Was Tupac Overrated?

According to Blender magazine, the answer to that question is yes. Up until Lil Wayne emerged with this last album, I think most hip hop/rap heads deemed Tupac to be the greatest rapper to ever grace a mic. But the music mag tells another story.

It's no hidden fact that the death of Tupac was more successful for the rappers career than his life was. Tupac sold more records after he was murdered than during his brief career, and let Blender tell it, he's the most overrated person in music.

The offbeat mag compiled a list of places, trends and other junk in rock in it's October issue, which is due out next week. Other things on that list included the Grammys at No. 7, encores at No. 12, Pink Floyd at No. 14 and "the music you loved as a teenager" at No. 23.

Shakur, a "gangsta" rapper who showed his sensitive side in movies, was killed during an unsolved drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. More than a dozen albums have been released in the ensuing years, and his image is almost as ubiquitous as that of Che Guevara or Bob Marley. But while Shakur was a decent rapper with "insane rock-star charisma," according to Blender, he also "larded records with self-mythologizing, mediocre filler."

It's not the first time the pages of Blender have been used to bring down Shakur a few notches. In its June issue, rapper Lil Wayne listed him among his top five rappers, but then admitted: "I can't front: I was never into Pac."

For you die hard Tupac fans. Don't take offense too much. This is also a magazine that said that Yung Berg would be the biggest thing to hit the rap scene... so go figure!