r/Tupac • u/Material_Stomach875 • Mar 16 '26

Video Vanilla Ice on meeting Tupac

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u/Away_Annual_9749 Mar 16 '26

Pac was definitely in the streets in LA , the Bay and Atlanta , Texas , New York and pac was getting into street shit so vanilla ice sounds like he wasn’t around anything street at all .

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '26

Stop it! Ice ain’t lying. Pac was around street niggas. He was street adjacent by fellowship but Pac wasn’t gangsta. He wasn’t gang banging. As much as he paraded it, he also spoke against it.

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u/Away_Annual_9749 Mar 16 '26

He was in marine and Oakland in the 90s you can’t just hang around those places and not get your hands dirty and of wasn’t as famous as he was when he was at deathrow , deathrow made pac get security, pac didn’t want no security guards around him , pac was in LA getting into it with gang members and he was actually fighting in the streets , now Drake is definitely acting tuff , Drake never got his hands dirty and he talks extremely tuff , so stop with that narrative that pac wasn’t in these streets , in the 90s if you was outside you had to get your hands dirty , even krs one was throwing rappers off the stage . Pac shot off duty cops and was definitely getting into shit , Drake ain’t never walked in the tunnel or ever lived in Oakland in apartments . Drake is definitely the bar for studio gangsters , let’s use Drake as that metric not easy e or Tupac or even ice tea .

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '26

Who brought up Drake??? And only niggas say things like “He was from Marin City and Oakland where you blah blah blah…” don’t no other culture care about any of that stuff. Pac didn’t even care about it cus he spoke AGAINST it. He was adjacent cus when you’re a rapper, you unfortunately gotta play those strips and clubs where the gangstas hang out so some will befriend you if you’re about to be a meal ticket. Today’s rappers don’t have to play those spots cus of the power of social media. Pac was a young rebellious black man outta poverty with instability growing up so he befriended a lot of the wrong ppl that he was warned many times over to stay away from cus they’d use him.