For Tommy Shakur, he wanted to be socially involved when he first encountered a gang member at a young age, from being addicted to stealing cause it happened to himself and wanted to create more violence then what he has heard. He was also amazed from the togetherness and how it was a different view then he had before, he was dedicated to be apart of the gang by his own friends but through time, he was backstabbed by his friends and wasn’t aware of the damage he had to go through to be apart of one. He became apart of the gang, but at the cost of the time he had to do, Tommy being under the influence to be a valued gang member by his own group and not thinking about the consequences he also had when he was still apart of the gang and was arrested at 19 years old, putting together the problems he had created upon himself.