DMX won the Source's Unsigned Hype award in January of 1991, 10 months before 2Pacalypse Now was released. Less than a year after 2Pacalypse dropped, X released his first single, "Born Loser" on Columbia Records. If you look at promotional pictures from this time period, you will see X with a bald head and his shirt off, maybe even before Pac started walking around without a shirt on all the time. Like someone else said, just because he's black and bald doesn't mean he's trying to be Pac. And believe it or not, there are other bald-headed black men in the world who don't listen to Pac or list him as an influence to what they do.