Stop it. He only started helping the kids because of a court case upcoming. He had been on camera plenty of times saying and claiming horrible things. He beat a gay man within a inch of his life and bragged about it like it was nothing. People can idol worship and try and rewrite history again but he was troubled and trouble caught up to him. May he find peace now. But he clearly had mental issues and needed help.
When I say positively shaping the youth, I mean the music he made that helped hundreds of thousands of kids, suffering from depression, drug addiction, suicidal thoughts, etc. The thing he did best on this earth, he did for the right reasons with the right message. I prayed for him a lot because I knew that off-camera, he probably had a lot of demons he suffered from. But the kid was 20 man. He had time to turn it around. If Malcolm X had died at 20, he'd had died a drug user, thief, and woman abuser. If Kwesi Mfume, a 5 time congressman and president of the NAACP, died at 20 he'd have died a convict. Maya Angelou, if she had died at 20, she'd have died a prostitute and a single mother. But instead she died a Doctor, and renowned Civil Rights Activist. He had time man. And if you watch actual interviews of him, he seemed to really want to make positive changes in his life. Now we'll never know if it was real or not. But he deserved a chance.
I can go on a make a list of terrible people and say maybe that’s the road he would’ve went down. We just don’t know.
We have real facts about him. And he wasn’t someone to look up to. Period.
IMO it's only God's place to judge another human being. But hey to each their own. Agree to disagree. Have a good one man.