It's so embarrassing to see how little people who claim to love hip hop know about 2pac in general and his influence on Nas in particular. As has been mentioned, the fact that they squashed their beef makes this entire thread even more pathetic.
You can tell that every single 2pac hater in this thread was born after 1990 and doesn't know anything about who he was or what his influence was on the entire genre. They continue to propagate disinformation to defend Nas who would most likely be disgusted with their lack of knowledge on probably the culture's biggest icon.
Almost all of the 'arguments' brought forth by the Pac haters are completely pointless because they are factually incorrect.
In this thread they have repeatedly tried to base their arguments on ridiculous lingering myths that show that they know nothing of the history which they are trying to speak on:
Myth 1: Pac dissed Nas only because Nas used the words 'fake thug' on The Message:
Pac has said on several occasions that he dissed Nas for rhyming about fantasies that were inspired by Pac's life and for jacking his style by all of a sudden starting to rap about being a thug and other cats being fake thugs. He mentions the whole album: 'He knew his album said all the sh*t!"
Try to find any verse in the history of rap (outside of Pac's verses) that comes even close to describing Pac's situation after the '94 shooting as closely as the second verse of The Message. Then think about when The Message dropped. Then think about the infatuation that Nas clearly showed with Pac's lifestyle by completely changing up his content from Illmatic to It Was Written (and don't think this was all OB4CL influence). Count the number of times Nas mentions the word 'thug' on Illmatic and look at the way he uses it on there. Then realize that Illmatic was written before Thug Life dropped. Then count the number of times the word 'thug' or a variation of it is usi was raised by these niccaz you was raised by internet explorer
ed on It Was Written and the way it is used. Then realize that IWW was mostly written after Thug Life and Me Against The World, and All Eyez On Me dropped. Then consider the sh*t talking with Dre about the East/West beef on IWW. Then consider the Black Girl Lost track. THEN consider Nas knew all of this was on his album when Pac told him the DR/Bad Boy beef had nothing to do with him and that he had love for him, and that Nas just nodded and pretended not to have an opinion on it.
People who listen to Nas now have no idea how big of an influence Pac was on the content of every Nas album after Illmatic. His entire style has drawn heavily on 2pac's. Just count the number of times Nas has talked about thugs after Illmatic throughout his entire career and realize all of it is inspired by 2pac.