Eminem is undoubtedly one of the wickedest MCs, and he can do ungodly things with a pen in his hand. However, Shady thinks that one rapper was above the rest, and he called him “the greatest songwriter of all time”.
For Eminem, there’s nobody better than Tupac Shakur to ever grace the microphone. He doesn’t just believe that Pac was the greatest rapper of all time, Marshall Mathers thinks he’s the best songwriter to ever do it, and praise doesn’t get any higher than that.
Pac had a charisma that captivated you with every word that fell out of his mouth, and even though his lyrics weren’t necessarily the best, Shakur’s delivery made you feel it all.
Although his career was cut devastatingly short, Pac still managed to do more in just a few years than most succeed in achieving over decades, and Eminem isn’t alone in believing Shakur is the G.O.A.T.
When the pandemic struck in 2020, Eminem took to the airwaves to host his ‘Music To Be Quarantined By’ series on the Shade45 channel on Sirius XM, and it provided a glimpse into the kind of artists that make him tick.
At one point, Shady played ‘If I Die Tonight’ from Shakur’s 1995 release, Me Against The World, which prompted the rapper to share a few poignant words about the late star.
“Okay, this next song is from an artist that I feel like might be the greatest songwriter of all time,” Em said with his chest. He continued: “Debate what you want about MC skills and all that because he had that, too. This is one of them songs by Tupac that, to me, was like, he was showing you I can write heartfelt shit and I can write lyrical, crazy shit, too.”
He then rapped a couple of bars from the track and further explained the power of Pac. “‘They say pussy and paper is poetry, power and pistols, Plotting on murdering muthafuckas ‘fore they get you.’ Like, the play on the ‘p’ words and all that shit and how he was doing it was so crazy, mixed with the feel that Tupac could give you, which is constantly why I feel like he was saying, ‘Can you feel me?’ because you felt Pac. You feel’ Pac. If you listen to him, you’re gonna feel him,” Eminem sincerely added.
