[DUMBGRUNT]

Years back I read about one event, that to me is telling.

A salient point of Mr. Tupac’s life was taking a gunned-down friend’s daughter to the prom, and yes I believe it to be a factual event documented before his death.
Not the usual postmortem say nice things story.

He heard that the girl’s prom date dumped her, he stopped by the house and offered to be her escort...
To the prom they went to the surprise of many.

Seeing this and reading around, it appears there was a lot more to this artist than his gang connections.

[Rockingham]

Even hardened criminals tend to mellow out and reappraise their lives as they get older. A friend of mine who was a lifelong prosecutor used to say that most criminals aged out of crime when they got to be thirty-five or forty years old. His net assessment was that the criminal justice system tended to be too soft on young criminals and too hard on older ones, and too easy on those who lived off crime and too hard on those who got caught when they yielded to an isolated criminal opportunity.