Splited personality?

A common problem among gangsta' rappers and "normal" rappers are that they give two messages; on one song they are dissing or threathning a person, singing about gunfights and different ways of killing somone (just a few examples). On another song the rapper sings about how the killing must stop and how people must start take care about eachother...

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
( I must add that this song, Wonder Why They Call U..., is about a poor and alone mother. It's more like a story how it is for 'em then a dissrespecting song. But I took it as an example )

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 critcs say that he made non-ryhming lyrics and that Tupac made high recordsales on his image, an image as a gangsta' rapper. The biggest critcs says that Tupacs death was/is the best thing that have happend in his career. After that he's been overestimated and his afterdeath records are bought in large ammounts. 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 critcs. The mostly ones actually agree that he didnt have so many ryhmes in his lyrics (to be compared with ryhme spitting Eminem) but it wasnt his style, maybe you can call it a mix of rap and r&b? 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. Tupacs 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 cant take the ghetto from the boy" (Late Lick, MTV)

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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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