THE REALEST

Formerly known as Tenkamenin', as you may know him from the Gang Related Soundtrack, "Tha Realest" switched his name when he joined Deathrow Records. Why ? One can only speculate. However I have heard Tupac refer to himself as The Realest "You know who the realest is" on more than one occasion. The style of Tha Realest is so similar to Pac's, it's hard to mistake. From his words dissing Mobb Deep and No Limit, to his speech and demeanor in interviews and on to his style in rap. Many people claim he is riding where Pac left of. Do you think there would be room for Tha Realest on Deathrow if Tupac was still alive ?

Tha Realest has addressed many of these similarities himself. As far as appearance, he says he looks like his mom and his father, not like Pac. As far as his style, he says he had the same style a long time ago. I don't deny any of these facts. However, I do believe the only reason he is on Deathrow is because Tupac is gone, and they're looking for somebody to take his place.

Stand Strong - This is a song recorded by the Realest as a "dedication" to Tupac. You can compare nearly every line in this song to a song where Tupac has stated something similar.

NO LIMIT RECORDS

Master P has been on Pac's nuts since Tupac passed and he released the song RIP Tupac on the WestCoast Ridahz vol. 1 album. If you listen to Master P's albums his style changed since the death of Tupac, more specifically everything released after Ghetto D. Suddenly P became not only a "Don", but the "Last Don". Excuse me while I laugh, hurl, and then become pissed off. If you listen to The Last Don album you can notice many Tupac quotes, and many comparisons in song titles and content between Tupac's album All Eyez on Me. Basically, the P in Master P was changed to stand for Pac after the death of Tupac.

It was said that Master P attempted to purchase unreleased Tupac material for a price labelled in the millions. Despire the fact that the deal was not completed, No Limit still mangaged to release songs obviously stolen from Tupac. C-Murder released a song called On My Enemies on his Bossalinie album. The song, was ripped from the unreleased Tupac track titled 'When We Ride on our Enemies'. What makes it worse, is the fact that he tried to pass it off as a "Tribute", in order to make it seem ok. The beat was left the same, and words were changed to keep the same rhyme pattern, but with slightly different lyrics. What C-Murder managed to do was take a song close to Tupac, that showed so much emotion and truth, and fabricate it with words that were both meaningless and stupid. For example, Tupac said "now label this my f*cking trick shot, my lyrics running all you cowards out of hiphop". C-Murder re-wrote the lyrics to say "Now label this my b*tch slap, my lyrics running all your cowards out of Gangsta Rap." Excuse me ? Who is C-Murder going to run out of Gangsta Rap ? He also changed the lyrics "I heard the Fugees was trying to do me" to say "Heard the industry was trying to finish me". Yeah, he must be referring to the big industry conspiracy to prevent the big shake up in the game the dropping of his newest album is going to create. I wonder if he's been sharing a pipe with ODB.

Tupac

C-Murder

Kane and Abel also joined the list of biters when they released a song called 'Soldier Story'. Not only did they change Tupac's chorus from "All you wanted ta be, a soulja, a soulja" to "All he want to be a No Limit soldier", they also bit the entire third verse from Tupac's song 'Souljah's Story', and failed to mention this in the credits.

Tupac

Kane and Abel

CRAZY

Crazy sounds so similar to Tupac it's rather scary. If I was Tupac and I heard this guy it would seriously creep me out. His voice and style is so similar that a Makaveli Bootleg, Makaveli 8, was released as Tupac's work when in actuality the songs were performed by Crazy. Crazy denies any involvement in the making of the CD, however, so would I.

He's been rapping since '92 but didn't really receive any attention until he was signed to Master P's No Limit Records and comparisons to Tupac surfaced. With Master P attempting to purchase unreleased Tupac tracks and the tendency of No Limit rappers to steal Pac's work, it's easy to wonder if Crazy was signed to No Limit based on his upcoming in the South, or on his similarities to Tupac.

On the intro the 504 Boyz where Master P uses the intro to give publicity to Crazy by mentioning the similarities to Pac.