Pac offended Jimmy the Henchman, its not like Pac had a price on his head. It was one bad conversation with a deranged individual that led to the shooting. Even in '94 no one thought B.I.G. had anything to do with him getting shot. Pac is my favorite rapper, but that shooting made him get out of control and he never got grounded. It didn't help that he suffered from paranoia.
Yeah it really just depend on how u believe it went down...Pac was paranoid about doin the record in the first place but needed the money...then apparently he either screamed on Jimmy or Pacs tone which may or may not have been intended to be disrespectful came off that way,and the shooters got called at that point

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They wuz all in the same room when Pac took the elevator up I believe,I don't know if he thought Jimmy would tell them he wuz bout to have shot Pac...or if he would've voiced his frustrations and they should've known what wuz comin after that.
Pac had his suspicions and felt they wuznt real friends after that but left it at that in the vibe....that Who Shot Ya record I think changed everything and took it to another level,no matter when it was recorded it was bad taste and they had to know what they wuz doin,but just didn't care after the vibe article

...no reason for Pac to care when he got out.
I do think Pac had worked up enuff goodwill to get sum empathy and understanding after goin thru what he just went thru....dude got sent to jail for sex abuse,shot up....came out made a album laughin at the nikkas who did it and anybody down with em

...then a more subdued album where he barely mentioned Big but instead after gettin his money and strategy together threatened Jimmy Henchman on the realest shyt he ever wrote,still now sure why nikkas pretend that was nuthing and he wuz still shook of jimmy and them
Also is still dissin Puffy on that song but not Biggie which is interestin..."Puffy gettin robbed like a bytch to hide the fact he did sum shyt he shouldna did"....which I believe is in reference to crips ownin Puffys pockets at that point if he wanted to keep his nice business man image and not appear to be just another Suge.
Which leads me to believe Pac knew about the bounty on the chains or hit the crips had out on him and deathrow thru puff....which explains why he would run up on Orlando and ask which set he with becuz that set had a bounty out on him personally....explains it better than Pac wuz attacking Orlando for sum other nikka that got his chain snatched weeks ago,or bcuz that was pacs initiation into the bloods

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U gotta think all the crips on deathrow and pacs own crip affiliations,if it was a hit out on Pac,he woulda knew about it...gang members keeping shyt quietly all of a sudden

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On a sidenote Biggie wuz supposedly friends with Snoop according to Snoop at least,and Biggie gassed nikkas up to go shoot up his trailer lol...so maybe Biggie only had love for his day one nikkas

...and all these dudes thinking they was friends and expecting loyalty and gratefulness just expected too much