Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. 2Pac has been on a posthumous roll lately thanks to a viral craze, one which ...

2Pac has only scored five total hits on the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales chart, and all of them reached the list following his death, as the tally didn’t exist during his rise to the top.

Speaking of which, the most popular ... Tupac Shakur’s estate’s role in Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s beef After Kendrick Lamar, ...

Heading straight to No.1 in the US, it also made 2Pac the first star to top the album charts while ... and “Death Around the Corner.” Both songs present Pac’s fear of death as a persistent ...

‘Strictly 4 My N****Z’ was 2Pac’s first certified platinum album, where he perfected his flow and claimed his throne as hip hop royalty. Before 2Pac paved the way for underground mixtape ...

In the song, Em raps, “I’m holding Suge responsible for the deaths of the two greatest rappers to ever grace the face of this planet,” seemingly referring to Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.