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Tupac Shakur is heralded by fans as the greatest rapper ever, and while that may be debatable or even controversial, there’s no denying that the rapper put his fans first.
Before the World Wide Web really took off, people had to access celebrities and music stars the old-fashioned way, through snail mail, particularly to the fan club.

There was no Twitter, no Myspace, no Facebook. You had to write a letter on loose leaf paper or type it with a typewriter and send it off. Hopefully you’d hear back weeks or months later.
This one girl asked Tupac to take her to the prom, and well, as they say, the rest is history. She wrote about it on a web forum:

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