yeah it's true it's true.

ya know I think this actually started with Tupac.

Although rappers were everywhere - BEt, MTV, etc. it was Pac who stirred up the personal life controversy over and over again.

First it was the Jaywalking/police brutality case.
Then it was random shootings/fights happening at shows he was head lining, the ATL cop shooting, the rape case, the Quad studio shootings, the beatdowns at Deathrow, the death threats to Biggie on record _ and so on. Then Vegas.

Before Pac, most of us just knew rappers were 'chilling' but that's about it. I mean sure you had the Slick Rick incident, LL getting shot at in NC incident, the PE-Prof Griff incidents that were not musical moments making headline news but Pac's shit was happening over and over again.

It seemed after Pac rappers were intentionally doing dumb shit to get rumors started - storming video shoots, shoot outs at radio stations, anything to be the top thug. The coonery kept going and boom birth of a nation.

People started the talking and the gossiping.