Even worse. That's still old enough to know better than to join a gang. If middle schoolers could acknowledge the stupidity in such an action then how could a grown man not?
You just described Tupac. Blew up, attained money, attempted to enter into a new social scene with real gangstas and heavy hitters to elevate his social status, failed and backfired on him, got locked up for admittedly watching a black woman get raped, ran across the country back to Los Angeles after his prison release, joined the MOB at age 24/25, got MOB tatted on his forearm and got killed not even a full year after joining when he attempted to move like an actual gangbanger and throw hands with reputable killers. He joined the Bloods to "gain points" so that he could be perceived as a feared threat and a member of a powerful ill-boding group .That was a move to augment his social ranking and give him a false sense of power. So that makes two failed attempts to successfully join a group - the latter got him killed. So what in this "differs" from CB or SB? None.
Ah, I see. Talk big and bad towards everyone else, beat on engineers and directors, but the moment that someone who will actually kill you comes after you, you run behind Suge and his affiliates. Perhaps mr. black panther civil activist shouldnt've of ever attempted to even align himself with well-known criminals in the first place? Not to mention that he shifted the blame of his first shooting towards everyone else at Quad but Henchmen and Tut. He placed himself into a conflict with Puffy (and by virtue Puffy's affiliates) by accusing him of doing Henchmen and Tut's dirty work. He incorrectly assumed that Puffy didn't have powerful connects to kill him like Henchmen and that he could spend an entire year picking on Bad Boy label artists (who, once again, didn't shoot him) and looked what happened. Got killed. If you accuse an array of people of trying to kill you but remain quiet as a church mouse about the people who actually shot you (he went after Big and Puffy first but was silent about Henchmen and Tut until months later. Gee wonder why?) then your common sense should tell you that something bad will surface from that. Every situation he got in, he knowingly put himself in. He wasn't forced to gangbang, he chose to, and it came back on him within months.
But he was hanging around the Mob to make himself look threatening and daunting as if he actually had power. You act as if this is somehow different than him walking into a club rolling 50 deep with a set of bloods to look authoritative. Same exact thing.
This is just a sad attempt to justify a man who was steadily approaching thirty's decision to join a gang. It's entirely irrelevant what he defined gangs to be because we all know logically know exactly what gangs are and what they do - and it's not something positive or good. He joined the bloods because he was scared, in need of acceptance, and realized that he had made the mistake of running his mouth towards people who weren't encapsulated by his stardom and were willing and able to send people after him.
So his response to his shooters was to join a gang at 25? His response to his shooters was to attack the people who didn't shoot him or even have a gun in their hand? His response to the shooting was to direct his temper-tantrum towards artists who barely had money and had no pull in the industry? His response was to attack Bad Boy and not Henchmen and Tut? He didn't call out anyone to the face. He went on senseless rants on wax but ducked and dodged behind Bloods when it was time to approach the heavy-hitters. Went to NYC, messed with the wrong ones, knew that he himself just messed up and dashed across the country back to LA to run away and find protection. You're trying to make this into some sort of heroic thug fairytale and it isn't working. He ran his mouth and continuously and made bad, juvenille decisions until it sent him to the morgue.
mans writing essays about day by day decisions made by a man much greater than you, in shoes you could never walk, with the luxury of 20 years of hindsight
