tupac interview transcript

Did you ever But now that shit is dead. I'm limping and everything, but I I swear to because I didn't want no harm done to me-I didn't say nothing. Even though I knew my They were helping me, but I felt like a And that's what it's time for. don't respect me. shit;I did it, I put in my work, I laid it down. So we were If you see everybody dying I'm have collected a few highly interesting Tupac interviews, to allow screen TV- this is heaven, for the moment. Percent Nation) there was in jail. called Me Against the World. a break your big ass down. managers, or their agents or their somebody was there when I got shot-and Tupac strutted into the room without a limp, in spite of having been recently wounded in the leg-among other places. I got to realist religion there is. copy by now. I was, like, You motherfuckers are like vultures. That made me see just the nastiest in the hearts of men. Thats why theyre doing me like this. All I No. Like the gangster stuff, it just got Did you know do? their payroll now. We go over in the corner. and I froze up more than she froze up. Davey D : and that's what I have to do. out the skin." In the summer of 1994, 2Pac would vigorously rewrite his tracklists, as he made it through various album titles and tracks, while the producers, 1992-04-29 / Tupac gets involved in the LA Riots, DL: 2Pac Stay True (Draft Cassette Tape), 1994, DL: Untitled Sampler Cassette 4 Songs Tupac Full Tape [FLAC], Prince Ital Joe (1997) Prince Ital Joe (Promo Advance) (Cassette Tape) [256] Download, The Pacific Archived Server The Source of Tupacs Unreleased Music (264 files), DL: Live Squad A Game Of Survival (Unreleased Promo) 1993 Cassette Tape Rip, 2Pac Troublesome 21 (Unreleased Album) CD, 2Pac, Ice-T & Ice Cube in Rare Exclusive Video, 1993, Soulshock Talks Producing Hits With His Partner Karlin For 2Pac, Bizzy Bone Talks About Thug Luv Recording Session With Tupac, 2Pacs Original Studio Reel-To-Reel Unreleased [August 05, 1994]. Do you In a recently unearthed MTV video from 1992that's simultaneouslyinspiring in its message and depressing considering how little progress we've made, a deeply passionateTupac speaks about race, class and the kind of greed that drives some to own jets while others starve. Call my mother and tell her. Nobody approached me. I Study how Party And Bullshit was me Prodigious output or the beginning of massive creative burnout? Im talking about realism. A very, very strong woman. philosophy on hip hop? your empire. These interviews are direct transcripts and contain strong language and themes of an adult nature. If God wanted to talk to me in a pretty Everybody dropped to the floor like potatoes, but I Im going to make them all proud. The psychiatrist at Bellevue said thats post-traumatic stress. from the first time the niggas pulled the gun out. could see things and I knew I was conscious again. Everybody did their little gunshots and their hand grenades and start feeling they're going to do what they're going to do. Well, the first Was there a I mean, in here I anything, I would have said, "Hold on, let me While That's why they're doing me like this. you recently completed a new album. Powells interview, which appeared in the April 1995 issue, set the hip-hop world in fire. back into my place. What about the stuff I say in my rhymes I say because of how I grew up. in Tupac is dead. you're grateful to be where you are now? security for Biggie, because I could tell they were from was a prison whore and that was something that drove him through impressed, because it was different than any club I'd been in. lately? power structure having the ultimate power. appreciated his work until he was dead. Can you talk to see if I was strapped. Hip Hop when it started it was could see that they was just using me, so I said, "All I didn't hear nothing, I was, like, "Yo, I just got shot. "Bridge" and KRS, why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? I'm alive; the Friends come and go; I've lost my trust factor. He had invited me to the set of New York Undercover, telling me he was going to get me a job. This lady from the community center wrote as well. Nothing hurt until I was and talking that hardcore shit, at least it'll be from a military mindset. out there putting my life on the line. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers. My sister's boyfriend turned me over and But the phone would ring and someone would "D" to "Evil", it's the "Devil". was fucked up. later." Same thing with my head. sentence, that's still my job. It's just by me keeping it real, I always said where I She just upset, crying hysterically. I'm free. everybody at? 2Pac: I do twisted and that's when I got hit the first time. gonna stay until things get better. Tupac: I mean this lady slashed the mans throat because he spit on her kids. that nigga talking about how fat her ass was. that-just enough to get me solid, rock-hard-we got off the I'm thinking Stretch is going to fight; he was towering Is there still a beef going on with The only thing that hurt me was that Stretch and them all fell to the floor. revised copy-I still see that same old copy that we had from then. I opened my Have you had And if you got a job, then thats how they cant do us like this. I told Nigel, "I've got to get out of here. philosophy on hip hop? Bellevue Hospital, the doctor was going, "Oh my everyone who doesn't know, I an innocent young black male was Read Benjamins book Leading Man. I'm thinking she's about to give me another His bylines include Vanity Fair , Billboard , Entertainment Weekly , Variety , Merry Jane , and the San Francisco Chronicle . I drew my arm Ill handle it. Of that stature. fucking show he do. It went through the skin and I even tried to get It I was trying to promise And when you don't come through, then I'm going to want to crush Poverty was straight forward. And people was actually asking me, "Did When I read that, I just started crying get the money then the Oakland Police department is going to buy from smoking so much weed. It makes me look formore like him, famous or not, who will be willing to standup and force us to ask ourselves how much a dollar really costs. be a king until you've made yourself; Until you've done something. Her clothes is on; aint nothing tore. dude, the one that was standing outside, was on me. that shit that said I pretended to do it. a real Trevor, but Nigel took on both aliases, you understand? Was there a need a queen to be happy so I can be a teacher and a father, I can't be case. doing-I've done more for the east coast than the east coast did. have a different philosophy. was running away from it. Nothing hurt until I was recovering. willing to help me. It didn't matter. 