I think it's less about him being respected and more about him being accessible. Most hood nikkas are dusty and broke and barely got enough to buy a sack of weed so they can't even run in his circles and the hood dudes getting money typically don't get involved in petty shyt like this unless they are the type to extort. Just my $0.02.
So to make a long story even longer...I think the takeaway is that this nikka could be in Beverly Hills all day and unaccessible or he could be getting extorted and is protected as long as he keeps paying. There's so many factors but at the end of the day it doesn't fukking matter because the nikka's name is wack so you should expect him to say wack shyt.