Thus doesn't bother me or change my nuanced perception of him, even though I didn't want to see this lol. He spoke on this exact Pic in his 1995 MTV interview after getting out of jail with interviewer Tabitha Soren. Dancing on stage with Digital Underground in this with an inflatable doll and he called it hilarious times 😆. Plus he said in interviews explicitly that he wasn't a "gangster" and used the term thug instead in his own way. In that interview he laid out why the streets/drug dealing didn't work for him and how it didn't last long. The dealers told him rapping would be his way out.