Why can't the answer to all of the above questions be as simple as.......BOTH?
I've always said Pac had anger management issues and got into numerous reckless fights. That's not in dispute.
But you're also taking the ridiculous position that a person (any person) with an impulsive behavior and is prone to fighting can't also be pretentious.
Nobody is "sneak hating" on Pac. I'm a Pac fan my damn self, but I can see his life and music for what it is because I don't look at him through rose colored glasses like a large portion of his fanbase does.
That's why you always hear a certain segment of Pac fans say shyt like, "Pac wasn't gangbanging, he was repping Death Row and his homies, that's why he rushed Orlando". As if it can't be true (like I've been saying for years) that alot of Death Row business was indistinguishable from gang business and politics.
For a genius like Pac, why is it inconceivable for you to believe that he could walk and chew gum at the same time? It's all perception obviously, but you and others like you end up talking yourselves in circles with these arguments. In your own words you say he lived a life mired in day to day violence and was prone to violence, but he wasn't involved in gang violence.
Even though the very people he lived that life with on a day to day basis were gangsters
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Yet you act bewildered that somebody would consider that type of behavior to be gang banging, when COMMITTING VIOLENT ACTS WITH OTHER GANG MEMBERS IS THE LITERAL DEFINITION OF GANG BANGING