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Tupac: I got shot.

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I always felt like I'd be shot.

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Somebody was trying
to do me some harm

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because a lot of people don't like me.

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But I didn't think it was gonna happen
at that particular moment.

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I'm surprised, but I'm happy.

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I believe that, you know,
this is all in god's hands.

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And I'm very appreciative to god
for everything I've gotten to do.

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But also, about death, we look at
death from the selfish side, like:

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"That guy died. Oh, it's so sad."
Why is it sad?

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He's away from all of this
bad stuff that's here on earth.

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I mean, at the worst, he's just
somewhere quiet, no nothing.

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At best, he's an angel...
Or he's a spirit somewhere.

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What is so bad about that?

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Throughout my life, I just wanted
to be like an angel for god,

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do something
where I could be of some help.

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And I can do that.
I mean, I'm an artist.

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It's not like I have to
tell the truth. I have to tell a story

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and reach you and get
some kind of feeling from you.

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And then try to get the moral across.

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So this is my story.

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A story about ambition,
violence, redemption and love.

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In my life, I was different things
for different people.

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What's up, nigga?

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Don't fuck around with real gs
quick to snatch your ugly ass

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- off the streets
- So fuck peace

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I let them niggas know
it's on for life

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so let the West Side ride tonight

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bad boy murdered on wax and killed

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- fuck with me you'll get your...
- Caps peeled

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yeah, my niggas say...

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Some people say
I was a thug and a gangsta.

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Other people remember me
as a poet and a born leader.

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But I'm saying to you
measure a man by his actions fully,

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through his whole life,
from the beginning to the end.

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Everybody's past
is what made their future.

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It's, like, about destiny.

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Speak, drums tell the real story

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my mother was a black panther,

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and she was really involved
in the movement.

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Crowd: Power! Man: Power!

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Man: Power to the people!
Crowd: Power to the people!

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You know, just black people bettering
themselves and things like that.

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She had a high position in the
panther party, which was unheard of,

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because there was sexism,
even in the panthers.

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All of my roots
to the struggle are real deep.

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I was named after this inca chief
from south America

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whose name was Tupac amaru.
And I think the tribal breakdown

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means, like, intelligent warrior,
something like that. He's a deep dude.

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If I go to south America,
they're gonna love me.

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My stepfather at the time,
mutulu shakur,

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he was also, like,
a well-known revolutionary.

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And then my godfather,
Geronimo Pratt,

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had a top official rank position
with the panthers on the west coast.

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You can jail a revolutionary,
but you can't jail a revolution.

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I think that my mother,
like Fred Hampton, Mark Clark,

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Harriet tubman, they felt
like they were laying tracks

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for a generation to come.

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Come in, little brothers, sisters.

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Y'all sit down
and get something to eat.

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There was always
white people around helping out.

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But still, you know, there's racism.

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So when the panthers hit,
the government panicked.

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And they felt like the panthers were
detrimental to American society.

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Remember, this country had
a man named j. Edgar hoover,

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whose job it was to destroy

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the credibility of any black man
coming up.

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That's what they did to the panthers.

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Power to the people.

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The government raided every
panther's house, especially the ones

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who they felt like could do
the most damage as an orator.

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So they just burst in and put a gun
to my mother's head and said:

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"Don't move. You're under arrest."

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They treated her
like less than human.

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My mother was pregnant
with me while she was in prison.

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She was her own attorney,
never been to law school.

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She was facing 300
and something odd years.

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One black woman,
pregnant, beat the case.

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That just goes to show you
the strength of a black woman

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and the strength of the oppressed.

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And a month after she got out
of prison, she gave birth to me.

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So I was cultivated in prison.
My embryo was in prison.

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When I was a little baby, I remember
that one moment of calm peace,

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and three minutes after that,
it was on.

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I rebelled against my mother
because she was in the movement

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and we never spent time together. She
was speaking and going to colleges.

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I used to feel like she cared more
about the people than her people.

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And then after that was over,
it was more time spent with me,

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and we were like, "you're my mother."
She was like, "you're my son."

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Then she was really close
with me and really strict, almost.

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My mother is totally brilliant,
totally understanding and caring.

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And she's human. I mean, she'll be
wrong a lot, but we can talk about it.

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She taught me how
to be community-oriented,

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and to analyze society.

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Me and my sister grew up good, and
we have good minds and everything.

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But we just didn't have money.

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Poverty is...

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It's no joke. If there was no money
and everything depended

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on your moral standards
and the way you treated people,

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we'd be millionaires. We'd be rich.

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But, since it's not like that,
then we're stone-broke.

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I can't always have what I want
or things that I think I need.

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Poverty, if I hated anything,
it would be that.

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You and me were born
and raised in Harlem.

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And every time you put it down,
you're not only putting us down,

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but mama and papa.

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Tupac: My real father was
a black panther,

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but when I was growing up, I never
knew who my father was for sure.

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My stepfather was a gangster,
a straight-up street hustler.

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My mom had a kid,
he didn't even care.

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He's like, "that's my son,"
took care of me, gave me money.

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He was a criminal too,
out doing his thing.

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So he only came,
brought me money and then left.

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It's okay to go to Harlem

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and celebrate your birthday
with your friends,

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but I don't think
we would really fit in.

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I hate saying this because whites
love hearing blacks talk about this.

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I know for a fact that,
had I had a father,

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I'd have had some discipline,
I'd have had more confidence.

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Your mother cannot calm you down
the way a man can.

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Your mother can't reassure you
the way a man can.

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My mother couldn't show me
where my manhood was.

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You need a man to teach you
how to be a man.

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When I was young,
I was quiet, withdrawn.

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I read a lot. I wrote poetry.
I kept a diary.

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I watched TV all the time.
I stayed in front of the television.

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And I could see all these people
out there in this pretend world.

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And I knew I could be
part of it if I pretended too.

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The way Arnold looked
on diff'rent strokes,

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I used to like the lifestyle,
the way he used to live.

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So early on,
I just watched and emulated.

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I thought if I can be an actor
and act like those characters,

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I could have some of their joy.

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Oh, thank you, Mr. d!

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If I could act like I had a big
family, I wouldn't feel as lonely.

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My first acting job
was at the Apollo theater

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when Jesse Jackson
was running for president in 1984.

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It was a fundraiser,
and I was a little kid.

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Travis, from raisin in the sun.
When the curtain went up,

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I just caught that bug
that everybody talks about.

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I was like, "whoa, this is it."

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It was better than sex and anything,
money, everything. It was like, "whoa,

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"I want this."

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We moved out of New York
because my mother lost her job.

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We were, like, stranded.

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So we moved to Baltimore...

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Which was total ignorance town
to me.

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I mean, Baltimore has the highest rate

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of blacks killing blacks
in the country.

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Then I auditioned for the Baltimore
school of performing arts.

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Then I started
to have good-luck times.

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Parents are the same
no matter time nor place

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they don't understand that us kids
are gonna make some mistakes

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so to you, all the kids all across
the land, there's no need to argue

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parents just don't understand

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I spent three years in Baltimore,
high-school years. I made friends,

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like Jon Cole and Jada pinkett.

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You should've seen
this girl's bodily dimensions

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I honked my horn to get her attention
she said, "was that for me?"

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I said, "yeah" she said, "why?"

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I said, "come on and take a ride
with a hell of a guy”

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Tupac: I loved my classes.
We were exposed to everything.

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You know, theater, ballet...

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Listening to different types
of music,

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songs that became
a soundtrack to my life.

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But in my homeboys' high school,
it's not like that.

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They don't have trips
to go see this Broadway play,

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they don't read things we read.
They didn't know when I was like:

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"Yo, Shakespeare's dope." They don't
have the same experiences we had.

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Then I started thinking
the art school I went to

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was mostly for white kids
and rich minorities.

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I started going, "I would have
been totally different

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"had I not been exposed to this."

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I was living in the ghetto.
We didn't have lights and electricity.

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- We was about to get evicted.
- We want home!

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We want heat! We want lights!

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We want something
to do for our children!

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I thought, "we're not being taught
to deal with the world as it is."

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The rich should live
like the poor,

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the poor should live like the rich.
They should change every week.

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The president stirred up
a hornets' nest earlier this week

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when he suggested
the problems of the hungry

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came about because they were
uninformed about where to go for help.

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How could Reagan live in a white
house, which has a lot of rooms,

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and there be homelessness?
And he's talking about helping.

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I don't believe that there is anyone

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that is going hungry in America
simply by reason

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of denial or lack of ability
to feed them.

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It is by people not knowing
where or how to get this help.

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Tupac: Why can't he take
people off the street

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and put them in his white house?

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Then he'll have people from the
streets to help him with his ideas.

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Not helpless! Homeless! Not helpless!

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Tupac: They haven't been homeless
forever. They've done things in society.

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The white house would be tainted
because he doesn't want to get dirty.

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Tupac: Growing up in America,
I loved my childhood,

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but I hated growing up poor.

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We live in hell. We live in
the gutter. We live in a war zone.

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We've got us stacked up 80-deep
in one building.

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When you get out your house,
you're strapped to protect yourself.

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Tupac: The same crime element
that white people are scared of

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black people are scared of.

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While they waiting for legislation
to pass, we next door to the killer.

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All them killers they let out,
they're in that building.

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Just because we black,
we get along with the killers?

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What is that?
We need protection too.

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Tupac: Then I came to California
to escape that violence.

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Come to marin city,
and there's even more poverty.

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I was starting to see the one thing
we have in common

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as black people,
is we share that poverty.

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I made it to where I had knowledge
this wasn't just me.

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It was a bigger picture.
It was my people getting dogged.

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It wasn't just my family.
It was all of us.

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Moving to Baltimore and Oakland
and marin and New York,

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and the poverty helped me
to relate to everybody's struggle.

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Don't get the wrong idea.
I feel like I'm being gloomy.

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I don't mean just to be like,
"damn it, it's bad out there."

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I still try to be positive.

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I know that good things
are gonna come for me.

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Woman: Where you go to school?
Man: Are you rolling?

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Man 2: Yeah, rolling.
Man: Go ahead, that's okay.

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You dressed right for it.

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Woman: He said he's been a little
chilly, so this is good for him.

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- Somebody will enjoy the heat in here.
- Anytime.

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Okay. My name is Tupac shakur,
and I attend tamalpais high school.

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And I'm 17 years old.

229
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Tupac: Oh, my god,
I got the phattest déja vu.

230
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I chased girls and bought the car
and loud music,

231
00:17:54,448 --> 00:17:57,940
but I like to think of myself
as really being socially aware.

232
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Kept my history a mystery
but now I see

233
00:18:00,329 --> 00:18:02,069
the American dream
wasn't meant for me

234
00:18:02,164 --> 00:18:04,951
'cause lady Liberty's a hypocrite
she lied to me

235
00:18:05,042 --> 00:18:07,124
promised me freedom, education
equality

236
00:18:07,211 --> 00:18:09,873
I think there should be
a class on drugs.

237
00:18:09,964 --> 00:18:13,456
There should be a class on sex
education, a real sex-education class.

238
00:18:15,970 --> 00:18:18,382
There should be a class
on police brutality.

239
00:18:19,098 --> 00:18:21,054
There should be a class on apartheid.

240
00:18:23,769 --> 00:18:26,306
There should be a class
on why people are hungry.

241
00:18:26,397 --> 00:18:29,355
But there are not.
There are classes on gym.

242
00:18:32,069 --> 00:18:34,230
Physical education.
Let's learn volleyball.

243
00:18:34,322 --> 00:18:36,187
Fathers of this country
never cared for me

244
00:18:36,282 --> 00:18:38,523
they kept my ancestors
shackled up in slavery

245
00:18:38,618 --> 00:18:40,904
and uncle Sam never did
a damn thing for me

246
00:18:40,995 --> 00:18:43,236
except lie about the facts
in my history

247
00:18:43,331 --> 00:18:45,538
now I'm sitting here mad
because I'm unemployed

248
00:18:45,625 --> 00:18:47,832
but the government's glad
because they enjoy

249
00:18:47,918 --> 00:18:50,079
when my people are down
so they can screw us around

250
00:18:50,171 --> 00:18:52,378
time to change the government now
no more

251
00:18:52,590 --> 00:18:55,002
how do you think
you're most like your mom?

252
00:18:55,551 --> 00:18:59,920
I'm most like my mom because
I'm arrogant. Totally arrogant.

253
00:19:01,766 --> 00:19:04,007
You should see us when we get
in our attitude moods.

254
00:19:04,185 --> 00:19:07,643
We get in our tiffs and everything,
but it's good.

255
00:19:07,980 --> 00:19:10,892
My mom's my homey,
but we went through our stages,

256
00:19:10,983 --> 00:19:13,520
where first we was mother and son,

257
00:19:13,736 --> 00:19:16,068
then it was like drill sergeant
and cadet.

258
00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:20,148
Then it was like dictator,
little country.

259
00:19:21,744 --> 00:19:24,030
Then I moved out,
and I was on my own.

260
00:19:24,121 --> 00:19:26,077
I was broke, nowhere to stay.

261
00:19:26,165 --> 00:19:29,123
I smoked weed.
I hung out with the drug dealers,

262
00:19:29,210 --> 00:19:31,496
pimps and the criminals.

263
00:19:31,587 --> 00:19:33,828
They were the only people
that cared about me.

264
00:19:33,923 --> 00:19:37,290
And I needed a father.
I needed a male influence,

265
00:19:37,385 --> 00:19:38,716
and these were the males.

266
00:19:42,682 --> 00:19:45,890
You could see where I spent time
in the streets when you talk to me.

267
00:19:45,976 --> 00:19:49,309
The words I say don't come
from a mother's or father's mouth.

268
00:19:49,397 --> 00:19:50,807
They come from a pimp's mouth

269
00:19:50,898 --> 00:19:53,560
or a prostitute
or a hustler or drug dealer.

270
00:19:54,902 --> 00:19:56,767
To me, these were my role models.

271
00:19:57,655 --> 00:20:01,864
My mom was lost at that particular
moment. She was addicted to crack.

272
00:20:02,284 --> 00:20:05,401
It was hard. It was hard
because she was my hero.

273
00:20:05,579 --> 00:20:08,036
Not long ago in Oakland, California,

274
00:20:08,249 --> 00:20:12,083
I was asked by a group of children
what to do if they were offered drugs.

275
00:20:12,294 --> 00:20:15,081
And I answered, "just say no."

276
00:20:15,965 --> 00:20:20,049
I was broke. I didn't have enough
credits to graduate, so I dropped out.

277
00:20:20,136 --> 00:20:22,843
I said, "I gotta get paid.
I gotta make a living."

278
00:20:23,305 --> 00:20:26,047
I started selling drugs
for maybe two weeks.

279
00:20:26,142 --> 00:20:29,430
The dude was like, "give me my drugs
back," because I didn't know how.

280
00:20:29,645 --> 00:20:33,183
The dope dealers used to look out
for me. They would give me money

281
00:20:33,274 --> 00:20:36,732
and be like, "don't get involved with
this. Get out there, do your dream."

282
00:20:36,819 --> 00:20:38,810
So they was like my sponsors.

283
00:20:39,488 --> 00:20:42,150
My dream was
to make a living rapping.

284
00:20:42,366 --> 00:20:44,903
Just to make music
that was coming from my heart.

285
00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,407
When I first started rapping, I needed
the money, and I had to work.

286
00:20:51,417 --> 00:20:53,954
Do the humpty hump
do the humpty hump

287
00:20:54,044 --> 00:20:55,909
sexy baby

288
00:20:56,130 --> 00:21:03,300
do the humpty hump
do the humpty hump

289
00:21:07,767 --> 00:21:08,767
that was me.

290
00:21:20,029 --> 00:21:22,236
For me to get paid,
I had to go out in bikini briefs

291
00:21:22,323 --> 00:21:23,984
and hop on top of this doll.

292
00:21:24,074 --> 00:21:26,156
I was homeless.
That's what I had to do.

293
00:21:26,243 --> 00:21:29,110
You have to work from one point
to go to another point.

294
00:21:29,205 --> 00:21:30,786
I admire the work ethic.

295
00:21:30,873 --> 00:21:35,207
Do the humpty hump
do the humpty hump

296
00:21:35,294 --> 00:21:38,707
do the humpty hump
just watch me do the humpty hump

297
00:21:39,215 --> 00:21:41,126
Tupac: Shock was responsible
for my success.

298
00:21:41,258 --> 00:21:44,500
I'm the original two-tone,
big-nosed, skinny rapper.

299
00:21:44,595 --> 00:21:45,675
Tupac: Shock g.

300
00:21:47,807 --> 00:21:51,550
Leila introduced me to atron who
was managing digital underground.

301
00:21:51,644 --> 00:21:54,602
He was like, "I'll send you to digital
underground. They're in the studio.

302
00:21:54,897 --> 00:21:58,060
"Rap for shock g on the spot.
If he like you, I'll pick you up."

303
00:22:00,069 --> 00:22:01,400
I walked in and rapped.

304
00:22:01,487 --> 00:22:04,604
He was like, "good. You're in."
Boom, boom. "See you later."

305
00:22:04,990 --> 00:22:07,197
And I left, walked out
of there like, "dang."

306
00:22:10,579 --> 00:22:15,243
Shock was like, "come on the road.
Be my roadie. It ain't glamorous.

307
00:22:15,334 --> 00:22:17,950
"You'll be working, meeting people.”
I said, "cool."

308
00:22:18,045 --> 00:22:21,754
Off the road, he said, "I'm gonna pay
you and let you do same song."

309
00:22:21,841 --> 00:22:24,207
I did same song.
Ever since, it's been on.

310
00:22:24,301 --> 00:22:26,758
- Tupac, rock this
- I clown around when I hang

311
00:22:26,846 --> 00:22:28,177
around with the underground

312
00:22:28,264 --> 00:22:30,424
girls who used to frown
say I'm down when I come around

313
00:22:30,474 --> 00:22:32,760
gas me and when they pass me
they used to diss me

314
00:22:32,852 --> 00:22:35,138
harass me but now they ask me
if they can kiss me

315
00:22:35,229 --> 00:22:37,515
get some fame, people change
wanna live their life high

316
00:22:37,606 --> 00:22:39,486
same song, can't go wrong
if I play the nice guy

317
00:22:39,567 --> 00:22:42,183
claiming fame must have changed
now that we became strong

318
00:22:42,278 --> 00:22:44,360
I remain, still the same
because it's the same song

319
00:22:45,948 --> 00:22:48,155
I look back
with the greatest fondness.

320
00:22:48,242 --> 00:22:50,233
Those were some of the best times.

321
00:22:50,452 --> 00:22:51,658
Watch this one.

322
00:22:53,914 --> 00:22:57,498
I'm gonna fuck you up.
I'm gonna fuck you up.

323
00:23:00,588 --> 00:23:04,172
Dj Mark, “the 45 king"
this is your thing

324
00:23:04,258 --> 00:23:06,965
check out how we swing
look at my ding-a-ling

325
00:23:07,052 --> 00:23:09,885
and know that I am the king
a lyrical lunatic

326
00:23:09,972 --> 00:23:12,509
I can rap slow or quick
about fishing or politics

327
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,966
it don't matter because girls
be on your dick

328
00:23:21,859 --> 00:23:25,272
Tupac: Atron had been shopping
my demo tape as a solo album.

