Non-Californian..moderate listener...
He was a walking inspiration who represented soooo many groups (black people, immigrants, Africans, 80s babies, Californians, Crips, hustlers, etc) for just being who he was. A rapper who made himself hot while being independent.
BUT instead of just being that one thing that most people outside of LA knew him as (a rapper)...he wanted to help the people who knew him best. He wanted to educate and build his community....not in some foreign place...but down the street from where he grew up...where his grandparents and extended family live....he wanted his boys to see the same levels of success as he did...he wanted to be a representation that good can come from anywhere in the world no matter what you were given...
But how the fukk am I so sure that he wanted all of these things and I'm a whole coast away? He told us and then did it...
He was broke....put himself and his people on.....and showed us the steps...
Being successful, helping people your close too and not changing a thing about yourself is the goal....and he did it