You lumped Nas & 2Pac into the same catagory. They are not the same. Nas was in the streets, he really knows street nikkas. 2Pac wasn't. 2Pac had loose associations with dudes who were street and he wanted to be that, but he didn't know the streets, because he wasn't apart of them. Plus the ones he aligned himself with seen him as food. He lost on all angles.
Nas wuz a real street nikka and Pac wuznt now? I've heard it all from u now...don't even reaize u contradictin yourself...on one hand say pac wanted to be down with them so bad,then turn around and say he wuz dumb for goin against em cuz he wuznt a gangster....how can u want to be down and go against sumbody at the same damn time....pac knew he had beef,knew sum shyt could go down and bought his gun wit em...sounds like the typical precautions sumone who knows the streets would take...that's all u can do outside of hiding and ducking nikkas........then u turn around and pat Nas on the back bcuz he called a nikka to go with him to go meet with Hatian Jack? Nas wuz obviously worried and took the same precaution Pac did...whs it ok for nas to hang out with gangsters when he's not a gangster at all? Especially if he gotta call sumbody else to feel comfortable? Nas coulda just said no