Facts. All happened in short space of time.

In his early 20s* is the crazy part:

Plus all his friends turned backs to him and started dissing him + partying with the guys who shot him in quad studio. It was justified for pac to diss them all

He went number 1 cause of all the controversy. Niccus wasn’t listening to pac like that when he first came out. But he stayed in trouble and conflict so that catapulted his career

Thank You for the true context. However, I guess people didn't hear Makaveli. He was still on his message even after getting shot, "White Man's World" "Hold ya head" & "Blasphemy" are just a few examples. The man was in his early 20s going through things most men would fold under.

1994 thug life

He was trying to unite all black youth

@@kf9926 but lost sight of that mission in 1996

Dunno if I’d say that he was a Panther Power rebel before he signed with Suge. A common criticism of 2Pac’s pre-Death Row career was that he was all over the place when it came to his image and his lyrics. He tended to veer between Public Enemy-style militant imagery (e.g., on “Holla If Ya Hear Me”, which is the most PE-esque song he ever made), Too $hort-style pimp music (“I Get Around”), and straight G shit (“Violent”) inspired by N.W.A. It wasn’t even uncommon that critics’ reviews of his earliest albums used to point out how contradictory he could be in his messages and lyrical technique - even within the space of a single album. “Me Against The World” is, IMHO, his only album where he achieved that balance with a “conscious thug” aesthetic that I wish had been more common in his later work, and might have been if he hadn’t signed with Death Roe and pushed into becoming just another G-Funk rapper on the label.

@@BunyipDude predeathrowera pac was able to handle 2 cops to save his own Ppl..

When 2Pac got shot and out of jail, 2Pac became more stronger and fire and angry

@@saeedalhosani exactly but they act like he was trying to be something he was not

Yes you are right ​@@PR-WAY

Nore be trying to get people to down pac lol. True

First off, Bomb First was released after he died but I get it, lol. Second; you can find the interviews and articles online where KRS explains how Tupac "got caught up in the hype". Why does he say that? It's because Pac got shot, locked up, signed to Death Row...then started dissing everyone and making attack records that had nothing to do with Revolution. That's how I remember it but so many of you online got it a bit wrong. No offense. No one attacked Pac for his creativity; he started dissing people left and right and most weren't happy with the whole Biggie/Faith situation. You can find the O.G Ice T explain how Pac was even mad at him for not joining that BS Death Row war against all who werent from LA...and against some who were from LA, lol. They were bullies...Pac had a good heart but damn, homy became a Blood at twenty something years old after signing to Death Row...that's not a good thing. There was no revolution in Vegas when him, Suge and the crew stomped that Crip dude out on video footage, that night that he was killed. That was not "wrong place/wrong time", instead that was more of a "wtf are you doing with your life?/ "what did you expect?". 'Hit em up' was not to defend himself, I just explained to someone this morning how even that Mobb Deep joint "Drop a Gem on em'" was a response to Pac attacking them out of nowhere on Hit Em Up. Pac had no reason to attack them on record other then Suge Knight making him this Blood gangsta rapper that he used to wage this unnecessary war. I'd humbly would like to know who attacked Pac for his creativity? Pac made "I get around" which was about smashing skeezerz but "Get Money" rap is different? Which youth was "Hit em Up" supposed to inspire? Remember the story of Snoop having to fear for his life on a plane since Pac, Suge and the Blood entourage wanted to bang on him simply because he said he wanted peace, didn't hate NY and had love for Biggie. That's not Pac; the victim...that's Pac the Agressor for an unnecessary war that he was trying to end with his One Nation album. This is history. It wasn't rappers who shot him or set him up and there wasn't some east coast conspiracy against him. The Fugees were conscience rappers, it's just that Haitian Kack was a bad guy and also happen to be be related to Wyclef. Prodigy was a fan even after death and even when they were dissing him except for one diss about his Sickle Cell Anemia condition...a condition that only African Americans get. I didn't think that was very revolutionary. He snapped...and was caught between a rock and a hard place but his real enemies were Jimmy Henchmen and Haitian Jack...both thugs who he got mixed up with.

@@21street-erfication90 beo you said all of that (which i disnt read) and it has nothing yo do with my initial comment and pov.. 😂 but I’m not mad at you bro, much love, like pox it was he still inspires, but like jaguar areola, check that rapper out, he said 2Pac should’ve stayed in the pro black lane and like you said he got caught up in gang activity because Deathrow at the end of the day was a gang which hair ties to Piru so ultimately, he was never saw he was 100% about being about it or like masterp said bout it bout it

He changed, but not in the way cats be trying to imply. Dude was the same, his FOCUS changed, not his personality bro

I agreed

@@21street-erfication90 and Big wasn’t innocent bro, cats gotta stop making him out to be

​@yahowshuabenyahudah7734 Pac went from saying Big set him up...then it turned into he knew who did it and mad that he wouldn't serve them on a plate for him...does that make any sense to you? Pac showed Biggie the game and wore Vesace and Moschino shirts around him and brought him around floozies SO he declared war on Biggie when big actually wore those dumb expensive shirts and put on his Playa persona? Does that make any sense to you? Haitian Jack and Jimmy Henchmen set Pac up. Biggie wasn't signed to Haitian Jack or Jommy Henchmen records right, lol. Big warned Pac to not mess with Haitian Jack but Pac didn't take him seriously and even told Haitian Jack...that put Big in trouble because Jack was/is Big time. Pac also accused the black revolutionary group De La Soul of sneak dissing him too...he was wrong! You have to be able to understand your "stars" as humans. We all make mistakes

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