[mlrtime]

The interesting thing about 2Pac is he grew up intelligent and was taught to respect women. Some of his earliest lyrics were very pro-women.

He changed his tone later in life as he was betrayed many times.

“Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one”

[johnnyanmac]

Wonder how much of that change was personal and how much marketing. He'd be far from the first artist to appeal to the "thug life" despite having a relatively comfortable and conflict-free childhood. But in the 90's the music industry went HARD on selling that image.