Perhaps he was just making sure that with his celebrity status and well-publicized plans of making an appearance at the MTV VMAs, he figured it would be the closest opportunity for his original shooters to potentially follow-up on their unfinished job, so he might as well be ready.
its not like this was the mafia or some shit, the whole braggin about 'whacking Makaveli' seemed to be made up or out of context, or an exagerrated statement to me lmapMorris said:"whacking Makaveli"?