329
00:23:25,362 --> 00:23:27,819
All of a sudden,
interscope got in touch with us,

330
00:23:27,907 --> 00:23:30,023
and I was told that Ted field,

331
00:23:30,117 --> 00:23:34,326
this millionaire, multimillionaire,
his daughter had heard my demo,

332
00:23:34,538 --> 00:23:37,701
and she liked it. So he was like,
"that's how I picked you."

333
00:23:37,917 --> 00:23:40,329
And I was like,
"well, tell your daughter thanks."

334
00:23:40,544 --> 00:23:43,126
You know you gotta love
the sound, it's from the rebel

335
00:23:43,589 --> 00:23:45,580
the rebel of the underground

336
00:23:45,674 --> 00:23:48,211
so I went from being unknown
to now having a platinum record.

337
00:23:49,428 --> 00:23:53,216
2pacalypse now is a story of a young
black male, from track one to 13,

338
00:23:53,307 --> 00:23:58,347
whether it be about teenage pregnancy,
police brutality or poverty.

339
00:23:58,437 --> 00:24:00,803
Also, I tell my own personal problems.

340
00:24:03,484 --> 00:24:07,693
All my songs deal with the pain
that I've felt from my childhood.

341
00:24:07,780 --> 00:24:10,237
That's what makes me do what I do.

342
00:24:26,590 --> 00:24:28,797
My inspiration
for writing music is, like,

343
00:24:28,884 --> 00:24:30,920
Don mclean when he did Vincent,

344
00:24:31,011 --> 00:24:33,127
Lorraine hansberry
with raisin in the sun,

345
00:24:33,222 --> 00:24:35,008
Shakespeare when he does his things.

346
00:24:37,768 --> 00:24:40,384
Like deep stories, you know,
like raw human needs.

347
00:24:49,571 --> 00:24:53,655
I just try to speak about things
that affect me and our community.

348
00:24:53,742 --> 00:24:56,279
Sometimes I'm the watcher
and sometimes the participant.

349
00:24:56,370 --> 00:24:59,737
Sometimes it's just allegories
or fables that have a moral

350
00:24:59,832 --> 00:25:01,993
or theme,
like the ghetto lifestyle.

351
00:25:02,084 --> 00:25:05,167
Brenda's belly's getting bigger
but no one seems to notice

352
00:25:05,254 --> 00:25:08,041
any change in her figure
she's 12 years old

353
00:25:08,132 --> 00:25:10,965
and she's having a baby
in love with the molester

354
00:25:11,051 --> 00:25:12,882
who's sexing her crazy

355
00:25:12,970 --> 00:25:15,427
she thinks that he'll be
with her forever

356
00:25:15,514 --> 00:25:17,926
and dreams of a world
where the two of them are together

357
00:25:18,017 --> 00:25:19,017
whatever

358
00:25:19,518 --> 00:25:22,806
I seen that, the crack babies,
what we had to go through,

359
00:25:22,896 --> 00:25:25,729
losing everything and being poor
and getting beat down.

360
00:25:25,816 --> 00:25:28,057
Being the person I am, I said,
"no, I'm changing this."

361
00:25:31,321 --> 00:25:32,902
I'm trying to think of a good analogy.

362
00:25:32,990 --> 00:25:36,653
It's like you've
got the Vietnam war, right?

363
00:25:37,828 --> 00:25:41,070
And just because the reporters
show us pictures at home

364
00:25:41,165 --> 00:25:45,033
of the vietham war, that's what made
the Vietnam war end when it did,

365
00:25:45,127 --> 00:25:46,927
or the shit probably
would have lasted longer.

366
00:25:54,136 --> 00:25:56,343
If no one knew
exactly what was going on,

367
00:25:56,430 --> 00:26:00,048
we just thought they were just dying
valiantly, in some beautiful way.

368
00:26:01,060 --> 00:26:04,769
But because we saw the horror, that's
what made us stop the Vietnam war.

369
00:26:05,105 --> 00:26:07,847
I thought, "that's what I'l
do as an artist, as a rapper.

370
00:26:07,941 --> 00:26:10,648
"I'm gonna show the graphic details
of what I see

371
00:26:10,736 --> 00:26:14,900
“in my community,
and hopefully they'll stop it, quit."

372
00:26:19,244 --> 00:26:21,986
Hello, I'm Tanya hart,
and welcome to our show.

373
00:26:22,081 --> 00:26:24,288
My guest today has experienced

374
00:26:24,374 --> 00:26:27,286
a truly horrendous life
to just be 20 years old.

375
00:26:27,503 --> 00:26:30,995
His family portrait could well be
a poster for America's most wanted.

376
00:26:31,340 --> 00:26:35,959
His lyrics are controversial but also
a reality of life as he has seen it.

377
00:26:36,053 --> 00:26:37,918
Tupac: My ear is to the streets.

378
00:26:38,013 --> 00:26:40,846
I represent 20 years
on this planet earth

379
00:26:41,225 --> 00:26:42,931
and what I've seen.
This is my report.

380
00:26:43,769 --> 00:26:45,600
It's like my battle cry to America.

381
00:26:45,813 --> 00:26:46,973
They got me trapped

382
00:26:49,316 --> 00:26:50,977
uh-uh, they can't keep
the black man down

383
00:26:51,068 --> 00:26:52,103
they got me trapped

384
00:26:54,780 --> 00:26:56,611
no, they can't keep
the black man down

385
00:26:56,698 --> 00:26:59,861
in my album, the number one enemy
is the crooked police officer.

386
00:26:59,952 --> 00:27:02,443
They got me trapped
can barely walk the city streets

387
00:27:02,538 --> 00:27:05,655
without a cop har-asking me
searching me then asking my identity

388
00:27:05,833 --> 00:27:08,916
and the ironic thing
is that it never happened to me.

389
00:27:09,002 --> 00:27:11,288
I was speaking
from the stories of my peers.

390
00:27:11,380 --> 00:27:14,622
Cuffed up, throw me on the concrete
coppers try to kill me

391
00:27:14,967 --> 00:27:17,834
I mean, I said all of these things,
and then it happened to me.

392
00:27:19,012 --> 00:27:22,630
I had no record, all my life, no
police record, until I made a record.

393
00:27:22,850 --> 00:27:25,592
As my video was debuting on mtv,
I was behind bars,

394
00:27:25,686 --> 00:27:27,551
getting beat up
by the police department.

395
00:27:28,147 --> 00:27:31,230
Good morning.
My name is John burris,

396
00:27:31,316 --> 00:27:36,561
and I am here today with my client,
Tupac amaru shakur,

397
00:27:36,655 --> 00:27:42,446
as well as other members of the, uh,
digital underground, uh, rap group

398
00:27:42,661 --> 00:27:49,123
and some members of the
digital, uh, underground, uh, rap group,

399
00:27:49,209 --> 00:27:51,575
a combination
of the various, um, groups.

400
00:27:53,088 --> 00:27:57,172
Tupac: Basically, I walked across
the street at 17th and Broadway.

401
00:27:57,259 --> 00:28:00,968
The police officers stopped me on
the sidewalk and asked to see my ID.

402
00:28:02,055 --> 00:28:05,297
They sweated me about my name.
The officers said:

403
00:28:05,392 --> 00:28:06,882
"You have to learn your place."

404
00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:09,893
They were charging me
with jaywalking.

405
00:28:09,980 --> 00:28:14,098
I was riffing, arguing about why would
they charge me with a petty crime.

406
00:28:15,777 --> 00:28:20,146
I kept yelling, asking them
to give me my citation and let me go.

407
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,698
Next thing I know, my face
was being buried into the concrete,

408
00:28:23,785 --> 00:28:26,322
and I was laying facedown
in the gutter,

409
00:28:26,413 --> 00:28:29,075
waking up
from being unconscious in cuffs

410
00:28:30,083 --> 00:28:33,746
with blood on my face. And I'm going
to jail for resisting arrest.

411
00:28:33,837 --> 00:28:35,247
That's harassment to me,

412
00:28:35,339 --> 00:28:37,705
that I have to be stopped
in the street and checked,

413
00:28:37,799 --> 00:28:40,085
like we're in South Africa
and asked for my ID.

414
00:28:40,177 --> 00:28:43,385
Officer boyavich repeatedly
slammed my face into the floor,

415
00:28:43,472 --> 00:28:46,964
while Rogers put the cuffs on.
That's not called for, for jaywalking.

416
00:28:47,893 --> 00:28:51,351
I got a ten-million-dollar lawsuit.
They said they would settle,

417
00:28:51,438 --> 00:28:54,271
but nobody cared.
That wasn't blew up all over the news.

418
00:28:54,358 --> 00:28:59,148
They didn't see me on TV with my eye
and head busted. There are pictures.

419
00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:01,691
In Oakland?
Yes. You don't see them.

420
00:29:01,782 --> 00:29:04,524
You see pictures of Tupac
coming out of jail in cuffs.

421
00:29:04,618 --> 00:29:07,530
You don't see pictures of police,
beating my brains in.

422
00:29:07,621 --> 00:29:11,489
You don't see that.
But I see that. That's what I see.

423
00:29:17,297 --> 00:29:19,538
We have seen what they did
to Rodney king.

424
00:29:19,633 --> 00:29:22,966
The whole world has seen
what happened to Rodney king.

425
00:29:23,053 --> 00:29:25,544
Baby, let me show you
what they did to Tupac shakur.

426
00:29:25,639 --> 00:29:28,301
All that movie, that didn't
mean nothing to opd.

427
00:29:28,392 --> 00:29:31,600
I was still an n-i-g-g-a,
and they proved it.

428
00:29:31,687 --> 00:29:33,598
And if you can see this,
Mr. cameraman,

429
00:29:33,689 --> 00:29:35,771
this is scars
I'll go to my grave with.

430
00:29:35,857 --> 00:29:36,857
I can see it.

431
00:29:36,942 --> 00:29:38,648
These are
"learn to be a nigger" scars.

432
00:29:38,735 --> 00:29:40,726
- You're suing them?
- For ten mil.

433
00:29:40,821 --> 00:29:44,029
What else can I do? See what happens.
You know how that go.

434
00:29:44,116 --> 00:29:47,779
Rodney king's still fighting for his,
and they got it on tape.

435
00:29:47,869 --> 00:29:48,904
They got it on tape.

436
00:29:48,996 --> 00:29:51,578
One day I'm gonna bust
blow up on this society

437
00:29:51,665 --> 00:29:54,828
why did you lie to me?
I couldn't find a trace of equality

438
00:29:54,918 --> 00:29:57,079
- they settled with me.
- Tabitha Soren: They did?

439
00:29:57,170 --> 00:30:01,083
They gave me 42,000.
I had to pay my lawyer a whole bunch

440
00:30:01,174 --> 00:30:02,334
and bought a car.

441
00:30:03,260 --> 00:30:05,125
I settled
because I was tired of court.

442
00:30:05,220 --> 00:30:07,927
I could have won more,
but I was tired of going to court.

443
00:30:08,974 --> 00:30:12,592
I felt like any dollar from any police
department was good money.

444
00:30:12,728 --> 00:30:16,846
- So you got $42,000 for jaywalking?
- That's a hell of a ticket.

445
00:30:16,940 --> 00:30:19,647
After that case,
people perceived me as a menace.

446
00:30:19,735 --> 00:30:23,569
I've had chief of police,
vice president,

447
00:30:23,655 --> 00:30:26,488
the leader of the
black national women's council...

448
00:30:27,868 --> 00:30:30,655
Everybody against me. Why? Why me?

449
00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:36,369
I have not brought violence to you. I
have not brought thug life to America.

450
00:30:36,460 --> 00:30:39,668
I didn't create thug life.
I diagnosed it.

451
00:30:43,592 --> 00:30:44,672
What's up?

452
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,503
When I did juice,
my image got even more scary.

453
00:30:48,972 --> 00:30:51,429
Everything starts from now.

454
00:30:51,516 --> 00:30:53,472
We all go down
unless we stay together.

455
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,721
No one's above the crew.
You know that shit.

456
00:30:56,229 --> 00:30:57,514
You're crazy, man.

457
00:30:59,024 --> 00:31:02,266
When I auditioned for juice,
that was another good-luck time.

458
00:31:02,361 --> 00:31:06,604
It was my first big part, and I just
took everything and internalized it.

459
00:31:06,907 --> 00:31:07,987
You're right.

460
00:31:09,576 --> 00:31:11,157
I am crazy.

461
00:31:11,453 --> 00:31:12,784
But you know what else?

462
00:31:15,540 --> 00:31:17,451
I don't give a fuck.

463
00:31:20,379 --> 00:31:23,291
Bishop is a psychopath,
but more true to his character,

464
00:31:23,382 --> 00:31:26,590
bishop is a lonely,
misguided, young kid.

465
00:31:26,676 --> 00:31:31,545
His heroes are James cagney
and scarface, those kind of guys.

466
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,679
- Made if, ma. Top of the world.
- "Made it, ma. Top of the world."

467
00:31:37,145 --> 00:31:41,229
Tupac: Know what I'm saying, "shoot them
up, go out in a Blaze" type gangsters.

468
00:31:41,316 --> 00:31:43,807
If you've gotta go out,
that's how you go out.

469
00:31:43,902 --> 00:31:46,860
That motherfucker took his destiny
in his own hands.

470
00:31:50,033 --> 00:31:52,900
Tupac: When I get a part,
at first I just try to find out,

471
00:31:52,994 --> 00:31:54,859
how does this character feel?

472
00:31:54,955 --> 00:31:56,911
Like, I make the person up in my mind.

473
00:32:00,043 --> 00:32:02,250
What he looks like,
try to put a face to him.

474
00:32:02,337 --> 00:32:06,125
Even though it's my face, I'll give
him a walk and give him an attitude.

475
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,166
All you have to do
is relate to your character.

476
00:32:09,261 --> 00:32:13,174
Even away from the set I just let
myself go. I just stopped caring.

477
00:32:13,265 --> 00:32:15,381
I stopped worrying
about what people thought

478
00:32:15,475 --> 00:32:20,686
and started staring people down more.
I really just got into the part.

479
00:32:20,981 --> 00:32:23,313
- Yo, bishop, man, give me the piece.
- No.

480
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,982
No? What the hell you mean, no?
Give me the gun.

481
00:32:26,069 --> 00:32:28,401
I mean I'm holding onto this
till I say so.

482
00:32:28,488 --> 00:32:29,648
I'm not playing.

483
00:32:30,699 --> 00:32:31,779
Oh, really?

484
00:32:33,201 --> 00:32:35,988
Tupac: When I'm playing a character,
I'm really that character.

485
00:32:36,079 --> 00:32:37,364
There's nothing fake.

486
00:32:38,707 --> 00:32:39,707
Oh, shit!

487
00:32:39,791 --> 00:32:42,453
Tupac: I just took everything
and internalized it.

488
00:32:45,172 --> 00:32:48,084
Tell us about your character.
I know you're the villain.

489
00:32:48,216 --> 00:32:50,832
Yo, I play me,
straight ruthless villain,

490
00:32:50,927 --> 00:32:53,839
straight killer,
straight take no sszzz-s.

491
00:32:53,930 --> 00:32:56,262
You know what I'm saying?
Straight popping partners.

492
00:32:56,349 --> 00:32:58,761
Yo, Tupac will go ahead
and rock this.

493
00:32:59,811 --> 00:33:02,598
Juice helped me
because it gave me that trust.

494
00:33:02,689 --> 00:33:04,304
It let me trust my instincts.

495
00:33:04,399 --> 00:33:09,644
I was confident about what I could do
and what it would look like afterward.

496
00:33:09,738 --> 00:33:14,448
My next guest has not only become one
of today's most talented new stars,

497
00:33:14,534 --> 00:33:18,573
but he's becoming one of today's
most talked about new stars.

498
00:33:18,663 --> 00:33:21,075
Please welcome Tupac shakur.

499
00:33:21,708 --> 00:33:25,371
Tupac: I know what I feel like when
I'm in the zone, when I'm there.

500
00:33:25,462 --> 00:33:27,748
So I was just trying
to get that feeling.

501
00:33:29,174 --> 00:33:30,584
Why are you always so mad?

502
00:33:30,717 --> 00:33:35,006
The exciting performance in the film
is the one of Tupac shakur.

503
00:33:35,388 --> 00:33:36,468
What do you want from me?

504
00:33:38,892 --> 00:33:41,554
I think you're kind of fly. Shit.

505
00:33:41,645 --> 00:33:43,636
We could start
with your phone number.

506
00:33:43,730 --> 00:33:47,188
This is a 22-year-old young actor,
Tupac shakur.

507
00:33:47,275 --> 00:33:50,767
He's been in the film juice,
and I hope to see him again soon.

508
00:33:53,532 --> 00:33:55,113
Tupac: When I was doing poetic justice,

509
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,613
I had to tone myself down
a lot to be lucky.

510
00:33:58,703 --> 00:34:02,787
Lucky is doing the opposite of bishop.
He's working, responsible,

511
00:34:02,874 --> 00:34:05,741
deliberate about things,
caring for his daughter.

512
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,501
I'm a gemini, so I got both sides.

513
00:34:08,922 --> 00:34:12,665
See, I get a feeling
there are two tupacs.

514
00:34:12,759 --> 00:34:16,923
See, I mean, you're this kind,
sensitive, friendly guy,

515
00:34:17,013 --> 00:34:19,425
yet you're involved
in so much controversy.

516
00:34:19,516 --> 00:34:22,804
I'm talking about Tupac shakur,
who had an incident

517
00:34:22,894 --> 00:34:25,556
with a limo driver
during a taping of in living color.

518
00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:28,771
Tupac shakur is free on bond tonight

519
00:34:28,858 --> 00:34:31,065
after his arrest
this weekend in Atlanta.

520
00:34:31,152 --> 00:34:33,985
The 22-year-old singer and actor
was charged with shooting

521
00:34:34,072 --> 00:34:36,188
two off-duty police officers.

522
00:34:36,283 --> 00:34:37,568
The wounds were not serious.

523
00:34:37,659 --> 00:34:39,720
Newscaster: The fight that led
to the shooting in marin city

524
00:34:39,744 --> 00:34:42,076
reportedly broke out in this field
on Saturday night.

525
00:34:42,163 --> 00:34:44,370
Marin festival usa was in full swing.

526
00:34:44,457 --> 00:34:48,166
Neighbors say Tupac should not
have let anyone bring a gun here.

527
00:34:48,253 --> 00:34:51,040
Since he got big,
they claim he's changed.

528
00:34:51,131 --> 00:34:53,087
That change has broken some hearts.

529
00:34:53,174 --> 00:34:56,257
Tupac was homeless.
He's from here. We helped him out.

530
00:34:57,053 --> 00:35:00,045
Tupac: Over my career,
I got arrested, like, 12 times,

531
00:35:00,140 --> 00:35:02,973
some by mistake, some fate
and some unwarranted.

