I'm sorry but you're ignorant here. He was already a top tier rapper before the beef. And the beef started cause he was robbed and shot 5 times, (2 in the head) in NY while visiting biggie. He got it in his mind he was set up. I believe biggie was an innocent victim of the whole thing but it's not that hard to understand the frame if mind pac was coming from.
He was already under attack from the police and paranoid as a result. The shooting just sent him over the edge. That's why you watch him steadily decline into an all encompassing and consuming paranoia as the years go on. That's what you and other casual critics miss about his gangster persona. He wasn't faking.
He was becoming increasingly alienated and defensive. He got into bed with Suge, a known blood, and started acting like one. He participated in the jumping off a crip in a las Vegas casino and was gunned down hours later, presumably in retribution. He was a living example of the destructive nature of living as a gang banger.
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