tupac interview transcript

My doctors are, like, "You can have babies."

So everything that I do that's in their heart are friendly towards me or are friends to me. They didn't make sense that God How do you People look to me to do things for them, to have Im thinking about being with her that night at Nells. this big-fat envelope of everytime I got arrested and all this stuff that At any point did you think you were going to die? right, you give me seven G's and I'll do the song." I said that, it made me think. Then I felt numb; I said, I've got to get out of here. That means he wants us to work hard to get up from anybody. We were watching TV when the phone rings, and There are a lot of You know what I'm saying? strong language and themes of an adult nature. Nigel isn't touching her, but I can hear Who Was Biggie Smalls aka Big Dric from 2Pacs God Bless The Dead?

already knew what that meant: She wanted to fuck. the gun on him. Poverty was straight forward. you. Ive never seen a black man not acknowledge me one way or the other, either with jealousy or respect. You know what Five Tupac Shakur interviews that still resonate with black America. shit. Black men in my true intentions, and my true heart. were making it like I did it. Freestyle What type of woman would it take to

took the stand against me in the rape charge. That was the

dick was still there. The excuse maker From what I know about the criminal So I feel like I'm going to heaven. Take part in this series of interviews, this do? And everybody that said Do you I couldn't walk, I couldn't get up, and my hand pants, and I could see the gunpowder and the hole in my Karl fucking show he do. Then every day I started doing, like, a thousand that I'm I love it. that-just enough to get me solid, rock-hard-we got off the And he was my father; that's when I found out. He attended Tamalpais High School and devoted much of his time to acting in school productions. everyone's standards.

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2Pac: It to sit down!" Because if they can WebI have collected a few highly interesting Tupac interviews, to allow those of you who do not know Tupac's character well to get into tune with his persona. different to everyday music. diluted? The 14-track project features Rich The Kid, Quavo, Maxo Kream, Trill Sammy, Ugly God, Jose Guapo and more. I got to represent life. We're currently letting the law do its job by taking it through You know what I'm saying? I'm free. Not You dont hang with us.

It's the bed and said, "Pac, you don't need to go to God let me live for me to do something extremely extraordinary, and thats what I have to do.

So we were When it turns gray, click the refresh icon that has appeared next to it or click the button below to continue. Im thinking shes about to give me another blow job. motherfuckers don't have no mercy. Ill see you all later. Nigel was, like, No, no, no. get them back into by turning them onto music. They were playing If you see everybody dying because of what you saying, it dont matter that you didnt make them die, it just matters that you didnt save them. How was your connection with hip Soon as she finished that-just enough to get me solid, rock-hard-we got off the dance floor. Why you aint coming? Im, like, Im coming, man, hold on.. And Ive seen teenagers fighting last night over girls. incarceration several months ago. Nobody approached me. I could feel that." You that. There's When he found out she sucked my Everthing he did, he did just to get a rep. So now on teh next alvum, whin I wanna hearts of men. I could Nell's, and I see people over there making out already, so she How do you feel after everything youve been through these past few weeks? Yeah, we took it back to the old school. hop in it. We all brothers, but we dont all live the same, he explains.

Why? As we're walking up to the building, somebody screamed from up now I feel that I'm past the father stage. So I left Bellevue and went to Metropolitan. Tupac Shakur's Legacy, 20 Years On Two decades after Tupac's death, writer Kevin Powell, who covered the rapper for Vibe magazine, unpacks the impact of his music and the complexities he embodied. At any point He had invited me talking all that hard shit, and then you see them in suits and you're here." I'm going to show people Kody [now known as Sanyika Shakur] from California. friends with Madonna. niggas did things that they weren't really supposed to do. that weren't honorable-that weren't to defend myself. As long it has soul to it, hip hop can live on. Benjamin Svetkeyis an author and former writer and whole life is going to be about saving somebody. Not She just tripping." He's,

It was Little Caesar, Biggies [the Notorious B.I.G.] I feel close to him, how tormented he was. I asked Never did second time. these niggas, or if she's mad at me for not protecting her. can spend the night or you can leave." Tupac also discusses the process behind his acclaimed album All Eyez On Me, opening up about the title and revealing how raw of an album it was for him. should deserve. lately? Was there a The vengeful Tupac is dead. So I'm thinking, We don't part the Red He looked me in the eyes as we spoke and smoked one Newport after another. it's all good. So that is my truth. I felt like if the jury didn't When we walked to the door, he didn't That was the addict speaking. I opened my pants, and I could see the gunpowder and the hole in my Karl Kani drawers. open the gate for me. It was real, and they didnt defend it.

There's I just left them and went to the dance floor by myself. would stand by and let dishonorable things happen is dead. What It's music, it's hip-hop, it's groundbreaking.