532
00:35:03,059 --> 00:35:06,597
But for whatever reason, I got
to see police more than I wanted to.

533
00:35:07,022 --> 00:35:09,934
In some of my cases,
they dropped the charges.

534
00:35:10,025 --> 00:35:12,641
But because of trouble
in these court cases,

535
00:35:12,736 --> 00:35:16,320
it was hard at that point
for me to be trying to do a movie.

536
00:35:16,406 --> 00:35:19,148
I wasn't professional.
I think I was talented,

537
00:35:19,242 --> 00:35:22,234
but I didn't have the concentration.
And I was immature,

538
00:35:22,329 --> 00:35:24,615
and my ego was out of control.

539
00:35:24,706 --> 00:35:27,038
Harry connick ain't got nothing on me.
Check it.

540
00:35:30,795 --> 00:35:33,537
I had to get humble again
before I could do this.

541
00:35:33,632 --> 00:35:35,748
More hot water may await Tupac,

542
00:35:35,842 --> 00:35:39,005
based on what he tells
the new issue of the source

543
00:35:39,095 --> 00:35:43,008
about costarring with Janet Jackson
in her film debut, poetic justice.

544
00:35:43,099 --> 00:35:44,509
Among other complaints,

545
00:35:44,601 --> 00:35:47,809
Tupac says Janet's people
asked him to take an aids test

546
00:35:47,896 --> 00:35:51,889
- before shooting a love scene.
- I don't know if it came from Janet,

547
00:35:51,983 --> 00:35:56,272
but suddenly they wanted me to take
an aids test for this love scene.

548
00:35:56,363 --> 00:35:58,979
I did not disagree if we were
really gonna make love.

549
00:35:59,074 --> 00:36:02,441
I said, "if we can make love,
I'll take four aids tests."

550
00:36:02,535 --> 00:36:05,993
But if I'm doing a love scene with her
just like somebody else did,

551
00:36:06,081 --> 00:36:08,288
and they didn't take a test,
I'm not.

552
00:36:08,375 --> 00:36:11,162
Not only am I not taking a test,
but get out of my trailer.

553
00:36:11,252 --> 00:36:16,042
And they sent, like, four
different people to ask me.

554
00:36:16,132 --> 00:36:21,343
First they sent the producer, then the
black dude, then John, then a girl.

555
00:36:21,429 --> 00:36:23,795
It don't matter who you send,
I'm not taking one.

556
00:36:24,307 --> 00:36:28,425
To me, it was just like an insult.
We had a good experience on the set.

557
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,431
You look like the type of guy to care.

558
00:36:30,522 --> 00:36:31,887
What's the type?

559
00:36:31,981 --> 00:36:33,292
Tupac: I thought I made a friend.

560
00:36:33,316 --> 00:36:35,978
I thought,
"I know Janet Jackson for life."

561
00:36:36,069 --> 00:36:40,233
When the movie was over, it was like,
"boop. This number has been changed."

562
00:36:40,323 --> 00:36:41,403
And it was like a movie.

563
00:36:41,491 --> 00:36:44,904
I mean, it was like the day
after the movie wrapped.

564
00:36:46,246 --> 00:36:48,407
"I'm gonna call you." "All right."

565
00:36:48,498 --> 00:36:52,582
"This number's been changed.”
I said, "oh, okay."

566
00:36:53,461 --> 00:36:57,625
Still, when I see her again, I'd run
up and hug her. We was real cool.

567
00:37:02,679 --> 00:37:04,294
I love women. I'm not gonna lie.

568
00:37:04,389 --> 00:37:06,880
I love women with a passion.
I do. I do.

569
00:37:06,975 --> 00:37:10,593
Sometimes I just wanna call prince
and be like, "can we hang?"

570
00:37:10,687 --> 00:37:12,393
Because I love women
like he love women.

571
00:37:13,606 --> 00:37:16,973
Hold on. I've been talking
to little girls all day.

572
00:37:17,068 --> 00:37:19,150
Seeing somebody my age.
How you doing?

573
00:37:19,237 --> 00:37:20,898
Fine, how you doing? Yourself?

574
00:37:20,989 --> 00:37:25,028
I have ultra respect for women.
I like being around females,

575
00:37:25,118 --> 00:37:27,234
I'm comfortable with them
on every level.

576
00:37:27,328 --> 00:37:30,991
I don't get a predator thing going
when I'm around demure females.

577
00:37:31,082 --> 00:37:33,073
Woman: Don't be shy.
Tupac: Y'all making me blush.

578
00:37:33,918 --> 00:37:35,158
You got me blushing.

579
00:37:37,380 --> 00:37:39,245
I'm not uncomfortable
around strong women.

580
00:37:39,340 --> 00:37:42,832
- Sorry. I'm not enough.
- No, I'm looking you up and down.

581
00:37:42,927 --> 00:37:45,009
On TV, they'll go,
"look how he looking at Tabitha."

582
00:37:45,096 --> 00:37:46,096
Don't do that.

583
00:38:04,199 --> 00:38:08,033
Tupac: Madonna is real nice. She's
a good person. She helped me a lot.

584
00:38:08,119 --> 00:38:10,906
She was real cool,
like any one of my homeboys.

585
00:38:10,997 --> 00:38:14,114
Jasmine guy, she helped me.
She's a good supporter.

586
00:38:14,209 --> 00:38:17,042
Jada pinkett. Jada's my heart,
you know what I mean?

587
00:38:17,128 --> 00:38:19,744
She will be my friend
for my whole life.

588
00:38:19,839 --> 00:38:23,423
Well, I'll scoop you up later in life
if you ain't all shriveled up.

589
00:38:25,595 --> 00:38:26,595
We'll be old together.

590
00:38:26,679 --> 00:38:28,715
Be like ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

591
00:38:28,932 --> 00:38:31,298
Pic, you always
got a place in my heart.

592
00:38:31,518 --> 00:38:35,852
Tupac: She can have my one heart,
my liver, my lungs, my kidneys,

593
00:38:35,939 --> 00:38:37,304
my blood, marrow, all of that.

594
00:38:37,398 --> 00:38:39,389
Keep your head up

595
00:38:39,526 --> 00:38:43,360
ooh, child, things are gonna get easier

596
00:38:43,446 --> 00:38:48,657
- keep your head up
- Ooh, child, things will get brighter

597
00:38:48,743 --> 00:38:52,986
Tupac: My mother taught me to understand
women a lot more than my peers can.

598
00:38:53,081 --> 00:38:56,118
When I was young,
I was surrounded by strong women.

599
00:38:57,001 --> 00:38:59,162
My sister's the bomb.
She's my biggest critic.

600
00:38:59,838 --> 00:39:04,081
She's real smart, funny as all hell.
She's real funny.

601
00:39:04,175 --> 00:39:06,917
My mother was a matriarch.
If you raised by a woman,

602
00:39:07,011 --> 00:39:09,502
you're gonna think like a woman.

603
00:39:12,892 --> 00:39:15,258
And our game from a woman

604
00:39:15,353 --> 00:39:17,059
I wonder why we fake
from our women

605
00:39:17,146 --> 00:39:20,764
why we rape our women
do we hate our women?

606
00:39:20,859 --> 00:39:22,599
I think it's time
to kill for our women

607
00:39:22,694 --> 00:39:24,400
time to heal our women

608
00:39:24,487 --> 00:39:25,772
be real to our women

609
00:39:26,322 --> 00:39:28,859
but I'm not a woman.
I'm just a normal man.

610
00:39:29,075 --> 00:39:32,988
To me, I'm the hardest man around,
the hardest nigga, because I'm real.

611
00:39:33,204 --> 00:39:35,445
But I'm also very soft.

612
00:39:38,543 --> 00:39:42,786
I'm very sensitive, but that's why I'm
so harsh, because I'm so sensitive.

613
00:39:42,881 --> 00:39:46,499
And that's what I think
has made me successful and famous.

614
00:39:46,718 --> 00:39:50,506
So sensitive.
Don't be so sensitive, Tupac.

615
00:39:50,597 --> 00:39:52,963
- Well, basically...
- Bugaloo.

616
00:39:54,142 --> 00:39:55,848
Woman: Bugaloo? Boogaloo?

617
00:39:56,060 --> 00:39:59,018
Marlon wayans,
I am playing the role of bugaloo.

618
00:40:00,565 --> 00:40:03,147
What is bugaloo?
Where did that name come from?

619
00:40:03,818 --> 00:40:05,058
Some white guy's sitting there,

620
00:40:05,153 --> 00:40:08,395
"what's a homeboy hip-hop name?
Bugaloo!"

621
00:40:08,489 --> 00:40:10,571
"What are they calling each other
these days?"

622
00:40:10,909 --> 00:40:14,197
Check it out - I get around

623
00:40:14,287 --> 00:40:17,279
- what you mean you don't know?
- Round and round, round we go

624
00:40:17,373 --> 00:40:18,533
I get around

625
00:40:20,043 --> 00:40:22,204
the underground just don't stop
for ho's

626
00:40:22,295 --> 00:40:23,295
I get around

627
00:40:23,379 --> 00:40:26,166
Tupac: When I got famous,
I got famous friends.

628
00:40:26,257 --> 00:40:30,500
Mickey Rourke was a good friend,
good person. He's really funny.

629
00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:34,554
My memory of him is the night
he's arguing with carr, his wife.

630
00:40:34,641 --> 00:40:38,475
He didn't know what to do. I was like,
"man, buy her some cristal.

631
00:40:38,561 --> 00:40:41,394
"Cristal will make someone
forgive you, trust me."

632
00:40:41,481 --> 00:40:43,161
They be like,
"what was we fighting about?"

633
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:48,643
He's like, "that's a good idea, 'pac.”
I was like, "he gotta be twice my age,

634
00:40:48,738 --> 00:40:49,978
"and I'm giving him ideas."

635
00:40:50,949 --> 00:40:58,949
Ain't no party like a thug life party
because a thug life party don't stop

636
00:41:06,839 --> 00:41:10,878
Tupac: I always gave biggie
lot of props. The notorious b.I.G.

637
00:41:10,969 --> 00:41:13,051
I thought at the time
he was my friend.

638
00:41:14,138 --> 00:41:18,552
Mike Tyson, we used to kick it. He's
a real cool brother, a big brother.

639
00:41:19,936 --> 00:41:23,269
The only difference in us
is that he's big and I'm small.

640
00:41:23,356 --> 00:41:26,894
But I got the same heart he got.
I want to knock everybody out.

641
00:41:27,026 --> 00:41:29,358
My brother, I'm telling you,
you were good.

642
00:41:29,445 --> 00:41:33,313
- Woman: I enjoyed your performance.
- Appreciate it. Thank you very much.

643
00:41:33,408 --> 00:41:37,242
I like that people come to me
and go, "you did a good job."

644
00:41:37,328 --> 00:41:40,695
I was loving that somebody said,
"Tupac, you a great actor."

645
00:41:40,790 --> 00:41:44,578
- I'm telling you, Tupac a real nigga.
- Tupac: Being famous gave me confidence.

646
00:41:44,669 --> 00:41:49,163
Ed lover: Is Tupac a sexy motherfucker?
Tupac: The crowd gave me confidence.

647
00:41:49,257 --> 00:41:51,919
Crowd: Go Tupac, go Tupac, go.
Ed lover: Let me hear you say:

648
00:41:52,010 --> 00:41:56,424
- "Go thug life, go thug life, go."
- Crowd: Go thug life, go thug life, go.

649
00:41:56,514 --> 00:41:58,050
That's what I wanna hear.

650
00:41:58,141 --> 00:41:59,256
Now, I'm my own man.

651
00:41:59,642 --> 00:42:01,678
I got you now! I got you now!

652
00:42:01,769 --> 00:42:05,182
I put it down. I wanna get
into the head seat. Excel at it.

653
00:42:05,273 --> 00:42:07,229
Do it one more time,
clear as possible.

654
00:42:07,316 --> 00:42:09,352
Can we double it,
see what it sound like?

655
00:42:09,569 --> 00:42:11,355
I'm a natural-born leader.

656
00:42:11,446 --> 00:42:14,938
If not, everybody lose their jobs.
Everybody lose their jobs!

657
00:42:15,033 --> 00:42:17,991
Back to servant.
Playing the drums in the corner.

658
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:22,783
But nobody could call me a sellout.
I'm not going for that.

659
00:42:25,334 --> 00:42:26,540
I didn't want to change.

660
00:42:26,627 --> 00:42:30,666
I loved that even though I was
with Janet Jackson in big movies,

661
00:42:30,757 --> 00:42:33,419
I'll be up at the dirtiest
house party in the 'hood.

662
00:42:33,509 --> 00:42:35,795
Damn, sweetheart
you got some thighs on you

663
00:42:35,887 --> 00:42:39,254
now I can't wait to get you home
get you all alone in my bedroom

664
00:42:39,348 --> 00:42:43,182
people could not believe it.
I used to thrive off that.

665
00:42:43,269 --> 00:42:47,387
Being up in the party, and somebody
go, "oh, my god, that's Tupac."

666
00:42:47,482 --> 00:42:50,519
Going crazy because I'm
in a dirty party, no security,

667
00:42:50,610 --> 00:42:54,068
lights out, drinking, hella drunk.
Drunk with everybody else.

668
00:42:54,155 --> 00:42:57,238
But that's what kept my sanity,
kept me right, kept me going.

669
00:42:58,367 --> 00:43:02,280
My fans know that I'm real.
My fans go to jail just like me.

670
00:43:02,371 --> 00:43:05,363
They understand me.
Half my fans are white.

671
00:43:05,583 --> 00:43:08,245
The white fans listen
as much as the black fans.

672
00:43:08,336 --> 00:43:12,124
The ones that have approached me
have been genuine fans.

673
00:43:12,215 --> 00:43:15,753
These people will have jobs in
the future and will hire my family.

674
00:43:17,804 --> 00:43:18,804
Get down, man!

675
00:43:23,184 --> 00:43:27,598
But many of my fans don't have ID.
Some have jobs, some don't.

676
00:43:27,814 --> 00:43:30,476
Some are on welfare, you know?
Some are not.

677
00:43:30,691 --> 00:43:32,227
Some are rich and some are poor,

678
00:43:32,318 --> 00:43:34,229
but they all share
that hopeless feeling.

679
00:43:35,780 --> 00:43:37,270
I got the underdogs on my side.

680
00:43:37,365 --> 00:43:41,074
Body bags of adversaries
that I had to bury

681
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:47,372
Tupac: I'm almost more in awe of the
people in awe of me than they are of me.

682
00:43:47,458 --> 00:43:51,326
Crowd: Outlaw, outlaw, outlaw

683
00:43:51,796 --> 00:43:54,538
Tupac: Everybody just be screaming,
and I get uncomfortable.

684
00:43:56,008 --> 00:43:58,920
It's similar to a deer
caught in the headlights.

685
00:43:59,011 --> 00:44:02,299
It's like a battle to find the right
words to say at the right time.

686
00:44:06,435 --> 00:44:08,926
I live thug life
and let the money come to me

687
00:44:09,021 --> 00:44:11,603
because they could never take
the game from a young g

688
00:44:11,691 --> 00:44:12,931
I'm getting money

689
00:44:13,025 --> 00:44:17,189
it was cool. I got to speak to young
black males all over the country

690
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,316
about this new idea
called "thug life"...

691
00:44:21,367 --> 00:44:23,403
Which is a new kind
of black power.

692
00:44:23,494 --> 00:44:25,780
When I say, "thug life",
I mean that shit

693
00:44:25,872 --> 00:44:28,705
because these white folks
see us as thugs.

694
00:44:28,833 --> 00:44:30,994
I don't care
if you think you a lawyer,

695
00:44:31,085 --> 00:44:32,871
a man, an African-American.

696
00:44:32,962 --> 00:44:34,793
If you whatever the fuck
you think you are,

697
00:44:34,881 --> 00:44:36,837
we thugs and niggas
to these motherfuckers!

698
00:44:37,842 --> 00:44:40,584
Until we own some shit,
I'll call it like it is.

699
00:44:40,678 --> 00:44:43,260
How you gonna be a man
and we starving?

700
00:44:43,347 --> 00:44:45,303
Walk about five different houses,

701
00:44:45,391 --> 00:44:48,349
there ain't a man in either one
of them motherfuckers.

702
00:44:48,436 --> 00:44:51,803
How we gonna be African-Americans
if we all need a gun?

703
00:44:51,898 --> 00:44:55,015
We thugs and niggas
until we set this shit right.

704
00:44:55,109 --> 00:44:56,895
Trust me when I tell you that shit.

705
00:44:56,986 --> 00:45:00,854
Young black males identify with
thug life, but I couldn't handle it.

706
00:45:00,948 --> 00:45:03,189
I could handle it, but not right away.

707
00:45:03,576 --> 00:45:06,534
- Mr. shakur, can we get a comment?
- Hell, no. Thug life.

708
00:45:06,621 --> 00:45:09,704
- Pardon me?
- Thug life. That's my comment.

709
00:45:09,790 --> 00:45:11,270
What's that mean? I don't understand.

710
00:45:13,794 --> 00:45:15,876
- What did happen?
- Thug life.

711
00:45:15,963 --> 00:45:20,457
Tupac: Imagine you have 14,000 people
ready to do whatever you want.

712
00:45:21,052 --> 00:45:26,763
You have, all over the country, people
waiting to hear what you wanna do.

713
00:45:27,934 --> 00:45:33,099
I got people in the penitentiary,
bigtime og criminals, calling me,

714
00:45:33,189 --> 00:45:36,181
telling me they want me
to lead their movement.

715
00:45:36,275 --> 00:45:38,732
I mean, I'm gonna have a problem.

716
00:45:40,613 --> 00:45:42,093
So they told me to watch my language.

717
00:45:44,158 --> 00:45:45,158
Fuck that.

718
00:45:47,203 --> 00:45:49,410
I'm gonna have
a small identity crisis.

719
00:45:49,497 --> 00:45:51,533
I felt like,
"I got every man in America

720
00:45:51,624 --> 00:45:54,385
"who wants to take orders from me,
who wants to know what I wanna do."

721
00:45:55,419 --> 00:45:58,161
Holler if you hear me
pump, pump if you're pissed

722
00:45:58,256 --> 00:46:02,545
wants to know my plan for young
black males. That makes me scared.

723
00:46:02,635 --> 00:46:04,796
My homeys in the back streets
the black streets

724
00:46:04,887 --> 00:46:07,094
they fear me when they rolling
in they phat jeeps

725
00:46:07,181 --> 00:46:09,467
this ain't just a rap song
a black song

726
00:46:09,558 --> 00:46:13,050
telling my brothers, get they strap on
and look for me in the struggle

727
00:46:13,145 --> 00:46:16,228
hustling to the other brother's bubble
holler if you hear me

728
00:46:16,315 --> 00:46:17,646
and I'm 22.

729
00:46:17,733 --> 00:46:21,351
I was having concerts sold out,
white boys, Mexicans, blacks,

730
00:46:21,445 --> 00:46:24,983
and they would do what I say.
I could tell them to turn in a circle,

731
00:46:25,074 --> 00:46:26,985
and they would do it.
I was having love,

732
00:46:27,076 --> 00:46:29,909
like, undeniable love,
and I was scared.

