Shit... some fags just don't know shit.
In regard to the shooting of the police officer:
He risked his freedom to help another black man, and you still haven't said anything to contest the fact that you have never and will never have the balls to do anything that courageous. So Tupac was a dumbfuck? I suppose it would have been "smarter" for Tupac to turn his tail and run?
I'm not looking for a "gangsta" in Tupac(nor is the best rap music gangsta rap). When he went to Balatimore, like it said on the Thug Angel DVD, he wanted to clean it up. He started half a dozen campaigns, went to acting school, and eventually got into rap music by rapping about the gun death of a close friend.
I'm not looking for someone who was born on a pile of garbage, lived in the projects and had to sell rocks and mass murder cops in my MCs. The MCs that I like have something to say or relate, beyond the "I shot this fool, then I fucked his wife, then I smoked his weed" bullshit.
Tupac had a real message. If you want to insult the man and miss out on his unparalelled body of work, then I guess that's your decision, but I suggest you rethink your position.
Tupac wasn't anybody's puppet, and you can't say shit to contest that, because that shit you said was just never true. Tupac was fiercely independent. That's one of the reasons he made such an impact on so many people.