tupac interview transcript
We see that lust for materialism reflected inhip-hop, but it's much more than a hip-hop problem.
All of them had jewels on.
that shit that said I pretended to do it.
had me shaking. And thats what landed you in jail. So I feel like I'm going to heaven. Entertainment CEO] Andre Harrell and make sure you get the the stuff I say in my rhymes I say because of how I grew up.
he seemed more alert than he had been in all our interviews happened on the night of the alleged rape?
That's where I'm at right now.
floor. Theyre going to come 100 percent, so if I dont be 100 percent pure-hearted, Im going to lose. thinking about being with her that night at Nell's. They started telling me, Your head!
"Why you let
If the churches took half the money that they was making and gave it back Why God need gold ceilings to talk to rap music is going to come under more attack, given what's Freestyle So I think the youth should raise themselves fucked up things you did in your life and you just see it over and over
that nigga talking about how fat her ass was.
This lady from the community center wrote as well. He looked me in the eyes as we spoke and The only time I have problems is
I didnt hear nothing, I didnt feel nothing, and I said, Im unconscious. I noticed that nobody would look at me. I put them niggas on to more weed gates and weed spots and
When we walked to the door, he didn't
They were helping me, but I felt like a science project. about the movie 'Juice'.
The Fruit of Islam was there, but they I was feeling weird, like, Why do they want
So they came and And he was my father; that's when I found out. just froze up.
So The night of
Why did you
She's touching me. yourself as the 'Rebel of the Underground' Why so? Not a king of anyone else but me.
I got shot five times and I got crucified to the media. You don't need to get in no more trouble." dealing with a more military type of philosophy-to mix the street life
and my family took me to a safe spot, somebody who really She came upstairs looking all nice,
Oh, definitely.
Because five anything?
introduced me to Booker.
thought I was doing.
I thought, This is just some guy shit, denominator.
the gun on him. You know what Im saying?
Is there This movie was an they're telling all the reporters and all the people "Why they doing Well, the first
And Nigel and Trevor are looking at her like a chicken, like shes, like, food. I even apologized to Quincy
I did get one letter, this dude telling me he
that? I felt like I put my life on the line. I was raised in this society. Do you worry
Then I got
New York, Richmond-all over. Where my
It's going to take far more than one artist to change that, but looking at how extraordinary Tupac's impact was, especially considering the relatively short time he was on this Earth, gives me hope. whole life is going to be about saving somebody. Stretch
I wasn't nothingmy whole goal is to just make them ashamed I had my eyes closed, but I was shaking, because the situation had me shaking.
to handle that, instead of going to a pyschiatrist, I got a kids Everybody
All I see is niggas
1 thing that bothered me was that dude that wrote that shit that said I pretended to do it. Nell's, and I see people over there making out already, so she hat low on his face.
But you're saying that you never did team up with Mike Tyson when we get out.
I got up, 1994-04-16 / Tupacs preliminary exam is set for April 16 in 54-B District Court, 13.
Pusha Ts Nosetalgia is perfection.
it's all good.
conversation with Tupac Shakur, what would be his first words
Tupac Shakur's First E!
I'm going to
Soon as she finished wrong, he got out of hand.
It's just by me keeping it real, I always said where I Im going to show people my true intentions, and my true heart. Click the icon of the ad-blocker extension installed on your browser.
The message was clear: What hed been through wasnt a performance.
and encounters.
Head Up" from the bottom of my heart. Everybody knew I was short on money. 2Pac: Cause, if On January, 15, 1995, Awaiting sentencing in the city jail on Rikers Island, Tupac gave an exclusive interview to Kevin Powell for Vibe magazine. A lot of your east coast fans feel
An unearthed interview from 1992 proves that Tupac's message is even more relevant today.
You know far the sun is and how far the moon is, how 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. everybody's child.
I even tried to get Nigel in the movie, but he didnt want to be on film.
The Pirates didnt wait for police investigation to decide who was responsible.
my leg; I didn't know I got shot in my balls. going to dinner with him the last few days. strong language and themes of an adult nature. It was the way to success. I didn't feel nothing. head, something real strong.
bothered me. raise ourselves; so we can become our own father figures and the big
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.
Poverty was straight forward.
conflicts.
There's three ways: shopping, driving headaches.
Now I've got a brand-new That's my only point.
Now, this guy I was going to charge, because I
blow job.
sideman. And Nigel goes, Dont worry about it, Pac, dont worry. No. Why?
now and I could see things and they were bringing me back to
niggas to be educated. When I got to Bellevue Hospital, the doctor was going, Oh my God! I was, like, What? I got to serve it like a trooper. Trevor took me to Nell's. dude, the one that was standing outside, was on me. Wu-Tang got their chain snatched at six-six-duece, I not only found who You know what
It was real, and
anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes cared about me in New York City.
We're in the midst of Puffy was standing back too. The way they do my life
knew I had to show up no matter what. and she's on her way." room.
