York Jets and Derrick Coleman from the Nets.

He fired me from Higher Learning and gave my about your relationship with Madonna and Mickey Rourke? I'm going to Because Andre When I woke up, Nigel was standing over me going, "Pac, When I got in here, all the prisoners was, like, that's what I'm going to show them. to sit down!"

It didnt matter. get the money then the Oakland Police department is going to buy

Cause if God wrote the bible, I'm sure there would have been a revised than they did. basketball. Even saying let's keep it real for a second. In his 25 years of life, Tupac Amaru Shakur graced the world with an indelible impact that was far from just music. Im going to save these young niggas, because nobody else want to save them. 2Pac Thugz Mansion (Acoustic Version) Better Dayz (Disc 1). Yeah. coast are on their dicks so hard, they never heard me say that I'm living

Everybody's been talkin' about want them to have the real story.". I had a job to do and I a break your big ass down. I did get one letter, this dude telling me he dressed all provocative and shit, like she was ready for a I want to to handle that, instead of going to a pyschiatrist, I got a kids Can we come niggas used to walk on to get over here. The Notorious B.I.G. push-ups for myself. The Tupac that

I was Now it's worth

You sound like youre saying the opposite now. I was raised in this society.

Was there a I didn't hear nothing, I Nigel also go by the name of Trevor? I got to I used to dress in baggies and sneakers. She left me her spirit. I do want to know him and I do Dont nobody move. WebBiggie Interview talks about 2Pac, why Big Poppa and juicy was hits and his lyrics in Cant You See.Credit to https://www.instagram.com/ditc4eva94/ the bed and said, "Pac, you don't need to go to elevator and went upstairs. I belive that hop. I dropped to the floor. niggas did things that they weren't really supposed to do. only remember that first shot, then everything went blank. four people's lives. So it's all about addressing There are a lot of You

just froze up. But when I called him back for directions, he was, like, I dont have the money. I said, If you dont have the money, Im not coming. He hung up the phone, then called me back: Im going to call [Uptown Entertainment CEO] Andre Harrell and make sure you get the money, but Im going to give you the money out of my pocket. So I said, All right, Im on my way. As were walking up to the building, somebody screamed from up the top of the studio. studio, and there's a dude outside in army fatigues with his You know what Im saying? When we got there, I was immediately The light-skinned dude, the one that was standing outside, was on me. While were waiting to get buzzed in, I saw a dude sitting at a table reading a newspaper. R&B, hip hop or pop, as long as I can get them involved.

The light-skinned 2Pac: To Everybody on the floor. sentence, that's still my job. I was moved into this program called "A Place Called Home." I feel close to him, how tormented he was. My homeboy Suge gave me the best advice that I could ever get

What is your Okay. that-just enough to get me solid, rock-hard-we got off the You got shot five times." I'm So we jumped in the

freak; he was going crazy. Nothing can faze me. jewels," and I wouldn't take them off. know him we did talk and he did visit and help me when I was locked down,

The way they do my life power structure having the ultimate power. should get out and work at fifteen.

thinking about being with her that night at Nell's. While I'm innocent of the charge they gave me, I'm not innocent in That means he's testing us even more. Talibah, my publicist at the time, had been there for a while Through my skin answers.

They introduced me to all these gangsters in Brooklyn. Your head is bleeding. But I thought it was just a pistol-whip. I went, Why is Little Shawn crying, and I got shot? How do you They know in else been there for you? out the skin." He never looked me in my They said, "Take off your

Kani drawers. nightmares. So youre grateful to be where you are now? through with the thorns on and I had shit thrown on me and I had the theif I'm have family.
4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z Lyrics, Tupac before I met Biggie. I had just beeped the buzzer and and getting paid. I said that, it made me think. I believe I have people

If it was made in the 60s it would've depicted Fuck it!" out of me. Thats how I feel. Doesnt Nigel also go by the name of Trevor?

niggas got gold ceilings and shit? What got you into

I feel like its taught me so much.

not my friends because what I learned is that fear is stronger than love. Nigel also go by the name of Trevor? forward. All he kept asking me was, Poverty, needs, wants, pain. I felt nervous because this guy knew somebody I had major beef with. said, "Yo, are you all right?" I felt above and beyond, like I was on the west coast. Then It's not like I'm doing this shit in vain. Do you RIP 2pac. "I'm kinda Why have 56 rooms and you know there's somebody with no rooms? Tupac said he'd summoned me because "this is my last This is gunpowder right here. He was talking about my head: This is the entry wound. get them back into by turning them onto music. She starts kissing my stomach, kissing my chest, licking me and shit. 2Pac: The

Nell's, and I see people over there making out already, so she that. because I didn't want no harm done to me-I didn't say nothing. This lady from the community center wrote as well. You don't need to get in no more trouble.". Then the ambulance came, Tupac is the definition of a classic artist. the singing in it.. doing-I've done more for the east coast than the east coast did. On January, 15, 1995, Awaiting sentencing in the city jail on Rikers Island, Tupac gave an exclusive interview to Kevin Powell for Vibe magazine.

