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I failed to protect him
from that.

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[reporter]
We begin with the man
whose music

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is as controversial as he is.

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It would seem that
his middle name is "trouble."

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But in fact,
he was never arrested

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until he got famous.

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Tupac Shakur,

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who just turned 24 years old,

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has grown up
in front of our eyes,

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making him seem like
the king of contradiction.

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He has spent
the last eight months

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in a maximum security prison.

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[Garland]
I wasn't in his life
for 15 years,

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but Tupac wanted
to see me again,

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so I made that trip
up to Dannemora.

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Four and a half hours.

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Last stop you see
is Montreal, 55 miles.

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They put you up there

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purposely to keep you away
from family and friends.

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Oh, shit. That was no place
for a human being.

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Soon as you pull up,

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all you see is
a 60-foot old castle wall,

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like it's been there
for years.

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[Blood]
Yeah, it was a fuckin' dungeon.
People talk about Attica.

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Dannemora is the one.

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That shit would take
the starch out of your ass.

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[Dante]
Very violent. He was
there with stone-cold killers.

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Once he came out
to the visitation room...

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[whoops] "Inmates,
get up! Leave! Let's go."

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They talked to 'em like shit.
Like, "Pac, what's going on?"

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"Man, somebody got stabbed
in the bathroom."

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Talk again. [whoops]
"Get the fuck up!

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Let's go." "Somebody got
stabbed in the kitchen."

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[whoops]
Seemed like every
five minutes,

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somebody was getting stabbed.

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So we'd try to keep
his spirit up.

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[voices clamoring]

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♪ I'm just a young Black male
Cursed since my birth ♪

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♪ Had to turn
To crack sales ♪

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♪ If worse come to worse
Headed for them packed jails ♪

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♪ Or maybe it's a hearse
My only way to stack mail... ♪

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[E.D.I.]
Tupac has the distinction
of being the only pop star

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with a number one album incarcerated.

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All his vocals was done
for Me Against the World

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before he was in prison.

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But it wasn't an album yet,

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so he would call me every day

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while we was in the studio

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and make me put the phone up

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while they was
playing the records.

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"Tell 'em to turn
the guitar down."

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So, he actually put it together

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when he was already incarcerated.

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I think I dig real deep
with this album.

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From "Dear Mama" to
"Shed So Many Tears,"

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I tell my own
personal problems.

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[Atron]
"Dear Mama" shot the album
to number one.

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But how can you feel
like you're having success

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as an artist when
you're locked up?

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I don't think, really, the album

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did as good as it
could have been doing

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'cause I ain't gettin'
no awards.

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And then there was
talk about him

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having trouble in prison.

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[Tupac] First, me
and the guards had problems.

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I got smacked because

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I used to talk a lot of shit.

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[Billy]
He said that the guards
would threaten him.

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"Who does this nigga
think he is?"

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[Watani] Clearly didn't
want to be there.

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He felt that he was a victim,

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and he, to some extent,
contributed that

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to being a product
of the movement.

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In other words,
he was treated differently

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because he was Tupac Shakur.

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But he was protected in prison.

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Nobody was going to touch him.
Because we had people inside.

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[Atron]
During that time period,
we started an appeal package.

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When the appeal was granted,
bail was already in place.

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[Watani] We had individuals
that was gonna put
money up to get him out.

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But sometimes
in a father-son

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or uncle-nephew relationship,
you have this pushback.

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So, I think that was
what was going on
with Pac and myself.

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[E.D.I.] He had a lot
of resentment built up over
the years to the point where

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he might have been like,
"Y'all had y'all turn to do it.

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It's my turn.
Let me do it my way."

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He wants his own thing,
but when he came home,

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it was going to be all positive.

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He was going to stop smoking
weed, was clear,

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ready to turn over
a new leaf.

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We just got to be
smarter and sharper,

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or they gonna
start taking away

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each and every person
that steps forward

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to do anything positive
for the community.

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So, that's why
you be wondering why

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everybody want to live
a negative lifestyle.

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It's safer. And the community
don't support us

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when we do step out

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and take bullets for y'all.

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[man] So, can we look forward
to some very positive things

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from Tupac Shakur
in the future?

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Oh, no doubt.
You can look forward to me

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doing movies, writing movies,
starring in movies.

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Soon, I want to direct them.

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You can look forward to me
doing records.

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Got a community project
that's in the works right now.

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I just met with Al Sharpton,

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Malikah Shabazz,
Malcolm X's daughter,

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a whole bunch of teachers

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and educators
and community workers.

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And we're just going to start
slowly but surely

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taking our
communities back.

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He was gonna dedicate himself
to building a better society,

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all that kind of stuff,

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and then come Suge.

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[reporter]
At the age of only 30,

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and with a lengthy
criminal record,

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Suge Knight has managed
to become the head

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of a hundred-million-dollar
record company

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and one of the most powerful

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and feared men
in the American music industry.

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[Berman]
Suge Knight and Dre
were the partners

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of Death Row.

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The Chronic. Bam!
You know?

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And then Snoop Dogg, Doggystyle.

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Bam.

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Suge was singularly focused...

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[telephone rings]

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...on taking over the rap game.

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He wanted to dominate it.

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[Snoop Dogg]
At Death Row,

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we needed Tupac
like he needed us.

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So I made a call to Suge...

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This is a piece that's missing
from the equation.

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Is there anything you can do
to put him with us?

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[Watani] So Suge and Kenner
come out to Clinton prison.

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[Suge]
When I went to go visit Pac,
you know, he was telling me

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that he didn't have
no money on his book.

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His mother didn't have a place.

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He wanted to get out.

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And I was like,

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"There's probably
a 98% chance I get you out.

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The first thing you gotta do
is shape it up,

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pull yourself together
and be ready to ride.

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Far as your moms, instead of
getting her an apartment,

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I'll buy her a house."

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And Pac was like,

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"You believe in me,
I believe in you."

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Let's do it,
we don't need nobody.

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No doubt.

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[Watani]
He believed that there was
elements on the East Coast

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that was out to get him.

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They shot me.

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So, he felt West Coast
was coming to save him.

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But let's be clear.

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Death Row was funded
through Interscope,

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so Death Row didn't get him out.

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It was Pac's publishing money,
so we didn't need any of that.

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[Atron]
Tupac needed to stay on
the straight and narrow.

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So, I said, I don't think
Death Row was a good idea.

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But when Kenner
and Suge came out,

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Tupac had signed
this piece of paper.

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[Allen] And what
we know now was

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he had a three-album
commitment.

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[Watani] With three albums,
he figured he was done.

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That was what
he was telling me.

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[Tupac] I just signed
to Death Row Records.

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And we finna come out
pretty tight.

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- Did you sign with them?
- No question.
Signed with Death Row.

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[buzzer sounds]

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[Watani]
That was when we broke professionally.

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It's like, "Man, what
are you doing?" You know?

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So, none of the team
rode with him.

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[Mike Tyson]
I just gotta be honest,

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I thought it was good
that he signed

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with those guys at the time.

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No other-- no other
record company

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would've gave him
that power boost.

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♪

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[Tupac] I feel like this
jail time was like a coma.

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Except I got to think.

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I got to watch the world
move around me...

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without being a part of it.

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♪

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And I got to see how I took
a lot of things for granted.

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And so I said,
"When I come out...

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I'm definitely gonna
enjoy life more.

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And I'm going to try
to live it to the fullest."

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And that is just to get
everything I want.

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♪

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Make a goal, accomplish it,

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make another one,
accomplish it.

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And keep going
higher and higher.

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♪

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I learned my lesson.

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If we can just be
even from here, I'm cool.

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I'm only 24.

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You know,
the world is just beginning.

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Let's start part two
of Tupac's life.

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♪ California Love ♪

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♪

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♪ California
Knows how to party ♪

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♪ In the city of L. A. ♪

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♪ In the city of
Good old Watts ♪

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♪ In the city
City of Compton ♪

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♪ We keepin' it rockin' ♪

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♪ We keepin' rockin' ♪

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♪ Now let me
Welcome everybody
To the Wild, Wild West ♪

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♪ A state that's untouchable
Like Eliot Ness ♪

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♪ The track hits your eardrum
Like a slug to your chest ♪

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♪ Pack a vest for your Jimmy
In the city of sex ♪

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♪ We in that Sunshine State
Where the bomb-ass hemp be ♪

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♪ The state where you never
Find a dance floor empty ♪

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♪ And pimps be on a mission
For them greens ♪

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♪ Lean mean money-
Making machines ♪

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♪ Servin' fiends ♪

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[Dre] When Tupac
gets out of jail,

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he came right to the studio.

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And he's like, "Man,
I've been trying to get

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a motherfucking
Dre beat forever.

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I had to stop and go,
"Dre, you do not know how long

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I waited to get
in this booth."

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[Dre] I put this track on.

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He starts writing.

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After the 20, 30 minutes,

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he says,
"I got the verse."

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He's like, "Turn
the fucking mic on, man."

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California Love.

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♪ Out on bail fresh out of jail
California dreaming ♪

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♪ Soon as I step on the scene
I'm hearing hoochies screaming

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♪ Fiending for money
and alcohol ♪

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♪ The life of
A Westside player ♪

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♪ Where cowards die
and the strong ball ♪

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[Snoop] Tupac gave us
a new burst of energy

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to turn it up another level.

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He was with the best producer,

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dopest rappers
that moved like he moved,

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that felt like he felt--
Death Row Records.

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[indistinct]

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♪ Only in Cali where we riot
Not rally, to live and die ♪

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- ♪ In L. A. we wearin'
Chucks not Ballys ♪
- ♪ Yeah, that's right on ♪

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♪ Dressed in Locs and khaki
Suits and ride is what we do ♪

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♪ Flossin' but have caution
We collide with other crews ♪

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♪ Famous because
We throw grams worldwide ♪

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♪ Let 'em recognize from
Long Beach to Rosecrans ♪

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♪ Bumpin' and grindin' like
A slow jam, it's Westside ♪

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♪ So you know the row
Won't bow down to no man ♪

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♪ Say what you say, but give me
That bomb beat from Dre ♪

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♪ Let me serenade
The streets of L. A. ♪

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♪ From Oakland to Sactown ♪

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♪ The Bay Area and back down ♪

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♪ Cali is where they put
They mack down... ♪

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If you come to Death Row,

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you will see your art brought
to a bigger plateau,

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and you will be paid

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one of these days,
Death Row. Come on.

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Let's count with me.
Come on, y'all.

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Next year,
Death Row gonna start

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printing our own money

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'cause we makin' so much,

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we need to start printing
our own money.

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[Snoop]
He was happy, excited.

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He had money, and he was free.

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But sometimes the progression
is a digression

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because the environment
was bad for him.

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♪ ...an earthquake
on the Richter scale ♪

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[tape switches off, music stops]

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[Allen] Glo, I just want
you to describe the feeling

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you had because all these years,
you and your sister,

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from Virginia to North Carolina,

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to the poverty in New York...

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Finally, this is
the American dream

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you guys are
getting ready to realize.

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What is that feeling?

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I can only tell you... happy.

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Afeni and Tupac
were getting along again,

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trying to live
a different life.

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It was an adventure.

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At any event I could be at,
I was at.

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And Suge put on this
Mother's Day event every year.

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[Allen]
You were at this event?

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[Glo]
Yes, 'cause look at me,

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I am the first and original

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number one main groupie to Pac.

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[host]
Good afternoon,

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and on behalf of Suge Knight

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and Death Row Records,

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Happy Mother's Day to everyone.

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[Suge] Death Row is
like an artist label.

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And where the artist start from,
they start from the mothers.

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This is our way of giving
something back.

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[Glo] The other mothers
were there too.

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And Tupac would perform
"Dear Mama."

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And he wanted this to be
for all the mothers.

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[man] Tupac!

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[cheering]

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Hey, before we go
into the song...

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I know everybody
love their mama.

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But I want to talk about
something else first.

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I want to talk about
the people that don't have

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they mama no more.

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We've got to get back
to that old-school shit

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where we all care for everybody,

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and all of us raise
all these kids

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'cause we all out of hand.

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So, last year about this time,

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I was sitting in a maximum
security penitentiary.

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I couldn't sing
this song for my mama,

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but I'mma do it today for
all y'all and all y'all moms.

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[Glo] For me,
it was the wow effect.

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- He's the baby...
- ♪ Dear Mama ♪

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...that you knew from birth,

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and you're looking at him now.
And wow!

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♪ When I was young
Me and my mama had beef ♪

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♪ Seventeen years old
Kicked out on the streets ♪

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♪ Though back at the time
I never thought ♪

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♪ I'd see her face
Ain't a woman alive ♪

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♪ That could take
My mama's place ♪

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♪ Suspended from school
And scared to go home ♪

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♪ I was a fool with the big
Boys breakin' all the rules ♪

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♪ I shed tears
With my baby sister ♪

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♪ Over the years
We was poorer ♪

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♪ Than the other
little kids... ♪

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[Glo] I loved it.
Tupac was living his dream,

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and wanted us to be
part of that dream.

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So, the other time
I got to see him perform,

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he had sent for us,
we came to Vegas.

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And he was playing
at The 662 Club.

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Suge's club.

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And this boy's on stage
tearing it up.

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And I am too.

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I'm doing
the old school two-step.

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I'm moving with it,
moving with it.

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I'm doing a whole lot
of that, right?

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And somebody comes and tap me

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and say, "Tupac said
for you to sit down."

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- [record scratch]
- What?!

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"He say you
throwing up gang signs."

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Gang signs?!
What is he talking about?

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♪ Picture me rollin' in
My 500 Benz ♪

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♪ I got no love for
These niggas ♪

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♪ There's no need
To be friends ♪

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♪ They got me
Under surveillance ♪

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♪ That's what
Somebody be tellin' me ♪

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♪ Known as don't be
insulted ♪

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♪ But I ain't the one tellin' ♪

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So, now I'm scared
of all things Suge.

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But with Tupac,
I didn't see it like danger

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and all of that, I just
saw it as just the persona.
There's only music.

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♪ Mama, I'm still thuggin'
The world is a war zone ♪

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♪ My homies is inmates,
And most of them dead grown ♪

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[Dre] You know,
it's really difficult

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to give me fucking
goosebumps in the studio.

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Usually, artists, they come
out of the mic booth,

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and then they come out
and hear it on the big speakers.

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Tupac was different.

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♪ Flossin' a Benz on rims
That isn't stolen ♪

358
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♪ My dreams is censored
My hopes are gone ♪

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♪ I'm like a fiend
That finally sees ♪

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♪ When all the dope is gone ♪

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♪ My nerves is wrecked
Heart beatin' ♪

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♪ And my hands
Is swollen ♪

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♪ Thinking of the Gs
I'll be holdin' ♪

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[Dre] He would stay
in the mic booth.

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Like, "Man, put up
another beat!"

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He was writing, writing,
writing, writing

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till it's all the way done.

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That's the difference
between a regular writer

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and somebody that's just
writing with the passion

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of, "I want you to feel
the way I feel,

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and I can't give you
that feeling until I get it."

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He didn't try to polish
his shit up.

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That's what made Tupac
the greatest.

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He liked his shit raw.

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♪ Just picture me rollin' ♪

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[Dre] It was one of my favorite

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experiences as a producer.

