Clearly you've exposed yourself as someone who not only wasn't listening to/following hip hop during that time, but haven't made any attempt to actually know what the fukk youre talking about
The only reason Im even going to reply to a loser ass troll like you is to educate any lurkers or young posters who weren't around then and are subject to misinformation by wierdos with an agenda such as yourself
1-He was barely 25, not "damn near 30 years old"
2-There is no comparison between CB/SB and Pac
a- CB/SB blew up, had money and then decided, STRICTLY for the sake of being social and gaining "points" decided to affiliate themselves with gang members...strictly for image and social status (as they defined it)
Pac affiliated himself with the Mob for a REASON; They were the only ones who could provide him protection and strength against real fukking wolves who were at his head, who had him set up and shot; It just so happens those same people he affiliated himself with, had a pre-existing issue with affiliates (SSCC) of those same wolves who were at Pacs head. It was an alliance of mutual benefit. Suges issue with Puffy was completely separate than Pacs issue with em, and Suge and Pac had a pre-existing relationship
b-CB/SB have ALWAYS been seen as FOOD. NO ONE can say Pac was food to the Mob; EVERY fukkING interview with Mob affiliates from Timmy Ru to Kurt Kobain have spoken on how Pac was LOVED and RESPECTED. No one was chumping Pac. He didn't pay a single CENT of "protection money". He wasn't hanging around the Mob to look cool in clubs
3-Call him naïve or irresponsible (which the luxury of 20 years after the fact provides your sheltered ass), but Pacs vision of gangs was different. He saw them as resources, he saw a potential in them being utilized in a different way. He never had a chance to bear out that vision, and for all we know, he would've eventually seen the futility in that approach, but all you need to do is look at his initial conception of Thug Life, the projects he had in mind, the phone call he had with Monster Kody etc. to understand his mindset
What gets me is how pussies and cowards such as yourself will attack a man 20 years later for making a conscious decision to not accept his set up and shooting (which he could've done, and which 99% of men would've), and decided to turn up against the people who did it by calling them out and attacking the face (Bad Boy). He needed resources to do that. For better or for worse, he saw Suge and the Mob as being that resource