733
00:46:29,996 --> 00:46:31,281
Holler if you hear me

734
00:46:33,499 --> 00:46:37,162
I was scared, but so was America,
so was somebody else.

735
00:46:37,753 --> 00:46:40,540
- I'm a liberal democrat.
- I'm a conservative republican,

736
00:46:40,631 --> 00:46:43,794
but we both worry about
the society our children live in.

737
00:46:43,884 --> 00:46:46,375
Tupac: But that makes me want
to rise to the occasion.

738
00:46:46,470 --> 00:46:49,712
It makes me want
to give my whole life to it.

739
00:46:50,141 --> 00:46:53,804
And I will give my whole life to
this plan that I have for thug life.

740
00:46:53,978 --> 00:46:56,640
That's my new posse,
my new way of thinking.

741
00:46:56,731 --> 00:46:59,143
That's how we rolling
in the nine-three, thug life.

742
00:47:00,943 --> 00:47:04,310
By "thug", I mean, not criminal,
someone that beats you.

743
00:47:04,405 --> 00:47:05,861
I mean, the underdog.

744
00:47:05,948 --> 00:47:08,530
The person that had nothing
and succeeds is a thug

745
00:47:08,617 --> 00:47:10,448
because he overcame all obstacles.

746
00:47:10,536 --> 00:47:13,403
It has nothing to do
with the dictionary's version.

747
00:47:13,497 --> 00:47:17,331
To me, thug is my pride, not being
someone that goes against the law,

748
00:47:17,418 --> 00:47:21,286
not being someone that takes,
but being someone that has nothing,

749
00:47:21,380 --> 00:47:25,714
and even though I have nothing and
no home to go to, my head is up high.

750
00:47:25,801 --> 00:47:29,293
My chest is out. I walk tall.
I talk loud. I'm being strong.

751
00:47:29,388 --> 00:47:32,095
I'm against racial,
ethnic entitlements.

752
00:47:32,183 --> 00:47:33,639
I think they are un-American.

753
00:47:35,227 --> 00:47:38,264
Tupac: I don't understand why America
doesn't get thug life.

754
00:47:38,356 --> 00:47:40,221
America is thug life.

755
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,140
How is me saying,
"I don't give a fuck,"

756
00:47:43,235 --> 00:47:46,602
different than Patrick Henry saying,
"give me Liberty or give me death"?

757
00:47:48,824 --> 00:47:53,193
What makes my freedom
less worth fighting for than Bosnians

758
00:47:53,287 --> 00:47:56,495
or whoever they wanna
fight for this year?

759
00:47:58,125 --> 00:47:59,786
They should give money to the ghetto.

760
00:48:00,795 --> 00:48:05,004
Even gangs can be positive.
It just has to be organized.

761
00:48:05,091 --> 00:48:07,423
It has to steer away
from being self-destructive

762
00:48:07,510 --> 00:48:08,625
to being self-productive.

763
00:48:10,012 --> 00:48:13,846
I organized the ogs on the east
and west coasts in penitentiaries

764
00:48:13,933 --> 00:48:16,925
to come up with
codes of ethics for criminals.

765
00:48:17,019 --> 00:48:18,759
It's called the code of thug life.

766
00:48:18,854 --> 00:48:21,391
It's a code, putting order
to the violence on the streets.

767
00:48:22,108 --> 00:48:25,020
In watts, Compton,
Chicago, wherever.

768
00:48:25,111 --> 00:48:28,353
People all over the country say,
"we go by this code.

769
00:48:28,447 --> 00:48:32,110
"We're against attacks on people
not involved with the street gang,

770
00:48:32,201 --> 00:48:34,738
"the drug trade
or the illegal business at all.

771
00:48:34,829 --> 00:48:38,196
"All that kidnapping and shooting
drive-bys, we against that."

772
00:48:38,290 --> 00:48:41,828
Thug life ain't just a bunch
of niggas going crazy.

773
00:48:41,919 --> 00:48:44,205
We wanna patrol our streets.
So all we saying is,

774
00:48:44,296 --> 00:48:47,538
if every motherfucker out here
right now gave up one dollar

775
00:48:47,633 --> 00:48:50,545
to this thug life fund,
the money don't go to me,

776
00:48:50,636 --> 00:48:53,378
it go to somebody
from y'all neighborhood,

777
00:48:53,472 --> 00:48:56,430
and we do this shit every month.
I'll bring new rappers,

778
00:48:56,517 --> 00:48:58,678
I'll bring snoop,
whoever y'all want.

779
00:48:58,769 --> 00:49:00,555
I'll go snatch them niggas.

780
00:49:02,189 --> 00:49:04,771
For that shit to happen,
we can't have violence,

781
00:49:04,859 --> 00:49:06,770
and everybody gotta be down
for that shit.

782
00:49:08,279 --> 00:49:11,567
We gonna start slowly but surely
taking our communities back.

783
00:49:11,657 --> 00:49:15,570
Regulate our community. Organize.
Start taking care of our own.

784
00:49:15,661 --> 00:49:18,824
We gotta start somewhere, and I don't
know about anything but this.

785
00:49:18,914 --> 00:49:23,954
- What is the message, though?
- All the people you threw away,

786
00:49:24,044 --> 00:49:27,832
the dope dealers, criminals, they will
be legit next to you in first class,

787
00:49:27,923 --> 00:49:29,208
thanks to your boy.

788
00:49:33,304 --> 00:49:35,215
You know those
little things for mice,

789
00:49:35,306 --> 00:49:37,888
where they go through
and there's little blocks?

790
00:49:37,975 --> 00:49:39,636
Well, society is like that.

791
00:49:39,852 --> 00:49:43,936
They'll let you go as far as you want,
but when you ask too many questions

792
00:49:44,023 --> 00:49:47,265
and you're ready to change,
boom, that block'll come.

793
00:49:51,780 --> 00:49:53,520
Crowd: Is not all right.

794
00:49:53,616 --> 00:49:56,483
There is no reason
for a record like this

795
00:49:56,577 --> 00:49:59,785
to be published
by a responsible corporation.

796
00:49:59,872 --> 00:50:03,205
Never before has there been
such a will to use music

797
00:50:03,292 --> 00:50:06,659
to advertise
self-destructive violence.

798
00:50:06,754 --> 00:50:10,747
It glorifies violence. It's creating
a culture of guns and rape.

799
00:50:10,841 --> 00:50:13,958
Female reporter: Adding insult to
injury, she says, is rapper Tupac shakur

800
00:50:14,053 --> 00:50:16,760
being nominated
for an naacp image award.

801
00:50:16,847 --> 00:50:20,180
Tupac: I got the whole world fearing me,
and I ain't even started.

802
00:50:20,267 --> 00:50:23,134
I don't have my plan,
and they're trying to stop me.

803
00:50:23,229 --> 00:50:26,972
I challenge the view that those
who revel in violence and depravity,

804
00:50:27,066 --> 00:50:29,808
on the screen or in the song,
bear no responsibility

805
00:50:29,902 --> 00:50:32,188
when that spirit spreads
into our culture.

806
00:50:32,279 --> 00:50:35,737
No disrespect to Bob dole.
He don't know what he talking about.

807
00:50:35,824 --> 00:50:36,859
He's just talking.

808
00:50:36,951 --> 00:50:39,818
Some card somebody gave him,
he's just reading off a card.

809
00:50:41,497 --> 00:50:44,239
But he's cute, you know?
He's my grandfather.

810
00:50:44,333 --> 00:50:46,870
- Tabitha Soren: Right.
- He's an old dude, talking mess.

811
00:50:46,961 --> 00:50:50,545
You don't have to use
vile and ugly language.

812
00:50:51,006 --> 00:50:55,045
Commentator: Wpgc in Washington, D.C.
dropped violent or demeaning lyrics.

813
00:50:55,135 --> 00:50:57,842
Kace in Los Angeles followed suit.

814
00:50:57,930 --> 00:51:01,843
You're yelling, "shoot!" In
a community that is crowded with guns.

815
00:51:01,934 --> 00:51:04,550
Tupac: I'm not looking for approval
from the black community.

816
00:51:04,645 --> 00:51:06,510
We are a part of it.

817
00:51:06,605 --> 00:51:09,722
I'm a thug, and I rap about
the oppressed fighting back.

818
00:51:12,736 --> 00:51:14,567
Yes, my raps are filled with rage.

819
00:51:18,617 --> 00:51:23,281
You have to be logical. You know?
If I know that in this hotel room

820
00:51:23,372 --> 00:51:27,957
they have food every day, and I'm
knocking on the door every day to eat,

821
00:51:28,043 --> 00:51:30,910
and they open the door,
let me see the party,

822
00:51:31,005 --> 00:51:33,621
let me see them
throwing salami all over,

823
00:51:33,716 --> 00:51:35,581
I mean, just throwing food around,

824
00:51:35,676 --> 00:51:37,416
but they're telling me
there's no food.

825
00:51:37,511 --> 00:51:42,801
Every day, I'm standing outside
trying to sing my way in.

826
00:51:42,891 --> 00:51:46,804
We are hungry, please let us in
we are hungry, please let us in

827
00:51:46,895 --> 00:51:49,307
after about a week that song
is gonna change to:

828
00:51:49,523 --> 00:51:51,639
We hungry, we need some food

829
00:51:51,734 --> 00:51:53,941
after two, three weeks, it's like:

830
00:51:54,028 --> 00:51:56,314
Give me the food
or I'm breaking down the door

831
00:51:56,405 --> 00:51:58,270
after a year you're just like:

832
00:51:58,365 --> 00:52:01,573
I'm picking the lock
coming through the door blasting

833
00:52:01,660 --> 00:52:04,276
it's like, you hungry,
you reached your level.

834
00:52:04,371 --> 00:52:07,238
We asked ten years ago.
We was asking with the panthers.

835
00:52:07,333 --> 00:52:11,326
We was asking with them, the civil
rights movement. We was asking.

836
00:52:11,420 --> 00:52:14,082
Those people that asked
are dead and in jail.

837
00:52:14,173 --> 00:52:18,212
So now what do you think
we're gonna do? Ask?

838
00:52:18,302 --> 00:52:23,342
I put my gun away and grab my ak
it's getting hectic, I can't call it

839
00:52:23,432 --> 00:52:26,219
house full of alcoholics
now we're niggas under pressure

840
00:52:31,065 --> 00:52:33,898
there's a bad part because
kids see that and mimic you.

841
00:52:34,485 --> 00:52:37,318
I haven't figured that out yet.
But the positive side

842
00:52:37,404 --> 00:52:40,896
is the kids who live in a house
where the mother is a crackhead,

843
00:52:40,991 --> 00:52:43,528
he hears the rap. He's like,
"oh, that's every day.

844
00:52:43,619 --> 00:52:47,532
"So I don't have to feel ashamed."
It cuts both ways.

845
00:52:47,623 --> 00:52:49,784
To me, it's like, when I sing:

846
00:52:49,875 --> 00:52:52,867
I live the thug life
baby, I'm hopeless

847
00:52:52,961 --> 00:52:56,419
one person might hear that
and just like the way it sounds.

848
00:52:56,507 --> 00:52:58,247
But I'm doing it for the kid

849
00:52:58,342 --> 00:53:01,755
that lives a thug life
and feels like it's hopeless.

850
00:53:01,845 --> 00:53:03,426
So when I say, "hopeless",

851
00:53:03,514 --> 00:53:07,473
and when I say it like that,
it's like I reach him.

852
00:53:07,559 --> 00:53:09,265
And even if, when I reach him,

853
00:53:09,353 --> 00:53:13,642
it makes it look glorious to
the guy that doesn't live that life,

854
00:53:13,732 --> 00:53:17,099
I can't help it. It's a fad.
He'll drop the thug life soon.

855
00:53:17,194 --> 00:53:18,980
But for the person I tried to reach,

856
00:53:19,071 --> 00:53:21,107
he'll pick it up,
and I'll be able to talk to him.

857
00:53:21,990 --> 00:53:23,901
I try to be responsible,
but it's hard.

858
00:53:23,992 --> 00:53:26,449
If you worry about what you're saying,
I get writer's block.

859
00:53:26,995 --> 00:53:30,829
Kind of like, "ll can't say that.
That's too harsh. Can't say this."

860
00:53:30,916 --> 00:53:34,909
I have to block it out and trust my
heart that I'm doing the right thing.

861
00:53:35,379 --> 00:53:37,620
Pretty spit... I was spitting.

862
00:53:37,715 --> 00:53:38,750
Chill out. Chill out.

863
00:53:38,841 --> 00:53:41,253
That's my style. That's my new style.

864
00:53:42,594 --> 00:53:45,802
- That's my new style.
- 'Pac, chill out.

865
00:53:45,889 --> 00:53:47,254
That's my new style.

866
00:53:50,728 --> 00:53:52,184
Hey, have a good summer.

867
00:53:54,314 --> 00:53:56,305
Have a good summer, bitch!

868
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,686
But I'm not saying
I didn't make mistakes.

869
00:53:59,528 --> 00:54:03,237
Like some of the things I said when
I was fighting the Hughes brothers.

870
00:54:05,784 --> 00:54:08,992
I beat up the directors
to menace il society.

871
00:54:09,079 --> 00:54:12,537
- All right, tell 'em why you did that.
- These chump, punk, slump...

872
00:54:13,792 --> 00:54:17,330
- You'll be able to rebuttal to that.
- No, they better come now.

873
00:54:17,421 --> 00:54:20,913
Check this out, they fired me
in a roundabout, punk, snitch way.

874
00:54:21,008 --> 00:54:24,375
So I caught them on the streets
and beat they behinds.

875
00:54:24,470 --> 00:54:27,428
I was a menace to the
Hughes brothers. It ain't over!

876
00:54:27,514 --> 00:54:31,098
I still got more for you chumps!
I read what you said about me!

877
00:54:31,185 --> 00:54:32,891
I'm gonna kick their ass!

878
00:54:34,313 --> 00:54:36,053
Tupac: My big mouth.

879
00:54:36,148 --> 00:54:39,732
Mind y'all business, I'll mind mine.
I do what I gotta do,

880
00:54:39,818 --> 00:54:43,026
you do what you gotta do.
Long as I give you 12 tracks,

881
00:54:43,113 --> 00:54:46,571
you give me my $12, and we even.
I don't gotta be a role model.

882
00:54:46,658 --> 00:54:48,944
I don't gotta hold your hand.
I don't gotta do shit.

883
00:54:50,204 --> 00:54:53,446
My big mouth.
I got a big mouth, can't help it.

884
00:54:53,540 --> 00:54:55,246
I talk from my heart, I'm real.

885
00:54:55,334 --> 00:54:56,744
We talked about

886
00:54:56,835 --> 00:54:59,451
people in this business that you feel

887
00:54:59,546 --> 00:55:01,411
don't have a love
for their own people.

888
00:55:01,507 --> 00:55:06,297
We was talking about
spike Lee, arsenio hall,

889
00:55:06,386 --> 00:55:08,752
Eddie Murphy and the rest of them.

890
00:55:08,847 --> 00:55:11,304
I thought I was charming,
but I was immature.

891
00:55:11,391 --> 00:55:13,177
I did things without thinking.

892
00:55:13,268 --> 00:55:15,725
Michael Jackson, Randy Jackson,

893
00:55:15,813 --> 00:55:18,475
Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul,
all of them.

894
00:55:18,565 --> 00:55:20,977
She wants to not be black,
but sell to blacks.

895
00:55:21,068 --> 00:55:26,108
I don't appreciate her going
out of her way to say she's not black.

896
00:55:26,198 --> 00:55:30,567
My actions came before thought.
Things that I did, things I said.

897
00:55:30,661 --> 00:55:32,071
So many things I wanna take back.

898
00:55:32,162 --> 00:55:36,405
Eddie Murphy, with all that dough he's
making, hasn't done nothing for us.

899
00:55:36,500 --> 00:55:39,788
- He does a lot of charity.
- Charity doesn't get to the ghetto.

900
00:55:39,878 --> 00:55:41,209
Everybody knows that.

901
00:55:41,296 --> 00:55:43,036
I was young and dumb.

902
00:55:43,131 --> 00:55:46,544
Being mad at spike Lee
and all those people, all of that.

903
00:55:47,052 --> 00:55:48,838
The thing I said of Quincy Jones,

904
00:55:48,929 --> 00:55:50,885
he shouldn't mess
with white women.

905
00:55:50,973 --> 00:55:52,964
I said I was sorry
personally for that.

906
00:55:53,058 --> 00:55:55,390
I didn't think of how
it would hurt people.

907
00:55:55,477 --> 00:55:59,720
I'm gonna catch y'all in traffic and
be the roughest nigga you ever seen.

908
00:55:59,815 --> 00:56:01,521
That turned into
more legal problems.

909
00:56:01,608 --> 00:56:05,772
Woman: The people truly believe that
Mr. shakur has shown no remorse

910
00:56:05,863 --> 00:56:08,730
whatsoever for his action
in this case.

911
00:56:08,824 --> 00:56:13,488
We view Mr. shakur's appearance
on yo! Mtv raps as bragging.

912
00:56:13,579 --> 00:56:16,366
He was proud of what he did
and does not feel sorry.

913
00:56:16,456 --> 00:56:21,325
I just want to say, judge,
that I have a great deal of remorse.

914
00:56:21,420 --> 00:56:23,860
As far as I want you to treat
me different, I don't want that.

915
00:56:23,922 --> 00:56:29,337
I just want the chance to make right
from all the bad things that I got.

916
00:56:29,428 --> 00:56:32,511
I got things against me
and people that look up to me.

917
00:56:32,598 --> 00:56:35,385
I don't want the last place
they see me to be jail.

918
00:56:35,767 --> 00:56:38,474
Judge: I guess it's now time
for me to render the sentence.

919
00:56:38,562 --> 00:56:42,680
I obviously find that the defendant
is a talented individual.

920
00:56:42,774 --> 00:56:46,983
However, this court believes that
jail time is warranted with a battery

921
00:56:47,070 --> 00:56:48,606
with some injury involved.

922
00:56:48,697 --> 00:56:52,110
The defendant will serve 15 days
in the county jail.

923
00:56:52,451 --> 00:56:54,066
I think the judge was fair.

924
00:56:54,161 --> 00:56:57,198
I still don't feel like I got
the decision that I wanted,

925
00:56:57,289 --> 00:56:58,825
but he was as fair as he could be.

926
00:56:59,583 --> 00:57:01,414
Really, to my homeboys, I mean,

927
00:57:01,501 --> 00:57:03,492
a fight is a fight,
battery is battery.

928
00:57:03,587 --> 00:57:08,126
A two and a half minute problem
just cost me 15 days in jail,

929
00:57:08,216 --> 00:57:09,501
and that was lenient.

930
00:57:09,593 --> 00:57:12,926
But my most serious legal problems
came from women.

931
00:57:14,181 --> 00:57:15,921
How I was acting with women.

