Yeah, the impression i get is that the pac we're all familiar with didn't really exist until he got to the bay...recently read an article from the baltimore sun back from '96, shortly after he died...and they to a bunch of his closest friends from his years in bmore..they describe him as basically that guy from that clip people are always posting trying to clown or whatever where he's talking about girls not liking the nice guy...when he moved to cali he became 2pac the rapper we all know...his bmore friends said he never changed when dealing with them personally, but had a harder time reconciling the difference when in the presence of others
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/19..._shakur-baltimore-school-dunbar-high-school/2
So far as his rap persona goes, I says he's essentially from Cali...from his debut up until MATW, from the bay...and once he starting running with Suge and Death Row, gangbanging and sh!t...basically from LA...don't know if i could trace any of his rapper persona specifically to bmore or nyc
