To me, Tupac was the product of a poor, drug-addicted mother. He grew up poor around druggies, drug-dealers, pimps, and gangsters.
This molded his outlook on life and he never quite grew out of it.
He was emotional, loved to fight, and loved to talk shyt. He also loved to flex. All of this, plus hanging out with the wrong types of people, led to Tupac creating A LOT of enemies.
Tupac talked so much shyt, made so many people jealous, disrespected and fought so many people that it's easy to see how he got so paranoid - and rightfully so.
So can I see him being a MOB-figure type dude? Yes. Growing up I thought Tupac was the coolest, but now that I'm older I can honestly say I probably wouldn't have fukked with him at all back when he was alive. He was legit fukking nuts, and it is the reason why he's dead now.
Nah, he was poor, but he wasn't like the average poor person. His mother was above average in intelligence, she made him learn about things by reading the newspaper all the time, he went toa performance arts school, and experienced things even a lot of rich people don't experience, he just lived around poor people. He even said he couldn't do the things they did, and they told him to stay in school, and not be in the streets.
I think because he was acting when he was young, and was different from the people he was around, but being extra poor, messed up his head. On one side he wants the good life, and to help those who have less, then the other side he wants to be the hard guy he saw having power, and women, but that meant going against the other side he was raised to be. Then he was smoking weed all the time(including cocaine mixed with the weed sometimes), doing shows all over the place, going to jail constantly, having to pay lawyers, and probably not eating properly, his brain would give him bipolar attributes. The alcohol would make shyt even worse!
He was just a confused person, around other confused people who kissed his ass because he was the money maker, and his lifestyle just pushed him over the edge. It was bound to happen, unless somehow he started living healthy, and slowed down, then he would think better. I was him in a way so I speak from experience. Some of the dumb shyt I used to do, I now realize it was my brain lacking what it needed. I just didn't have the world he had, and made a choice to try something different, because the way I was going was leading to nowhere.