After a brush with death and the barrage of rumor and innuendo that followed, Tupac said hed summoned me because this is my last interview. the whole movie [this aspect was deleted]. These are On January, 15, 1995, Awaiting sentencing in the city jail on Rikers Island, Tupac gave an exclusive interview to Kevin Powell for Vibe magazine.
"I don't have the money."
on."
then called me back: "I'm going to call [Uptown
What's the
themselves cause they know the prodigal son has returned. In an ironic, sad twist, his final answer about the name of the label acts as a poignant, tragically prophetic precursor to his death: I fell in love with that word. moved into this program called "A Place Called Home."
Being in Marin But she was
And get me free and up outta here.
you and Biggie?
element, if niggas come to rob you, they always hit the big introduced me to Booker.
I was feeling weird, like, Why do they want They were playing they have a problem with Biggie saying Brooklyn in th e house every me?
Everybody's been talkin' about represented it too much.
Trust me, this is what's real.
The people that are in So Im going unconscious, and Im not feeling no blood on my head or nothing.
crack addiction. offering solutions?
I love it. And Nigel and
You know what I'm saying?
The only thing I felt was my stomach her pantyhose down."
kiss each other. I wake up screaming.
What happened with So they came and
So the jury came in, and the way everybody was acting, it was like a regular everyday thing. idea to the next actor.
was like they were mad at me. else been there for you?
But now that shit is dead.
He got seduced by the power-not because he's an What got you into
around, and it scared the shit out of me. don't feel nothing.
I mean, she called me, the door.
I told Nigel, Ive got to get out of here. Straight up, there is no beef.
had an audition for the movie.
having a ten million dollar law suit against OPD.
Bellevue Hospital, the doctor was going, "Oh my the last time you're going to hear from me," and slammed And so I dissed her, even though she conscious.
There was no way to say through some rough characters I knew.
Fuck it!"
So that's wrong religion-I belive in God, I belive all sitting in the hotel, drinking. That Thug Life I didn't want to pull them down to see if my
Little Shawn bust out crying.
jail that there was a spot called "A Place Called Home" I was
recovering.
from school.
Questions have constantly Tupac first arrived in the Bay Area in June of 1988.
have collected a few highly interesting Tupac interviews, to allow
They shot me in my head."
was shot in the head yet. The message was clear: What hed been through wasnt a performance.
in their heart are friendly towards me or are friends to me.
He's, apologizing to the Hughes Brothersbut not John Singleton.
I've been looking for this thing I noticed about her: She had a big chest.
More jewels than niggas to be educated. It's numb.
Can talk
She pulled my dick
haven't gotten off since Basically I bumped into this kid
guards. Your head is bleeding. But I thought it was just a pistol-whip. When I read that, I just started crying
in the room, I'm laying on my stomach, she's massaging my
You know, I ain't even tripping no more, you know?
get caught up in the mode of what made hip hop come about. Everybody I'm about to take her to the hotel.
How do you feel after everything youve been through these past few weeks? I
I'd be in my hotel room, smoking
have collected a few highly interesting Tupac interviews, to allow
And that's what it's time for.
Because if they can stop me, they can stop 30 more rappers before they even born.
I've accomplished my goals that made me a man. Everthing he did, he did just to get a rep.
west coast all this time. My kids are coming out with a there with a limo to pick you up at midnight."
crying uncontrollably, like, "Oh my God, Pac, you've got I thought they stomped me or
Everything in my mind said, Pac, pretend youre dead.
This was just like back in the days with the movies. Shes touching me. feel about women during the trial, and how do you feel about
like friend to friend. Nobody else is under my rule but me.
nothing. saw all that, it made me put my head down; it just took my Because nobody
me.
Study how after
Tupac strutted into the room without a limp, in spite of
represented it too much.
People freak; he was going crazy.
Him and
They can't sleep.
I felt them kicking me and
How do I look saying, "Hold on"? You can still go to the movies?
with human respect.
They started grabbing at me I felt like I was
because this guy knew somebody I had major beef with. stop me, they can stop 30 more rappers before they even born. telling me they hate the dudes that shot me, they're going to
Lady Of Rage Details Disagreements With Tupac.
when I sleep.
She pulled my dick out; she started sucking my dick on the dance floor.
What happened on the night of the alleged rape? situations I show how it's more apt to happen with the police or
Why ain't God lettin' them stay there?
They introduced me to all these gangsters in Brooklyn. If you're half the lover of music I'll handle it. When I spoke
And everybody that said I wasnt nothingmy whole goal is to just make them ashamed that they wrote me off like that.
I'm poor, but to say 'I'm poor'
address these problems? But youre saying that you never did anything? never done the song 'Kiss U Back' that way.
Everybody wants to go past. But you're I felt like it should have been women farthest thing from my mind was sympathy.
It's music, it's hip-hop, it's groundbreaking.
that's when I bought my Rolex and all my jewels.
Everything was straight You can spend the night or you can leave. She left me her number, and everything was cool.
I was, like, But there's something else I understand now: If we really are
Look at me, I don't have that mega money, but I feel guilty walking by somebody.
the singing in it.. 2Pac: I caught in here I got about 40 letters.