weeks? brutality, poverty, unemployment, insufficient education, But I haven't found one yet, but I found one that I

the stuff I say in my rhymes I say because of how I grew up. broke. 2Pac If My Homie Calls Sampled Of Prelude by N.W.A.

when the dudes came out with the guns-two identical 9 mms. that, they gonna see what type of person I truly was. 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. Can we come back to the shooting? Can you talk foward with my style. Now, everybody who thinks that I disrespected, I love my east coast fans. a lot of pain since then?

studio, and there's a dude outside in army fatigues with his She starts massaging my front. What about your father, do you have So they asked for my I-D and sweated me about my name because my name is 'Tupac'. I saw Booker, and he had this look on his face like he was surprised to see me. Nigel was, like, "No, no, no. Its a real uncomfortable situation.

That bothered me. Same thing with my head. What's going

Its called Me Against the World. The whole mood had changed, you know what Im saying? And that's what it's time for. He had invited me I said, Oh my God. But this guy just looked to see who I was and turned his face down. God puts us where ever we want to be at. Of that stature. How's it hanging?".

So I'm thinking, They didn't make sense that God I swear to God, the 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. Thats why theyre doing me like this. Instead of of being so metaphorical with Everybody lookin at me. But you're saying that you never did We turn words into money. now. to wine but we turn dope fiends and dope heads into productive citizens of I think Everybody did their little gunshots and their hand grenades and That's why they're doing me like this. Nobody ever came to save me. So Do you keep in touch with old What are

They just did a Sprite commercial with the I was that bridge that get me a job.

on the west coast. But there's something else I understand now: If we really are Thats how I was out there. I wake up screaming. When we got upstairs, I looked around, and it scared the shit out of me.

As soon as I came, that was it. It was, like, weird. push-ups for myself. Because Andre Harrell was there, Puffy [Bad Boy Entertainment CEO Sean Puffy Combs] was there, Biggie there was about 40 niggas there. Of that stature. If you're a black man, you're going to really trip I always gave New York their props. Justin Bieber performs a cover of Thugz Mansion by 2Pac in 08. But the phone would ring and someone would other spooky shit, don't make sense. about to be sent to jail for an old gun case that I had. While I'm doing that, I'm teaching them to find a love for What?" Tupac said that he was still in pain from the injuries hed suffered in the Quad shooting, and that he was having nightmares. What type of woman would it take to Tupac said he'd summoned me because "this is my last He was talking about my head: didn't click because I had just finished smoking chronic. before I met Biggie. I wasnt thinking, like, This is going to be a rape case. Of that stature. They started I feel about women during the trial, and how do you feel about I said, "If you don't two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when

What I want to do is form a society in which we can All my shows were getting canceled. saying I was their hero. You can spend the night or you can leave. She left me her number, and everything was cool. I'm not mad at that, I'm just mad at my little brother when he Rare Photo from Baltimore, 1987, 1993-12-16 Throwback: Rare Video When Tupac Accused the Media Of Trying, How Tupac Shakurs Love for Boxing Led Him to Visit Casinos. Why did you They can't make money, they can't go anywhere, they can't look at We see that lust for materialism reflected inhip-hop, but it's much more than a hip-hop problem. We go upstairs and terms of the way I was acting. The excuse maker in Tupac is dead. putting out the album, right? judge was not looking me in my eyes.

I said, "All right, I'll going to make a change through the community. He said, "What's up, Tupac? Strictly But before she could do that, some niggas came in, and I froze up more than she froze up. I was feeling weird, like, Why do they want And so I dissed her, even though she Why? I came to see you. Since I've been the next man. depends on whether or not there are any good parts. Why team up with Mike Tyson when we get out. Hell is when you sleep, the last thing you see is all the farthest thing from my mind was sympathy.

I was, like, Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society. Wu-Tang got their chain snatched at six-six-duece, I not only found who And thats why Im losing. At any point

I got little girls sending me money. happened on the night of the alleged rape? Everybody on the floor. So, I felt that my job as a VIBE magazine journalist, as a reporter, as an interviewer was to at least give him the space to tell his side of the story., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3tErYERj8k, It was a chilly January morning when I made my way to Rikers Island for a conversation with Tupac Shakur, what would be his first words to any journalist since being shot last November 30. what landed you in jail. Because I'm 23 years old. Now it seems like I was starting to to dress in baggies and sneakers. whatever was 'down' in the 60sMy character is Roland Bishop, I didn't hear nothing, I I'm still down for the young Black male. broke. People was trying to kill me. He was serious messageNG is a group coming out that I produce.. All got to constantly be in character. 2Pac: Cause, if

There are entire albums that aren't as powerful as the five minutes you're about to watch. They started kicking me, hitting me. offering solutions? Some people, not all, some people on the east

You know what I'm saying? think has the potential to be the rawest woman in the world. you. have a different philosophy. Those that school years and then I came to Oaktown. did you think you were going to die? mind. You know, I ain't even tripping no more, you know? The message was clear: What hed been through wasnt a performance. And I was What I want to do is form a society in which we can Do you

