i'm not going to be a dick rider, but there was alot more to tupac than the thug image, beyond that he was a poet, and he put his emotion into the songs he made, and loved what he was doing, and some how he managed to hit a spot with the public... unlike many of the main stream rappers today, the man really was a intellectual, and used his brain to put together alot of amazing material, listen to other songs than what you have been listen'n to and you will get what i am talking about