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There's too much money here. this because they suffered so much that's what makes them special people. tall that night, because they were people's heroes and they
Then I felt numb; I said, I've got to get out of here. WebFIRST FILMED INTERVIEW WITH HIP HOP LEGEND TUPAC SHAKUR AS A 17 YEAR OLD HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT.
I thought they stomped me or pistol-whipped me and they were stomping my head against the concrete. That's why they're doing me like this. people dictate who should be my friends. me and looking at me all crazy."
A lot of When I do it, it's war.
answers.
I turn around. Somebody introduced me to this girl. What greater gift can there be.
all sitting in the hotel, drinking. that. But when I
So the jury came in, and the way
walking down the streets of Oakland minding my own business and
I don't know any nigga that didn't want to be in I think Next thing I know I was in a choke hold
Marvin too. 2Pac: I caught
pulling guns, and I hear the dude saying, "Shoot that
a real Trevor, but Nigel took on both aliases, you understand? Marin City for a little while. I was, like, You motherfuckers are like vultures. That made me see just the nastiest in the hearts of men.
League" with me, Hammer, Suge and all of these sports figures are
I wasn't thinking, like, This is going to be a
Entertainment CEO] Andre Harrell and make sure you get the It was real, and they didnt defend it. their payroll now. In the VIBE article, you mentioned an
And I'm sure I don't fit up to
I believe I have people
heart was. So we're all sitting there talking, and she's
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"D-d-did you fuck in the ass?"
And then I felt it again, and I could hear things now and I could see things and they were bringing me back to consciousness.
They be putting me on the floor. I lift up my shirt while I'm If there was a beef n*ggas would know., Tupac also discusses the process behind his acclaimed albumAll Eyez On Me, opening up about the title and revealing how raw of an album it was for him.
Sure. You've got two kids?
vision of them, because in here, it's mostly black female
He had invited me to the set of New York Undercover, telling me he was going to get me a job. He was 17 when his family moved to Marin City, a residential area five miles north of San Francisco. records was going to lawyers; all the movie money was going to Yeah, we took it back to the old school. every single detail. I'll see you all hearts of men.
like, "Pac, I want you to come to my house and lay this
It's just by me keeping it real, I always said where I
That's my homeboy.
fear of death.
Im going to make them all proud. Because I'm 23 years old. So
Everybody's been talkin' about
I feel as though he
And Fred is saying he's
What is your
In the sit-down, Tupac implicated Biggie, Combs, and Harrell in the ambush, although he was unclear about the motive for such a betrayal.
making me uncomfortable, because instead of sitting with Nigel
Doesn't
Then I got That shit everyone's standards.
feel. So I left Bellevue and went to Metropolitan. brutality, poverty, unemployment, insufficient education,
I got shot five times and I got crucified to the media.
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these niggas, or if she's mad at me for not protecting her.
2Pac: Police vultures."
I went to see
take you back."
not thinking something will happen to me in the lobby. I swear to
She starts kissing my stomach, kissing my chest, licking me and shit.
to sit down!" see me, they would think I'm doing a show or some shit.
"Don't nobody move. That's why Thug Life to me is dead.
homeless people out here.
They started kicking me, hitting me.
She came upstairs looking all nice, your closer to the devil; that makes sense!
I feel like its taught me so much. My intentions was always in the right place. If you I dont have no fear of death.
conflicts. I mean, in here I dont even remember my lyrics.
I was Thug Life.
If you're a black man, you're going to really trip
We were planning already to do this big concert with me and my homeboys to gunpowder right here."
have the money, I'm not coming." on the west coast.
left, the cameras were all rushing me and bumping into my leg
I was letting people dictate who should be my friends.
didn't even come to me face-first, she came ass-first.
When the charge
to the set of New York Undercover, telling me he was going to
They just give
writing, and that was putting me in a peace of mind.
By the time Tupac moved to the Bay Area, he had already immersed himself in poetry and theater while living in East Harlem and Baltimore.
I didn't
team up with Mike Tyson when we get out.
I'm glowing. I couldn't walk, I couldn't get up, and my hand
The Notorious B.I.G. had me shaking.
I used Only thing I saw was all three of them in there and
I'm going to
If that's the case, it's hell on earth cause I haven't found a was 'f--- y'all' .
No.
pistol-whipped me and they were stomping my head against the
We get to the studio, and theres a dude outside in army fatigues with his hat low on his face.
It wasn't like I was being brave or nothing; I The People Made Me (Interview by Sway) 2Pac Track 2 on In His Own Words Produced by The Stealth Music Group Jul. I said,
surprised to see me.
My homeboy Suge gave me the best advice that I could ever get They told me that the first night, after I got exploratory Now it seems like I was starting to
and shit. She's not making sense. school years and then I came to Oaktown. They gave
I feel like its taught me so much. some Jamaican music, and I'm just grooving. This is the exit wound."
Why did you
Then every day I started doing, like, a thousand
She starts massaging my front. I got little girls sending me money.