Was Pac A Wanksta?

[Supa]

There's no neighborhood or block that vouch for him being a gangster. Only his fans and flunkies try to paint him like that. He was an artist that got into situations here and there but he didn't come up like that. He ran up under gangsters for protection and to develop his rap persona.

Richie Rich said he wasn't in the streets and he got called all kind of names. As if they know better than an actual bay area street dude who knew him personally

 

[Nomad1]

People get caught up into origin stories and all that…people aren’t who they were in the 8th grade …I personally think he worked himself into a shoot, but by the end he was more or less an active gang member and died gangbanging

Was Walter White a gangster?

I literally just watched a video of a Chicago drill rapper with 10 supposed bodies and hopped off the porch when he was 17 or 18 because he didn't make it the cut for the varsity basketball team. nikkas on this site arent from a hood, they watch rappers and hood shyt on youtube and think they know the lifestyle. It's obvious from the replies in this thread or anytime someone talks about rappers past, especially Pac's.

 

[Ol’Otis]

Op got lil Wayne in his Avi

 

[murksiderock]

And still saw a black man being harassed and shot 2 white boys

People have different triggers and motivations...

When the Atlanta shooting occurred, Pac was 22 and had entered the phase of trying to turn into a tough guy. Confronting those white boys plays into that element. That whole incident is one if those things I gotta be in the moment to say how I'd react, because one of the things I learned at a far earlier age thab 22-year old Pac, is that you mind the business that minds you...

At 22 I'd already shot more people than the two people Pac shot that day, I was still in a wild phase but it was on the latter stages of it, I wasn't in the frame of mind to try to prove my toughness to anyone. Pac and I were born in the same month, so at the same age, roughly around Halloween of my 22nd year, was when I first started flying drugs to the East Coast (Western New York)...

I'm sharing this because the frame of mind matters. Pac was in that "let me show nikkas I'm a g" stage that I was in as a teenager. Him shooting those two white men that day, part of the story is they busted on him first...

He was supposed to shoot back...

There's no neighborhood or block that vouch for him being a gangster. Only his fans and flunkies try to paint him like that. He was an artist that got into situations here and there but he didn't come up like that. He ran up under gangsters for protection and to develop his rap persona.

100%...

What’s a gangster anyway?

Pac sold drugs in Marin City, bust his gun, joined MOB even before that was running around with crews and street dudes and later on big time gangsters. He was dramatic and performative and people question if that was him at his essence but he was doing shyt

Dude was live wire he had screws missing was quick to scrap or try to hurt people

Any one can join a gang and be a “gangster”

I mean obviously there's no clear standard of what being a gangsta is. 100 mf's gone have 50 different answers...

For me, not being selective about who you beef with, is g. If you play that selective game, it's not really you...

This doesn't really apply to Pac because there is no record of street beef. All the "beef" that's documented around him came in his Tough Guy era and is derivative of the industry...

In an incarceration sense, you not a real g if you tell something. Maybe you "were", but standing against that pressure is gangsta. Taking all comers inside, that's gangsta, just like taking em all outside. No selective shyt...

Been around alot of guys, a small percentage fit my definition of gangsta, but could fit yours or others. Been around many, many, many guys who have killed people, I would say the majority (more than 50%) of them are suckers to their roots. So that doesn't mean anything to me...

Joining a gang isn't gangster...

Selling drugs isn't gangster, especially if you never sold at a measurable scale and if you never succeeded vs competition...

Being street-adjacent, which is what I still believe most these rappers are in this modern era, being street adjacent isn't gangster. Running with guys who've really done shyt isn't gangster, that just means you have favor, or, in other cases, you the fall guy, the crashout, the gullible do-boy...

What I will say is that his conflicting personality and ideologies led him into specific situations that tested his bravado, his "gangsta", and seemed hotheaded...

He's not someone I think if we ever shared a room I'd view as a gangsta but again my belief is my percentage if guys I view that way is smaller than most. It's fine enough if people disagree, there's no agreeable standard...

 

[Sk3ptical]

to include himself

The nikka bust his guns end discussion

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

The nikka bust his guns end discussion

Also let’s his homies rape a broad but y’all keep skipping that part of the story of his life

 

[Sk3ptical]

Also let’s his homies rape a broad but y’all keep skipping that part of the story of his life

Not is fault

He still bust his guns tho

 

[murksiderock]

Also let’s his homies rape a broad but y’all keep skipping that part of the story of his life

Noggas will defend this in real life too, blew my mind as a young man watching dudes in prison defend rapists ...

 

[Ohene]

@regularp you were saying

 

[Po pimp]

I don’t trust any black person who hates on Pac

 

[DarkmanX]

This here.

Only herbs think shooting guns makes someone "gangsta". Dudes be on here exposing themselves daily.

Especially since he was a LICENSED carrier

 

[Child_Of_God]

I’ve said this many times before, Pac was simply an actor who played the role of a gangsta/thug so he can sell records. The sad thing is he didn’t even need to do all of that to sell. Breh should have just stuck with being a conscious/revolutionary type rapper and occasionally make a few club and R&B records here and there (basically Drake with the Melodies) and he would had still been very successful.

 

[Premeditated]

Pac is the hardest and most gangster rapper of all time

he was already running with street nikkas in Marin

no other rapper have to balls to bust at white men for harassing a black man

 

[Mac Ten]

Pac had respect from the street nikkas all over…


A wanksta would have let cats herb him around in every city(I.e Jim Jones and Soulja Boy)


He defended an another black man when he didn’t have to which is something most of these fake thugs nowadays wouldn’t care to do.


Miss me with that.

 

[Mac Ten]

Also let’s his homies rape a broad but y’all keep skipping that part of the story of his life

Pac was HOT(Hard on Thots)…


He didnt rape the broad though. That cum guzzling huzzy Ayanna Jackson was playing with fire. Bytch was afraid of Jack so she blamed Pac. Had the audacity to go on Vlad’s show too. I hope a Pac fan slaps her and her children one day.