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00:14:36,476 --> 00:14:39,179
But to be honest, Allen,
I-- I really try to forget

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a lot of those moments because...

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that was like
the height of Death Row.

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00:14:45,085 --> 00:14:47,621
And it was just like a bunch
of gangbang shit going on

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and what have you.

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And you'd
have to muscle through

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a bunch of bullshit just to
get to the studio to record.

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00:14:57,331 --> 00:15:00,701
So, the bottom line is
I'm a fan of Tupac,

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and we worked on a few songs.

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00:15:03,203 --> 00:15:05,072
A couple of them came out.

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00:15:05,072 --> 00:15:07,407
But I was thinking
about leaving Death Row

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for a long time before that.

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00:15:10,744 --> 00:15:14,481
I understand that we had this
East Coast rivalry going on.

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For me, it started out
as a friendly competition.

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[Snoop] The media was pushing
the East Coast/West Coast.

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But what y'all don't know is,
we was really showing love.

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[Tupac] There is no fear.
There is no problem.

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There ain't nothing
but opportunity.

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[Snoop] We rappers.
This is what we do.

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We're competitive-driven.

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[Tupac]
America has shown us
over and over again

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what ambition is

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00:15:34,168 --> 00:15:36,203
and what forms ambition
should be shown,

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00:15:36,203 --> 00:15:38,438
and how ambition
can take you to the top.

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All we doing
is putting a mirror up
and showing you that,

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00:15:40,741 --> 00:15:43,143
"Yes, we saw it,
and, yes, we're doing it."

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00:15:43,143 --> 00:15:45,045
[Snoop] I remember
the first couple of weeks,

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he used to ride in the back
of my Rolls-Royce.

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00:15:46,613 --> 00:15:48,348
And Suge was like,
"This nigga with us now."

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00:15:48,348 --> 00:15:49,716
I might as well see
my little brother 'cause...

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00:15:49,716 --> 00:15:51,218
[Snoop]
He gets everything.

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00:15:51,218 --> 00:15:53,320
[Suge]
...I get a Benz, he get a Benz.

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00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:55,022
[Snoop]
Three weeks later,
he had a Rolls-Royce.

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00:15:55,022 --> 00:15:56,323
[Suge]
I get a Rolls, he get a Rolls.

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[Dre]
For most of Pac's career,

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he didn't feel like anybody
had his back.

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00:16:00,027 --> 00:16:01,595
Pac also grew up

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00:16:01,595 --> 00:16:03,430
without a consistent,
strong male figure,

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so Suge represented
a big brother role.

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00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,002
[Watani]
This guy got him out of jail,
making his dream come true.

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00:16:09,002 --> 00:16:10,737
Then we almost drowned
together at Cabo.

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That's a different story.

420
00:16:12,573 --> 00:16:14,041
[Dre] Pac wasn't that great
of a swimmer.

421
00:16:14,041 --> 00:16:15,709
Almost drowned.

422
00:16:15,709 --> 00:16:17,678
And Suge jumped
in the water to save his life.

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00:16:17,678 --> 00:16:20,347
One of the reasons
why I always have Pac' back

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is 'cause he always
have my back.

425
00:16:21,615 --> 00:16:23,684
That was my little brother.

426
00:16:23,684 --> 00:16:26,687
[Shock G] If Suge says it,
that's the new way it is.

427
00:16:26,687 --> 00:16:28,188
[Suge]
And I know one thing.

428
00:16:28,188 --> 00:16:30,023
Pac love Death Row.

429
00:16:30,023 --> 00:16:31,592
And Death Row love Pac.

430
00:16:31,592 --> 00:16:34,061
First one of the ads that's
happening for the single.

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[Suge]
So, all eyes is on him.

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00:16:36,597 --> 00:16:39,666
[Shock G]
All Eyez On Me was
Tupac showing that respect,

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00:16:39,666 --> 00:16:42,135
being a man and making
the best record
for the West Coast

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00:16:42,135 --> 00:16:43,570
that he could, and that's
what Suge stood for,

435
00:16:43,570 --> 00:16:45,672
so that's what Pac did.

436
00:16:45,672 --> 00:16:47,307
- [Tupac laughs]
- [Shock G] But listen
to him laugh.

437
00:16:47,307 --> 00:16:49,443
- [Tupac] Death Row.
- Death Row. [laughs]

438
00:16:49,443 --> 00:16:51,545
He's not laughing.

439
00:16:51,545 --> 00:16:53,480
- You could hear it.
Forced laughter.
- [Tupac laughs]

440
00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:54,448
[Mike Tyson] He was creating
a record that Suge wanted.

441
00:16:54,448 --> 00:16:56,016
It's tight, man.

442
00:16:56,016 --> 00:16:57,551
[Dre]
If anybody knows Tupac,

443
00:16:57,551 --> 00:16:59,319
he's like a comedian,
joke after joke.

444
00:16:59,319 --> 00:17:00,721
He wasn't none of that.

445
00:17:00,721 --> 00:17:02,556
He was serious, focused,

446
00:17:02,556 --> 00:17:06,326
and his temper was short.

447
00:17:06,326 --> 00:17:10,030
[Watani]
All of those records, all he's
talking about is the pain.

448
00:17:10,030 --> 00:17:11,532
[interviewer] Do your mother's
feelings ever get hurt

449
00:17:11,532 --> 00:17:13,534
when you talk about how painful

450
00:17:13,534 --> 00:17:15,469
- and sad you were as a kid?
- [Tupac] Yes.

451
00:17:15,469 --> 00:17:17,471
- Yes, she's always--
- That must be hard
for her to hear.

452
00:17:17,471 --> 00:17:19,706
She's always like that.
I always used to feel like

453
00:17:19,706 --> 00:17:21,141
she cared more about
"the" people

454
00:17:21,141 --> 00:17:22,276
than "her" people.

455
00:17:22,276 --> 00:17:23,710
But I love her for that.

456
00:17:23,710 --> 00:17:25,546
That's how I am.

457
00:17:25,546 --> 00:17:27,581
But because of my mother,
I'm a chainsmoker.

458
00:17:27,581 --> 00:17:29,516
[both laugh]

459
00:17:36,490 --> 00:17:39,726
[Gobi] This dude at 25
had accomplished more

460
00:17:39,726 --> 00:17:41,428
than most
in their lifetime.

461
00:17:41,428 --> 00:17:43,764
And look, without being sacrilegious,

462
00:17:43,764 --> 00:17:46,200
where the fuck was Jesus
when he was 25?

463
00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:47,301
[Allen laughs]

464
00:17:47,301 --> 00:17:48,602
[Gobi] What would Pac have been

465
00:17:48,602 --> 00:17:49,570
if they had allowed him

466
00:17:49,570 --> 00:17:51,705
to live to 33?

467
00:17:54,374 --> 00:17:58,478
I was a fly on the wall,
a wannabe filmmaker,

468
00:17:58,478 --> 00:18:02,316
shooting a living
documentary on you.

469
00:18:02,316 --> 00:18:05,185
So, the first thing I noticed

470
00:18:05,185 --> 00:18:10,491
was that this motherfucker
was on a inexplicable schedule.

471
00:18:10,491 --> 00:18:12,059
He packed his days in

472
00:18:12,059 --> 00:18:14,962
with as much creativity
as possible.

473
00:18:16,163 --> 00:18:18,398
And we're on the set

474
00:18:18,398 --> 00:18:20,067
for the video
How Do U Want It.

475
00:18:20,067 --> 00:18:21,568
First thing,
Pac tells all the men

476
00:18:21,568 --> 00:18:23,270
to take their tops off.

477
00:18:23,270 --> 00:18:25,272
"These girls are all naked.

478
00:18:25,272 --> 00:18:27,441
You motherfuckers need to
take at least your top off."

479
00:18:27,441 --> 00:18:29,676
I was like,
"This guy's dope as fuck."

480
00:18:29,676 --> 00:18:32,079
He's like, equal opportunity

481
00:18:32,079 --> 00:18:33,747
with the porn stars
and the strippers, right?

482
00:18:33,747 --> 00:18:36,016
♪ No matter where I go ♪

483
00:18:36,016 --> 00:18:39,152
♪ I see the same hoes ♪

484
00:18:39,152 --> 00:18:41,421
Uh, anyway, we shoot the video,

485
00:18:41,421 --> 00:18:43,790
and then the guy that was
supposed to direct

486
00:18:43,790 --> 00:18:45,459
2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted

487
00:18:45,459 --> 00:18:47,194
calls up two days
before the shoot,

488
00:18:47,194 --> 00:18:49,196
and he says,
"I'm not doing it."

489
00:18:49,196 --> 00:18:50,330
"What are you talking about?"

490
00:18:50,330 --> 00:18:51,765
He's like, "I'm not sharing

491
00:18:51,765 --> 00:18:53,534
co-director credit with Tupac."

492
00:18:53,534 --> 00:18:55,602
Pac just looked at me,

493
00:18:55,602 --> 00:18:57,471
and he said, "Let
the motherfucker do it."

494
00:18:57,471 --> 00:19:00,307
So, that became my official
first directing credit,

495
00:19:00,307 --> 00:19:03,076
2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted.
Right there on the spot.

496
00:19:03,076 --> 00:19:05,445
It was like he saw
something special in me

497
00:19:05,445 --> 00:19:07,314
that no one else
had ever seen before.

498
00:19:07,314 --> 00:19:08,682
[Snoop] That's what
it was with him.

499
00:19:08,682 --> 00:19:10,417
He loved giving love,

500
00:19:10,417 --> 00:19:12,119
and putting spotlights
on other people

501
00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:13,620
and letting other
motherfuckers shine.

502
00:19:13,620 --> 00:19:15,189
Look how many
opportunities he gave

503
00:19:15,189 --> 00:19:17,124
to Thug Life
and the Outlawz.

504
00:19:17,124 --> 00:19:18,525
And he was teaching me
how to give structure

505
00:19:18,525 --> 00:19:20,227
with my homies
because there was

506
00:19:20,227 --> 00:19:21,595
so much gangster shit
instilled in us,

507
00:19:21,595 --> 00:19:23,430
I didn't know I was great.

508
00:19:23,430 --> 00:19:25,132
[reporter] Tupac Shakur
reminds that the rappers

509
00:19:25,132 --> 00:19:26,466
have sold millions of records.

510
00:19:26,466 --> 00:19:28,202
If we can represent
that many votes,

511
00:19:28,202 --> 00:19:30,370
we got to let these
politicians be scared of us.

512
00:19:30,370 --> 00:19:33,140
[Snoop] He was training me to be
more of a speaking vessel

513
00:19:33,140 --> 00:19:35,108
for the people
coming behind us.

514
00:19:35,108 --> 00:19:37,010
This rap thing is
a blessing in disguise,
believe me.

515
00:19:37,010 --> 00:19:39,546
You got more gang members
doing rap than doing killing,

516
00:19:39,546 --> 00:19:41,014
so let's keep
the rap thing going

517
00:19:41,014 --> 00:19:42,182
and keep the vote thing going.

518
00:19:42,182 --> 00:19:43,350
I'm preaching right now.

519
00:19:43,350 --> 00:19:44,351
I'm preaching.

520
00:19:44,351 --> 00:19:45,719
[cheering]

521
00:19:45,719 --> 00:19:47,387
He was putting
shit on my head

522
00:19:47,387 --> 00:19:49,089
that I needed
to get me on the path

523
00:19:49,089 --> 00:19:50,257
because I was fighting
a murder case.

524
00:19:50,257 --> 00:19:52,159
How much gangster shit can I do?

525
00:19:52,159 --> 00:19:54,361
[reporter]
It happened in this
Los Angeles park.

526
00:19:54,361 --> 00:19:56,363
Snoop's bodyguard
shot and killed

527
00:19:56,363 --> 00:19:58,632
24-year-old
Philip Woldemariam.

528
00:19:58,632 --> 00:20:00,434
Snoop's attorney
claims self-defense

529
00:20:00,434 --> 00:20:03,136
and says the DA
has an agenda.

530
00:20:03,136 --> 00:20:05,672
That terrible music is gonna
get out into the public.

531
00:20:05,672 --> 00:20:07,641
That's why he's
prosecuting this man.

532
00:20:07,641 --> 00:20:09,142
[Snoop]
So, I'm fighting
for my life, thinking,

533
00:20:09,142 --> 00:20:10,777
"How am I
going to be different?"

534
00:20:10,777 --> 00:20:12,713
And Tupac was there with me
going to court.

535
00:20:12,713 --> 00:20:15,516
Today is "We Love Snoop Day."

536
00:20:15,516 --> 00:20:17,184
Because he
fighting for his life

537
00:20:17,184 --> 00:20:18,619
when y'all know
he didn't do it.

538
00:20:18,619 --> 00:20:20,387
But he got to go
through all this,

539
00:20:20,387 --> 00:20:22,155
make all his mama's
hair gray for this.

540
00:20:22,155 --> 00:20:23,991
How do you feel,
having been on the other side

541
00:20:23,991 --> 00:20:25,492
of situations like this?

542
00:20:25,492 --> 00:20:27,528
I'm going to the studio
to make Bob Dole mad.

543
00:20:27,528 --> 00:20:29,196
I'm finna make
you real mad

544
00:20:29,196 --> 00:20:30,531
for what y'all doin'
to my homeboy,

545
00:20:30,531 --> 00:20:33,167
you and Delores Tucker.

546
00:20:33,167 --> 00:20:36,003
[Snoop] Tupac understood the
frustration of being locked up

547
00:20:36,003 --> 00:20:38,539
and wrongfully accused.

548
00:20:38,539 --> 00:20:40,407
So we got real close,

549
00:20:40,407 --> 00:20:42,242
and our relationship
was based off aspirations

550
00:20:42,242 --> 00:20:43,710
as far as
what we're gonna be.

551
00:20:43,710 --> 00:20:45,579
Like, "You gonna
win this case."

552
00:20:45,579 --> 00:20:48,615
Nigga, we two of America's most
wanted. Nigga, we great."

553
00:20:48,615 --> 00:20:51,451
[judge] Calvin Broadus,
not guilty of the crime
of murder in the first degree.

554
00:20:51,451 --> 00:20:54,021
[Snoop] And when I actually
won the case, we celebrated.

555
00:20:54,021 --> 00:20:55,389
[Dan Rather]
A jury in Los Angeles

556
00:20:55,389 --> 00:20:56,990
found the 24-year-old
rapper

557
00:20:56,990 --> 00:20:58,425
and his bodyguard

558
00:20:58,425 --> 00:20:59,993
not guilty
in the fatal shooting

559
00:20:59,993 --> 00:21:01,562
of a gang member.

560
00:21:01,562 --> 00:21:03,130
Snoop Doggy Dogg,
whose real name is...

561
00:21:03,130 --> 00:21:05,299
[cork pops]

562
00:21:05,299 --> 00:21:08,402
[Snoop]
Say, man, some of the greatest
shit ever written

563
00:21:08,402 --> 00:21:11,605
came out of pain.

564
00:21:11,605 --> 00:21:14,608
We learned to bring that pain

565
00:21:14,608 --> 00:21:17,778
that we were given
into a better picture.

566
00:21:17,778 --> 00:21:20,480
[reporter]
In the fatal shooting
of a gang member...

