DMX

Many have called DMX, or Dark Man X, the next coming of the slain Tupac Shakur, though asking him to comment on this will bring this angry response "I say they don't know what the f**k they are talking about. And when people say I'm the second Pac, I'm not, I'm the first X." That being said, Earl Simmons (DMX's real name) has said of Tupac "I think Tupac was a strong-minded black man, and that's what America fears." Nevertheless, perhaps the real reason people flock to DMX is because the man is real, not a multi-million dollar record executive dressed like a rapper (listening Puffy?) to which he apparently agrees, saying  "I'm real. And people like real. I haven't crossed them yet, I haven't been on no fake sh*t yet, no bullsh*t yet. And they feel my sh*t. People like a real person."