Short answer is TuPac was talented performer who got rich pretending to be a thug and got in over his head. He was either killed or was savvy enough to fake his own death. He was the son black intellectuals heavily involved in Marxist politics and the black nationalist movement. Before he reinvented himself as a rapper, he was a skinny ballernina, who acted very proper and "white." He used his parents political connections to get his foot into the music industry then became a back up dancer for various groups. After getting tired of being humiliated as a backup dancer with the Digital Underground and being made fun of for acting "white," (as the son of black nationalists this created a major chip on his shoulders) so he hatched a plan to become famous and garner respect among his kinsmen. (((Producers))) told him he had vocal talent but they are only looking to sign edgy gansta rappers to ram down the throats of the goyim. So he reinvented himself, and thus the 2Pac myth was born.
If you don't believe he was faking, look closely at his eyes and his mannerisms. He is acting. He really doesn't believe in the lifestyle fucking bitches and murder because he was never a part of it. Compare him to real ghetto niggas like Lil' Wayne and there is a night and day difference.
His beef with Biggie (a real ghetto nigga) was kayfabe dreamed up by record executives to sell records that went gone horribly awry. They underestimated how the average negro would react to the "feud" and where blindsided when their entourages starting actually murdering each other. Because of this dispute there is so much plausible deniability in their murders. Both Biggie and Tupac easily could have been killed by low level thugs without marching orders. There was also the internal war within the music industry at a time when records were going multi-platinum overnight. Tupac's references to Machiavelli and come from his black nationalist parents teaching him the tenets of Saul Alinsky. As an Alinskyite he was probably also collecting blackmail on his producers and handlers.
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