567
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,317
[Snoop]
He wasn't brought up
in a regular household,

568
00:21:23,317 --> 00:21:25,419
so definitely his art

569
00:21:25,419 --> 00:21:28,689
is gonna give you...

570
00:21:28,689 --> 00:21:31,992
pictures that the average
artist can't paint.

571
00:21:31,992 --> 00:21:34,094
♪ Picture perfect
I paint a perfect picture ♪

572
00:21:34,094 --> 00:21:35,596
♪ Bomb the hoochies
With precision ♪

573
00:21:35,596 --> 00:21:37,364
♪ My intention's
To get richer ♪

574
00:21:37,364 --> 00:21:39,500
♪ With the S-N
Double-O-P, Dogg ♪

575
00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:41,301
♪ My fuckin' homie, You's a
Cold-ass nigga on them hogs ♪

576
00:21:41,301 --> 00:21:43,070
♪ Sure nuff, I keep my hand
On my gun ♪

577
00:21:43,070 --> 00:21:44,771
♪ 'Cause they got me
On the run ♪

578
00:21:44,771 --> 00:21:46,773
♪ Now I'm back in the courtroom
Waitin' on the outcome ♪

579
00:21:46,773 --> 00:21:48,141
♪ "Free Tupac" is all
That's on a niggaz mind ♪

580
00:21:48,141 --> 00:21:49,710
♪ But at the same time ♪

581
00:21:49,710 --> 00:21:51,712
♪ It seems they
Tryin' to take mine ♪

582
00:21:51,712 --> 00:21:53,547
♪ So I'mma get smart
And get defensive and shit ♪

583
00:21:53,547 --> 00:21:54,781
♪ And put together
A million march ♪

584
00:21:54,781 --> 00:21:57,251
♪ For some gangsta shit ♪

585
00:21:57,251 --> 00:21:59,386
[Mike Wallace]
In New York, a jury
acquitted 13 Black Panthers

586
00:21:59,386 --> 00:22:01,054
accused of conspiring
to bomb buildings

587
00:22:01,054 --> 00:22:02,389
and kill policemen.

588
00:22:02,389 --> 00:22:04,358
[man]
It's a beautiful victory.

589
00:22:04,358 --> 00:22:06,527
[Glo] We were acquitted

590
00:22:06,527 --> 00:22:09,663
one month and three days
before Tupac was born.

591
00:22:09,663 --> 00:22:12,566
It was a joyous time
because Tupac was carried

592
00:22:12,566 --> 00:22:14,368
under the worst conditions,

593
00:22:14,368 --> 00:22:16,236
and then, lo and behold,
here comes this

594
00:22:16,236 --> 00:22:19,239
healthy, smiling,
beautiful baby.

595
00:22:19,239 --> 00:22:23,377
[Afeni] He loved life.
It was like, "I'm here."

596
00:22:23,377 --> 00:22:27,147
But it's just that my life
had been by now so devastated,

597
00:22:27,147 --> 00:22:30,050
I really didn't know
how to get it back on track.

598
00:22:30,050 --> 00:22:32,553
[Jamal]
Colonial warfare,
mental disorder.

599
00:22:32,553 --> 00:22:37,024
The acquittal
of the Panther 21
was a true highlight

600
00:22:37,024 --> 00:22:43,063
before a fall into struggle,
depression, disorientation.

601
00:22:43,664 --> 00:22:46,033
We, as a movement,
were dealing with

602
00:22:46,033 --> 00:22:47,634
post-traumatic
stress syndrome

603
00:22:47,634 --> 00:22:51,104
because the whole army
had been decimated.

604
00:22:51,104 --> 00:22:53,473
And none of us thought
we would wind up broke,

605
00:22:53,473 --> 00:22:56,310
paranoid, and depressed.

606
00:22:56,310 --> 00:22:59,413
[Garland]
Oppression brings
about addictions,

607
00:22:59,413 --> 00:23:01,615
so a lot of people
in the movement

608
00:23:01,615 --> 00:23:04,184
become addicted
to certain substances.

609
00:23:04,184 --> 00:23:06,153
[Jamal]
So people started drinking,
and I'm smoking whatever

610
00:23:06,153 --> 00:23:10,324
anybody passed me,
and my mission was to be numb.

611
00:23:10,324 --> 00:23:13,594
But somehow,
Afeni on her worst days

612
00:23:13,594 --> 00:23:17,297
was better than a lot of people
are on their best days.

613
00:23:17,297 --> 00:23:19,032
[Billy]
She was an icon,

614
00:23:19,032 --> 00:23:21,401
the face of strong women
in our movement.

615
00:23:21,401 --> 00:23:24,104
But she was trying
to move on with life.

616
00:23:24,104 --> 00:23:26,206
[Glo]
When Tupac was small,

617
00:23:26,206 --> 00:23:28,509
Afeni worked for
the Bronx Legal Services.

618
00:23:28,509 --> 00:23:31,011
And she had a friend there,

619
00:23:31,011 --> 00:23:34,248
an actress and a singer,
Ebony Jo-Ann.

620
00:23:34,248 --> 00:23:36,250
- She was awesome, right?
- Yeah.

621
00:23:36,250 --> 00:23:42,222
Afeni's job was to stop
illegal evictions.

622
00:23:42,222 --> 00:23:44,458
Afeni was a warrior.

623
00:23:44,458 --> 00:23:47,628
She was also trying to get
the government onboard

624
00:23:47,628 --> 00:23:50,564
with acupuncture,
with Mutulu Shakur.

625
00:23:50,564 --> 00:23:53,467
[Glo] Afeni and Mutulu
became a couple.

626
00:23:53,467 --> 00:23:55,169
I liked Mutulu.

627
00:23:55,169 --> 00:23:57,004
A family guy,
loved the children.

628
00:23:57,004 --> 00:23:58,338
They had a daughter, Sekyiwa.

629
00:23:58,338 --> 00:24:00,474
I have fond memories of Mutulu.

630
00:24:00,474 --> 00:24:03,043
[Lesane] Mutulu bought
a brownstone in Strivers' Row,

631
00:24:03,043 --> 00:24:05,612
a very nice area
where Black doctors

632
00:24:05,612 --> 00:24:07,047
and lawyers lived.

633
00:24:07,047 --> 00:24:09,283
And he turned it into a clinic.

634
00:24:09,283 --> 00:24:11,518
[Jamal]
Mutulu and Afeni also formed
the National Task Force

635
00:24:11,518 --> 00:24:13,720
for COINTELPRO
Litigation and Research,

636
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,455
with emphasis around
Geronimo Pratt.

637
00:24:15,455 --> 00:24:17,257
[reporter]
Serving life for murder,

638
00:24:17,257 --> 00:24:19,026
and now there are
growing indications

639
00:24:19,026 --> 00:24:20,761
Geronimo Pratt has spent
23 years in prison

640
00:24:20,761 --> 00:24:22,462
for something he didn't do.

641
00:24:22,462 --> 00:24:24,298
[Lesane] We kept hearing
about Geronimo.

642
00:24:24,298 --> 00:24:26,500
He was falsely imprisoned
in California.

643
00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:28,135
[Glo]
So, that's what she was doing

644
00:24:28,135 --> 00:24:29,603
when she would
go to California.

645
00:24:29,603 --> 00:24:32,306
She was working on
Geronimo's case,

646
00:24:32,306 --> 00:24:35,342
one of Tupac's godfathers.

647
00:24:35,342 --> 00:24:37,744
[reporter] Isn't it true
that Geronimo Pratt wired
a shotgun to the head

648
00:24:37,744 --> 00:24:40,047
of a California State judge
and blew it off?

649
00:24:40,047 --> 00:24:44,518
No. No. You sound like
the COINTELPRO.

650
00:24:44,518 --> 00:24:46,186
- [woman] Like?
- The COINTELPRO.

651
00:24:46,186 --> 00:24:47,788
COINTELPRO
makes us paranoid.

652
00:24:47,788 --> 00:24:49,690
Do you know if he's
ever killed anybody?

653
00:24:49,690 --> 00:24:51,391
- [reporter] Yes, I do.
- How do you know?

654
00:24:51,391 --> 00:24:54,027
Were you a witness
to a killing that he committed?

655
00:24:54,027 --> 00:24:55,329
[reporter]
I'll ask the questions.

656
00:24:55,329 --> 00:24:56,396
I know,
but that's my godfather,

657
00:24:56,396 --> 00:24:58,165
and that's disrespectful

658
00:24:58,165 --> 00:25:00,033
for you to speak of
my godfather that way.

659
00:25:00,033 --> 00:25:01,602
And I will not allow that
unless you have proof

660
00:25:01,602 --> 00:25:03,270
- or you are witness.
- [reporter] I'll ask--

661
00:25:03,270 --> 00:25:05,239
If you have neither,
then you can't do that.

662
00:25:05,239 --> 00:25:07,374
Because I would never do that
to your family members.

663
00:25:07,374 --> 00:25:09,042
- [reporter] I'm just
asking a question.
- I understand,

664
00:25:09,042 --> 00:25:10,310
but you cannot
disrespect my family.

665
00:25:10,310 --> 00:25:11,712
- [reporter] Okay.
- Okay?

666
00:25:11,712 --> 00:25:13,514
[Watani] He couldn't run
from who he was.

667
00:25:13,514 --> 00:25:15,282
He was a child
that was born in the movement.

668
00:25:15,282 --> 00:25:17,484
They targeted him
as a result of that.

669
00:25:24,758 --> 00:25:26,693
[Afeni]
It wasn't that the police
was looking for me.

670
00:25:26,693 --> 00:25:28,195
Please understand that.

671
00:25:28,195 --> 00:25:29,763
It's just that I lost my job

672
00:25:29,763 --> 00:25:31,765
because the pressure
from the police,

673
00:25:31,765 --> 00:25:35,035
it was just really hard
for me.

674
00:25:40,340 --> 00:25:43,710
And sometimes when my children
went to school,

675
00:25:43,710 --> 00:25:46,180
they were followed by the FBI

676
00:25:46,180 --> 00:25:48,448
and police officers
who would corner them,

677
00:25:48,448 --> 00:25:52,085
then ask them about people
that they might have known.

678
00:25:52,085 --> 00:25:54,588
Those were experiences
that I wish

679
00:25:54,588 --> 00:25:58,325
that I had not had
my children exposed to.

680
00:25:58,325 --> 00:26:00,594
[Lesane]
We were all traumatized.

681
00:26:00,594 --> 00:26:04,198
First pistol I ever saw
was in Feni's room.

682
00:26:04,198 --> 00:26:06,033
Afeni lived
across the hall from us.

683
00:26:06,033 --> 00:26:08,168
There was always a lot
of Panther paraphernalia

684
00:26:08,168 --> 00:26:11,305
that had cops getting
they pig brains blown out.

685
00:26:11,305 --> 00:26:13,574
You know, things like that
in a child's mind

686
00:26:13,574 --> 00:26:14,708
didn't seem normal.

687
00:26:14,708 --> 00:26:16,076
'Cause they would tell us,

688
00:26:16,076 --> 00:26:17,244
"When the pigs come to you,

689
00:26:17,244 --> 00:26:19,213
don't say nothing to them."

690
00:26:19,213 --> 00:26:21,315
[Jamala] 'Cause the feds,
they used to come to the house,

691
00:26:21,315 --> 00:26:22,749
- and we're just the kids.
- [pounding on door]

692
00:26:22,749 --> 00:26:24,751
[Lesane] Pac was
a mischievous kid.

693
00:26:24,751 --> 00:26:27,454
He liked to play a lot.
He was fun-loving.

694
00:26:27,454 --> 00:26:29,723
[Jamala] You would have
thought he would have
became a comedian.

695
00:26:29,723 --> 00:26:32,025
But in Harlem,
back in those days,

696
00:26:32,025 --> 00:26:34,695
it wasn't cool to have names
like Tupac,

697
00:26:34,695 --> 00:26:39,099
Qatari, Sekyiwa, Mutulu...

698
00:26:39,099 --> 00:26:42,436
I wanted my name to be Lisa.
But it was Jamala.

699
00:26:42,436 --> 00:26:44,771
[laughs]

700
00:26:44,771 --> 00:26:47,174
Definitely, there was
a chip on my shoulder.

701
00:26:47,174 --> 00:26:48,642
Mm-hmm.

702
00:26:48,642 --> 00:26:50,577
People always thought
we was African.

703
00:26:50,577 --> 00:26:52,246
And we got teased a lot.

704
00:26:52,246 --> 00:26:54,314
Like, "You bald-headed
Black bitch."

705
00:26:54,314 --> 00:26:56,083
That's how
the fighting would start.

706
00:26:56,083 --> 00:26:59,119
But Pac didn't know
how to mind his business.

707
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,054
He would intervene

708
00:27:01,054 --> 00:27:03,323
and walk up to a brother
and tell that brother,

709
00:27:03,323 --> 00:27:05,025
"Keep your hands off
your woman."

710
00:27:05,025 --> 00:27:06,693
And we'd be like,
"Yo, Pac, chill!

711
00:27:06,693 --> 00:27:08,762
Come on, man,
let's keep walking.

712
00:27:08,762 --> 00:27:10,564
We don't know these people."

713
00:27:10,564 --> 00:27:13,500
He would challenge you
with his intelligence.

714
00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:16,203
"I bet you can't spell
'harpsichord.'"

715
00:27:16,203 --> 00:27:19,640
But his mom used to make him
read The New York Times

716
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,441
as a punishment.

717
00:27:21,441 --> 00:27:23,443
Okay, nine times out of ten,

718
00:27:23,443 --> 00:27:25,379
she'd whoop his tail.

719
00:27:25,379 --> 00:27:27,181
[Afeni] "Take your little
sorry self in that corner...

720
00:27:27,181 --> 00:27:29,216
[Glo] But the other part
of that punishment

721
00:27:29,216 --> 00:27:31,318
- was that he had to read.
- ...get The New York Times.

722
00:27:31,318 --> 00:27:33,754
- [Tupac]
She's my guide through life.
- [Afeni] Read it.

723
00:27:33,754 --> 00:27:36,123
- [Tupac] She knows the
importance of being honest.
- [Afeni] And let's have

724
00:27:36,123 --> 00:27:38,492
- a debate about it.
- [Tupac] We talk about everything.

725
00:27:38,492 --> 00:27:40,694
- [Afeni] Not a discussion.
- [Tupac] Facing each
situation as it comes.

726
00:27:40,694 --> 00:27:43,030
- [Afeni] The more we
challenge our inside...
- [Tupac] Being realistic

727
00:27:43,030 --> 00:27:44,698
- about the problem...
- [Afeni] make ourselves think...

728
00:27:44,698 --> 00:27:46,633
- [Tupac] ...analyzing i...
- [Afeni] critically...

729
00:27:46,633 --> 00:27:48,435
- [Tupac] and solving it.
- [Afeni] how can that hurt?"

730
00:27:48,435 --> 00:27:50,437
[Tupac] It's just that everybody
doesn't think like us.

731
00:27:50,437 --> 00:27:51,572
[Glo]
Feni wanted all of us
to be smart and active

732
00:27:51,572 --> 00:27:53,307
in the community,

733
00:27:53,307 --> 00:27:55,309
and she was
the most generous person.

734
00:27:55,309 --> 00:27:59,079
Give you anything.
Her son, same thing.