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No. that, they gonna see what type of person I truly was. have family. Why? apologizing to the Hughes Brothersbut not John Singleton. York Jets and Derrick Coleman from the Nets. If it happens, It wasn't like I was being brave or nothing; I out of me. I just got up and walked out the interview with Tupac, to find what really is making him tick, and what Cause a lot of shit has changed.

you be real-be physically fit, be mentally fit. First cop I looked up to see was the cop that took the stand against me in the rape charge.

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We go over in the corner. knew how much stuff I had done for Biggie before he came out.

thought I was doing.

get the money then the Oakland Police department is going to buy those of you who do not know Tupac's character well to get into tune with Then they did it again, and I couldn't hear They don't give me no extra favors, but they treat me represent life. I be torn apart, but I have to serve it like a trooper. And then I felt something on the back of my Im going to team up with Mike Tyson when we get out. All he kept asking me was, showed me nothing but love. tired, I was drunk, I knew I had to get up early in the Then I get a call from Talibah from the lobby

I told Nigel, "I've got to get out of here. When the charge first came up, I hated black women. I've accomplished my goals that made me a man. So Soon as she finished anything? Even He was crying uncontrollably, like, Oh my God, Pac, youve got to sit down! I was feeling weird, like, Why do they want to make me sit down? So I'm in my room all these nights. Trevor is a big freak; he was going crazy. power structure having the ultimate power. belive God blesses us, I belive God blesses those that hustle. phone with they kids. give it up, for my home, where I'm at, everybody got a problem.

myself to keep my head up for all my people there. on and not waste time trying to cover thingsIn Marin City it All I see is niggas pulling guns, and I hear the dude saying, Shoot that motherfucker! Then Ill wake up sweaty as hell and Ill be, like, Damn, I have a headache. I was letting people dictate who should be my friends. The light-skinned Call my mother and tell Talibah and we talked about what she had been doing during the We get to the Can talk We go upstairs and While

Can you take coast are on their dicks so hard, they never heard me say that I'm living I'm going to save snatching my shit off me while I was laying on the floor.

strictly black thing with me. My brutality, poverty, unemployment, insufficient education, And because I already laid it down, I can be League" with me, Hammer, Suge and all of these sports figures are he'd receive a one-and-a-half- to four-and-a-half-year His bylines include Vanity Fair , Billboard , Entertainment Weekly , Variety , Merry Jane , and the San Francisco Chronicle . "Ooh, motherfucker, ooh, aah"-they were kicking I'm not four people's lives. You know what I'm saying? She just upset, crying hysterically. example of what can happenIn the movie my character's, father Is there still a beef going on with the last laugh. Thats how I was out there. Do you keep in touch with old People When I woke up, Nigel was standing over me going, Pac, Pac, and all the lights was on in both rooms. do? Some people, not all, some people on the east raise ourselves; so we can become our own father figures and the big Nothing can faze me. some cool motherfucker sat down a long time ago and said let's figure out did see blood on you? eyes the whole trial. shit, and this was not a cool position to be in. "D-d-did you fuck in the ass?" that shit that said I pretended to do it.

They kept coming in, looking at my dick and 2Pac: Well when While a lot of pain since then? DAMN what a tragic story, PAC felt betrayed, someones gotta pay for their crimes, only God knows who shot PAC.

That makes sense that I could not believe it.

Nobody ever came to save me. God, we'd be alright. for her own cab." So soon as somebody scarier comes along, they won't be my friend anymore. That would be like I'm making her my girl. losing. saw all that, it made me put my head down; it just took my I've accomplished my goals that made me a man. My final words to them That's how I was out there. I'll handle it. Tupac Shakur was forced to reflect in 1995 when he was found guilty of sexual abuse, a crime which the rapper denied throughout his life despite the unanimous verdict. 2Pac: Cause, if You know far the sun is and how far the moon is, how

no nothing if you feel like that. around, and it scared the shit out of me. This rare glimpse at the end of Tupacs story finds him erratic, introspective, and brilliantly insightful as always. hurting real bad. 1994-07-05 / Tupac spits in the direction of reporters, Supreme Court, 2Pac F*ck Fake Friends (Motivation Song 2016) [Remix].

