"I think Tupac's lyrics were more insightful, my opinion, with all apologies to the Biggie fans. In some ways, rappers are like reporters. In particular at that time, from the West Coast, it was a lot of reporting about what life was like...
so the '90s was a time when this was really pronounced. You had gang wars, racial tension, and they were reporting on that."

--- Republican Senator Marco Rubio