735
00:27:59,079 --> 00:28:00,747
But people take
advantage of that too,

736
00:28:00,747 --> 00:28:04,184
so that's adding to
that knot in her gut.

737
00:28:04,184 --> 00:28:06,119
Because the only person
I knew that provided

738
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,322
for Afeni Shakur
was Afeni Shakur.

739
00:28:09,823 --> 00:28:11,725
[reporter 1]
On October 20th, 1981,

740
00:28:11,725 --> 00:28:14,027
remaining members of the
radical Weather Underground

741
00:28:14,027 --> 00:28:15,596
and Black Liberation Army

742
00:28:15,596 --> 00:28:17,431
ambushed a Brink's truck,
killing a guard,

743
00:28:17,431 --> 00:28:20,033
later killing
two police officers.

744
00:28:20,033 --> 00:28:21,502
[reporter 2]
Several of the suspects left

745
00:28:21,502 --> 00:28:24,104
this Harlem acupuncture clinic.

746
00:28:24,104 --> 00:28:25,439
- A Dr. Shakur's name...
- [sighs]

747
00:28:25,439 --> 00:28:27,174
...was listed on a plaque.

748
00:28:27,174 --> 00:28:30,043
[reporter 3]
Fugitive Mutulu Shakur,

749
00:28:30,043 --> 00:28:32,679
reputedly the mastermind
of the Brink's heist.

750
00:28:34,648 --> 00:28:37,718
They were pretty secretive
around me.

751
00:28:37,718 --> 00:28:42,623
I then began reading things
in the newspaper.

752
00:28:45,392 --> 00:28:48,095
♪ Ain't nothin' but
A gangsta party ♪

753
00:28:48,095 --> 00:28:51,431
[Glo] Mutulu,
wanted by the police.

754
00:28:51,431 --> 00:28:54,635
[Lesane] He was number one
on America's Most Wanted list.

755
00:28:54,635 --> 00:28:56,236
♪ Ain't nothin' but
A gangsta party ♪

756
00:28:56,236 --> 00:29:00,774
That's where everything
became, "What?"

757
00:29:00,774 --> 00:29:03,343
[reporter]
SWAT teams raided
two separate

758
00:29:03,343 --> 00:29:05,179
New York City apartments.

759
00:29:05,179 --> 00:29:06,780
[Lesane] We didn't know
what was going on.

760
00:29:06,780 --> 00:29:09,116
Suddenly, Mutulu wasn't
around anymore. Jamal...

761
00:29:09,116 --> 00:29:10,784
[reporter]
Twenty-nine year-old
Edward Joseph...

762
00:29:10,784 --> 00:29:12,586
- I went back to prison.
- [Lesane] Blood...

763
00:29:12,586 --> 00:29:14,188
I was in prison.

764
00:29:14,188 --> 00:29:15,656
I'm Jesse James.

765
00:29:15,656 --> 00:29:17,291
[reporter] Five suspects
are still at large

766
00:29:17,291 --> 00:29:19,092
in what appears to be a network

767
00:29:19,092 --> 00:29:20,761
of new terrorist activity.

768
00:29:20,761 --> 00:29:23,764
[Lesane] It was always mysticism
about police violence.

769
00:29:23,764 --> 00:29:26,433
♪ Now give me 50 feet
Defeat is not my destiny ♪

770
00:29:26,433 --> 00:29:29,169
♪ Release me to the streets but
keep whatever's left of me ♪

771
00:29:29,169 --> 00:29:31,338
♪ Jealousy is envious
Suffering is greed ♪

772
00:29:31,338 --> 00:29:33,473
♪ Better be prepared when you
Cowards bust at me ♪

773
00:29:33,473 --> 00:29:35,642
♪ I bust and flee
These niggaz must be crazy ♪

774
00:29:35,642 --> 00:29:37,711
♪ What? There ain't no mercy,
Motherfuckers ♪

775
00:29:37,711 --> 00:29:39,513
♪ Who can fade the thugs? ♪

776
00:29:39,513 --> 00:29:40,647
♪ You thought it was
But it wasn't ♪

777
00:29:40,647 --> 00:29:42,583
♪ Now disappear ♪

778
00:29:42,583 --> 00:29:44,451
♪ Bow down in the presence
Of a boss player ♪

779
00:29:44,451 --> 00:29:47,187
I was very naive. I thought
I knew a lot, but I didn't.

780
00:29:47,187 --> 00:29:49,056
Like when they broke
that girl out of jail.

781
00:29:49,056 --> 00:29:50,624
[reporter 1]
Assata Shakur escaped

782
00:29:50,624 --> 00:29:52,559
from the Clinton
Correctional Facility.

783
00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:54,695
Now, I'm wondering,
"Who thought of that shit?"

784
00:29:54,695 --> 00:29:57,164
- [reporter 1] No shots
were fired.
- And that money...

785
00:29:57,164 --> 00:29:59,333
- [reporter 1] Close to
one million dollars...
- Where's the money?

786
00:29:59,333 --> 00:30:01,101
[reporter 1] ...missing
from similar holdups,

787
00:30:01,101 --> 00:30:03,704
investigators are now wondering
what the motive might be.

788
00:30:03,704 --> 00:30:06,573
[reporter 2] A lot of the
money was placed in envelopes
and delivered anonymously

789
00:30:06,573 --> 00:30:09,042
to homes in Harlem
at Christmastime.

790
00:30:09,042 --> 00:30:10,611
[Glo] All I know is

791
00:30:10,611 --> 00:30:14,515
Afeni had no furniture
in the whole house.

792
00:30:14,515 --> 00:30:16,717
[Afeni]
We were poor.

793
00:30:16,717 --> 00:30:20,187
And I'll tell you what
Tupac always wanted to know...

794
00:30:20,187 --> 00:30:21,788
why are we so poor?

795
00:30:21,788 --> 00:30:23,790
[Tupac]
If money was nothing

796
00:30:23,790 --> 00:30:25,759
and everything depended
on your moral standards,

797
00:30:25,759 --> 00:30:27,561
we'd be millionaires.

798
00:30:27,561 --> 00:30:29,429
But since it's not like that,

799
00:30:29,429 --> 00:30:31,298
I missed out
on a lot of things,

800
00:30:31,298 --> 00:30:34,067
and it made me very bitter.

801
00:30:34,067 --> 00:30:38,572
[Lesane] So, the poverty,
the Panthers, the guns...

802
00:30:38,572 --> 00:30:42,609
we all suffer from post-
traumatic stress disorder,
you know?

803
00:30:42,609 --> 00:30:45,612
Particularly Tupac,
particularly Afeni.

804
00:30:45,612 --> 00:30:48,215
They didn't know it
because no one knew

805
00:30:48,215 --> 00:30:51,118
what anxiety looked like,
or depression.

806
00:30:51,118 --> 00:30:54,021
We just...
we covered it up with drugs.

807
00:30:56,657 --> 00:30:59,259
[Allen] I'm read

808
00:30:59,259 --> 00:31:03,197
1240 Woodpress Avenue,
200 West 108 Street,

809
00:31:03,197 --> 00:31:06,266
59 Morningside Drive,
626 Riverside Drive,

810
00:31:06,266 --> 00:31:07,467
something Underhill Avenue,

811
00:31:07,467 --> 00:31:09,136
Third Avenue,

812
00:31:09,136 --> 00:31:11,104
409 Edgecombe,

813
00:31:11,104 --> 00:31:14,241
1838 7th Avenue
and-- and Kerrigan?

814
00:31:14,241 --> 00:31:16,343
- Kerrigan.
- Kerrigan Avenue.

815
00:31:16,343 --> 00:31:20,047
[Allen] What was
going on with Afeni
that she was moving...

816
00:31:20,047 --> 00:31:21,682
that displaced in her life,

817
00:31:21,682 --> 00:31:25,118
and how was it affecting
Tupac and the other children?

818
00:31:25,118 --> 00:31:27,187
Well, when Afeni
was moving a lot,

819
00:31:27,187 --> 00:31:30,324
it wasn't just Afeni,
we were all moving

820
00:31:30,324 --> 00:31:35,062
and, um, I think
a lot of it was, um...

821
00:31:37,764 --> 00:31:40,701
finances.

822
00:31:40,701 --> 00:31:45,372
Afeni's spirit was
totally diminished in 1984.

823
00:31:45,372 --> 00:31:49,610
She was angry because
no one came to her aid.

824
00:31:49,610 --> 00:31:51,144
Her aid was me.

825
00:31:51,144 --> 00:31:53,080
But I had six children.

826
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:57,217
I'm also going through
my own personal challenges,

827
00:31:57,217 --> 00:32:00,187
and I look back and I wonder

828
00:32:00,187 --> 00:32:02,756
what would have happened if

829
00:32:02,756 --> 00:32:06,193
someone would have
looked at her as a woman.

830
00:32:06,193 --> 00:32:07,728
[Allen] Hmm.

831
00:32:07,728 --> 00:32:10,764
You know, and said,
"What do you need, sister?"

832
00:32:10,764 --> 00:32:13,267
You know, "Where-- where
are you living at, sister?"

833
00:32:16,236 --> 00:32:18,605
[Afeni] We were homeless
during this period,

834
00:32:18,605 --> 00:32:22,776
and this is when I was starting
to, um, smoke crack cocaine.

835
00:32:22,776 --> 00:32:24,545
[Glo]
Afeni was using drugs,

836
00:32:24,545 --> 00:32:26,246
and sometimes
she wouldn't come home,

837
00:32:26,246 --> 00:32:28,382
and Tupac, I felt for him

838
00:32:28,382 --> 00:32:30,617
because I knew
he was suffering.

839
00:32:30,617 --> 00:32:32,486
[Tupac] I'm dealing
with Daddy not being there.

840
00:32:32,486 --> 00:32:34,688
My mother's dealing
with my man not being there.

841
00:32:34,688 --> 00:32:36,690
'Cause my mother always
told me, "Don't you ever

842
00:32:36,690 --> 00:32:39,226
just volunteer yourself
to our people

843
00:32:39,226 --> 00:32:41,428
'cause they'll use you."
You know what I'm saying?

844
00:32:41,428 --> 00:32:44,631
She also told me
to follow my heart.

845
00:32:44,631 --> 00:32:48,101
[Jamala] As a child,
Tupac's hobbies were writing,

846
00:32:48,101 --> 00:32:50,771
and writing and performing.

847
00:32:50,771 --> 00:32:54,675
[Glo] At 13 years old,
his family was the theater,

848
00:32:54,675 --> 00:32:56,710
and it was very strange

849
00:32:56,710 --> 00:32:59,613
because there'd never been
a child in this company before.

850
00:32:59,613 --> 00:33:02,783
But Tupac went to the company
and won their heart

851
00:33:02,783 --> 00:33:05,485
because he was very good
with his lines,

852
00:33:05,485 --> 00:33:08,488
and he also used to help them
with their lines.

853
00:33:08,488 --> 00:33:12,025
The first time he appeared
professionally on stage

854
00:33:12,025 --> 00:33:14,628
was the year that Jesse Jackson
was running for president.

855
00:33:14,628 --> 00:33:18,365
They were having a benefit
at the world-famous Apollo.

856
00:33:18,365 --> 00:33:20,701
[Tupac] 1984,
Raisin in the Sun,

857
00:33:20,701 --> 00:33:24,238
Jesse Jackson's presidential
campaign. It was a fundraiser.

858
00:33:24,238 --> 00:33:26,740
[Ebony] That was
a perfect role for Tupac

859
00:33:26,740 --> 00:33:29,376
because life was
like that for him,

860
00:33:29,376 --> 00:33:32,179
where you don't have a bedroom.
[sighs]

861
00:33:32,179 --> 00:33:35,582
I loved it because
it was about...

862
00:33:37,150 --> 00:33:39,353
moving on.

863
00:33:39,353 --> 00:33:41,622
[Glo] Feni went
to every rehearsal.

864
00:33:41,622 --> 00:33:44,625
The night of the performance,
the theater was full.

865
00:33:44,625 --> 00:33:46,226
[Tupac] It was when
the curtain went up,

866
00:33:46,226 --> 00:33:47,628
I just caught that bug.

867
00:33:47,628 --> 00:33:49,496
[Glo] We saw
a scrawny little boy

868
00:33:49,496 --> 00:33:51,431
elevate himself to an actor.

869
00:33:51,431 --> 00:33:54,034
- [Lesane] He nailed it.
- [Tupac] Like, whoa.

870
00:33:54,034 --> 00:33:55,702
[Lesane] Felt like
this kid is a star.

871
00:33:55,702 --> 00:33:57,437
[Glo] That was it.
That was the beginning

872
00:33:57,437 --> 00:34:00,340
of a dream that
we didn't see coming.

873
00:34:02,776 --> 00:34:06,547
[sultry saxophone plays]

874
00:34:11,451 --> 00:34:14,721
[LL Cool J] ♪ I'm goin'
Back to Cali, Cali, Cali ♪

875
00:34:14,721 --> 00:34:17,024
♪ I'm goin' back to Cali ♪

876
00:34:17,024 --> 00:34:19,526
♪ Hmm, I don't think so ♪

877
00:34:19,526 --> 00:34:22,596
[Donald] Baltimore was
a very racially divided city

878
00:34:22,596 --> 00:34:24,431
geographically,
and a lot of the white kids

879
00:34:24,431 --> 00:34:26,433
that came to the Baltimore
School of the Arts

880
00:34:26,433 --> 00:34:30,037
had never been around
African American kids.

881
00:34:30,037 --> 00:34:32,573
So, I asked them
to say their name,

882
00:34:32,573 --> 00:34:34,241
and when it got
around to Tupac,

883
00:34:34,241 --> 00:34:35,642
some of the kids giggled.

884
00:34:35,642 --> 00:34:37,578
Well, he stood up
and delivered

885
00:34:37,578 --> 00:34:41,114
a 10-minute speech about
how he would not tolerate

886
00:34:41,114 --> 00:34:43,183
anyone making fun of his name.

887
00:34:43,183 --> 00:34:45,586
[chuckles] That was the end
of that conversation.

888
00:34:45,586 --> 00:34:47,054
This guy knew who he was.

889
00:34:47,054 --> 00:34:48,488
♪ Goin' back to Cali ♪

890
00:34:48,488 --> 00:34:50,123
♪ Stylin', profilin' ♪

891
00:34:50,123 --> 00:34:51,425
♪ Growlin' and smilin' ♪

892
00:34:51,425 --> 00:34:53,160
[Donald] That smile.

893
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,262
He had this absolutely
infectious smile.

894
00:34:55,262 --> 00:34:57,998
People gravitated toward him,
and he had a lot of friends.

895
00:34:57,998 --> 00:34:59,600
[Tupac] I had a friend
named John Cole

896
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,602
who was blond
and had blue eyes,

897
00:35:01,602 --> 00:35:03,237
and he put me
through high school.

898
00:35:03,237 --> 00:35:04,771
[John] Tupac and I
were very close.

899
00:35:04,771 --> 00:35:06,607
I was a visual artist.
Dye jeans.

900
00:35:06,607 --> 00:35:08,408
He would take those
clothes and wear 'em.

901
00:35:08,408 --> 00:35:10,110
[Tupac] It was fun
for him to not have,

902
00:35:10,110 --> 00:35:11,778
and it was fun for me to have.