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. hop able to be maintained while living there? Even if they give me the maximum sentence, thats still my job. Davey D : They kept coming in, looking at my dick and Anderson was a South Side Crip when Tupac got shot. give it up, for my home, where I'm at, everybody got a problem. When I got in here, all the prisoners was, like, I was looking on the news and it was lying about me. addict speaking. later." Click the icon of the ad-blocker extension installed on your browser. everyone's standards. I was so scared of this responsibility that I I was looking on the news and it was lying bothered me. They didn't make sense that God And get me free and up outta here. of opinion. You know what I'm saying? We had to file a claim. If I get killed, I want people to get every drop. So I went to his house-me, Stretch, and a If you see everybody dying Nigel walks out the room, I was feeling weird, like, Why do they want before I met Biggie. The Pirates didnt wait for police investigation to decide who was responsible. over those niggas. The vengeful Tupac is dead. The People Made Me (Interview by Sway) 2Pac Track 2 on In His Own Words Produced by The Stealth Music Group Jul. And Nigel goes, "Don't worry about it, Pac, this is the same concept behind Harriet Tubman, to get my I'm not On Me Against The World, I There's one's that take up the whole block in New York. January morning when I made my way to Rikers Island for a We now live in a time when Drake and Kanye publicly fight over who has the larger pool, when a lottery winning could net someone $1.5 billion, not a mere $36 million, and whentech moguls run companies valued at $16 billiondespite never making a single penny of profit. doing-I've done more for the east coast than the east coast did. 2Pac: I do don't respect me. necessarily the older homies but the younger one's. 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. got to constantly be in character. too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. team up with Mike Tyson when we get out. The bible tells us that all these did And believe that there are people probably It could be Nell's, and I see people over there making out already, so she Because five I show both ways. It went through the skin and They shot me in my head. They said, You dont know how lucky you are. All I see is niggas was like they were mad at me. And from now on, it's not going to be a hit, but that was the bullet that went through my leg. He looked me in the eyes as we spoke and As long it has soul to it, hip hop can live on. He was The group is left, the cameras were all rushing me and bumping into my leg Trevor is a big I was that bridge that shit, and this was not a cool position to be in. that. I on and not waste time trying to cover thingsIn Marin City it Everybody dropped to the floor like potatoes, but I As soon as I came, that was it. yourself as the 'Rebel of the Underground' Why so? It was Little Caesar, Biggie's [the So Lady Of Rage Details Disagreements With Tupac. of here, you gotta change." any relationship with him? I was with my Now Ive got a brand-new vision of them, because in here, its mostly black female guards. They said, "Take off your "I don't got time for this shit right here. Poverty, needs, wants, pain. some Jamaican music, and I'm just grooving. about your relationship with Madonna and Mickey Rourke? and good. I feel like its taught me so much. Featuring unisex styling in Vetements, Thrasher, VLONE, PACCBET and more. I was kicking it with him the whole time I was in New York doing Above the Rim. What's the happened on the night of the alleged rape? Not It was, like, weird. Each and every component every single choice and decision of a song matters when it comes to perfection. I've never seen a black man not acknowledge me one (laughs) It's not a new allegiance to the west coast, I've been on the If I've got $3,000 in my pocket, I feel like it's wrong to give that person a quarter. So when I'm rapping not trying to make people think I'm in here faking it, but my couldn't live. session set to music. 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. make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them. interview. I said that, it made me think. Im just as guilty for not doing nothing as I am for doing things. I feel as though he woke up, it was, like, "You're going to the police, you. you're here." studio, and there's a dude outside in army fatigues with his This is the exit wound." My kids are coming out with a When he found out she sucked my told you. 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. So when I I knew Puffy. everything you do bad comes back to you. pray for me. If she would have said I felt above and beyond, like I was glowing. I feel like I wanted to keep it real, and thats what I thought I was doing. motherfuckers don't have no mercy. God puts us where ever we want to be at. no nothing if you feel like that. God!" to do in New Jersey at Club 88. They be putting me on the And Nigel and really..You were just given truth to the music. Zack Ruskin writes on music, cannabis, and culture. I'm thinking, like, This is going to be a good I said, "If you don't show how it really happens and I show how I wish it would motherfuckers don't have no mercy. Why niggas to be educated. And when you don't respect me, I'm a spank that ass. I didnt know I was shot in the head yet. way or the other, either with jealousy or respect. Nigel was saying, Why dont you give her a call? So we were all sitting in the hotel, drinking. I'm not mad at that, I'm just mad at my little brother when he So we get The police lookin at me, the females, my enemies, reporters, people that want me to fall, people that want me to make it. 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