If Biggie and Tupac were Still Alive, What Would the State of Hip-Hop Look Like?

Have you ever played the "what if" game? I'm pretty sure you have. As a child you could flip any response back at your mama quicker than she could whoop your ass. She says "Go to bed" you quickly reply "what if there are monsters in the room?" "Take out the trash," and you fire back, "what if there are muggers waiting for me?" Without being ridiculous you get the idea of speculation.

Now imagine grown men speculating what things would look like if the late Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur were still alive. Is this an unreasonable stipulation? Maybe, but lets take this and examine the 'what if' effect of the hip hop game if these two greats still conquered coasts. Would Nas and other rappers still claim Hip Hop is dead? Or was BIG and Pac the definition of what Hip Hop was? This year marks the ten year anniversary of Biggie's death. Every hip hop fan and follower was shook when the death of Tupac Shakur was followed by Big's death. It brought quick realization to the game that we wasn't doing something right. And ten years later, we are still following the same trap that led to violence in our culture.

If Pac was still alive would he still be rapping? Would he have converted to being only an actor, or would he be with the likes of Martin and Malcolm as one of our Nations prolific leaders? Where would Biggie be? Would he still be the king of NYC? Would Biggie venture out into new industries? And would P. Diddy even have a career? Or would Diddy continue to be Puff Daddy and prance around in other people's videos instead of attempting to make records of his own?