2pac is from the eastcoast....Grew up on the eastcoast....Infact he used to call himself M.C. New York when he first started doing music...When he moved to the Bay he repped the Bay....When he got locked up and bailed out by an LA based record company he repped LA....He also lived in Atlanta and had he lived long enough, he probably would have repped Atlanta....DMX had dissed the WestCoast on numerous occasions around that time but still moved from New York all the way to Arizona....It's a fact that Pac became more popular when he died, but it sometimes times an artist's death for people to recognize how truly talented they were (Big L, Jimmie Hendrix, Mac Dre, Etc...). I, like many others thought DMX's first album was amazing, however his "Ryde or Die" persona was a direct rip off of 2pac....That's just my couple of cents though...Carry-on...