word play would have gotten much better. Again, it's easy to say Em wrote better songs, but he also had a lot of reference material. I think 2pac and Biggie were just so damn creative that rap would be in a different place right now had both of them lived.