932
00:57:16,016 --> 00:57:18,132
The underground
just don't stop for ho's

933
00:57:18,226 --> 00:57:20,217
I get around...

934
00:57:20,312 --> 00:57:25,147
I will no longer sit passively,
allowing this degradation

935
00:57:25,233 --> 00:57:27,565
to be continued by our children.

936
00:57:27,653 --> 00:57:30,645
Tupac: I think we live
in a very sexist society,

937
00:57:30,781 --> 00:57:32,988
and everybody's pointing
the finger at me.

938
00:57:33,075 --> 00:57:35,566
When somebody asks me,
"do you exploit women?"

939
00:57:37,829 --> 00:57:41,413
With her permission, I might
smack a girl on the butt in the video.

940
00:57:41,833 --> 00:57:45,325
I might be drinking champagne,
but everything in moderation,

941
00:57:45,420 --> 00:57:46,785
and everything with class.

942
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:50,418
Fingertips on the hips as I dip
gotta get a tight grip, don't slip

943
00:57:50,509 --> 00:57:53,876
loose lips sink ships, it's a trip
I love the way she licks her lips

944
00:57:54,012 --> 00:57:57,004
see me jocking, put a little twist
in her hips because I'm watching

945
00:57:57,099 --> 00:57:59,590
I don't have fo always do a song
with the good woman.

946
00:57:59,685 --> 00:58:03,769
I don't see women as all one thing.
I think all women are different.

947
00:58:03,855 --> 00:58:08,349
You wonder why they call you bitch
you wonder why they call you bitch

948
00:58:08,485 --> 00:58:11,818
we African-American women,
particularly,

949
00:58:11,905 --> 00:58:17,821
are tired of being called ho's,
bitches and sluts by our children.

950
00:58:17,953 --> 00:58:21,445
Dear Ms. delores Tucker
you keep stressing me

951
00:58:21,540 --> 00:58:25,158
fucking with a motherfucking mind
I figured you wanted to know

952
00:58:25,252 --> 00:58:26,992
why we call them ho's bitches

953
00:58:27,087 --> 00:58:28,623
if I do something
that has a bad woman,

954
00:58:28,714 --> 00:58:30,045
people go, "he hates women."

955
00:58:30,132 --> 00:58:32,293
No, look. I don't think like that.

956
00:58:32,384 --> 00:58:35,421
But there are definitely
a type of female,

957
00:58:35,512 --> 00:58:38,879
label them a bitch, whose main thing
is to get what they can,

958
00:58:38,974 --> 00:58:41,260
and they revel
in breaking a nigga's heart

959
00:58:41,351 --> 00:58:42,807
and taking what he owns.

960
00:58:42,894 --> 00:58:44,134
Shut the fuck up!

961
00:58:44,229 --> 00:58:46,311
There's male bitches foo.

962
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:50,058
Women know there are bitches.
I don't know why they're surprised.

963
00:58:50,152 --> 00:58:52,859
They know. They say it louder.

964
00:58:52,946 --> 00:58:56,985
They think we say they're all bitches.
That's not what we're saying.

965
00:58:57,075 --> 00:58:59,532
I give a holler
to my sisters on welfare

966
00:58:59,619 --> 00:59:02,235
Tupac cares
and don't nobody else care

967
00:59:02,330 --> 00:59:04,412
that's keep ya head up and get around.

968
00:59:04,499 --> 00:59:05,685
I said, "I'm gonna write a song

969
00:59:05,709 --> 00:59:07,791
about women like my mom,

970
00:59:07,878 --> 00:59:10,995
"who represent a strong black woman."
I did that.

971
00:59:11,089 --> 00:59:13,671
I'll rap about women I see daily.
That's get around.

972
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:17,543
If I just did keep ya head up,
it would make me seem more than I am,

973
00:59:17,637 --> 00:59:18,968
but I'm just a normal man.

974
00:59:19,097 --> 00:59:24,217
America, America

975
00:59:24,311 --> 00:59:27,474
god shed his grace on thee

976
00:59:27,564 --> 00:59:28,974
stop.

977
00:59:31,693 --> 00:59:33,274
Man: I'm gonna close the door.

978
00:59:33,361 --> 00:59:34,976
Tupac: Come on, Mr. cameraman.

979
00:59:36,073 --> 00:59:41,784
This is some real private shit
that's about to happen, Mr. cameraman.

980
00:59:42,162 --> 00:59:43,572
Bye.

981
00:59:44,081 --> 00:59:45,992
Anyway, I'll let you hear the sounds.

982
00:59:46,333 --> 00:59:49,416
Is there a double standard
for men being promiscuous?

983
00:59:49,503 --> 00:59:52,540
Yeah, but we didn't start
that double standard.

984
00:59:52,631 --> 00:59:55,748
- I'm not saying you did.
- And I'm not saying it's fair.

985
00:59:55,842 --> 00:59:57,582
I'm saying this is how it is.

986
00:59:57,677 --> 01:00:00,510
How can we rap about a world
that is not like that?

987
01:00:00,597 --> 01:00:03,430
- This is how it is.
- Do you look down on male friends

988
01:00:03,517 --> 01:00:05,849
if they're as promiscuous as women?

989
01:00:05,936 --> 01:00:07,972
I don't look down on anybody
that's promiscuous.

990
01:00:08,063 --> 01:00:11,681
I only look down on people
who don't control the situation.

991
01:00:11,775 --> 01:00:15,188
If a girl sleeps with a lot of guys,
she's still my homegirl.

992
01:00:15,278 --> 01:00:18,566
You're only a bitch,
not if you sleep with a lot of guys,

993
01:00:18,657 --> 01:00:20,397
but if you're sleeping
with them for money.

994
01:00:20,492 --> 01:00:23,734
- So you put a price on yourself.
- Because they have a nice car.

995
01:00:23,829 --> 01:00:25,990
Guys, when they sleep around,
they do it for free.

996
01:00:28,083 --> 01:00:30,415
At that time, a lot of girls,

997
01:00:30,502 --> 01:00:33,619
they'd seen my face on TV so many
times that that's what they want,

998
01:00:33,713 --> 01:00:35,749
they wanna be associated
with that person.

999
01:00:35,841 --> 01:00:39,379
It's the fame that gets these people.
It's not me. It's the fame.

1000
01:00:39,469 --> 01:00:42,461
I've seen females look at me
when they didn't know who I was,

1001
01:00:42,556 --> 01:00:44,046
and I can see it, nothing.

1002
01:00:44,141 --> 01:00:46,473
Then as soon as
somebody whisper who I was,

1003
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:48,096
it's this glare in their eyes.

1004
01:00:48,311 --> 01:00:51,144
- You make yourself want them.
- How do you feel about that?

1005
01:00:51,231 --> 01:00:54,564
I don't understand how people can
stand next to you one year,

1006
01:00:54,651 --> 01:00:58,815
and next year, they cannot.
They're going crazy, screaming.

1007
01:00:58,905 --> 01:01:03,239
They can't take it that you're there.
But last year I was in the same club,

1008
01:01:03,326 --> 01:01:05,658
walking around,
lonely like a motherfucker.

1009
01:01:05,745 --> 01:01:09,363
Couldn't get a date or a dance.
I was too skinny, too something,

1010
01:01:09,457 --> 01:01:13,075
and now, "he's just adorable.
He's just, oh!"

1011
01:01:15,797 --> 01:01:19,130
But I still enjoyed sex
without the emotional connection.

1012
01:01:20,260 --> 01:01:24,424
And it was always a fantasy
for me to have sex

1013
01:01:24,514 --> 01:01:26,004
with a lot of people in the room.

1014
01:01:26,975 --> 01:01:29,466
But I didn't play
one situation correctly.

1015
01:01:31,688 --> 01:01:35,681
Rap singer Tupac shakur
was released on $50,000 bail today,

1016
01:01:35,775 --> 01:01:38,858
accused of a sexual attack
in a New York hotel.

1017
01:01:38,945 --> 01:01:42,108
The singer was arrested Thursday night
after a woman claimed

1018
01:01:42,199 --> 01:01:45,691
that he and three other men
overpowered her in a hotel suite.

1019
01:01:45,785 --> 01:01:49,198
- Are you disappointing your fans?
- Very, but they're gonna support me.

1020
01:01:50,832 --> 01:01:55,246
Reporter: With bodyguards and attorneys,
he went into Manhattan criminal court.

1021
01:01:55,337 --> 01:01:57,373
There, the 22-year-old rapper
and two friends

1022
01:01:57,464 --> 01:01:59,375
were charged with first-degree sodomy.

1023
01:01:59,466 --> 01:02:02,128
The allegations stem
from an incident last Thursday

1024
01:02:02,219 --> 01:02:04,710
in which a woman claims
she was held down

1025
01:02:04,804 --> 01:02:06,920
as he and two others
allegedly sodomized her.

1026
01:02:07,015 --> 01:02:10,257
The allegations by this young lady
are without merit.

1027
01:02:10,352 --> 01:02:13,594
Reporter: Defense attorneys say
the woman went there consensually,

1028
01:02:13,688 --> 01:02:16,805
and answering machine tapes
that indicate her interest in shakur

1029
01:02:16,900 --> 01:02:18,515
were erased by police.

1030
01:02:19,986 --> 01:02:23,820
Okay, so you tell me when your lawyers
have asked you to stop.

1031
01:02:24,616 --> 01:02:27,983
The girl who claims that...

1032
01:02:28,787 --> 01:02:30,072
What does she claim?

1033
01:02:30,330 --> 01:02:32,321
- I can't even say it, man.
- Okay.

1034
01:02:32,832 --> 01:02:35,494
But technically, it's a rape case.

1035
01:02:35,585 --> 01:02:37,416
Tupac: I wasn't convicted
of no rape charge.

1036
01:02:37,504 --> 01:02:41,543
My charge was sexual abuse,
forcibly touching the buttocks.

1037
01:02:41,925 --> 01:02:45,793
I have a female saying that...
I can't say it, but...

1038
01:02:45,887 --> 01:02:48,128
It just bothers me so much, you know?

1039
01:02:48,223 --> 01:02:50,555
To go through my life
and everything I did,

1040
01:02:50,642 --> 01:02:53,759
coming out of a family and household
with just women,

1041
01:02:53,853 --> 01:02:58,096
to get to this point to have a woman
say that I took something from her.

1042
01:02:58,900 --> 01:03:00,140
It was hard.

1043
01:03:03,697 --> 01:03:07,030
Reporter: It was an emotional day
for a 20-year-old female fan,

1044
01:03:07,242 --> 01:03:10,860
who admitted that she had consensual
sex with shakur on Sunday night,

1045
01:03:10,954 --> 01:03:13,912
four days before her alleged rape
in the hotel room.

1046
01:03:13,999 --> 01:03:17,412
During her cross-examination,
defense attorney Michael Warren

1047
01:03:17,502 --> 01:03:20,619
painted a picture
of a starstruck, naive girl

1048
01:03:20,714 --> 01:03:22,625
anxious to have sex with shakur.

1049
01:03:22,841 --> 01:03:26,880
Word is, you had a relationship with
this woman prior to all this friction.

1050
01:03:27,012 --> 01:03:30,721
If you can say that's a relationship.
I bumped in a club. I'd seen her.

1051
01:03:30,807 --> 01:03:33,640
Let's use a clinical term.
There was oral copulation?

1052
01:03:33,852 --> 01:03:36,969
Yeah, she performed oral sex
on the dance floor.

1053
01:03:37,063 --> 01:03:40,180
A lot of guys could say
what they wouldn't do

1054
01:03:40,275 --> 01:03:43,312
and what they would do,
but when it happens, you know...?

1055
01:03:43,528 --> 01:03:45,644
- Yeah.
- It just goes down.

1056
01:03:45,739 --> 01:03:46,819
And it's... really.

1057
01:03:53,997 --> 01:03:57,364
She did some things there at the club,
and we got together later that night.

1058
01:03:58,251 --> 01:04:02,119
I saw her again another time with
these guys that introduced me to her.

1059
01:04:02,213 --> 01:04:06,331
Everybody was having a good fime,
nothing sexual, just a good time.

1060
01:04:06,426 --> 01:04:10,169
Me and her went in, she gave me
a massage, went to sleep, woke up,

1061
01:04:10,263 --> 01:04:12,424
she's screaming,
"rape, rape." I raped her.

1062
01:04:13,350 --> 01:04:17,013
And she's yelling at me, "this is not
the last you're gonna see of me."

1063
01:04:18,188 --> 01:04:22,227
I'm cursing her out because I'm not
thinking she's really gonna do that.

1064
01:04:22,317 --> 01:04:24,808
And the next thing I know,
I'm going to jail.

1065
01:04:25,028 --> 01:04:28,361
In your opinion there was no truth
to the sexual abuse charges?

1066
01:04:28,448 --> 01:04:30,234
Not on my part at all.

1067
01:04:30,367 --> 01:04:32,278
Reporter: The defense
pounded away at her,

1068
01:04:32,494 --> 01:04:34,576
asking her why
she didn't scream for help

1069
01:04:34,662 --> 01:04:36,618
at the time of the alleged attack.

1070
01:04:36,748 --> 01:04:39,660
The woman testified
that shakur's friends said:

1071
01:04:39,751 --> 01:04:43,369
"Tupac needs his fans.
Don't go to the white man with this.

1072
01:04:43,463 --> 01:04:46,921
"Millions of girls would love
to be in your shoes right now.”

1073
01:04:47,008 --> 01:04:48,568
Tabitha Soren: What about your cronies?

1074
01:04:48,635 --> 01:04:52,548
That was a big misconception.
The people with me weren't friends.

1075
01:04:52,639 --> 01:04:55,722
- Why were they in your room?
- I hang with lots of people.

1076
01:04:55,809 --> 01:04:58,972
And that's how I am.
It's similar to like you said,

1077
01:04:59,104 --> 01:05:02,437
about led zeppelin. They don't
know all of the people with them.

1078
01:05:02,649 --> 01:05:04,981
This guy got the weed?
Okay, you can kick it.

1079
01:05:05,193 --> 01:05:06,729
Got the money? You can kick it.

1080
01:05:06,945 --> 01:05:10,108
This guy has connections to the clubs?
Okay, you can kick it.

1081
01:05:10,198 --> 01:05:11,233
I don't know him.

1082
01:05:11,324 --> 01:05:14,441
But that was my fault, I had that
kind of environment around me.

1083
01:05:20,667 --> 01:05:24,660
I didn't do nothing. I'm charged with
being in concert with some guys.

1084
01:05:24,754 --> 01:05:26,119
Well, where are they at?

1085
01:05:26,548 --> 01:05:28,129
Why me? Because I'm Tupac...

1086
01:05:28,216 --> 01:05:30,423
I'm not mad at them.
I'm mad at the system.

1087
01:05:30,510 --> 01:05:32,546
I don't want nobody to go to jail,

1088
01:05:32,637 --> 01:05:35,344
but I don't wanna go
for something I didn't do.

1089
01:05:35,432 --> 01:05:37,297
I just don't wanna be the scapegoat.

1090
01:05:37,934 --> 01:05:40,721
I just couldn't believe
this was going on in my life.

1091
01:05:40,812 --> 01:05:43,645
See the cameras. It wasn't like
I had a chance for justice

1092
01:05:43,731 --> 01:05:44,971
like a normal citizen.

1093
01:05:47,527 --> 01:05:50,894
Reporter: Hi, Tupac. Can you tell me
how you're doing today?

1094
01:05:50,989 --> 01:05:56,359
Well, 1 just had to listen
to the prosecution's closing argument,

1095
01:05:56,453 --> 01:05:58,409
and it was so far from the truth

1096
01:05:58,496 --> 01:06:01,408
that it has me drained
at the end of the day.

1097
01:06:01,499 --> 01:06:03,535
But I'm leaving it in
the hands of the jury.

1098
01:06:03,751 --> 01:06:07,414
I'm learning a lot about people's
innermost fears in this trial.

1099
01:06:08,173 --> 01:06:10,880
It's not even about my trial no more.
It's just about

1100
01:06:10,967 --> 01:06:14,630
loud rap music, tattoo-having thugs.

1101
01:06:15,221 --> 01:06:18,713
It's about some nightmare
that these people are having.

1102
01:06:19,767 --> 01:06:22,053
I can't understand why it's so close.

1103
01:06:22,145 --> 01:06:26,514
There's no evidence I sodomized her,
even though you put that in the paper.

1104
01:06:28,026 --> 01:06:30,108
Print the facts so everybody
can sort it out.

1105
01:06:30,195 --> 01:06:33,358
My life is ruined because nobody
has a chance to get the facts.

1106
01:06:33,448 --> 01:06:35,655
Reporter: Fact is,
there was no semen found.

1107
01:06:35,742 --> 01:06:41,658
No semen found, no forcible entry,
no entry into the anal, no nothing.

1108
01:06:41,748 --> 01:06:43,204
I wanted to explain it.

1109
01:06:43,583 --> 01:06:46,620
Tabitha Soren: If you could go back
to the night when the abuse occurred,

1110
01:06:46,711 --> 01:06:48,230
is there anything
you'd do differently?

1111
01:06:48,254 --> 01:06:49,414
Yeah. What?

1112
01:06:49,506 --> 01:06:53,340
I would not have closed my eyes
until she was out of the room,

1113
01:06:53,426 --> 01:06:55,542
until everybody was out of the room.

1114
01:06:55,637 --> 01:06:59,550
So when you left the room
and left her with those people...

1115
01:06:59,682 --> 01:07:02,515
I didn't leave her with those people
or bring her to them.

1116
01:07:02,602 --> 01:07:04,012
- She came over?
- Right.

1117
01:07:04,103 --> 01:07:07,140
She came over, knew those people,
knew everything.

1118
01:07:07,232 --> 01:07:08,672
I just didn't grab her out of there.

1119
01:07:11,861 --> 01:07:16,150
I'm guilty of not being a smart man,
not being a goodhearted man,

1120
01:07:16,241 --> 01:07:18,152
I guess, or being more considerate.

1121
01:07:18,243 --> 01:07:22,031
At any point, were you aware
she was involved in something she...

1122
01:07:22,121 --> 01:07:24,828
- Cut. That's a problem right there.
- Man: Excuse me.

1123
01:07:26,167 --> 01:07:28,579
None of these legal matters
can be asked.

1124
01:07:28,670 --> 01:07:31,753
I have a list of the stuff
you'll have to cut out. Sorry.

1125
01:07:31,839 --> 01:07:34,876
- All right.
- Man: The gentleman is out on bail.

1126
01:07:35,677 --> 01:07:37,383
Tabitha Soren: I see.

1127
01:07:38,012 --> 01:07:39,673
I couldn't defend myself.

1128
01:07:39,764 --> 01:07:42,631
This would never have happened
to anybody else.

1129
01:07:42,809 --> 01:07:46,051
They have no evidence on me,
and it's about to come out.

1130
01:07:46,271 --> 01:07:48,432
Now my life is over.
This is a year later.

1131
01:07:48,523 --> 01:07:51,890
A year after the world's been thinking
I'm a rapist.

