You said Eminem > 2Pac, so I wanted to tell you why he was not.

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I don't see the point of listening to something for the creative aspect. I would want it to be something I enjoyed listening to, even as background music, before just listening to it for the creative purposes. Beethoven > Eminem, but I bet you don't listen to him.
To me, 2Pac had more of the aspects I like in the creative side too. Eminem is oviously much better lyrically, but I've said a million times, I can write as good as Eminem. It may take me maybe a year to work on getting flow together, but I feel any decent to great battler on the site can write as good as Eminem. You with your topical experience are probably far better at Em at story telling as am I, we are all better at the multies, and his metaphores would be recieved awfully here. Lyricism doesent impress me when I believe I can do better.
2Pac impressed me because he added a new and still untouched level of emotion to his work wether he did or didnt mean it.