🔥 Eminem Finally Explained Why Tupac’s Words Hit Different — And It Changes How Fans Hear Him Forever.

In a rare, deeply personal essay, Eminem breaks down what made Tupac untouchable — not just the lyrics, but the urgency behind every word he ever rapped. It’s not praise, it’s a revelation about fear, truth, and why Pac always sounded like he was racing against time. The detail Em shares has fans rethinking Tupac’s entire catalog.

👇 The full tribute — and the line that stopped readers cold — is in the link

Eminem Pays Tribute to Tupac: ‘Whatever He Was Rapping About, It Was Urgent’

In the new issue of Paper magazine, Eminem pays tribute to Tupac with a personal essay detailing his love for hip-hop icon’s genius.

Eminem performs onstage at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on April 13, 2014 in Los Angeles.Christopher Polk/Getty ImagesIn the new issue of Paper magazine, Eminem pays tribute to Tupac with a personal essay detailing his love for hip-hop icon’s genius.

Eminem describes his first introduction to Tupac on “I Get Around” with Digital Underground when he was in his late teens, leading Eminem to find Tupac’s first album 2Pacalypse Now and making a lifelong fan of him.  “He was taking things further than a lot of rappers at the time — pushing it to the next level as far as giving feeling to his words and his music,” writes Eminem. “A lot of people say, ‘You feel Pac,’ and it’s absolutely true. The way he chose which words to say with which beat was genius; it’s like he knew what part of the beat and what chord change was the right place to hit these certain words… to make them jump off the track and make you feel what he was saying.”

Eminem writes that Tupac was the first rapper that helped him learn how to write songs with meaning — a lesson fans of Eminem know he’s taken to heart.

“Whatever he was rapping about, it was urgent,” he continues. “If it was a sad song, it’d make you cry. But there were a lot of different sides to him: fed-up, angry, militant, having a good time. His spirit spoke to me because it was like you knew everything that he was going through, especially when he made Me Against the World. You just felt every aspect of his pain, every emotion: when he was happy, when he was sad. His ability to touch people’s lives like that was incredible.”

Paper‘s October issue also includes an essay by Kendrick Lamar paying tribute to Easy-E and a Swizz Beatz tribute to the Notorious B.I.G., which has not yet been released. The magazine hits newsstands Oct. 20.

Read Eminem’s full tribute here.