That's because he wasn't on their level yet.
Money & Power.
That's the only way to start a dialogue with kingpins.
If you have a nuke and the next nikka only has a couple of guns, he's going to have to retreat, or get blown the fukk up.
But if he has a nuke and you have a nuke, then you can meet at the conference table, and formulate a few stipulations.
That's why some of them same nikkaz couldn't fukk with 50...his money got crazy.Like Yayo said " 50 got ninja money"
But yeah, that's why Pac didn't go directly at them cats.They knew that.Napoleon from the Outlawz said he was there when nikka approached Pac with a message from Jimmy Henchmen telling Pac "You don't wanna go to war with me, you don't even have your money straight"
I think Pac going at Puff y and Big the way he did was only strategy.He knew they were Henchmen/Jacques bytches, so he slapped them around a lil bit.He wasn't trying to literally murder Big, just kill his "Big Poppa" image.By doing that, he'd indirectly fukk with Henchmen's money.Pac had already spoke out about "mafia nikkaz" having Bad Boy under extortion.He figured they were just scared lil bytches anyway.
Pac knew the only other nikka in the game who had a nuke strong enough to match Henchmen/Jacque/BMF back then was Suge Knight.That's why Pac singed with Deathrow IMO.He knew it was a shady label, but they had that nuke.
You give Pac another 2-3 years in the game, i have no doubt in my mind that he would've blown up to a level where he would've been able deal with them nikkaz.same as 50....if 50 could do it, so could Pac
nikkaz quick to glorify Henchmen/Jacque and them nikkaz when they're in cahoots with federal agents/snitches
And quick to diss a nikka who was brave enough to stand up to the corruption that was going on behind the scenes at the time.Pac wasn't the only rapper/entertainer that them nikkaz "disciplined"....he just wasn't afraid to fight back