1132
01:07:51,985 --> 01:07:53,475
The whole world owes me an apology.

1133
01:07:53,570 --> 01:07:56,562
I went through it and didn't
kill myself like Kurt cobain.

1134
01:07:56,656 --> 01:07:59,568
And I should, because this is
some crazy madness.

1135
01:08:08,585 --> 01:08:11,543
Man: Central, I got a black male
shot at 48th and 7th.

1136
01:08:15,842 --> 01:08:19,380
Last night, just after midnight,
at 7237th Avenue,

1137
01:08:19,596 --> 01:08:22,554
that's between 48th and 49th street,

1138
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:27,100
rap star Tupac shakur
and three members of his group

1139
01:08:27,186 --> 01:08:28,801
were robbed and shot.

1140
01:08:36,738 --> 01:08:38,945
Tupac: They shot me, straight up.

1141
01:08:39,032 --> 01:08:41,569
I just kept thinking,
"they really did shoot me."

1142
01:08:42,535 --> 01:08:46,027
When I wasn't dead,
immediately I was like, "oh, man."

1143
01:08:46,122 --> 01:08:47,828
I was like, "no, this ain't it."

1144
01:08:47,915 --> 01:08:51,749
I know how it's gonna be when I die.
It's gonna be no noise.

1145
01:08:51,836 --> 01:08:55,374
You ain't gonna hear people screaming.
I'm gonna fade out.

1146
01:08:58,426 --> 01:09:00,542
And I didn't...
None of that was there.

1147
01:09:02,180 --> 01:09:06,719
I was like, "I got shot five times.
I'm not dead. They missed. I'm back.”

1148
01:09:08,519 --> 01:09:11,556
Reporter: When shakur resisted,
he was shot five times,

1149
01:09:11,648 --> 01:09:14,515
twice in the head
and twice in the groin area.

1150
01:09:14,734 --> 01:09:18,147
And his most serious wound,
a gunshot through the hand,

1151
01:09:18,279 --> 01:09:20,235
hitting an artery in his thigh.

1152
01:09:20,448 --> 01:09:23,281
He's listed in serious
but stable condition.

1153
01:09:25,244 --> 01:09:27,056
Tupac: Until it happeneaq,
I really did believe

1154
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:29,412
no black person would ever shoot me.

1155
01:09:30,291 --> 01:09:33,454
I believed that I didn't have to
fear my own community.

1156
01:09:34,003 --> 01:09:36,915
You know, I was like,
"I represent them.

1157
01:09:37,006 --> 01:09:39,998
"I'm their ambassador to the world.
They would never do me wrong."

1158
01:09:40,635 --> 01:09:43,502
I believe that this was a robbery.

1159
01:09:43,596 --> 01:09:47,180
Anybody who was gonna walk into
that building was gonna be robbed.

1160
01:09:47,517 --> 01:09:50,680
Tupac: The police don't wanna find out
who shot me. They're happy.

1161
01:09:58,945 --> 01:10:01,402
As far as that vibe interview,
just read everything over

1162
01:10:01,531 --> 01:10:06,491
and read my reply, read
their reply, read what people say.

1163
01:10:07,537 --> 01:10:10,244
Everybody that was there
knows what happened.

1164
01:10:15,545 --> 01:10:18,958
My recollection was, I was shooting
a video, the second half of warning,

1165
01:10:19,048 --> 01:10:23,417
which is the b-side of big poppa,
and I was shooting around the block.

1166
01:10:23,511 --> 01:10:24,842
And I heard my man

1167
01:10:24,929 --> 01:10:27,545
was up at the studio doing
a junior ma.F.La. Session.

1168
01:10:27,640 --> 01:10:31,383
So I got off at the reception area,
and I saw Andre and little Shawn.

1169
01:10:31,602 --> 01:10:35,345
I said, "what's up?" About to get on
the elevator, and he comes out shot.

1170
01:10:46,909 --> 01:10:50,026
The Tupac article had me pissed off,
you know what I'm saying?

1171
01:10:50,121 --> 01:10:53,204
Because first of all,
he dissed my man,

1172
01:10:53,291 --> 01:10:54,997
saying he turned his back on him,

1173
01:10:55,084 --> 01:10:58,372
and I know for a fact
it didn't happen.

1174
01:10:59,213 --> 01:11:02,797
And, like, the rumors that's spreading

1175
01:11:03,009 --> 01:11:07,127
is on some tip like we set him up.
And that's crazy.

1176
01:11:09,807 --> 01:11:13,299
Puffy combs: As soon as he comes out
shot, me and my man try to sit him down.

1177
01:11:13,519 --> 01:11:16,602
He called his mom. He asked
my man if he can roll him a blunt.

1178
01:11:16,814 --> 01:11:18,475
We asked if he was all right.

1179
01:11:18,566 --> 01:11:20,807
He's like, "yeah,
I don't know what's going on."

1180
01:11:23,863 --> 01:11:29,278
We were just trying to comfort him.
Andre harrell called the ambulance.

1181
01:11:32,997 --> 01:11:35,363
And everybody there was
very supportive of him.

1182
01:11:38,753 --> 01:11:42,416
It was just the total opposite.
He came out and everyone ran to him.

1183
01:11:42,507 --> 01:11:44,293
It was nothing but love and concern.

1184
01:11:44,383 --> 01:11:47,045
They got different accounts of it,

1185
01:11:47,136 --> 01:11:48,842
and I'm the one
with the bullet wounds.

1186
01:11:48,930 --> 01:11:52,218
Biggie smalls: / also understand that
if you was to get shot five times,

1187
01:11:53,100 --> 01:11:55,341
your mind is just completely spinning.

1188
01:11:55,436 --> 01:11:57,802
You're real confused
about your situation.

1189
01:11:58,022 --> 01:12:00,058
It'll make you say things
you don't mean.

1190
01:12:00,149 --> 01:12:01,889
I was there for the whole thing.

1191
01:12:01,984 --> 01:12:04,350
No one else was there
for the whole thing.

1192
01:12:04,445 --> 01:12:09,280
I don't know the purpose of why
the story was said in another context.

1193
01:12:09,367 --> 01:12:12,859
It's not important that others know
what happened. I said it.

1194
01:12:12,954 --> 01:12:14,160
Now that I said it, it's dead.

1195
01:12:14,247 --> 01:12:16,329
Believe me or not,
I did what I had to.

1196
01:12:16,415 --> 01:12:17,825
God knows the truth.

1197
01:12:17,917 --> 01:12:19,828
There's no religion
about getting shot.

1198
01:12:19,919 --> 01:12:21,659
I don't want any converts.

1199
01:12:25,341 --> 01:12:29,084
After getting shot, I was like,
"shit, I don't know who to trust.”

1200
01:12:29,178 --> 01:12:31,214
Reporter: In a bizarre twist of events,

1201
01:12:31,305 --> 01:12:36,470
Tupac shakur checked himself out
of bellevue hospital Wednesday night.

1202
01:12:36,561 --> 01:12:39,894
Reporter 2: After surgery, Tupac
checked himself out of bellevue

1203
01:12:39,981 --> 01:12:42,097
against doctor's orders.

1204
01:12:42,358 --> 01:12:45,850
Tupac: It was just time to leave.
I didn't feel safe there.

1205
01:12:46,070 --> 01:12:48,482
I kept getting
these crazy phone calls.

1206
01:12:52,535 --> 01:12:55,743
At that point, I'm just paranoid,
just bugging out.

1207
01:12:55,955 --> 01:12:59,823
I couldn't sleep or rest. I was like,
"I'm just tired, and I wanna just..."

1208
01:13:01,586 --> 01:13:05,625
And I felt like I'm like a victim,
a target.

1209
01:13:07,550 --> 01:13:10,462
I couldn't even sleep at home.
People could kill me at home.

1210
01:13:10,553 --> 01:13:13,340
And are the police gonna
come in and kill me?

1211
01:13:13,431 --> 01:13:16,264
You know, is there secret police?

1212
01:13:17,476 --> 01:13:20,593
I was so deep into the weed
at that point.

1213
01:13:21,355 --> 01:13:24,893
And I was like,
"I'm petrified. I'm vulnerable.”

1214
01:13:26,485 --> 01:13:29,352
I felt like just a prisoner
to my own fame.

1215
01:13:30,573 --> 01:13:33,064
That's why I wanted fo die
at that point.

1216
01:13:34,368 --> 01:13:37,280
I felt like,
"if everybody's so worried,

1217
01:13:37,371 --> 01:13:38,781
"why ain't nobody came to help?”

1218
01:13:41,626 --> 01:13:44,163
Reporter: Mr. shakur?
Bodyguard: Open up, please. Open up.

1219
01:13:44,378 --> 01:13:46,315
Bodyguard: Excuse me.
Bodyguard 2: Step back, please.

1220
01:13:46,339 --> 01:13:49,422
- Just keep it tight, that's all.
- Reporter: How are you this morning?

1221
01:13:49,634 --> 01:13:51,545
Reporter 2: The jury deliberated, then,

1222
01:13:51,636 --> 01:13:55,094
after days of twists worthy
of a Hollywood drama,

1223
01:13:55,306 --> 01:13:58,139
Tupac shakur has finally had
one question answered.

1224
01:13:58,351 --> 01:14:01,889
Tonight, the jury found him guilty
of three counts of sexual abuse,

1225
01:14:01,979 --> 01:14:04,937
but innocent on six other charges,
including sodomy.

1226
01:14:05,066 --> 01:14:07,227
Man: Tupac!
Bodyguard: Back it up! No!

1227
01:14:07,318 --> 01:14:10,105
Please, give me some space.
Please, man.

1228
01:14:10,321 --> 01:14:12,357
Reporter: Why did you decide
to leave the hospital?

1229
01:14:12,448 --> 01:14:16,316
Please, y'all are not letting me get
through, man. Let me get through!

1230
01:14:16,535 --> 01:14:18,617
- Back it up.
- Why did you leave?

1231
01:14:18,704 --> 01:14:21,662
Reporter: And sentencing for this trial
has yet to be scheduled.

1232
01:14:34,679 --> 01:14:37,967
Tupac: Where I was sent was
a maximum-security penitentiary.

1233
01:14:48,359 --> 01:14:52,193
I know when I was young, I couldn't
wait to get to jail, straight up.

1234
01:14:52,279 --> 01:14:56,238
I mean, I was scared and everything,
but I felt that's part of being a man.

1235
01:15:01,205 --> 01:15:03,321
Now that I'm here,
this is not the spot.

1236
01:15:03,416 --> 01:15:05,776
I know everybody that comes out says,
"this ain't the spot."

1237
01:15:06,460 --> 01:15:08,325
This isn't the spot.

1238
01:15:08,421 --> 01:15:12,209
Somebody tells you when to get up,
when you can shower, do this, do that.

1239
01:15:12,299 --> 01:15:16,417
They can speak to you any way they
want to, and you've gotta accept it.

1240
01:15:19,015 --> 01:15:22,507
You can die here, know what I mean?
Yesterday, a dude was murdered.

1241
01:15:22,727 --> 01:15:26,060
He wasn't in here on no murder beef.
He was in on a drug beef.

1242
01:15:26,147 --> 01:15:29,685
He's gone. He's dead in jail,
you know what I mean?

1243
01:15:29,775 --> 01:15:31,891
By another prisoner who had life.

1244
01:15:31,986 --> 01:15:34,602
He had nothing to lose,
you know what I mean?

1245
01:15:35,114 --> 01:15:37,730
I came to jail. I'm telling you,
it's dirty. It's filthy.

1246
01:15:37,825 --> 01:15:39,656
It's like you're an animal.

1247
01:15:42,204 --> 01:15:44,365
At first, me and the guards
had problems.

1248
01:15:44,582 --> 01:15:47,324
I got smacked and treated bad.

1249
01:15:47,501 --> 01:15:49,287
They did whatever
they could to break me

1250
01:15:49,378 --> 01:15:52,495
because I used to talk a lot of shit.

1251
01:15:52,882 --> 01:15:56,249
As soon as I got there, they went,
"there he goes, the rich nigger.”

1252
01:15:56,343 --> 01:15:59,710
I was like,
"oh, shit, he said nigger!"

1253
01:15:59,805 --> 01:16:01,887
Everybody's looking at me like, "so?"

1254
01:16:01,974 --> 01:16:05,683
And I was like, "my god,
this is where I'm gonna be staying?"

1255
01:16:05,895 --> 01:16:07,385
He just said "nigger"!

1256
01:16:07,605 --> 01:16:10,017
You've got “niggas”
in one of your records.

1257
01:16:10,232 --> 01:16:12,848
Niggas. He's talking about niggers.

1258
01:16:12,943 --> 01:16:16,731
Niggers was the ones on the rope,
hanging off the thing.

1259
01:16:16,822 --> 01:16:20,906
Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,
hanging out at clubs.

1260
01:16:26,665 --> 01:16:27,871
I learned things there.

1261
01:16:27,958 --> 01:16:30,540
In jail, it's like
how we should be in life, humble.

1262
01:16:30,628 --> 01:16:34,337
I was talking to skinheads because
if you don't like black people,

1263
01:16:34,423 --> 01:16:37,005
all right, that's fine.
That's your opinion.

1264
01:16:37,093 --> 01:16:39,550
I want people to respect
my opinion when I'm rapping,

1265
01:16:39,637 --> 01:16:41,252
so I'll respect yours.

1266
01:16:41,347 --> 01:16:43,212
You treat me with respect,

1267
01:16:43,307 --> 01:16:45,593
I'll treat you with respect,
and we'll get along.

1268
01:16:45,684 --> 01:16:49,552
This skinhead, "hate black people" all
over, getting autographs for cousins.

1269
01:16:49,647 --> 01:16:51,137
I accomplished something.

1270
01:16:51,232 --> 01:16:55,350
I know, by him getting my autograph,
that meant something to me.

1271
01:16:55,569 --> 01:16:58,185
He couldn't hate black people
and get my autograph.

1272
01:17:00,825 --> 01:17:03,862
- The food was terrible, I guess.
- Tupac: Oh, my goodness.

1273
01:17:03,953 --> 01:17:06,114
They've got this liver surprise thing.

1274
01:17:06,205 --> 01:17:09,493
The liver surprise. They're trying
to pump that jail on the menu.

1275
01:17:09,583 --> 01:17:13,576
They're trying to get it to go
prime-time, get it in the rotation.

1276
01:17:13,671 --> 01:17:17,414
I was like, "we had this yesterday.
I liked it already, goddamn."

1277
01:17:17,633 --> 01:17:20,500
- No tater tots?
- No. Are you crazy? Tater tots?

1278
01:17:20,594 --> 01:17:24,712
I used to get baked potatoes
with a huge finger imprint on it.

1279
01:17:26,183 --> 01:17:27,593
- All right.
- It was bad.

1280
01:17:27,726 --> 01:17:31,435
No, you don't wanna get me started.
Jell-o with hair all in the mold.

1281
01:17:32,565 --> 01:17:35,648
I'd be like, "damn, man,
how are you gonna mess up jell-o?"

1282
01:17:35,734 --> 01:17:38,350
Jell-o is so wholesome
and family-like.

1283
01:17:38,445 --> 01:17:39,810
It just ruins it for me.

1284
01:17:40,030 --> 01:17:41,566
To have a hair in there, yeah.

1285
01:17:41,657 --> 01:17:45,821
I mean, I'm like, "come on,
bill cosby pumps this, man!"

1286
01:17:46,954 --> 01:17:49,445
Put the hair in my jell-o.

1287
01:17:50,457 --> 01:17:54,791
And you can't go, "there's a hair in
my jell-o. I'd like to send this back.

1288
01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:56,581
"Can I see the cook, please?"

1289
01:17:56,672 --> 01:17:59,209
The cook is a big dude
named bubba Joe.

1290
01:18:00,509 --> 01:18:05,503
The first eight months I spent in
solitude 23 hours a day, reading.

1291
01:18:05,598 --> 01:18:08,385
I wrote a script called live 2 tell.

1292
01:18:08,475 --> 01:18:11,182
I got how to write a screenplay,
that big famous book by Syd field.

1293
01:18:11,645 --> 01:18:14,682
I got that, and I remembered
all of the scripts I ever read,

1294
01:18:14,773 --> 01:18:16,263
and I wrote one.

1295
01:18:16,692 --> 01:18:18,182
I read a lot of good books.

1296
01:18:18,277 --> 01:18:22,145
I read a lot of Maya angelou's books.
The art of war by sun tzu.

1297
01:18:25,201 --> 01:18:28,284
But in terms of writing music
and lyrics, I couldn't do it.

1298
01:18:28,370 --> 01:18:32,454
Everybody's like, "he's in jail now.
He's gonna have the bomb album.”

1299
01:18:32,541 --> 01:18:33,872
But it's the opposite.

1300
01:18:33,959 --> 01:18:37,577
Prison kills your spirit, straight up.
It kills your spirit.

1301
01:18:37,671 --> 01:18:42,165
I couldn't write. My inspiration was
gone because I was a caged animal.

1302
01:18:44,053 --> 01:18:47,671
But when I was in jail,
a lot of people supported me.

1303
01:18:47,890 --> 01:18:50,176
Jasmine guy, Jada pinkett,

1304
01:18:51,310 --> 01:18:53,596
Mickey Rourke,
he just wrote me funny stories.

1305
01:18:53,687 --> 01:18:57,396
The name that sticks out the most,
I'll keep saying this, is Tony danza.

1306
01:18:58,317 --> 01:19:00,933
To me, he is the bomb forever.

1307
01:19:01,028 --> 01:19:03,770
I will be his number one fan forever,

1308
01:19:03,864 --> 01:19:06,276
because when I got his letter,
I was like, "whoa!"

1309
01:19:06,367 --> 01:19:08,527
I was screaming out to everybody,
"guess who wrote me!"

1310
01:19:11,163 --> 01:19:15,623
They had a story on the local news
that Madonna was coming to visit me.

1311
01:19:15,709 --> 01:19:19,327
Madonna has so much power that
the guards gave me an extra shower

1312
01:19:19,421 --> 01:19:21,191
because they thought
she was coming to visit me.

1313
01:19:21,215 --> 01:19:22,250
Tabitha Soren: Wow.

1314
01:19:22,341 --> 01:19:26,129
I had guards walking me downstairs,
everything, trying to peep a look.

1315
01:19:26,220 --> 01:19:28,131
- Did she come?
- No. No, I'm glad.

1316
01:19:28,222 --> 01:19:31,214
- But you got the extra shower?
- Hey, I got the shower.

1317
01:19:34,270 --> 01:19:37,057
The person that supported me
the most was my mother.

1318
01:19:38,941 --> 01:19:42,479
When my mother got clean,
we got real close again.

1319
01:19:43,195 --> 01:19:48,610
And even as a crack fiend, mama
you always was a black queen, mama

1320
01:19:48,826 --> 01:19:53,069
I finally understand, for a woman
it ain't easy, trying to raise a man

1321
01:19:54,957 --> 01:19:56,948
I don't blame her for anything.

1322
01:19:58,168 --> 01:20:02,582
My mom's the bomb, you know.
The world's best mom.

