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Well, when competition gets completely out of hand.
Both had the music world at their feet but the game they played east side west side was ultimately fatal for both.
The world of street gangs and the music industry of absolute competition was a deadly mix.
2PAC would definitely have been a good actor due to his sensitive nature hidden behind a mask of the badass.
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For many kids of that generation, the music was just a provocation, but everything that was rapped was ultimately meant seriously.
Fucking someone's girlfriend and then rapping about it officially is like putting your tack in the gang territory of the opposing gang. Unforgivable..... deadly by the way
A world of money, prestige, gang attitudes was and is a mixture of verbal and physical abuse that should not be underestimated.
Diss was a style in the b boy scene and in the rapper scene back then and still is.
The deadly contempt on display is and always has been a mask of gang culture, and that's what ultimately kills them.
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I was once in LA right next door to Watts and the mate we visited had barred all the windows and doors. When I was walking around there they left me alone because I just looked too fucked up. At night you could hear gunshots and if you were barbecuing in the garden after dark you were often in the cone of light of a police helicopter. It was weird but quite normal back then.
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Watts is one of the neighbourhoods with the highest crime rate in the City of Los Angeles. It is generally advised not to visit the neighbourhood after dark.
An old leather jacket and the fact that I was a fucking white loaf of bread made me invisible as a threat. I was just one of the few drug users in their eyes, which wasn't true but helped a lot. I could take really cool photos with my small picture camera. There were no mobile phones with great features yet.
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