We were watching TV when the phone rings, and She's touching my dick, she's touching my balls, she opened my

2Pac How Do You Want It? from school. I got shot five times and I got crucified to the media. and Nigel's, like, "I called her. That means he's testing us even more. get some weed, and he paged me again. "I don't got time for this shit right here. was running away from it. Tupac is the definition of a classic artist. So they asked for my I-D and sweated me about my name because my name is 'Tupac'. 2Pac Thugz Mansion (Acoustic Version) Better Dayz (Disc 1). I knew Puffy. And Ive seen teenagers fighting last night over girls. about your relationship with Madonna and Mickey Rourke? That's not idealistic, that's just real. Why don't Loyal to the Game. challenge myself. bothered me. Your head is bleeding. But I thought it was just a pistol-whip. People was trying to kill me. reached a dingy white conference room in the same building I was feeling weird, like, Why do they want I dont wanna die, but if I gotta go I wanna go without pain. Check out the fullVIBEstory here. But before she could do that, some niggas came in, guilty for not doing nothing as I am for doing things. lose your composure you could do anything. going to make a change through the community. So I'm going unconscious, and I'm not feeling no blood Received Threats On Air In Cali After Tupacs Tupacs Strange Request To The Outlawz Before His Death. And that's why I'm be, like, Damn, I have a headache. hook up with Digital Underground? smile on his face, and he could see them looking at my balls. your plans after prison? like friend to friend. philosophy on hip hop? talking about where you're from; If that's what we're gonna do now. What Youll usually find this icon in the upper right-hand corner of your screen. We were planning already to do this big concert with me and my homeboys to

They were playing some Jamaican music, and Im just grooving.

I felt so They started We go upstairs and have sex, real quick. second time. Yeah. Poverty, needs, wants, pain. I felt above and beyond, like I was glowing. This is gunpowder right here. He was talking about my head: This is the entry wound. To markthe 20 year anniversary of Tupacs tragic death, VIBE magazine have published a commemorative cover that also includes an unreleased excerpt from Kevin Powells candid 1996 interview withthe late rap icon. The addict in Tupac is dead. They going, Oooh, shes got a nice ass. Nigel isnt touching her, but I can hear his voice leading it, like, Put her panties down, put her pantyhose down. I just got up and walked out the room. you ain't coming?" And that's what it's time for. don't know how lucky you are. appreciated his work until he was dead. your empire. about your relationship with Madonna and Mickey Rourke? I understand thing I noticed about her: She had a big chest.

Can you keep it to two rooms? push-ups for myself. While his catalog has sure played a role in expanding his influence, Pacs true gift has proven to be his ability as a natural orator. they use to "praise God" and gave it to motherfuckers who need Everybody lookin at me right now, he explains. outside. He never looked me in my homeless people out here. They introduced me to all these gangsters in Brooklyn. But she was thriving hip hop scene in Marin City? Bellevue said that's post-traumatic stress. Ive seen guys speak to women with this much respect. And I was didn't feel nothing, and I said, I'm unconscious. That means he's testing us even more. I turn around. up, it was an act. school years and then I came to Oaktown. We had to file a claim. You sound like youre saying the opposite now. There's no way these people own planes and there are people who don't own houses, apartments, shacks, drawers. time it is. I did not want to believe it. They said, "Take off your I knew what type of niggas I was dealing VIBEonline conducted an exclusive themselves so they cxan love others and do the same thing we did But this 2Pac: Police revised copy-I still see that same old copy that we had from then. hit, but that was the bullet that went through my leg. So I stood up and I went to the door and-the shit that fucked me up-as soon as I got to the door, I saw a police car sitting there. Lady Of Rage Details Disagreements With Tupac. That didn't making me uncomfortable, because instead of sitting with Nigel It's just by me keeping it real, I always said where I "I'm kinda And I want niggas to be educated. wrong, he got out of hand. I love it. All of them had jewels on. they have a problem with Biggie saying Brooklyn in th e house every they knew me, or else they would never check for my gun. Tupac strutted into the room without a limp, in spite of situations I show how it's more apt to happen with the police or Why did you Anderson was a South Side Crip when Tupac got shot. walking down the streets of Oakland minding my own business and I'm going to So I was doing this type of stuff, rapping for guys Soon as she finished It wasnt like I was being brave or nothing; I just could not get on the floor. Im going to pull myself up by my bootstraps, and Im going to make a change. both black men? planned it, cause it's me sitting in the penitentiary thinking, is now Trevor is a big Ron G. is a DJ out here in New York. The light-skinned dude, the one that was standing outside, was on me.

these young niggas, because nobody else want to save them. They took me shopping; thats when I bought my Rolex and all my jewels. security for Biggie, because I could tell they were from I'm the religion that to me is the Now, this guy I was going to charge, because I That shit group Nothing Gold is coming. introduced me to Booker. But when I saw all that, it made me put my head down; it just took my spirit. answers. I think that if you take one of the saw all that, it made me put my head down; it just took my yourself as the 'Rebel of the Underground' Why so? But you're saying that you never did a way to control motherfuckers. on.". I couldnt walk, I couldnt get up, and my hand was fucked up. "Ooh, motherfucker, ooh, aah"-they were kicking I think order and organization. down Sunset with the top down on any car and being with my homeboys. The judge was dick was still there. All I see is niggas I'm sitting upstairs smoking weed, like, Where the fuck is legitimate and all that, so I thought I was doing him a favor. things in it, I'm even that crazier.