2Pac-Dear Mama

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He had so much anger and passion, such a jumbled life. That song is such a mature tribute to his mom. He skips all the false sicky-sweet praise, goes straight for the mature understanding of her life and her efforts. "I finally understand, for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise to a man."

Just a pure artist. He could deliver the most complex introspection in the most straightforward simple way. That's how he performed, how he wrote. Even his acting was starting to show real promise.

Someone should do a film about his life and the way society dealt with him--his harsh lyrics, the way mainstream society feared his honest, angry representation of the inner city life it had forced so many people to live, all the personal contradictions of who he was. He was Van Gogh and James Dean and John Dillinger rolled into one. (Not that he was a ruthless bank robber like Dillinger, but that he grew up in an economically ruined world where the line between law and survival wasn't always simple.)