Pac was also vastly overqualified for the streets. He thought in panther, empowerment terms and literally everyone else around him friend and foe were simple street minded cats
That's what Thug Lyfe was actually about .
Instead of letting street nikkas stay off to the sidelines while 'black leaders' wagged their finger, he wanted to bring panther principals back to the streets to give them some structure and community oriented focus if even a little bit. The criminal element he grew up around still had some honor and connection to the community, they were more outlaws than thugs. He was organizing gang truces and building with real street nikkas because he felt like that was his way into forming what looked less senseless gang warfare and more like black militias.
A revolutionary without a revolution trying to create one with an idealistic view of what the 'community' was compared to the time of the Panthers.
He had the right idea but he wasn't mature enough to thread that needle yet, lost in the wirlwind.