Just think about it. He was really feminine in the interview, he had been around women throughout his life. But around that time, that's when he started hanging out with the males in the area... thugs, drug dealers, pimps, whatever. He picked stuff up from them. Just remember in one of the interviews in the Thug Angel feature, he says something like, "I learned all about style and flavor, but I never learned the game. Not to diss New York, because I learned a lot, but I never learned the game. But when I came to Oakland, I learned the game." So he was in the process of learning, in his opinion, how to be a man.