903
00:35:11,778 --> 00:35:14,081
[John] We listened to
a lot of Prince, Kate Bush,

904
00:35:14,081 --> 00:35:16,083
The Cure, Peter Gabriel,
LL Cool J.

905
00:35:16,083 --> 00:35:18,385
He was MC New York.

906
00:35:18,385 --> 00:35:20,787
[Tupac] It was fun for him
to hear rap music.

907
00:35:20,787 --> 00:35:23,223
It was fun for me to hear
all of these things

908
00:35:23,223 --> 00:35:26,026
that has really defined
who I am as an artist today.

909
00:35:26,026 --> 00:35:28,996
♪ Goin' back
to Cali, Cali, Cali ♪

910
00:35:28,996 --> 00:35:30,731
♪ I'm goin' back to Cali ♪

911
00:35:30,731 --> 00:35:34,134
[Tupac] So, from that union,
that stretch with John,

912
00:35:34,134 --> 00:35:36,537
I know him.

913
00:35:36,537 --> 00:35:39,273
I feel like I've always been
an actor, and acting
is my first love.

914
00:35:39,273 --> 00:35:41,108
I went to School
of Performing Arts,

915
00:35:41,108 --> 00:35:43,610
but due to poverty,
I never got a chance

916
00:35:43,610 --> 00:35:45,679
to leisurely study acting.

917
00:35:47,781 --> 00:35:49,616
What I did do
was throw myself

918
00:35:49,616 --> 00:35:51,385
in as many experiences
as I could,

919
00:35:51,385 --> 00:35:54,188
so now I have
so many things to draw from.

920
00:35:54,188 --> 00:35:56,723
And I don't want anybody
to take that from me and say,

921
00:35:56,723 --> 00:35:58,725
"You're a rapper
who's acting."

922
00:36:00,694 --> 00:36:03,430
[Tim Roth] I didn't know enough
about him, so I was skeptical

923
00:36:03,430 --> 00:36:06,366
because I wanted an actor,
not a, you know, musician,
to play off.

924
00:36:06,366 --> 00:36:09,236
And I had no idea.
But once we connected,

925
00:36:09,236 --> 00:36:12,005
which was immediately,
then I was on my toes

926
00:36:12,005 --> 00:36:13,607
because he was
better than me, you know.

927
00:36:13,607 --> 00:36:15,142
[laughter]

928
00:36:15,142 --> 00:36:16,743
He was
talking the language

929
00:36:16,743 --> 00:36:18,078
of an actor and then
just surprising you

930
00:36:18,078 --> 00:36:19,346
during the scene as well.

931
00:36:19,346 --> 00:36:20,547
[director]
And action.

932
00:36:20,547 --> 00:36:22,316
My fucking lady's
gonna die here,

933
00:36:22,316 --> 00:36:23,784
and you're telling me
about some fucking numbers?

934
00:36:23,784 --> 00:36:25,285
If I knew the shit,
I'd have wrote it down.

935
00:36:25,285 --> 00:36:27,087
I need to see
a doctor right away.

936
00:36:27,087 --> 00:36:28,188
[Roth] He had some chops.
And he was the funniest fucker.

937
00:36:28,188 --> 00:36:29,756
We laughed a lot.

938
00:36:29,756 --> 00:36:31,492
Well, have you learned
anything from Tim in this?

939
00:36:31,492 --> 00:36:33,260
I know he's given you
some acting advice himself.

940
00:36:33,260 --> 00:36:35,996
- Yes, actually.
Honestly, I have.
- Mm-hmm.

941
00:36:35,996 --> 00:36:37,197
And, you know,
I'm glad you're giving me

942
00:36:37,197 --> 00:36:38,499
the opportunity
to talk about it.

943
00:36:38,499 --> 00:36:40,000
I've learned
a lot from this guy.

944
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,101
I've learned exactly
what not to do

945
00:36:41,101 --> 00:36:42,703
when the camera's on me.

946
00:36:42,703 --> 00:36:44,137
[Roth] I mean, I think
we were in a bubble,

947
00:36:44,137 --> 00:36:45,739
and it was a safe zone for him,

948
00:36:45,739 --> 00:36:47,407
just for
a little chunk of time.

949
00:36:47,407 --> 00:36:49,209
Can I just bring one thing
to your attention?

950
00:36:49,209 --> 00:36:50,277
- What's that?
- The fashion.

951
00:36:50,277 --> 00:36:51,612
Look at me.

952
00:36:51,612 --> 00:36:53,447
- Stop.
- Look at him. Look at him.

953
00:36:53,447 --> 00:36:55,182
He's ruining the whole movie!

954
00:36:55,182 --> 00:36:56,517
I took three months to get
my little gear right,

955
00:36:56,517 --> 00:36:58,318
took him three minutes
to pick this.

956
00:36:58,318 --> 00:37:02,256
[Roth] We came from very,
very different worlds.

957
00:37:02,256 --> 00:37:05,259
But a big part of your time
as an actor is doing nothing.

958
00:37:05,259 --> 00:37:07,194
And we find ourselves
sitting, having a beer,

959
00:37:07,194 --> 00:37:09,530
waiting for the sun to go down,
and he would talk to me a lot

960
00:37:09,530 --> 00:37:12,332
about things that he'd done,
things that he regretted,

961
00:37:12,332 --> 00:37:16,103
his time in prison, his mom.
He was a very sensitive guy.

962
00:37:16,103 --> 00:37:19,239
But that wasn't stuff that you
could, at that point certainly,

963
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:20,574
put in the public's eye.

964
00:37:20,574 --> 00:37:22,442
I mean, he was huge.

965
00:37:22,442 --> 00:37:24,645
And it was the first film

966
00:37:24,645 --> 00:37:26,680
where I actually
had to have security.

967
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:30,617
Rival groups would come down
to the location calling at him

968
00:37:30,617 --> 00:37:33,220
because of the East Coast/
West Coast thing.

969
00:37:33,220 --> 00:37:35,522
[Tupac] That's what's
frustrating and aggravating,

970
00:37:35,522 --> 00:37:37,024
that I can't live down
this big shadow

971
00:37:37,024 --> 00:37:38,659
that I made to protect myself

972
00:37:38,659 --> 00:37:40,661
'cause it started out
as I need an alter ego

973
00:37:40,661 --> 00:37:42,663
to keep people away from me
and to protect myself.

974
00:37:42,663 --> 00:37:45,199
And not that it's like
a total facade.

975
00:37:45,199 --> 00:37:47,067
It's me,
but it's just...

976
00:37:47,067 --> 00:37:48,569
- [lighter clicks]
- ...blown up.

977
00:37:54,608 --> 00:37:56,376
using narcotics

978
00:37:56,376 --> 00:38:00,147
put an edge on Tupac Amaru.

979
00:38:00,147 --> 00:38:02,182
[Tupac] Being numb,

980
00:38:02,182 --> 00:38:04,585
anesthetizing ourselves
to the world.

981
00:38:04,585 --> 00:38:06,420
My life has
made it easy for me

982
00:38:06,420 --> 00:38:07,788
to jump into this character

983
00:38:07,788 --> 00:38:09,590
because he's articulate, talented.

984
00:38:09,590 --> 00:38:12,259
He's just a heroin addict
like you've never seen.

985
00:38:12,259 --> 00:38:13,694
But we all have addictions,

986
00:38:13,694 --> 00:38:15,662
and I think that Spoon

987
00:38:15,662 --> 00:38:18,565
is a man who hasn't
found that peace.

988
00:38:18,565 --> 00:38:20,567
So, I would be Spoon.
Had I not took these chances,

989
00:38:20,567 --> 00:38:22,769
had I not gone all out,
I would still be

990
00:38:22,769 --> 00:38:26,540
a talented human being
that no one knew about.

991
00:38:26,540 --> 00:38:28,175
[Afeni] Our move to Baltimore

992
00:38:28,175 --> 00:38:30,410
was affected by the poverty,

993
00:38:30,410 --> 00:38:33,146
but had I not been
messing around with drugs,

994
00:38:33,146 --> 00:38:35,382
I believe that I would have
been able to stay in New York.

995
00:38:35,382 --> 00:38:37,284
[John] I mean, he didn't
like to talk about it,

996
00:38:37,284 --> 00:38:39,052
but he would tell me
they had to leave New York.

997
00:38:39,052 --> 00:38:40,320
[Tupac] We moved
out of New York because...

998
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:41,688
[John]
They were on the run.

999
00:38:41,688 --> 00:38:43,590
[Tupac] They figured out
who she was,

1000
00:38:43,590 --> 00:38:45,526
and she couldn't keep a job.
That should be illegal.

1001
00:38:45,526 --> 00:38:47,661
[John] Of course, I went
to his house on Greenmount.

1002
00:38:47,661 --> 00:38:49,997
Faye stayed in the front room,

1003
00:38:49,997 --> 00:38:52,032
which was usually
blacked out at the time.

1004
00:38:52,032 --> 00:38:54,568
The shades were drawn,
like hiding out.

1005
00:38:54,568 --> 00:38:56,570
He would be on the outs
occasionally with Faye.

1006
00:38:56,570 --> 00:38:58,172
[Afeni] His point was,
"Why every time

1007
00:38:58,172 --> 00:38:59,706
we get some place,
we have to move?

1008
00:38:59,706 --> 00:39:01,408
Why do you always
have to lose your job?

1009
00:39:01,408 --> 00:39:03,710
Why does... why is it... why?

1010
00:39:03,710 --> 00:39:05,579
And the larger society

1011
00:39:05,579 --> 00:39:09,049
could not take
responsibility for my errors.

1012
00:39:09,049 --> 00:39:11,285
[John] In his room, there
were rats crawling around,

1013
00:39:11,285 --> 00:39:15,055
and he didn't really
get along in his neighborhood.

1014
00:39:15,055 --> 00:39:16,557
Drug dealers and stuff
were targeting him

1015
00:39:16,557 --> 00:39:18,525
because it was a bad area.

1016
00:39:18,525 --> 00:39:21,028
[Afeni] So, the best thing
about the School of the Arts

1017
00:39:21,028 --> 00:39:23,564
is that he was
with people who had dreams

1018
00:39:23,564 --> 00:39:25,699
and aspirations like himself.

1019
00:39:25,699 --> 00:39:29,303
They gave Tupac a sense
that this was not permanent

1020
00:39:29,303 --> 00:39:31,572
because there was
no evidence in my life

1021
00:39:31,572 --> 00:39:33,707
that said it wasn't.

1022
00:39:33,707 --> 00:39:36,677
I remember we had enough money
for three potatoes.

1023
00:39:36,677 --> 00:39:38,378
I would make French fries,

1024
00:39:38,378 --> 00:39:39,713
and we would sit
and sing folk songs.

1025
00:39:39,713 --> 00:39:41,582
And this particular song

1026
00:39:41,582 --> 00:39:45,352
helped me to deal with
the changes with my son.

1027
00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:49,022
But the greatest effect
it had on me

1028
00:39:49,022 --> 00:39:51,158
was when he was an adult

1029
00:39:51,158 --> 00:39:54,127
and had the right
to make his own decisions.

1030
00:39:54,127 --> 00:39:55,762
[vocalist]
♪ Your children ♪

1031
00:39:55,762 --> 00:39:59,032
[vocalists]
♪ Are not your children ♪

1032
00:39:59,032 --> 00:40:01,401
♪ They are the sons
And the daughters ♪

1033
00:40:01,401 --> 00:40:04,104
♪ Of life's
Longing for itself ♪

1034
00:40:04,104 --> 00:40:08,775
♪ They come through you
But they are not from you ♪

1035
00:40:08,775 --> 00:40:14,781
♪ And though they are with you
They belong not to you ♪

1036
00:40:14,781 --> 00:40:19,453
♪ You can give them your love
But not your thoughts ♪

1037
00:40:19,453 --> 00:40:22,322
♪ They have
Their own thoughts ♪

1038
00:40:22,322 --> 00:40:25,692
♪ They have their own
Thoughts ♪

1039
00:40:25,692 --> 00:40:28,028
♪ You can house their bodies ♪

1040
00:40:28,028 --> 00:40:29,630
♪ But not their souls ♪

1041
00:40:29,630 --> 00:40:31,999
♪ For their souls dwell ♪

1042
00:40:31,999 --> 00:40:35,302
♪ In a place of tomorrow ♪

1043
00:40:35,302 --> 00:40:39,706
♪ Which you cannot visit
Not even in your dreams ♪

1044
00:40:39,706 --> 00:40:42,709
♪ You can strive
To be like them ♪

1045
00:40:42,709 --> 00:40:45,712
♪ But you cannot make them
Just like you ♪

1046
00:40:45,712 --> 00:40:48,048
♪ Strive to be like them ♪

1047
00:40:48,048 --> 00:40:50,784
♪ But you cannot make them
Just like you ♪

1048
00:40:50,784 --> 00:40:54,021
[Afeni] Your children
are not you.

1049
00:40:54,021 --> 00:40:56,523
[Ambitionz Az A Ridah playing]

1050
00:40:56,523 --> 00:40:59,159
♪ I won't deny it,
I'm a straight ridah ♪

1051
00:40:59,159 --> 00:41:01,128
♪ You don't wanna
Fuck with me ♪

1052
00:41:01,128 --> 00:41:03,497
♪ My ambitions as a ridah ♪

1053
00:41:03,497 --> 00:41:07,034
♪ I'm a straight ridah
Police bustin' me ♪

1054
00:41:07,034 --> 00:41:10,037
♪ So many battlefield scars
While driven in plush cars ♪

1055
00:41:10,037 --> 00:41:12,439
♪ This life as a rap star
Is nothin' without guard ♪

1056
00:41:12,439 --> 00:41:15,576
♪ Was born rough and rugged,
Addressin' the mass public ♪

1057
00:41:15,576 --> 00:41:18,011
♪ My attitude was fuck it
'Cause motherfuckers love it ♪

1058
00:41:18,011 --> 00:41:21,114
♪ To be a soldier, must
Maintain composure at ease ♪

1059
00:41:21,114 --> 00:41:23,383
♪ Though life is complicated
Only what you make it to be ♪

1060
00:41:23,383 --> 00:41:26,253
- ♪ And, uh ♪
- ♪ And my ambitions
as a ridah ♪

1061
00:41:26,253 --> 00:41:28,589
♪ To catch her while she hot
And horny-- go up inside her ♪

1062
00:41:28,589 --> 00:41:30,591
♪ Then I spit some game
In her ear ♪

1063
00:41:30,591 --> 00:41:33,293
♪ Go to the telly, ho, equipped
with money in a 'Benz ♪

1064
00:41:33,293 --> 00:41:35,162
♪ 'Cause, bitch,
I'm barely broke ♪

1065
00:41:35,162 --> 00:41:37,097
♪ And now you got me
right beside you ♪

1066
00:41:37,097 --> 00:41:39,032
♪ Hopin' you listen
I catch you ♪

1067
00:41:39,032 --> 00:41:40,701
♪ Payin' attention to my
Ambitions as a ridah ♪

1068
00:41:40,701 --> 00:41:43,370
♪ I won't deny it,
I'm a straight ridah ♪

1069
00:41:43,370 --> 00:41:45,639
♪ You don't wanna
Fuck with me ♪

1070
00:41:45,639 --> 00:41:48,175
- ♪ My ambitions as a ridah ♪
- ♪ Police bustin' at me ♪

1071
00:41:48,175 --> 00:41:51,245
[Dre] Pac was like,
"Fuck being broke."

