Splited personality?

A common problem among gangsta' rappers and "normal" rappers are that they give two messages; on one song they are dissing or threatening a person, singing about gunfights and different ways of killing someone (just a few examples). On another song the rapper sings about how the killing must stop and how people must start take care about each other...
The same thing is discussed about Tupac. How he sings about women as bitches and ho's:

Got them legs wide open
while you're sittin' at the bar
Talkin' to some nigga
'bout his car.

I guess he said he
had a Lexxxus, what's next?
You headin' to his car for some sex
Wonder Why They Call U...

Just to sing this in "Keep Ya Head Up":

And when he tells you
You ain't nothin', dont believe him
And if he can't learn to love you
You should leave him...
I know you're fed up ladies,
But keep your head up.

The most discussed thing about Tupac, beside his death, is however he was a real artist or someone that got famous only because of his action/troublesome filled life?
The critics say that he made non-rhyming lyrics and that Tupac made high record sales on his image, an image as a gangsta' rapper. The biggest critics say that Tupac’s death was/is the best thing that have happened in his career. After that he's been overestimated, and his after death records are bought in large amounts. Some even say that he was a fake gangsta', that he just were big in his mouth and nothing else.

Tupac fans and listeners have, of course, other thoughts about him then the critics. The mostly ones actually agree that he didn’t have so many rhymes in his lyrics (to be compared with rhyme spitting Eminem) but it wasn’t his style, maybe you can call it a mix of rap and r&b? One thing that I thank Tupac for is that he never tried what Puffy and Nas have tried pretty recently: the fast talking/singing/rhyming that is so boring to listen at.
That he got famous because of his image has of course a big part in his career, a rappers lyrics is build on his image. Tupac’s image as a gangsta' rapper is reflected in his lyrics, but at the same time he wrote big hits like "Brenda's Got A Baby", "Dear Mama" and "Keep Ya Head Up" and a lot of other non-gangsta' songs. They all became famous for their seriousity and the view of the ghettos and peoples struggle there. He wanted to tell people how it was to live in it, and how we all could get an end of it. "You can take the boy from the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto from the boy" (The Late Lick Show, MTV)

A question that Tupac got from the MTV journalist Tabitha Soren was like this; "Do you feel like rappers should be more responsible for their lyrics?". And Tupac answered: "Umm Yes", and Tabitha do a follow up question, "What would you define as irresponsible?" Tupac answers, "You talk about murder and death and you don't talk about the pain or you talk about killin' and robbin' and stealn' and you don't talk about jail and death and betrayl and all things that go with it."

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Tupac's own view of the things he did can be found in an interview "I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in my heart, I believe what I'm doing in my heart is right. So I feel like I 'm going to heaven".

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