"He didn't sound like anyone who came before him."[5] About.com for their part named Shakur the most influential rapper ever
His double album, All Eyez on Me, is one of the highest-selling rap albums of all time, with over 5 million copies of the album sold in the United States alone by April 1996; it was eventually certified 9x platinum in June 1998 by the RIAA.[184] In July 2014 it was recertified 10x platinum.
Shakur is the third rapper to enter the library, outside the copyright office, behind Grandmaster Flash and Public Enemy.[186]