1072
00:41:51,245 --> 00:41:53,046
You could see by
the way he spoiled himself.

1073
00:41:53,046 --> 00:41:54,781
That was Pac saying, "Look,

1074
00:41:54,781 --> 00:41:56,316
I was the bummy nigga
on the block,

1075
00:41:56,316 --> 00:41:58,552
but not anymore.
I'm a king now."

1076
00:41:58,552 --> 00:42:00,721
As he should
'cause he bled for it.

1077
00:42:00,721 --> 00:42:03,257
[Ray Luv] This is
a remake of Pac's crown ring.

1078
00:42:03,257 --> 00:42:04,558
It's a reminder that royalty

1079
00:42:04,558 --> 00:42:06,293
is not about
how you get treated,

1080
00:42:06,293 --> 00:42:10,497
it's more about how you
take care of your people.

1081
00:42:10,497 --> 00:42:13,700
[Afeni] June 16th,
Tupac's birthday.

1082
00:42:13,700 --> 00:42:16,537
[Glo]
Tupac was living his dream

1083
00:42:16,537 --> 00:42:19,306
'cause another one of
his dreams is a compound.

1084
00:42:19,306 --> 00:42:22,276
[woman] Hey, chicken here.
I'm fryin' dirty lickin'
chicken, crispy brown.

1085
00:42:22,276 --> 00:42:24,144
[overlapping happy chatter]

1086
00:42:24,144 --> 00:42:26,580
[Jamala] I remember
living in Calabasas,

1087
00:42:26,580 --> 00:42:29,316
the neighborhood
was primarily

1088
00:42:29,316 --> 00:42:32,719
maybe white.

1089
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:36,723
But all they knew is that
a house full of niggas

1090
00:42:36,723 --> 00:42:40,561
just moved into...
into Calabasas!

1091
00:42:40,561 --> 00:42:42,262
[laughter]

1092
00:42:42,262 --> 00:42:43,664
Nigga, we live here.

1093
00:42:43,664 --> 00:42:45,566
How 'bout that?

1094
00:42:45,566 --> 00:42:49,102
[laughter]

1095
00:42:49,102 --> 00:42:52,306
Pac'd be like, "Nigga,
we live here, yo!"

1096
00:42:52,306 --> 00:42:54,408
[laughter]

1097
00:42:54,408 --> 00:42:56,276
This our shit!

1098
00:42:56,276 --> 00:42:59,046
[Dante] Pac was always like,
"Get money."

1099
00:42:59,046 --> 00:43:01,048
He was like, make sure
you make some fucking money

1100
00:43:01,048 --> 00:43:02,716
and change the lives
of your family.

1101
00:43:02,716 --> 00:43:05,118
[woman]
Oh, look at this!

1102
00:43:05,118 --> 00:43:07,387
"Happy birthday, Makaveli.

1103
00:43:07,387 --> 00:43:10,457
Can't stop, won't stop."

1104
00:43:10,457 --> 00:43:15,295
[Jamala] It is a picture of
Tupac when he was six years old.

1105
00:43:15,295 --> 00:43:17,431
So, he loves the book
The Prince.

1106
00:43:17,431 --> 00:43:21,235
His interest right now
is historical characters

1107
00:43:21,235 --> 00:43:24,238
and their lives, people who have
made a difference in history,

1108
00:43:24,238 --> 00:43:26,773
one way or the other.

1109
00:43:26,773 --> 00:43:29,042
[Glo] Pac worked
every day, all night.

1110
00:43:29,042 --> 00:43:31,111
We only got two weeks
to do this whole album.

1111
00:43:31,111 --> 00:43:32,679
[Lesane]
His work ethic is legendary.

1112
00:43:32,679 --> 00:43:35,048
Get that beat popping.
Throw them niggas on the track.

1113
00:43:35,048 --> 00:43:37,584
The name of the song is whatever
this nigga's last word was.

1114
00:43:37,584 --> 00:43:40,320
[Lesane] But people
don't understand
the motivation behind that.

1115
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,422
♪ Too immature
To understand your ways ♪

1116
00:43:42,422 --> 00:43:44,224
♪ Inexperienced
Back in the days ♪

1117
00:43:44,224 --> 00:43:45,759
♪ Caused so many arguments
And strays ♪

1118
00:43:45,759 --> 00:43:47,694
[Tupac] That booth
is my confessional.

1119
00:43:47,694 --> 00:43:51,098
I purge myself of
nightmares, dreams, hopes,

1120
00:43:51,098 --> 00:43:53,567
plans, plots,
memories, fantasies.

1121
00:43:53,567 --> 00:43:54,768
[Lesane] That was his air.

1122
00:43:54,768 --> 00:43:56,436
I need it. It's my drug.

1123
00:43:56,436 --> 00:43:58,172
- [Lesane] His vent.
- You know what I mean?

1124
00:43:58,172 --> 00:44:00,174
- [Lesane] His oxygen.
- It calms me, soothes me.

1125
00:44:00,174 --> 00:44:01,708
[Lesane]
Otherwise, he was hurtin'.

1126
00:44:01,708 --> 00:44:03,710
♪ Never leave me, baby,
I'm paranoid ♪

1127
00:44:03,710 --> 00:44:05,712
♪ Sleeping with you loaded
By my bedside, crazy ♪

1128
00:44:05,712 --> 00:44:07,581
♪ Jealous when you hang
With the fellas ♪

1129
00:44:07,581 --> 00:44:09,783
[Afeni] At this point,
he wanted to settle down.

1130
00:44:09,783 --> 00:44:12,386
♪ The moment you come home
I'm waitin' by the phone ♪

1131
00:44:12,386 --> 00:44:14,555
♪ This is true love,
I can feel it ♪

1132
00:44:14,555 --> 00:44:16,990
[Glo] Kidada, who had
a smile beyond belief.

1133
00:44:16,990 --> 00:44:18,625
[Tupac] ♪ Just me
And my girlfriend ♪

1134
00:44:18,625 --> 00:44:21,528
[Glo] She loved Tupac,
and Tupac loved her.

1135
00:44:21,528 --> 00:44:24,398
That was a real relationship.

1136
00:44:24,398 --> 00:44:27,100
They wanted to have babies.
They wanted to be married.

1137
00:44:27,100 --> 00:44:29,303
[Jamala] He just wanted
that fulfillment,

1138
00:44:29,303 --> 00:44:32,239
but you could tell
he was getting tired.

1139
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,374
[Lesane] Pac would get up
in the morning, smoke a blunt,

1140
00:44:34,374 --> 00:44:36,410
and write songs,
write scripts.

1141
00:44:36,410 --> 00:44:39,246
We would go from set to studio
to set to studio,

1142
00:44:39,246 --> 00:44:41,181
and it was a repeat every day.

1143
00:44:41,181 --> 00:44:43,383
[Jamala] Back home, he may
got three hours of sleep.

1144
00:44:43,383 --> 00:44:45,719
"Yo, make sure I'm up
at five in the morning,"

1145
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:50,557
and the Outlawz had to be
five steps behind him.

1146
00:44:50,557 --> 00:44:52,659
"Make sure that these
motherfuckers get up

1147
00:44:52,659 --> 00:44:55,095
and meet me at the studio
at such and such time."

1148
00:44:55,095 --> 00:44:57,097
[Gobi]
Everyone had a role for him.

1149
00:44:57,097 --> 00:45:00,434
Keep in mind, Pac had his whole
family on sort of retainer,

1150
00:45:00,434 --> 00:45:02,135
as well as the Outlawz.

1151
00:45:02,135 --> 00:45:04,271
This 25-year-old had,
like, 40 people

1152
00:45:04,271 --> 00:45:06,039
that he was taking care of.

1153
00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:08,242
His stress level
was through the roof.

1154
00:45:08,242 --> 00:45:10,410
Come on, man, come on!

1155
00:45:10,410 --> 00:45:12,112
Interaction!

1156
00:45:12,112 --> 00:45:13,580
[Roth]
He was absolutely exhausted,

1157
00:45:13,580 --> 00:45:15,582
leaving work,
going to the studio,

1158
00:45:15,582 --> 00:45:18,185
writing all the time,
worked into the ground.

1159
00:45:18,185 --> 00:45:20,721
[Gobi] We did like seven
or eight videos in five months,

1160
00:45:20,721 --> 00:45:23,123
but they're complex,
and we had

1161
00:45:23,123 --> 00:45:24,691
a bunch of movies
he wanted to do.

1162
00:45:24,691 --> 00:45:26,760
So, we're going to have
a whole slew of movies,

1163
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,563
and 24/7 Productions is going
to become his movie company.

1164
00:45:29,563 --> 00:45:33,167
[Jamala] He was forming his own
record company, Euphanasia.

1165
00:45:33,167 --> 00:45:35,569
[Jamal] Tupac was building
something of his own,

1166
00:45:35,569 --> 00:45:39,039
and Afeni is giving
as much advice as she can.

1167
00:45:39,039 --> 00:45:41,441
But Suge is
a very loud presence,

1168
00:45:41,441 --> 00:45:45,045
and also very paranoid
about anyone, including Afeni,

1169
00:45:45,045 --> 00:45:48,248
influencing Tupac because
Tupac is a golden calf.

1170
00:45:48,248 --> 00:45:50,384
[Tupac] ♪ All I need
In this life of sin ♪

1171
00:45:50,384 --> 00:45:51,718
♪ Is me and my girlfriend ♪

1172
00:45:51,718 --> 00:45:53,654
[Roth]
He was a cash cow.

1173
00:45:53,654 --> 00:45:55,589
♪ Down to ride
To the bloody end ♪

1174
00:45:55,589 --> 00:45:57,558
♪ Just me and my girlfriend ♪

1175
00:45:57,558 --> 00:45:59,293
[Roth] And I think
he was aware of that.

1176
00:45:59,293 --> 00:46:01,395
♪ All I need
In this life of sin ♪

1177
00:46:01,395 --> 00:46:04,431
- ♪ Is me and my girlfriend ♪
- [Roth] My only worry

1178
00:46:04,431 --> 00:46:06,700
was that he wasn't able
to change his trajectory.

1179
00:46:06,700 --> 00:46:09,303
[interviewer] Do you think that
because of your legal problems,

1180
00:46:09,303 --> 00:46:11,171
there are some companies
that might say,

1181
00:46:11,171 --> 00:46:12,706
"He's a little
too controversial,

1182
00:46:12,706 --> 00:46:14,241
I don't know if we can
deal with his projects"?

1183
00:46:14,241 --> 00:46:15,709
Without question.

1184
00:46:15,709 --> 00:46:17,544
And I'm trying to do
as much as I can

1185
00:46:17,544 --> 00:46:19,546
by producing, by writing,
doing low budgets,

1186
00:46:19,546 --> 00:46:21,648
whatever I gotta do to show
that I'm a better person.

1187
00:46:21,648 --> 00:46:24,017
And I think
I can handle it this time.

1188
00:46:24,017 --> 00:46:26,320
Everything I've ever done, I
don't think I was professional.

1189
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:27,721
[interviewer] Meaning you didn't
show up on time,
things like that?

1190
00:46:27,721 --> 00:46:29,456
[Tupac]
I didn't show up on time.

1191
00:46:29,456 --> 00:46:31,558
I didn't have the concentration
I should have had.

1192
00:46:31,558 --> 00:46:34,695
Being mad at Spike Lee and all
of those people, all of that.

1193
00:46:34,695 --> 00:46:37,097
Dissing the Hughes Brothers.
I wish I didn't do that.

1194
00:46:37,097 --> 00:46:38,565
[interviewer] Have you
made peace with them?

1195
00:46:38,565 --> 00:46:41,034
[Tupac] Not personally,
but I'm trying to.

1196
00:46:41,034 --> 00:46:43,303
You know,
I was young and dumb.

1197
00:46:43,303 --> 00:46:46,440
[Afeni] He got caught up,
but I think it's like a junkie.

1198
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,642
He wasn't a drug addict,

1199
00:46:48,642 --> 00:46:50,711
but we're all
addicted to something.

1200
00:46:50,711 --> 00:46:52,446
♪ Lost in the whirlwind ♪

1201
00:46:52,446 --> 00:46:53,714
♪ 'Ninety-six
Bonnie and Clyde ♪

1202
00:46:53,714 --> 00:46:55,182
♪ Me and my girlfriend ♪

1203
00:46:55,182 --> 00:46:56,683
♪ Doing 85 when we ride ♪

1204
00:46:56,683 --> 00:46:58,118
♪ Trapped
In this world of sin ♪

1205
00:46:58,118 --> 00:46:59,319
♪ Born as a ghetto child ♪

1206
00:46:59,319 --> 00:47:01,054
♪ Raised in this whirlwind ♪

1207
00:47:01,054 --> 00:47:02,389
♪ Look for me ♪

1208
00:47:02,389 --> 00:47:04,358
[Afeni] Fantasy.

1209
00:47:04,358 --> 00:47:06,360
The imagination.

1210
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:07,761
The building things up,

1211
00:47:07,761 --> 00:47:10,631
to making things better
than what it is.

1212
00:47:10,631 --> 00:47:13,167
That's myth shit.

1213
00:47:13,167 --> 00:47:15,636
[Lesane] So, we all dropped
the ball in a sense

1214
00:47:15,636 --> 00:47:17,371
'cause somebody
should have said,

1215
00:47:17,371 --> 00:47:21,642
"Nah, Pac, please take a break.
Take a year off."

1216
00:47:21,642 --> 00:47:24,011
We can only imagine
what he was suffering from,

1217
00:47:24,011 --> 00:47:28,148
that he never got a chance
to properly heal.

1218
00:47:28,148 --> 00:47:33,187
[Afeni] Ambition. Ambition. Money.

1219
00:47:33,187 --> 00:47:36,690
More money.

1220
00:47:36,690 --> 00:47:41,261
He believed that he
could absorb that crap...

1221
00:47:43,564 --> 00:47:47,668
and not let it
become part of him.

1222
00:47:47,668 --> 00:47:50,437
He could use it
as a mean to an end.

1223
00:47:50,437 --> 00:47:53,640
[Me and My Girlfriend
playing, distorted]

1224
00:47:57,344 --> 00:47:59,046
♪ Lost in the whirlwind ♪

1225
00:47:59,046 --> 00:48:00,247
♪ 'Ninety-six
Bonnie and Clyde ♪

1226
00:48:00,247 --> 00:48:01,515
♪ Me and my girlfriend ♪

1227
00:48:01,515 --> 00:48:03,116
♪ Doing 85 when we ride ♪

1228
00:48:03,116 --> 00:48:04,384
♪ Trapped in this world
Of sin ♪

1229
00:48:04,384 --> 00:48:05,719
♪ Born as a ghetto child ♪

1230
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:07,187
♪ Raised in this whirlwind ♪

1231
00:48:07,187 --> 00:48:08,722
♪ Look for me ♪

1232
00:48:08,722 --> 00:48:11,291
♪ All I need
In this life of sin ♪

1233
00:48:11,291 --> 00:48:13,627
♪ Is me and my girlfriend ♪

1234
00:48:13,627 --> 00:48:20,000
[music continues,
heavily distorted]

1235
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,302
♪ All I need
In this world of sin ♪

1236
00:48:22,302 --> 00:48:25,305
♪ Is me and my girlfriend ♪

1237
00:48:25,305 --> 00:48:28,041
♪ Down to ride
To the bloody end ♪

1238
00:48:28,041 --> 00:48:30,677
♪ Me and my girlfriend ♪

1239
00:48:30,677 --> 00:48:33,514
♪ All I need
In this life of sin ♪

1240
00:48:33,514 --> 00:48:35,148
[undistorted]
♪ Is me and my girlfriend ♪

1241
00:48:36,717 --> 00:48:38,752
[Allen]
Myth-making.
hink boxing
is just this.