1323
01:20:04,550 --> 01:20:06,882
You are appreciated - lady

1324
01:20:08,137 --> 01:20:10,799
don't you know we love you
sweet lady

1325
01:20:12,224 --> 01:20:14,510
dear mama is the song
I wrote for my mother.

1326
01:20:14,601 --> 01:20:16,387
But it's also for all the mothers.

1327
01:20:16,478 --> 01:20:19,220
I'm proud of that.
It affected a lot of people.

1328
01:20:19,982 --> 01:20:21,563
It was from me against the world,

1329
01:20:21,775 --> 01:20:24,016
which was completed
before I went to jail.

1330
01:20:25,195 --> 01:20:27,186
It's just me against the world

1331
01:20:30,576 --> 01:20:31,736
me against the world, baby

1332
01:20:31,827 --> 01:20:33,567
it was the number one record.

1333
01:20:33,662 --> 01:20:37,530
Me against the world was
one of those... my career highs.

1334
01:20:39,335 --> 01:20:40,871
It was a trip in jail.

1335
01:20:41,086 --> 01:20:42,872
They'd say stuff like,
"you're in jail.

1336
01:20:42,963 --> 01:20:45,500
"Won't be any rapping
for a long time. Ha, ha."

1337
01:20:45,716 --> 01:20:48,753
I'd be like, "my album
is number one in the country.

1338
01:20:48,844 --> 01:20:50,550
"It just beat Bruce Springsteen."

1339
01:20:50,763 --> 01:20:53,254
And they'd be like,
"go back to your cell."

1340
01:20:54,433 --> 01:20:58,176
I used to get entertainment weekly
and see where my record was

1341
01:20:58,270 --> 01:21:01,728
and just trip out and be like,
"number one in the whole country.”

1342
01:21:01,815 --> 01:21:07,185
To me, it will always be my favorite,
and jail made me wanna dig deeper.

1343
01:21:19,333 --> 01:21:22,666
It took five bullets for me to see
what was really going on.

1344
01:21:22,878 --> 01:21:26,996
In jail, you get perspective, and you
start looking at things differently,

1345
01:21:27,091 --> 01:21:29,298
like everything is not so important.

1346
01:21:29,510 --> 01:21:31,466
You know, you try not
to take it personal.

1347
01:21:32,554 --> 01:21:34,260
Because you're talking to killers.

1348
01:21:34,348 --> 01:21:37,590
They say something you don't like,
you can't say, "what?"

1349
01:21:37,810 --> 01:21:42,270
You gotta be like, "okay, look man,
would you mind not calling me...?"

1350
01:21:42,481 --> 01:21:45,223
Anger management like a mother.

1351
01:21:47,778 --> 01:21:51,145
In jail, I tried not to have
negative feelings towards nobody.

1352
01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:53,560
It's not like I wanted to get out
and go shoot somebody up.

1353
01:21:55,369 --> 01:21:59,157
People said, "you softened up.”
ain't nothing soft. Nothing changed.

1354
01:22:01,959 --> 01:22:05,372
If anything, my mentality was like,
"trust nobody.

1355
01:22:05,587 --> 01:22:08,294
"Trust nobody."

1356
01:22:11,468 --> 01:22:12,674
It's not like I'm untouchable.

1357
01:22:12,761 --> 01:22:15,377
I could be killed
as soon as I get out.

1358
01:22:16,432 --> 01:22:18,673
I just thought,
"I already took five bullets,

1359
01:22:18,892 --> 01:22:21,349
"and if I can help it,
I don't plan on taking more."

1360
01:22:24,898 --> 01:22:27,310
Rapper, actor and convict,
Tupac shakur,

1361
01:22:27,401 --> 01:22:28,766
walked out of jail last week,

1362
01:22:28,902 --> 01:22:31,063
bailed out to the tune
of $1.4 million

1363
01:22:31,155 --> 01:22:33,237
by suge knight
of death row records,

1364
01:22:33,365 --> 01:22:34,901
which signed shakur to a deal.

1365
01:22:34,992 --> 01:22:38,325
My closest friends did me in.
My closest friends, my homeys.

1366
01:22:38,412 --> 01:22:41,745
I took care of their whole family,
took care of everything,

1367
01:22:41,832 --> 01:22:44,665
looked out for them, put them
in the game, turned on me.

1368
01:22:47,463 --> 01:22:51,251
So I just thought, "how could I make
them sorry they ever did this to me?

1369
01:22:51,341 --> 01:22:56,210
"How can I come back, like,
50 times stronger and better?”

1370
01:23:00,893 --> 01:23:04,602
Fear is stronger than love. Remember
that. Fear is stronger than love.

1371
01:23:04,813 --> 01:23:07,395
The love I gave meant nothing
when it came to fear.

1372
01:23:08,650 --> 01:23:10,606
No question, sign with death row.

1373
01:23:21,705 --> 01:23:24,287
Suddenly, I was out on ball,
pending appeal.

1374
01:23:24,374 --> 01:23:27,116
If I win my appeal, which,
if god wills, 1 will,

1375
01:23:27,211 --> 01:23:29,076
I would've done 11 months
for nothing.

1376
01:23:39,139 --> 01:23:42,973
You see that, judge? I didn't curse.
Probation people, I didn't curse.

1377
01:23:43,060 --> 01:23:45,221
Give me my props. Let me stay free.

1378
01:23:45,312 --> 01:23:47,519
I was relieved, happy to be home.

1379
01:23:51,777 --> 01:23:53,893
I wanted to drive up
and down sunset

1380
01:23:54,029 --> 01:23:59,240
because I love L.A. with a passion.
I love sunset, everything about L.A.

1381
01:23:59,326 --> 01:24:02,113
Can I get tatted up real quick?
I want a crown here.

1382
01:24:02,746 --> 01:24:04,737
You know, the energy, that's L.A.

1383
01:24:04,831 --> 01:24:06,571
- Hello?
- I'm saying,

1384
01:24:06,667 --> 01:24:10,706
we on venice beach. It's what you do.
I've been in jail 11 months, Tabitha.

1385
01:24:10,796 --> 01:24:12,752
You're supposed to put “I love you...

1386
01:24:13,215 --> 01:24:15,581
You got to let me get a look
at something.

1387
01:24:15,801 --> 01:24:18,338
It's a trip when last week
you were in a cell,

1388
01:24:18,554 --> 01:24:22,263
and then, next week, I'm up at monty's
with cristal champagne

1389
01:24:22,349 --> 01:24:25,762
and filet mignon and lobster
and shrimps.

1390
01:24:26,853 --> 01:24:32,143
Everybody went, "let me take you out.
You're home? Let me take you to this!"

1391
01:24:32,234 --> 01:24:36,318
We was all up in Roscoe's.
I even celebrated at El pollo loco

1392
01:24:36,405 --> 01:24:39,693
because I was dreaming about
El pollo loco the whole time.

1393
01:24:41,910 --> 01:24:44,071
Then I went straight to the studio.

1394
01:24:45,831 --> 01:24:48,914
And I did 24 tracks in
less than two weeks.

1395
01:24:49,126 --> 01:24:52,539
You can mix it later and have niggas
that love being in the studio

1396
01:24:52,754 --> 01:24:56,497
just add the drumbeat and shit. You
can do that after the rappers leave.

1397
01:24:57,092 --> 01:24:58,332
That's when it's fresh.

1398
01:24:58,552 --> 01:25:02,170
Get that beat popping, throw them
niggas on the track, put it down.

1399
01:25:02,389 --> 01:25:05,256
Everybody will listen, be like,
"this is the hook."

1400
01:25:05,350 --> 01:25:07,432
We'll go lay the hook.
That's the song.

1401
01:25:07,644 --> 01:25:09,430
Plus, I had so much to say,

1402
01:25:09,521 --> 01:25:11,307
I figured this was
the best way to vent,

1403
01:25:11,398 --> 01:25:14,265
instead of paying some
psychotherapist $50 million.

1404
01:25:14,484 --> 01:25:16,600
I went in the studio. It was cheaper.

1405
01:25:16,737 --> 01:25:20,400
Here we go! California, get up!

1406
01:25:24,077 --> 01:25:26,437
Out on bail, fresh out of jail
California dreaming

1407
01:25:26,622 --> 01:25:29,113
soon as I step on the scene
I'm hearing hoochies screaming

1408
01:25:29,333 --> 01:25:32,621
fiending for money and alcohol
the life of the West Side player

1409
01:25:32,836 --> 01:25:34,276
where cowards die
and the strong ball

1410
01:25:34,463 --> 01:25:37,296
only in Cali, where we riot, not rally
to live and die

1411
01:25:37,382 --> 01:25:39,794
in L.A., we wear Chucks, not ballies

1412
01:25:40,010 --> 01:25:42,501
dressed in locs and khaki suits
and ride is what we do

1413
01:25:42,721 --> 01:25:45,212
flossin' but have caution
we collide with other crews

1414
01:25:45,349 --> 01:25:48,182
you gotta realize one thing:
Tupac is death row.

1415
01:25:49,478 --> 01:25:52,845
I feel I have more than just
a business relationship with him.

1416
01:25:53,065 --> 01:25:54,896
He can be like a brother, a friend.

1417
01:25:55,108 --> 01:25:59,101
I like everyone on the record company.
I like suge, snoop and dre.

1418
01:25:59,321 --> 01:26:01,812
I hang out with them anyway,
now it's official.

1419
01:26:02,032 --> 01:26:04,774
This is Tupac and Dr. dre,
and this is the week in rock!

1420
01:26:05,494 --> 01:26:08,361
- Week in rock, baby!
- Week in rock, baby!

1421
01:26:08,580 --> 01:26:12,243
I came out, I was like,
"dre, I want some beats right now."

1422
01:26:12,376 --> 01:26:15,209
He's like, "I'm working on
California love."

1423
01:26:15,420 --> 01:26:17,206
I said, "you know you owe me this.

1424
01:26:17,422 --> 01:26:19,959
"I'm new on death row,
fresh out of jail.

1425
01:26:20,175 --> 01:26:22,587
"You ain't gonna be finishing
your album soon."

1426
01:26:22,803 --> 01:26:26,591
I love collaborating with creative
people that's as talented as 'pac.

1427
01:26:26,807 --> 01:26:30,265
He got right in and wrote his lyrics
while he was behind the Mike

1428
01:26:30,352 --> 01:26:32,138
and dropped it, and it's funky.

1429
01:26:32,354 --> 01:26:35,061
Say what you say
but give me that bomb beat from dre

1430
01:26:35,273 --> 01:26:37,389
let me serenade the streets of L.A.

1431
01:26:37,609 --> 01:26:40,976
Me coming to death row,
for another reason was snoop.

1432
01:26:41,196 --> 01:26:43,653
Announcer:
Please welcome America's most wanted

1433
01:26:43,740 --> 01:26:46,277
snoop doggy dogg and Tupac.

1434
01:26:46,368 --> 01:26:48,859
Tupac: The man got so much style.

1435
01:26:48,954 --> 01:26:52,572
Ya'll know we down with this rock
thing, nine-six flavor, death row.

1436
01:26:52,791 --> 01:26:55,373
But who knew it would last,
this West Side staff?

1437
01:26:55,585 --> 01:27:00,454
Yep, yep, yep. This is me and snoop,
2 of amerikaz most wanted,

1438
01:27:00,549 --> 01:27:02,665
the bomb track. It's the first single.

1439
01:27:02,884 --> 01:27:05,500
It's gonna be like the anthem
of west coast rap.

1440
01:27:05,721 --> 01:27:08,303
This is gonna shake the whole
music scene, guaranteed.

1441
01:27:10,892 --> 01:27:12,928
Daz:
Ain't nothing but a gangsta party

1442
01:27:15,313 --> 01:27:18,521
Tupac: Oh, shit
you done fucked up now

1443
01:27:18,734 --> 01:27:20,520
you done put two of
America's most wanted

1444
01:27:20,736 --> 01:27:23,899
in the same motherfucking place
at the same motherfucking time

1445
01:27:25,699 --> 01:27:29,237
y'all niggas about to feel this
break out the champagne glasses

1446
01:27:29,327 --> 01:27:31,534
picture perfect
I paint a perfect picture

1447
01:27:31,747 --> 01:27:34,204
bomb the hoochies with precision
my intention's to get richer

1448
01:27:34,416 --> 01:27:36,327
with the s-n-double-o-p dogg
my fucking homey

1449
01:27:36,543 --> 01:27:38,204
you's a cold-ass nigga
on them hogs

1450
01:27:38,420 --> 01:27:41,162
I keep my hand on my gun
'cause they got me on the run

1451
01:27:41,381 --> 01:27:44,088
now I'm back in the courtroom
waiting on the outcome

1452
01:27:44,301 --> 01:27:47,668
Tupac: Me and snoop represent
the nucleus of the entire ghetto.

1453
01:27:47,888 --> 01:27:50,846
Snoop represents the more calm,
all legit, by the book,

1454
01:27:50,932 --> 01:27:53,218
no waves,
let's get our business handled.

1455
01:27:53,769 --> 01:27:55,369
You're doing your job every day

1456
01:27:55,437 --> 01:27:57,849
and then you work so hard
till your hair turn gray

1457
01:27:58,064 --> 01:28:00,350
let me tell you about life
and about the way it is

1458
01:28:00,567 --> 01:28:02,727
you see, we live by the gun
so we die by the gun's kids

1459
01:28:02,819 --> 01:28:05,356
tell me not to roll with my glock
so now I gotta throw away

1460
01:28:05,572 --> 01:28:07,858
floating in a black benz
and trying to do a show a day

1461
01:28:08,074 --> 01:28:10,281
Tupac: I represent the hard-core,
no-holds-barred,

1462
01:28:10,368 --> 01:28:13,280
no-prisoners, relentless thug.

1463
01:28:13,497 --> 01:28:17,740
They wonder how I live with five shots
niggas is hard to kill on my block

1464
01:28:17,959 --> 01:28:19,699
schemes for currency
and dough-related

1465
01:28:19,920 --> 01:28:22,753
affiliated with the hustlers
and so we made it

1466
01:28:22,964 --> 01:28:25,956
we both represent
both sides of the game.

1467
01:28:26,176 --> 01:28:29,088
The calm one and the relentless one.

1468
01:28:29,930 --> 01:28:32,637
My nigga, dogg, with me
eternally the most wanted

1469
01:28:32,849 --> 01:28:34,805
here's my commercial for
death row records.

1470
01:28:35,018 --> 01:28:38,306
If you come to death row,
you will see

1471
01:28:38,522 --> 01:28:40,854
your art brought to a bigger plateau,

1472
01:28:40,941 --> 01:28:43,227
and you will be paid
one of these days.

1473
01:28:43,443 --> 01:28:45,684
Death row. Count with me.
Count with me.

1474
01:28:45,904 --> 01:28:47,519
This is for my homeboys in jail.

1475
01:28:47,739 --> 01:28:50,526
These are 100s.
And they ain't counterfeit.

1476
01:28:50,867 --> 01:28:53,654
If I said it was the money,
the struggle continues.

1477
01:28:54,454 --> 01:28:57,617
I got money, but I have to pay
everybody even more money.

1478
01:28:58,375 --> 01:29:00,457
I owe money to death row.

1479
01:29:00,544 --> 01:29:03,001
So it's not just, "oh, he's paid.

1480
01:29:03,088 --> 01:29:05,500
He's living large.”
it's not like that.

1481
01:29:08,343 --> 01:29:12,131
People wanna sue you,
ahd I have to seftle for this and that

1482
01:29:12,222 --> 01:29:15,339
when I know I didn't do anything,
just because it's like:

1483
01:29:15,559 --> 01:29:19,552
“I don't wanna go to court another
eight months." Makes you work harder.

1484
01:29:25,569 --> 01:29:28,231
Next year, death row is gonna
print our own money.

1485
01:29:28,446 --> 01:29:31,062
We make so much,
we need to start printing our own.

1486
01:29:31,283 --> 01:29:34,116
It's gonna be me and suge
on the $100 bill.

1487
01:29:34,327 --> 01:29:37,160
Me, suge and damu gonna be
on the $100 bill.

1488
01:29:37,372 --> 01:29:38,612
I felt I'm getting pimped.

1489
01:29:38,832 --> 01:29:41,619
This is the $100 bill
on death row money, here.

1490
01:29:42,335 --> 01:29:45,096
But you have to come up, start from
the bottom and work up to the top.

1491
01:29:46,298 --> 01:29:49,506
Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome acclaimed rap artist

1492
01:29:49,593 --> 01:29:51,834
and grammy nominee, Tupac.

1493
01:29:57,475 --> 01:30:00,433
Tupac: People fail to realize
this is not just play. I work.

1494
01:30:00,604 --> 01:30:01,764
Run! Scatter, scatter!

1495
01:30:03,356 --> 01:30:06,223
Drag k off the stage.
Y'all come on, man.

1496
01:30:06,443 --> 01:30:08,434
Do it for real, man. One, two, three.

1497
01:30:09,404 --> 01:30:12,817
When it's time to get down
and do my business, I'm going to.

1498
01:30:13,033 --> 01:30:15,319
I can't get no blood on the set?

1499
01:30:15,535 --> 01:30:17,867
Shit.

1500
01:30:21,458 --> 01:30:24,575
I believe I'm more responsible,
more mature and more focused.

1501
01:30:25,795 --> 01:30:28,502
You don't say you need me

1502
01:30:30,508 --> 01:30:33,466
you don't sing me love songs

1503
01:30:34,512 --> 01:30:40,974
y'all don't bring us flowers anymore

1504
01:30:42,896 --> 01:30:46,013
Tupac: When I was in jail, I couldn't
remember why I was rapping.

1505
01:30:46,232 --> 01:30:48,473
But I was away from it so long,

1506
01:30:48,568 --> 01:30:50,809
I said,
"I really like going to the studio.

1507
01:30:51,029 --> 01:30:52,439
"I really like creating.”

1508
01:30:52,656 --> 01:30:54,942
Living held down
my game plan, to be trained

1509
01:30:55,158 --> 01:30:57,319
and military mind of a thug lord

1510
01:30:57,535 --> 01:31:00,242
I ike music, and I like acting.
I like doing it.

1511
01:31:00,455 --> 01:31:05,575
She's a super freak
super freak, she's super-freaky

1512
01:31:08,588 --> 01:31:11,580
I can be me. I can be whoever
because I'm true to me.

1513
01:31:11,675 --> 01:31:13,757
The reason I sell six million records,

1514
01:31:13,969 --> 01:31:16,369
the reason I can go to jail
ahd come out without a scratch...

1515
01:31:17,597 --> 01:31:20,088
The reason lam who lam is
because I can look

1516
01:31:20,183 --> 01:31:22,640
into my face and find my soul.

1517
01:31:22,852 --> 01:31:24,592
It's there. I didn't sell it.

1518
01:31:24,813 --> 01:31:26,553
So lash out and get a glass

1519
01:31:26,773 --> 01:31:28,934
done finally got his own drink
call it the best

1520
01:31:29,150 --> 01:31:32,187
introducing a special brew
made for a chosen few

1521
01:31:32,404 --> 01:31:34,269
I'm thugged out
while snoop dogg's sipping blue

1522
01:31:36,449 --> 01:31:39,441
I thought, "I'm a superpower.
Death row is a superpower.

