Humility and checking your ego as you get older...like I don't get into issues with people anymore. 20 years ago, my boys and I did this kind of back and forth bullshyt, and thankfully no one got killed, but that was just luck and inches.
but now, it's so much easier, to just say look I don't have a real issue with you. what am I even mad about? No money was lost. No one got hurt or killed, we can just stop. And even just say I'm sorry. I was wrong for whatever it was. Gotti could have done this at any early point. Just said this isn't even real, this is just rap shyt. But that power is so seductive. Gotti had a team ready to go for him. it's a hard thing to walk away from. Violence.
I think modern culture doesn't even really teach apology, and street culture 100% doesn't