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Originally Posted by The Batlord
You frame it in a way that makes him look good. I think he was a guy with actual beliefs who threw them away to make money by yelling "Thug life!" and "Money over bitches!" It's one thing if being a gangsta rapper is just how you want to express yourself but he was just a bandwagon jumping phony.
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yet but you're also ignorant to the history. He was a commercial success pre death row and pre the coast beef.
Plus he made the gangster image more mainstream them it ever was. There was a turn towards gangster rap before him on the west coast but he refined that image. Far from just riding on the bandwagon.