1523
01:31:39,661 --> 01:31:41,868
"Let's combine superpowers and ally.”

1524
01:31:47,043 --> 01:31:49,785
Damu! My dog's going crazy,
ready to kill a few people.

1525
01:31:51,256 --> 01:31:53,087
- Woman: Yeah. Yeah.
- He wanna kill.

1526
01:31:53,591 --> 01:31:55,081
I love my artists.

1527
01:31:55,301 --> 01:31:58,543
I don't consider my people artists.
I consider them family.

1528
01:31:58,638 --> 01:32:02,677
It's just a big difference, if they
decided to turn in rapping or singing,

1529
01:32:02,892 --> 01:32:05,508
they'd still be my homeboys.
We'd still travel together.

1530
01:32:05,603 --> 01:32:08,811
If they needed something,
what's mine will still be theirs.

1531
01:32:09,024 --> 01:32:12,562
It's no situation where I'm dealing
with them strictly for business,

1532
01:32:12,652 --> 01:32:14,859
because they're good.
It's not like that.

1533
01:32:15,071 --> 01:32:17,778
You've gotta have more respect
for your people.

1534
01:32:17,991 --> 01:32:20,198
Plus we've got a death row east
going on.

1535
01:32:20,410 --> 01:32:23,243
- I'm sure you heard about that.
- Tell me about that.

1536
01:32:23,455 --> 01:32:26,822
Hold on. Damu! Damu, sit!

1537
01:32:39,012 --> 01:32:43,756
But death row has a reputation
for having a thug-like mentality.

1538
01:32:44,601 --> 01:32:46,137
Won't that get you in trouble?

1539
01:32:46,352 --> 01:32:49,594
Death row has a bigger reputation
for success than anything else.

1540
01:32:49,898 --> 01:32:53,766
Reporter: The reason for all of the fear
involves the world of this man,

1541
01:32:53,985 --> 01:32:55,976
the man getting out of the limousine.

1542
01:32:56,196 --> 01:33:00,781
Six-foot-three, 335-pound
Marion knight,

1543
01:33:00,867 --> 01:33:04,451
known by the nickname of "suge,"
short for "sugar."

1544
01:33:04,662 --> 01:33:07,074
It's an efficient camp over here,

1545
01:33:07,874 --> 01:33:11,241
professional, business-oriented.
I like that.

1546
01:33:11,544 --> 01:33:15,162
Reporter: At the age of only 30,
and with a lengthy criminal record,

1547
01:33:15,381 --> 01:33:17,667
including three felony convictions,

1548
01:33:17,759 --> 01:33:20,216
suge knight has managed
to become the head

1549
01:33:20,428 --> 01:33:22,714
of a $100 million record company

1550
01:33:22,806 --> 01:33:26,890
and one of the most powerful
and feared men in the music industry.

1551
01:33:27,393 --> 01:33:31,306
The controversy
over death row records

1552
01:33:31,523 --> 01:33:35,607
and its owner
being sort of a gangster.

1553
01:33:35,693 --> 01:33:37,604
Tupac: Everybody's asking
about death row.

1554
01:33:37,695 --> 01:33:40,528
- Suge ain't no gangsta. He's chilling.
- No?

1555
01:33:40,740 --> 01:33:43,356
No, man, suge a rider.

1556
01:33:43,576 --> 01:33:46,693
I know what good morals are,
but you're supposed to disregard

1557
01:33:46,913 --> 01:33:49,780
good morals when you're
living in a crazy, bad world.

1558
01:33:49,999 --> 01:33:52,115
If you're in hell,
how can you live like an angel?

1559
01:33:52,335 --> 01:33:54,747
You're surrounded by devils,
trying to be an angel?

1560
01:33:54,963 --> 01:33:56,328
That's like suicide.

1561
01:33:57,799 --> 01:34:00,791
I'd like to tell Tupac to keep
his guards up. We're with him.

1562
01:34:00,927 --> 01:34:03,134
One other thing I'd like to say,

1563
01:34:03,346 --> 01:34:05,712
any artist out there
that want to be an artist

1564
01:34:05,932 --> 01:34:08,548
and wants to stay a star
and don't wanna have to worry

1565
01:34:08,768 --> 01:34:12,226
about the executive producer
trying to be all in the videos,

1566
01:34:12,355 --> 01:34:17,941
all on the records, dancing,
come to death row.

1567
01:34:18,736 --> 01:34:19,942
Tupac: When I got out of jall,

1568
01:34:20,029 --> 01:34:22,736
the west coast-east coast
shit was really starting.

1569
01:34:22,949 --> 01:34:25,907
Wait, the east coast don't love
Dr. dre and snoop dogg?

1570
01:34:27,495 --> 01:34:29,656
The east coast
ain't got no love for Dr. dre

1571
01:34:29,747 --> 01:34:31,829
and snoop dogg and death row?

1572
01:34:32,041 --> 01:34:36,159
Tupac: West coast was death row.
The east coast was bad boy.

1573
01:34:36,379 --> 01:34:38,085
Puffy combs: Check this out.

1574
01:34:38,214 --> 01:34:41,001
I'm the executive producer that
a comment was made about earlier.

1575
01:34:41,217 --> 01:34:45,085
Tupac: Everybody thought it was a war,
a war for record sales and attention.

1576
01:34:49,309 --> 01:34:50,674
But to me it was personal.

1577
01:34:51,936 --> 01:34:54,848
I love the east coast.
I'm from the east coast.

1578
01:34:55,064 --> 01:34:57,180
But I felt like
puffy and biggie wanted

1579
01:34:57,275 --> 01:34:59,357
to dirty up everything I worked for.

1580
01:34:59,569 --> 01:35:01,776
So it made me come back
more relentless.

1581
01:35:01,988 --> 01:35:03,883
I'm mad at biggie. I'm rushing
the nigga. What's the problem?

1582
01:35:03,907 --> 01:35:07,320
Yo, piggie, man,
we got it going on, baby.

1583
01:35:07,535 --> 01:35:10,777
It's on and cracking, man.
He's gone, baby. You the man.

1584
01:35:11,122 --> 01:35:12,658
Tupac: So I directed videos.

1585
01:35:12,749 --> 01:35:16,992
'Pac, you alive? I mean, you safe?
Man, I'm so happy you're free.

1586
01:35:17,962 --> 01:35:22,922
Heh. Yeah? Happy to see you,
lying piece of shit.

1587
01:35:23,134 --> 01:35:25,967
'Pac, please don't kill me.
It was buff's idea.

1588
01:35:26,179 --> 01:35:27,715
- No, man.
- I'm just a rapper.

1589
01:35:27,805 --> 01:35:30,763
Please don't take me out of the game.

1590
01:35:30,975 --> 01:35:34,092
I ain't going to kill you.
We was homeboys once, pig.

1591
01:35:34,312 --> 01:35:36,098
Once we homeboys,
we always homeboys,

1592
01:35:36,189 --> 01:35:37,554
even if you is a fat phony.

1593
01:35:38,191 --> 01:35:41,979
Tupac: And I did a song
with faith, biggie's wife.

1594
01:35:42,195 --> 01:35:44,436
Faith's my homegirl.

1595
01:35:44,530 --> 01:35:46,570
I just want to send a shout-out
to faith. Hey, girl.

1596
01:35:46,616 --> 01:35:48,732
Then I did hit 'em up.

1597
01:35:48,952 --> 01:35:51,659
That's why I fucked your bitch
you fat motherfucker

1598
01:35:51,788 --> 01:35:54,825
which is a classic battle record.

1599
01:35:54,916 --> 01:35:57,077
First off, fuck your bitch
and the clique you claim

1600
01:35:57,168 --> 01:35:59,454
West Side, when we ride
come equipped with game

1601
01:35:59,545 --> 01:36:02,207
you claim to be a player
but I fucked your wife

1602
01:36:02,298 --> 01:36:04,289
we bust on bad boys
niggas fucked for life

1603
01:36:04,384 --> 01:36:06,295
I'm a self-made millionaire

1604
01:36:06,386 --> 01:36:09,173
thug living out of prison
pistols in the air

1605
01:36:09,264 --> 01:36:11,676
biggie, remember when I used
to let you sleep on the couch

1606
01:36:11,766 --> 01:36:14,098
and beg a bitch
to let you sleep in the house

1607
01:36:14,602 --> 01:36:17,264
- now it's all about versace
- You copied my style

1608
01:36:17,355 --> 01:36:19,596
- five shots couldn't drop me
- I took it and smiled

1609
01:36:19,691 --> 01:36:21,227
now I'm about set the record straight

1610
01:36:21,317 --> 01:36:23,357
with my ak, I'm still the thug
that you love to hate

1611
01:36:25,321 --> 01:36:27,403
grab your glocks
when you see Tupac

1612
01:36:27,490 --> 01:36:30,027
call the cops when you see Tupac

1613
01:36:30,243 --> 01:36:32,074
who shot me?
But you punks didn't finish that

1614
01:36:32,161 --> 01:36:33,992
you're about to feel
the wrath of a menace

1615
01:36:35,415 --> 01:36:37,576
everything happened
so fast at that point.

1616
01:36:39,210 --> 01:36:41,230
I was looking at things,
the east coast-west coast thing,

1617
01:36:41,254 --> 01:36:43,210
it just got out of control.

1618
01:36:43,798 --> 01:36:46,540
Dudes was getting killed,
and I felt responsible.

1619
01:36:46,759 --> 01:36:48,420
But I couldn't stop it.

1620
01:36:48,636 --> 01:36:51,628
We ain't mad at the whole New York,
just certain people.

1621
01:36:51,848 --> 01:36:53,634
I got this project coming
out along with

1622
01:36:53,725 --> 01:36:55,465
some brothers called one nation.

1623
01:36:55,685 --> 01:36:58,222
It's like an east coast-west coast
collaboration

1624
01:36:58,313 --> 01:37:00,429
to kill this whole new vibe.

1625
01:37:00,648 --> 01:37:02,229
Everybody want it to be a war

1626
01:37:02,442 --> 01:37:04,398
between the east coast
and west coast.

1627
01:37:04,610 --> 01:37:06,271
It's really a problem
with two rappers.

1628
01:37:06,738 --> 01:37:09,320
The east coast-west coast thing
is something journalists

1629
01:37:09,532 --> 01:37:11,739
are making up to get paid off,
so it can drag out

1630
01:37:11,951 --> 01:37:15,443
and everybody can have albums. They
perpetuate this, so it can be drama.

1631
01:37:15,788 --> 01:37:18,029
When it go down,
don't look at me and biggie

1632
01:37:18,249 --> 01:37:20,240
and be like,
"why is there a big war,

1633
01:37:20,460 --> 01:37:24,248
"when you're shooting this
to 3,300 homes, 300 countries,

1634
01:37:24,339 --> 01:37:27,297
"telling them about a war
that they would never know exists."

1635
01:37:27,508 --> 01:37:29,188
That's where information
becomes a problem.

1636
01:37:29,594 --> 01:37:33,007
We both need
fo exercise greater restraint.

1637
01:37:33,806 --> 01:37:37,515
Damn, sometimes life gets
messed up.

1638
01:37:44,525 --> 01:37:48,109
When I was on death row,
I was successful but not happy.

1639
01:37:49,322 --> 01:37:52,280
Tabitha Soren: Tupac, your life has
been marred by considerable pain.

1640
01:37:53,284 --> 01:37:57,323
Do you think you'll get to the point
where you can live a normal life?

1641
01:37:57,413 --> 01:38:00,325
No. But, I, uh...

1642
01:38:01,501 --> 01:38:04,834
I'm going for it. I'm trying for it,
and until then

1643
01:38:05,046 --> 01:38:08,288
I have to make the life that I do live
as happy as I can

1644
01:38:08,383 --> 01:38:11,341
and try to do the best
with what I have.

1645
01:38:11,552 --> 01:38:14,840
Live the best life I can live,
be as happy as I can be.

1646
01:38:15,056 --> 01:38:18,765
Nothing is perfect for anybody,
I don't think.

1647
01:38:19,143 --> 01:38:20,508
I felt trapped.

1648
01:38:22,522 --> 01:38:24,308
They say, "you made your bed,
lay in it"?

1649
01:38:24,524 --> 01:38:27,140
I tried to move.
I can't move to no other bed.

1650
01:38:27,235 --> 01:38:30,022
I felt I can't live
a different lifestyle.

1651
01:38:30,238 --> 01:38:32,695
This the life they gave me,
this the life I made.

1652
01:38:32,907 --> 01:38:36,320
I felt I can't change, not for
the courts, not for the parole board,

1653
01:38:36,411 --> 01:38:38,652
not for nobody. This is it.

1654
01:38:38,871 --> 01:38:43,114
I also felt like something was gonna
happen to me because I'm paranoid.

1655
01:38:43,334 --> 01:38:44,790
And I put it in my videos.

1656
01:38:51,259 --> 01:38:54,251
That nigga ain't want none.
I been drinking. Where he at?

1657
01:38:54,470 --> 01:38:55,801
No, no, no, where he at?

1658
01:38:57,849 --> 01:38:59,180
Yo, watch out.

1659
01:39:03,855 --> 01:39:05,220
Tupac: It was a prophecy.

1660
01:39:14,907 --> 01:39:17,614
I had a prophecy about my death.

1661
01:39:17,827 --> 01:39:22,662
That's why I go in the studio and do
three songs a day, get things ready.

1662
01:39:23,040 --> 01:39:24,905
We don't have time or the luxury

1663
01:39:25,001 --> 01:39:28,414
to spend all of this time
doing one song. We don't have it.

1664
01:39:28,629 --> 01:39:30,165
If I die, it can happen.

1665
01:39:30,381 --> 01:39:34,215
If anything were to happen to me,
that album's ready to go.

1666
01:39:34,677 --> 01:39:36,292
So it's all good.

1667
01:39:36,512 --> 01:39:39,128
I felt as if the only thing
that can kill me is death,

1668
01:39:39,348 --> 01:39:42,260
and even then my music
will live forever.

1669
01:40:39,659 --> 01:40:43,117
Reporter: At approximately 9:00 P.M.,
security cameras at the mgm grand

1670
01:40:43,204 --> 01:40:46,992
captured Tupac, suge knight and
members of the death row entourage

1671
01:40:47,208 --> 01:40:50,120
beating an alleged south side crip,
Orlando Anderson.

1672
01:40:50,336 --> 01:40:52,497
Reporter 2: Tupac, suge
and others jumped Anderson,

1673
01:40:52,588 --> 01:40:53,953
punching and kicking him.

1674
01:40:54,173 --> 01:40:57,131
Terrified bystanders scattered
as the group streamed into the casino

1675
01:40:57,218 --> 01:40:58,549
then out info the street.

1676
01:41:31,836 --> 01:41:33,918
Tupac: Whoa.

1677
01:41:37,550 --> 01:41:39,461
Reporter: Just after
the Mike Tyson fight,

1678
01:41:39,677 --> 01:41:42,589
shakur, with record company
executive, suge knight,

1679
01:41:45,641 --> 01:41:49,008
a car with four people pulled up
and fired on shakur and knight.

1680
01:41:49,103 --> 01:41:51,469
Reporter 2: Shakur was shot
several times in the chest.

1681
01:41:51,689 --> 01:41:54,897
The driver, his record producer,
was grazed in the head.

1682
01:41:55,109 --> 01:41:57,725
Reporter 3: He's returned
to intensive care after another surgery,

1683
01:41:57,945 --> 01:41:59,230
still in critical condition.

1684
01:41:59,447 --> 01:42:02,735
Reporter 4: All week long fans of Tupac
have gathered outside the hospital.

1685
01:42:02,950 --> 01:42:04,590
Reporter 5: He's undergone
two operations.

1686
01:42:04,702 --> 01:42:07,614
His right lung was removed.
He's intermittently conscious.

1687
01:42:07,830 --> 01:42:10,242
Jesse Jackson's been here.
Family is keeping vigil.

1688
01:42:10,458 --> 01:42:13,120
Despite reports that his wounds
were not life-threatening,

1689
01:42:13,210 --> 01:42:15,747
people at the hospital continue
fo tell us

1690
01:42:15,838 --> 01:42:18,329
he is in very serious condition.

1691
01:42:19,508 --> 01:42:25,174
Reporter 6: At 4:03 this afternoon,
Tupac shakur was pronounced dead.

1692
01:42:32,355 --> 01:42:35,142
Tupac: Who shot me?
Shit, I don't know.

1693
01:42:35,358 --> 01:42:37,314
Sorry.

1694
01:42:40,154 --> 01:42:43,112
My death, it's a tragedy
like Shakespeare, I guess.

1695
01:42:43,240 --> 01:42:46,903
But I have no bad feelings.
I have love for everybody.

1696
01:42:47,036 --> 01:42:50,153
Please welcome the mothers
of biggie smalls and Tupac shakur,

1697
01:42:50,247 --> 01:42:52,408
afeni shakur and voletta Wallace.

1698
01:43:13,771 --> 01:43:16,478
Tupac: Coming to grips
with my past, it was hard.

1699
01:43:16,691 --> 01:43:20,104
I don't feel what I did was evil.
I feel like the way I was living

1700
01:43:20,319 --> 01:43:24,653
and my mentality was a part
of my progression to be a man.

1701
01:43:28,869 --> 01:43:31,201
But we grow. We all grow.
We're made to grow.

1702
01:43:31,414 --> 01:43:34,451
You either evolve,
or you disappear.

1703
01:43:35,251 --> 01:43:37,287
I don't want to be forgotten.

1704
01:43:37,586 --> 01:43:40,578
I'll always be a troublemaker
to some people.

1705
01:43:42,091 --> 01:43:44,047
But I still get love
from my community.

1706
01:43:54,270 --> 01:43:57,637
Tupac: I owe them everything. That's why
I owe everything to the 'hood.

1707
01:43:58,482 --> 01:43:59,688
I've got love there.

1708
01:44:01,193 --> 01:44:03,559
I've got love from thugs
and the street dudes.

1709
01:44:04,864 --> 01:44:08,448
And that focuses me back
on what I should be doing,

1710
01:44:08,659 --> 01:44:11,116
lay out the real mat
oh the world and how it is.

1711
01:44:15,958 --> 01:44:18,199
The message is,
young black males could do anything

1712
01:44:18,419 --> 01:44:21,411
if you just give us a shot,
stop trying to beat us down.

1713
01:44:21,630 --> 01:44:24,872
And to my homeboys, we need
to be in control of ourselves.

1714
01:44:28,929 --> 01:44:32,171
I'm not saying I'll change the world,
but I guarantee I'll spark

1715
01:44:32,391 --> 01:44:35,303
the brain that will change the world.

1716
01:44:39,231 --> 01:44:42,268
So keep your head up.

1717
01:44:42,485 --> 01:44:44,441
Do what you've gotta do.

1718
01:44:46,363 --> 01:44:51,107
And then inside of you,
I'll be reborn.