How the Hell was Tupac not 'Thug Life'? He was in jail before he was even born, he grew up in poverty with the police harassing his family.

He grew up in ghettos, he was sent to the school of preforming arts because he was going to be EXPELLED from the school he was at and be just another black kid f***&d by the system.

He hung about with drug dealers and they respected him that much that he didn't even have to sell drugs to hang with them where if he was a punk they would have bullied him.

His mom was a crack head and he was still resiliant enough to still make a success of himself.
He was homeless for two years.
He was harrassed by the police that much his first offence was jaywalking.
He was shot 5 times THE FIRST TIME HE WAS SHOT. He was shot to death.

He was a member of the bloods and he wrote the code to thug life. He tried to broker a peace between the Bloods and the Crips. You could not do that if no one respected you. If he was not a mean son of a beyatch none of that would have happened. That is not portraying a thug life, that is living a thug life.

Plus he was shot to death. Even a punk would not be remembered as a punk if he was shot to death. And on his death bed he kept trying to get up and out of his bed so much that the doctors put him in an involuntary coma. You can't fake that toughness.

Yes he did some things to play up to the media. The fact he was more agressive in his lyrics in his death row days was because he was only after spending nearly 2 years in jail. To survive in jail you need to be a mean mother f****r and he did! And in jail for something he claimed he didn't do. Of course he was going to be angry and because his lyrics come from the heart of course his lyrics are going to be thug life THAT IS WHAT LIFE HAD MADE HIM.

Maybe he would have mellowed when he got older but he never got the chance because he died a gangsters death. He knew he was going to die because of his lifestyle and he chose to live it anyway. That is the most thug life thing someone can do and he done it. So stop talking bull saying he play acted as a thug. He lived as a thug and he died as a thug. RIP 2Pac +