Matt's right and said it first. He died on the Vegas strip after beating down a Crip who had done the same to some of the people he was rolling with.
@"Tupac was a great rapper and very talented, but all the dude did was talk ****. He was told NOT to go to Vegas and like an idiot, he did it anyway"
Nobody told him not to go to Vegas other than his bodyguard, who claimed he said that in a video interview after the fact. People always say that after someone dies or something bad happens. They usually do it to make themselves more relevant to the incident, so people can always say "that guy almost saved the iconic person's life". Shaq also claims he could have saved Pac's life that night. All Frank Alexander said was that he didn't want Pac going to Vegas, but didn't cite it as a security concern or anything like that. He gave no reason as to why he would say that, and there was no indications that there was any danger in Vegas beforehand. Just a bodyguard that's out of a job, trying to sell his DVD's and continue to make money off a dead man's life that he failed to protect. As far his death, he was killed for sticking up for 3 people in his crew after Orlando Anderson's group randomly beat them down at the mall previously. So you know, if you were rolling with 2pac and a bunch of guys punked you, he'd have your back, even if you weren't that close to him. Give the man respect when it comes to that, he earned it. We'd all be lucky to have a friend like that.
He was always sticking up for people and it's what ultimately cost him his life.
And as far as talking about other people, most of them talked about him first or disrespected him, check the record. The only ones that can be disputed would be Nas and Dre, but he listed some very good reasons for dissing Dre, so that only leaves Nas. Everybody else that he dissed had it coming to them, either because they dissed him while he was in prison or because they failed to act like loyal friends and went and hung out with two of his 94 shooters in public while he was in prison.