1242
00:48:38,752 --> 00:48:41,555
You actually have
to hype these fights.

1243
00:48:41,555 --> 00:48:43,757
You have to see these fights.
You have to sell these fights.

1244
00:48:43,757 --> 00:48:45,425
- Absolutely.
- It's a show.

1245
00:48:45,425 --> 00:48:48,562
Absolutely. Listen, um,
everything's a show.

1246
00:48:48,562 --> 00:48:50,564
This whole planet's a show.

1247
00:48:50,564 --> 00:48:53,734
What that guy Shakespeare says,
it's a stage. It really is.

1248
00:48:53,734 --> 00:48:55,569
Me, for instance, you know,

1249
00:48:55,569 --> 00:48:58,205
I don't think, um,

1250
00:48:58,205 --> 00:49:02,075
I'm a liar, but, um,

1251
00:49:02,075 --> 00:49:05,045
I may take the lie
and hide it so well

1252
00:49:05,045 --> 00:49:09,583
under the truth,
you might never find it.

1253
00:49:09,583 --> 00:49:12,186
[Donald] I don't think
there's any underestimating

1254
00:49:12,186 --> 00:49:15,088
the value of vulnerability
in artistry.

1255
00:49:15,088 --> 00:49:18,258
You have to be able to touch
everything emotionally.

1256
00:49:18,258 --> 00:49:21,662
You've got to be able
to go to the dark places

1257
00:49:21,662 --> 00:49:24,665
as well as to the happy places.

1258
00:49:24,665 --> 00:49:29,169
He had access
to a level of stress,

1259
00:49:29,169 --> 00:49:31,138
and he had to cope
with that stress.

1260
00:49:31,138 --> 00:49:34,208
What do you do? You either
fall apart or you use it,

1261
00:49:34,208 --> 00:49:37,578
and I think he'd learned
to use it at a very early age.

1262
00:49:39,746 --> 00:49:42,583
His strengths
came with his versatility.

1263
00:49:42,583 --> 00:49:45,752
That's what an actor does.
An actor transforms.

1264
00:49:45,752 --> 00:49:47,321
Oh, man, baby,
I'mma tell ya...

1265
00:49:47,321 --> 00:49:48,589
[woman] He ain't
got no hair like...

1266
00:49:48,589 --> 00:49:50,224
...the dreads
ain't workin', baby!

1267
00:49:50,224 --> 00:49:51,692
[man] That's out
of style, baby!

1268
00:49:51,692 --> 00:49:53,527
The dreads ain't workin', baby!

1269
00:49:53,527 --> 00:49:55,529
You wanna do something
like this, baby.

1270
00:49:55,529 --> 00:49:59,066
[Donald]
He could pretend to be anybody.

1271
00:49:59,066 --> 00:50:01,335
He had a chameleon-like nature.

1272
00:50:01,335 --> 00:50:03,604
♪ She's a super freak,
Super freak ♪

1273
00:50:03,604 --> 00:50:06,440
♪ She's super freaky
Yeah, yeah ♪

1274
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:10,177
[Donald] He could be a clown.
He could be a tragedian,
who's sobbing and crying,

1275
00:50:10,177 --> 00:50:13,180
to being funny
and running around.

1276
00:50:13,180 --> 00:50:15,749
He just had a natural instinct
for transforming.

1277
00:50:15,749 --> 00:50:18,285
Let me tie somebody up.
I'm 'bout to get freaky.
My name's Rick James.

1278
00:50:18,285 --> 00:50:21,054
Come on! I'm about
to tie somebody up
and burn it all down!

1279
00:50:21,054 --> 00:50:23,423
Super freak!

1280
00:50:23,423 --> 00:50:26,260
[John] He would do characters,
basically. And...

1281
00:50:26,260 --> 00:50:28,295
Burn my saxophone player!
Burn him!

1282
00:50:28,295 --> 00:50:30,164
[John] ...he had this one,
"I'm Red Bone."

1283
00:50:30,164 --> 00:50:32,032
You know, and just
go on and on and on

1284
00:50:32,032 --> 00:50:34,201
for days and days and days,
where you were like,

1285
00:50:34,201 --> 00:50:38,605
"Okay, it's just you and me,
like, stop, you know,
just be Pac."

1286
00:50:38,605 --> 00:50:40,040
- And he was--
- [Allen] For days?

1287
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,042
Yeah, yeah, for days.

1288
00:50:42,042 --> 00:50:45,345
[Donald] Very often, the work
we were doing was improv.

1289
00:50:45,345 --> 00:50:49,149
And then sometimes the kids
would tend to be themselves
in that circumstance.

1290
00:50:49,149 --> 00:50:51,752
Tupac always became
somebody else

1291
00:50:51,752 --> 00:50:56,089
and brought better work
into the studio
every time he came in.

1292
00:50:56,089 --> 00:51:01,161
So, one time I gave
the students an assignment
to do a movement piece

1293
00:51:01,161 --> 00:51:02,729
to their favorite song,

1294
00:51:02,729 --> 00:51:05,699
and he had picked
Don McLean's Vincent.

1295
00:51:05,699 --> 00:51:08,435
[Don McLean]
♪ Starry, starry night ♪

1296
00:51:10,437 --> 00:51:13,173
♪ Paint your palette
Blue and gray ♪

1297
00:51:13,173 --> 00:51:15,175
[Donald] He said
Vincent van Gogh
was misunderstood.

1298
00:51:15,175 --> 00:51:16,710
[McLean] ♪ Look out
On a summer's day ♪

1299
00:51:16,710 --> 00:51:18,679
[Donald]
And he related to that...

1300
00:51:18,679 --> 00:51:21,582
♪ With eyes that know
The darkness in my soul ♪

1301
00:51:21,582 --> 00:51:22,716
[Donald] ...as an artist...

1302
00:51:22,716 --> 00:51:24,451
♪ Now I understand ♪

1303
00:51:24,451 --> 00:51:26,186
[Donald] ...and choreographed
this fabulous

1304
00:51:26,186 --> 00:51:27,721
theater piece
telling that story...

1305
00:51:27,721 --> 00:51:30,324
♪ What you tried
To say to me ♪

1306
00:51:30,324 --> 00:51:32,392
[Donald] ...just using
his body, no voice.

1307
00:51:32,392 --> 00:51:35,062
♪ How you suffered
For your sanity ♪

1308
00:51:35,062 --> 00:51:37,197
[Donald] He was a great,
great storyteller.

1309
00:51:37,197 --> 00:51:40,434
♪ And how you tried
To set them free ♪

1310
00:51:40,434 --> 00:51:43,570
♪ They would not listen,
They did not know how ♪

1311
00:51:43,570 --> 00:51:45,606
[Donald] And the story he told
most effectively...

1312
00:51:45,606 --> 00:51:47,574
♪ Perhaps they'll
Listen now ♪

1313
00:51:47,574 --> 00:51:49,576
[Donald]
...was his own truth.

1314
00:51:49,576 --> 00:51:52,713
But he didn't really
open up to me about his mom.

1315
00:51:52,713 --> 00:51:57,017
The closest he came was to say,
"My mom has problems."

1316
00:51:57,017 --> 00:52:01,188
And near the end
of his second year,
he came to me,

1317
00:52:01,188 --> 00:52:03,190
and I knew there was
something going on

1318
00:52:03,190 --> 00:52:06,527
because I'd gotten ripples
from some other students

1319
00:52:06,527 --> 00:52:08,428
and could see
he was really upset.

1320
00:52:08,428 --> 00:52:11,298
He said that his mom
was moving to Oakland.

1321
00:52:13,367 --> 00:52:15,135
He had-- he cried.

1322
00:52:16,470 --> 00:52:19,173
He said, "I gotta go.

1323
00:52:19,173 --> 00:52:21,308
For my mom and my sister."

1324
00:52:21,308 --> 00:52:26,013
I remember him being, like,
his dream was going away.

1325
00:52:27,748 --> 00:52:30,017
And that's hard to watch.

1326
00:52:32,252 --> 00:52:36,256
[Glo]
So, once again, here we go.

1327
00:52:38,192 --> 00:52:41,195
My name is Tupac Shakur,

1328
00:52:41,195 --> 00:52:43,697
and I attend
Tamalpais High School,

1329
00:52:43,697 --> 00:52:47,467
and I'm 17 years old.

1330
00:52:47,467 --> 00:52:52,339
[Donald]
I was concerned that this was
gonna break the continuity.

1331
00:52:52,339 --> 00:52:54,308
[Glo]
I felt helpless.

1332
00:52:54,308 --> 00:52:58,212
And I felt for him as this
child who was moving a lot.

1333
00:52:58,212 --> 00:53:00,480
[Lesane]
Harlem, Bronx, Baltimore,

1334
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:02,616
Marin, Oakland,
Atlanta, and L. A.

1335
00:53:02,616 --> 00:53:05,586
When you ship a kid
around like that,

1336
00:53:05,586 --> 00:53:07,588
there's an emptiness in there.

1337
00:53:07,588 --> 00:53:09,323
His family loved him dearly,

1338
00:53:09,323 --> 00:53:12,693
but he never had
that deep-rooted support

1339
00:53:12,693 --> 00:53:15,462
that makes a kid feel
loved and confident.

1340
00:53:15,462 --> 00:53:18,265
That's what the tats
and the Thug Life was.

1341
00:53:18,265 --> 00:53:20,734
That's why he kept
the Hennessey and
the weed all strong.

1342
00:53:20,734 --> 00:53:24,004
And that's why he didn't take
no shit off none of them
police or nothing.

1343
00:53:25,639 --> 00:53:27,741
He had to let brothers know,
"I'm with you."

1344
00:53:27,741 --> 00:53:30,544
[McLean]
♪ Now I understand ♪

1345
00:53:30,544 --> 00:53:33,447
[Lesane] "Is this what I have
to do to get y'all attention?"

1346
00:53:33,447 --> 00:53:36,717
[McLean] ♪ What you tried
To say to me ♪

1347
00:53:36,717 --> 00:53:38,719
[Lesane]
"Now, will you listen to me?"

1348
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:42,756
[McLean] ♪ How you suffered
For your sanity ♪

1349
00:53:42,756 --> 00:53:46,026
♪ And how you tried
to set them free ♪

1350
00:53:46,026 --> 00:53:47,394
♪ They would not listen ♪

1351
00:53:47,394 --> 00:53:49,663
♪ They did not know how ♪

1352
00:53:51,732 --> 00:53:55,435
♪ Perhaps they'll listen now ♪

1353
00:53:58,172 --> 00:54:00,440
[Lesane]
"Y'all like real niggas?
That's what a man is?

1354
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,176
All right, watch this."

1355
00:54:02,176 --> 00:54:04,044
[Tupac] I want all
of you West Coast people

1356
00:54:04,044 --> 00:54:06,079
to give up some love
when this song come on.

1357
00:54:06,079 --> 00:54:07,714
[Hit Em Up by 2Pac playing]

1358
00:54:07,714 --> 00:54:09,616
[crowd cheering]

1359
00:54:09,616 --> 00:54:12,052
♪ Take money ♪

1360
00:54:12,052 --> 00:54:14,054
♪ First off, fuck your bitch
And the click you claim ♪

1361
00:54:14,054 --> 00:54:16,456
♪ Westside when we ride
Come equipped with game ♪

1362
00:54:16,456 --> 00:54:19,126
♪ You claim to be a player
But I fucked your wife ♪

1363
00:54:19,126 --> 00:54:21,428
♪ We bust on Bad Boys
Niggaz fucked for life ♪

1364
00:54:21,428 --> 00:54:23,730
♪ Plus Puffy tryin' to see me
Weak hearts I rip ♪

1365
00:54:23,730 --> 00:54:26,567
♪ Biggie Smalls
And Junior M. A. F. I. A.
Some mark-ass bitches ♪

1366
00:54:26,567 --> 00:54:29,436
♪ We keep on comin' while
We runnin' for yo' jewels ♪

1367
00:54:29,436 --> 00:54:31,572
♪ Steady gunnin', keep on
Bustin' at them fools
You know the rules ♪

1368
00:54:31,572 --> 00:54:34,141
♪ Lil' Ceaser, go ask
Ya homie how I leave ya ♪

1369
00:54:34,141 --> 00:54:36,677
♪ Cut your young ass up
Leave you in pieces
Now be deceased ♪

1370
00:54:36,677 --> 00:54:39,279
♪ Lil' Kim, don't fuck around
With real G's ♪

1371
00:54:39,279 --> 00:54:41,682
♪ Quick to snatch yo' ugly ass
Off the streets
So fuck peace ♪

1372
00:54:41,682 --> 00:54:44,184
♪ I let them niggaz know
It's on for life ♪

1373
00:54:44,184 --> 00:54:47,087
♪ So let the Westside
Ride tonight ♪

1374
00:54:47,087 --> 00:54:49,223
♪ Bad Boy murdered on wax
And killed ♪

1375
00:54:49,223 --> 00:54:52,192
♪ Fuck wit' me and get yo' caps
Peeled, you know, see ♪

1376
00:54:52,192 --> 00:54:54,394
♪ Grab ya Glocks,
When you see Tupac ♪

1377
00:54:54,394 --> 00:54:57,197
♪ Call the cops,
When you see Tupac, uh ♪

1378
00:54:57,197 --> 00:54:59,299
♪ Who shot me
But ya punks didn't finish ♪

1379
00:54:59,299 --> 00:55:01,435
♪ Now ya 'bout to feel
The wrath of a menace ♪

1380
00:55:01,435 --> 00:55:04,004
- ♪ Nigga, I hit 'em up ♪
- ♪ Take money ♪

1381
00:55:04,004 --> 00:55:06,673
[Donald] Habit is
the actor's worst enemy.

1382
00:55:06,673 --> 00:55:09,409
One of the last conversations
I had with him, I said,

1383
00:55:09,409 --> 00:55:11,445
"You don't have to live this,"

1384
00:55:11,445 --> 00:55:15,082
that he was letting
his poetic mandate

1385
00:55:15,082 --> 00:55:18,452
overpower his inner being.

