Pac gets too much credit for being smart.
Joining a gang as a full grown celebrity was a huge mistake. I could see if he was like Snoop and just talked about being a gang member.. but this niqqa was actually squabbing with rival gang members.
Not to mention being shot up and locked up and G-d knows what else.
It can be argued that he should have been more savvy and he could have avoided almost all the drama he found.
I can't see him as anything besides a hard headed hot headed young man. I wouldn't have followed him across the street.
To be fair, everybody has made some dumb decisions at one point in our lives
We just got lucky that none of our bad decisions caught up to us like it did with pac
If he was alive today, what he'd be like would be anyone's guess
I think it'd be somewhere in between
He'd have regretted a lot of what he did in the 90s but he wasn't finna be no revolutionary
Would've made some more albums, starred in a couple major films along with some cheesy romantic comedies, and called George Bush a cokehead
But overall, you right that he wasn't finna be the next big black leader. He was an entertainer at the end of the day
like most old rappers from the 90s alive today. There is no reason to assume he'd be revered the way he is today since his death. Its also possible that he would have went the Ice Cube route and left rap in the early 2000s to pursue what he was always passionate about: arts/acting and became a well known B/C-list movie star.