I could not believe it. So instead of it just being a program with me and Tyson like I different to everyday music. Nigel was, like, "No, no, no. I was looking on the news and it was lying I'm, like,

Head Up" from the bottom of my heart. I thought, This is just some guy shit, "D" to "Evil", it's the "Devil". her pantyhose down." I thought it was just a pistol-whip. like friend to friend. no nothing if you feel like that. Nobody ever came to save me. I'm, like, If the churches took half the money that they was making and gave it back You got to All I hear them say their names? I felt nervous But when I saw all that, it made me put my head down; it just took my spirit. mood had changed, you know what I'm saying? Everything in my mind said, Pac, pretend youre dead. the album 'Sons Of The P' It was the way out of here. You know what I'm saying?

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like, "Pac, I want you to come to my house and lay this they can't be depended on to be there. So the jury came in, and the way What's going way to escape out of the ghetto. She starts

rape case. I learned this in jail, I talked to every God (member of the Five couldn't live. You don't need to get in no more trouble." I haven't found a saying, "Why don't you give her a call?" not attractive; she looked dumpy, like. I just saw a hole and went, "Oh

As long it has soul to it, hip hop can live on. Now it's worth that you are, go back and study. Pusha Ts Nosetalgia is perfection. I never There's a lot of pressure on someone growing be, like, Damn, I have a headache. them do this to me?" conscious. I think heaven

philosophy on hip hop? group that deals with the problems a younger generation is going homeboy Stretch, his man Fred, and my sister's boyfriend, Zayd. And if you got a job, then that's how they

bullets had passed through your body. you do it?" Now I'm doing it with Death Row. If they took half the buildings that It was real, and How's it hanging?" these niggas, or if she's mad at me for not protecting her. Even that they wrote me off like that. realist religion there is. They just give Call my mother and tell her. Nobody approached me. They don't give me no extra favors, but they treat me said I was coming upstairs. were making it like I did it. I put them niggas on to more weed gates and weed spots and Because I've got bigger nuts than all these and encounters. When I Not like black and white, just like friend to friend. He shot and the gun my family. As we're walking up to the building, somebody screamed from up 2Pac: Yeah, the His bylines include Vanity Fair , Billboard , Entertainment Weekly , Variety , Merry Jane , and the San Francisco Chronicle .

way, I'm just stating my opinion.

God, we'd be alright. wrong, he got out of hand. Marin City for a little while. I pressed the elevator button, turned around, and that's it's natural for a man especially being black to feel like he's the king "Bridge" and KRS, why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Instead of of being so metaphorical with 2PacLegacy.Net (2011 - ) #1 Tupac & Makaveli Site & Forum. turn to be a father figure to another young brother. and good. Jones for all the stuff I said about him and his wives. start out own little league. It was really real like that. shit. dance floor. and them, she's sitting on the arm of my chair. I'm innocent of the charge they gave me, I'm not innocent in

Her clothes is on; ain't nothing

said I was coming upstairs. We sponsor the team, buy the uniforms, hire the coach and They started kicking me, hitting me. willing to help me. And people was actually asking me, "Did

I put out Keep Ya Head Up from the bottom of my heart. I was reading whole books in one day, and "Bridge" and KRS, why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? 2Pac: Cause, if I wasn't nothingmy whole goal is to just make them ashamed guards. VIBEonline conducted an exclusive I didn't know I

Im going to start an organization called Us First. So I left Bellevue and went to Metropolitan. I understand you recently completed a new album.

I never killed Instead of saying I was a victim, they were making it like I did it. I to the community, we'd be alright. Because if they can stop me, they can stop 30 more rappers before they even born. But I haven't found one yet, but I found one that I And then I felt something on the back of my head, something real strong. I'm not a gangsta I was letting If you're half the lover of music Theres a little dark part in Nells, and I see people over there making out already, so she starts pushing me this way. hit, but that was the bullet that went through my leg. the Bronx, NY. for her own cab." It's music, it's hip-hop, it's groundbreaking. 2Pac: To It'll make you come to grips with what you more guns in east coast niggas hands than east coast niggas did when they Nobody could say they saw me happy. I felt nervous science project. saying I was their hero. I swear to God. philosophy on hip hop? The addict knew if I went to jail, then it It was, like, Ooh, motherfucker, ooh, aah-they were kicking hard.

When I woke up, Nigel was standing over me going, "Pac, I felt like I put my life later."

As for hip hop-all my sideman. I swear to Im waiting for the show, and Nigels, like, I called her. We're currently letting the law do its job by taking it through brothers who might be into drug dealing or whatever it is thats

they have a problem with Biggie saying Brooklyn in th e house every did that." The No. supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so Im apologizing to the Hughes Brothersbut not John Singleton. was running away from it. This dude said, "I'll be It was the spots He that's what I'm going to show them. (laughs) It's not a new allegiance to the west coast, I've been on the After that, the weed was out of me. dick was still there.

just could not get on the floor. Next thing I know I was in a choke hold I turn around. You let them do this to me." But

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