1386
00:55:18,452 --> 00:55:20,454
♪ I'm a self-made millionaire ♪

1387
00:55:20,454 --> 00:55:23,090
♪ Thug livin' out a prison,
Pistols in the air ♪

1388
00:55:23,090 --> 00:55:25,526
♪ Biggie, remember when I used
To let you sleep on the couch ♪

1389
00:55:25,526 --> 00:55:28,262
♪ And beg a bitch to let you
Sleep in the house ♪

1390
00:55:28,262 --> 00:55:30,564
♪ Now it's all about Versace,
You copied my style ♪

1391
00:55:30,564 --> 00:55:32,733
♪ Five shots couldn't drop me,
I took it and smiled ♪

1392
00:55:32,733 --> 00:55:35,135
♪ Now I'm 'bout to set
The record straight ♪

1393
00:55:35,135 --> 00:55:37,304
♪ With my A. K. I'm still the
Thug that you love to hate ♪

1394
00:55:37,304 --> 00:55:39,573
♪ Motherfucker, I hit 'em up ♪

1395
00:55:39,573 --> 00:55:41,408
[Money B] When Hit Em Up
came out, I was like,

1396
00:55:41,408 --> 00:55:44,711
"Eh, I don't know
about this record.

1397
00:55:44,711 --> 00:55:47,080
Seems vindictive,
and that's all it is.

1398
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:48,582
It doesn't sound like you."

1399
00:55:48,582 --> 00:55:50,217
And he was like,
"Fuck that record.

1400
00:55:50,217 --> 00:55:52,019
I've already recorded
seven more albums."

1401
00:55:52,019 --> 00:55:53,420
He's like,
"I'mma get back to it.

1402
00:55:53,420 --> 00:55:55,022
And I just need to get
this out the way,

1403
00:55:55,022 --> 00:55:56,690
take care of my obligation."

1404
00:55:56,690 --> 00:55:59,326
[Tupac] ♪ Fuck Mobb Deep,
Fuck Biggie ♪

1405
00:55:59,326 --> 00:56:01,295
♪ Fuck Bad Boy as a staff,
Record label ♪

1406
00:56:01,295 --> 00:56:03,330
♪ And as a motherfucking crew ♪

1407
00:56:03,330 --> 00:56:05,432
[E.D.I.]
On some hip hop shit,
I love Hit Em Up

1408
00:56:05,432 --> 00:56:07,267
because it's
a classic battle record,

1409
00:56:07,267 --> 00:56:09,336
so I was super ready to do it.

1410
00:56:09,336 --> 00:56:10,737
But when I look back on it,
there was definitely

1411
00:56:10,737 --> 00:56:13,040
some lines crossed
with the outro.

1412
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:14,675
♪ Oh, yeah, Mobb Deep
You wanna fuck with us? ♪

1413
00:56:14,675 --> 00:56:17,211
♪ You little young-ass
Motherfuckers ♪

1414
00:56:17,211 --> 00:56:19,279
♪ Don't one of you niggas
Got sickle-cell or something? ♪

1415
00:56:19,279 --> 00:56:21,148
♪ You're fucking with me,
Nigga, you fuck around ♪

1416
00:56:21,148 --> 00:56:23,050
♪ And have a seizure
Or a heart attack ♪

1417
00:56:23,050 --> 00:56:25,319
♪ You better back the fuck up
Before you get ♪

1418
00:56:25,319 --> 00:56:27,054
♪ Smacked the fuck up
This how we do it
On our side ♪

1419
00:56:27,054 --> 00:56:28,488
♪ Any of you niggas
From New York ♪

1420
00:56:28,488 --> 00:56:30,224
♪ That want to bring it
Bring it! ♪

1421
00:56:30,224 --> 00:56:32,025
♪ But we ain't singing,
we bringing drama ♪

1422
00:56:32,025 --> 00:56:33,427
♪ Fuck you and your
Motherfucking mama ♪

1423
00:56:33,427 --> 00:56:35,262
He had no brakes.
And we had a lot

1424
00:56:35,262 --> 00:56:37,130
to do with that too,
because we rooted him on.

1425
00:56:37,130 --> 00:56:38,732
[Allen] Was there a lesson
you took from Tupac's life?

1426
00:56:38,732 --> 00:56:41,001
Yeah. Shut my fucking mouth.

1427
00:56:41,001 --> 00:56:42,169
[Tupac] ♪ All of y'all
Motherfuckers, fuck you ♪

1428
00:56:42,169 --> 00:56:44,204
♪ Die slow, motherfucker ♪

1429
00:56:44,204 --> 00:56:46,306
♪ My .44 make sure
All y'all kids don't grow! ♪

1430
00:56:46,306 --> 00:56:48,575
♪ You motherfuckers
Can't be us or see us ♪

1431
00:56:48,575 --> 00:56:52,012
♪ We motherfuckin'
Thug Life-riders,
Westside till we die! ♪

1432
00:56:52,012 --> 00:56:53,614
♪ Out here in California,
Nigga, we warned ya ♪

1433
00:56:53,614 --> 00:56:54,715
♪ We'll bomb on you
Motherfuckers! ♪

1434
00:56:54,715 --> 00:56:57,217
♪ We do our job! ♪

1435
00:56:57,217 --> 00:56:59,353
♪ You think you mob?
Nigga, we the
Motherfuckin' mob ♪

1436
00:56:59,353 --> 00:57:00,454
♪ Ain't nothing but killers ♪

1437
00:57:00,454 --> 00:57:01,688
[gunshot]

1438
00:57:03,357 --> 00:57:04,658
♪ Are you still down? ♪

1439
00:57:07,327 --> 00:57:10,397
♪ Uh, are you
Still down for me? ♪

1440
00:57:10,397 --> 00:57:12,266
♪ Are you down for me? ♪

1441
00:57:13,734 --> 00:57:15,536
♪ Are you still down? ♪

1442
00:57:17,638 --> 00:57:19,039
[chuckles]

1443
00:57:19,039 --> 00:57:21,108
♪ Why you turning on me? ♪

1444
00:57:22,109 --> 00:57:26,246
[Snoop] '96 MTV Awards,
up until that point,

1445
00:57:26,246 --> 00:57:29,283
we had always rolled
with each other,
whether we were right or wrong.

1446
00:57:29,283 --> 00:57:32,052
[announcer] Please welcome
America's Most Wanted,

1447
00:57:32,052 --> 00:57:34,588
Snoop Doggy Dogg and Tupac.

1448
00:57:34,588 --> 00:57:36,523
[Snoop] And it felt like,
towards the end,

1449
00:57:36,523 --> 00:57:39,626
once Dre left,
Suge is more vocal

1450
00:57:39,626 --> 00:57:42,429
in what's being said
and what's being done.

1451
00:57:42,429 --> 00:57:46,333
The dialogue at Death Row
becomes, "No, nigga,
you can't leave.

1452
00:57:46,333 --> 00:57:50,504
And if you do leave,
nigga, you gonna
leave in a box."

1453
00:57:50,504 --> 00:57:53,040
I think I knew
the difference between

1454
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:54,675
rappers
we gettin' into it with

1455
00:57:54,675 --> 00:57:56,643
or some real niggas
you gettin' into it with.

1456
00:57:56,643 --> 00:57:59,379
And the difference between
a rapper, he has a career

1457
00:57:59,379 --> 00:58:03,483
and consequences on his mind
that may not make him
want to go all the way.

1458
00:58:03,483 --> 00:58:05,586
[Jenny McCarthy]
The winner is...

1459
00:58:05,586 --> 00:58:08,155
Coolio, Gangsta's Paradise.

1460
00:58:08,155 --> 00:58:10,657
[cheering and applause]

1461
00:58:10,657 --> 00:58:13,327
[Tupac] California Love
and Crossroads were
the best videos of the year.

1462
00:58:13,327 --> 00:58:14,761
We should all
got an award tonight.

1463
00:58:14,761 --> 00:58:19,399
I'm sharing this
with all my homies.

1464
00:58:19,399 --> 00:58:23,270
I said this,
I'm not on a mission
to save the world.

1465
00:58:23,270 --> 00:58:26,540
But I do have children,
and I recognize that
other people have children.

1466
00:58:26,540 --> 00:58:29,710
So it's got to be a bridge.
You can't be one-sided.

1467
00:58:29,710 --> 00:58:33,113
I mean, I try to show
all aspects of my
personality in my music.

1468
00:58:33,113 --> 00:58:35,516
- I'll be right here. Okay.
- Nah, I'm straight. I got it.

1469
00:58:35,516 --> 00:58:38,051
[Coolio] I've seen many come.
I've seen many go.

1470
00:58:38,051 --> 00:58:40,554
Sometimes, the good die young,
but that's just how it go.

1471
00:58:40,554 --> 00:58:43,023
[Snoop] With Pac, it was
different because I knew he had

1472
00:58:43,023 --> 00:58:45,626
a lot of built-up energy
from being locked up.

1473
00:58:45,626 --> 00:58:47,194
[interviewer] All right.
So, you lost Best Rap Video.

1474
00:58:47,194 --> 00:58:48,729
You at all disappointed
about that?

1475
00:58:48,729 --> 00:58:51,031
Oh, no, I didn't lose,
see, 'cause I sold

1476
00:58:51,031 --> 00:58:53,267
six and a half million copies, so...

1477
00:58:53,267 --> 00:58:54,635
- He won. He won.
- I won.

1478
00:58:54,635 --> 00:58:56,503
I got the most expensive CD
out there,

1479
00:58:56,503 --> 00:58:58,772
and I sold
six and a half million of those,

1480
00:58:58,772 --> 00:59:00,574
and I don't see nobody
touching me on that.

1481
00:59:00,574 --> 00:59:03,443
So, no, I did not receive
the little spaceman,

1482
00:59:03,443 --> 00:59:07,347
but it's cool 'cause my video
is in rotation on MTV.
I'm not mad.

1483
00:59:07,347 --> 00:59:10,484
[Snoop] So my thing was,
how can I give him the support

1484
00:59:10,484 --> 00:59:12,252
and the acknowledgement
that he needs

1485
00:59:12,252 --> 00:59:14,454
so he can make Death Row better
and make us greater?

1486
00:59:14,454 --> 00:59:17,324
Because, you know,
songs was coming out
from Biggie,

1487
00:59:17,324 --> 00:59:19,193
and niggas out here
was eggin' him on.

1488
00:59:19,193 --> 00:59:21,395
[interviewer] I know that Biggie
and Puffy are here tonight.

1489
00:59:21,395 --> 00:59:23,397
Um, did you see them?
Do you have anything to say
to them at all?

1490
00:59:23,397 --> 00:59:25,232
Nah, but even if we saw them,
we're not...

1491
00:59:25,232 --> 00:59:27,334
We are businessmen.
We are not animals.

1492
00:59:27,334 --> 00:59:30,137
It's not like
we're gonna see them
and rush them and jump on them.

1493
00:59:30,137 --> 00:59:32,372
If they see us
and they want the drama,

1494
00:59:32,372 --> 00:59:34,508
we're gonna definitely
bring it like only
Death Row could bring it.

1495
00:59:34,508 --> 00:59:36,243
[Snoop] We're getting
all this money.

1496
00:59:36,243 --> 00:59:38,111
You know,
all of that pressure is on you

1497
00:59:38,111 --> 00:59:40,747
with the most gangsterist label
in the fucking world,

1498
00:59:40,747 --> 00:59:43,584
you feel like you gotta do
some gangsta shit.

1499
00:59:43,584 --> 00:59:45,519
The day after the awards show,

1500
00:59:45,519 --> 00:59:48,455
I was asked a question
on Hot 97...

1501
00:59:48,455 --> 00:59:51,425
[man] Can you envision a day
when, you know, get together
and make an album...

1502
00:59:51,425 --> 00:59:54,995
[Snoop] ...based off my
opinion on Biggie and Puffy
and would I work with them.

1503
00:59:54,995 --> 00:59:57,331
There's no dream of making
an album with Biggie and Puffy,
or none of them.

1504
00:59:57,331 --> 00:59:58,665
We're not sweating it like that.

1505
00:59:58,665 --> 00:59:59,733
This is our family over here.

1506
00:59:59,733 --> 01:00:01,468
We peacefully coexist right now.

1507
01:00:01,468 --> 01:00:03,203
[Snoop] I had just
beat a murder case,

1508
01:00:03,203 --> 01:00:04,738
so I was thinking
politically correct.

1509
01:00:04,738 --> 01:00:08,141
Hey, I like Puffy and Biggie.

1510
01:00:08,141 --> 01:00:09,643
We sell large amounts
of records,

1511
01:00:09,643 --> 01:00:11,345
and they sell a few records,

1512
01:00:11,345 --> 01:00:13,680
and really, there's no--
there's no competition.

1513
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:15,315
[Snoop]
I like Biggie music.
He dope as fuck.

1514
01:00:15,315 --> 01:00:17,084
Shit, I'll do a song with him.

1515
01:00:17,084 --> 01:00:18,585
If you wanna talk,
we're gonna make it specific

1516
01:00:18,585 --> 01:00:20,187
as to what you can talk about.

1517
01:00:20,187 --> 01:00:21,655
[Snoop]
When, in Pac's mind,

1518
01:00:21,655 --> 01:00:23,457
I should have said,
"Fuck Biggie and Puffy.

1519
01:00:23,457 --> 01:00:24,558
I ain't working
with them niggas.

1520
01:00:24,558 --> 01:00:25,692
This is Death Row."

1521
01:00:25,692 --> 01:00:27,461
The next morning,

1522
01:00:27,461 --> 01:00:31,698
we go to the airport
to fly back to L. A.

1523
01:00:31,698 --> 01:00:35,702
But when I get to the plane,
Suge tell me...

1524
01:00:35,702 --> 01:00:39,273
"Your security
can't roll."

1525
01:00:39,273 --> 01:00:43,610
So, I'm like, "Okay,
this is when they're
gonna try to take me out."

1526
01:00:43,610 --> 01:00:45,612
[Tupac] You're shooting this
to 30-- 300 homes--

1527
01:00:45,612 --> 01:00:48,015
300 countries, telling them

1528
01:00:48,015 --> 01:00:50,450
about an
East Coast/West Coast war that
they would never know exists.

1529
01:00:50,450 --> 01:00:52,519
So that's where information
becomes a problem.

1530
01:00:52,519 --> 01:00:54,788
[Snoop] And if it did,
if it did exist...

1531
01:00:54,788 --> 01:00:56,990
If it did exist, Pac,
we wouldn't be here.

1532
01:00:56,990 --> 01:00:59,159
[Tupac] That's right, and if
it exists, I wouldn't be here.

1533
01:00:59,159 --> 01:01:03,430
When I walked
on the plane, I walked by Pac,

1534
01:01:03,430 --> 01:01:07,067
and I'm like, "You going to
the Tyson fight in Vegas, cuh?"

1535
01:01:07,067 --> 01:01:08,435
My nigga do me like this.

1536
01:01:10,604 --> 01:01:12,105
So, I just walk
and sit in the back

1537
01:01:12,105 --> 01:01:15,542
and, like, put my little
blanket on my head,

1538
01:01:15,542 --> 01:01:18,545
with my knife
and my little fork,

1539
01:01:18,545 --> 01:01:21,648
and just ride like this
for five and a half hours
back to L. A.,

1540
01:01:21,648 --> 01:01:23,550
with one eye open.

1541
01:01:27,254 --> 01:01:30,357
When we land,
I ask him again,

1542
01:01:30,357 --> 01:01:33,026
"Cuz, you going
to the Tyson fight?"

1543
01:01:33,026 --> 01:01:35,095
He just turned around
and walk off.

1544
01:01:36,430 --> 01:01:40,033
All right. I go to L. A.

1545
01:01:40,033 --> 01:01:42,135
They go to the Tyson fight.

1546
01:01:42,135 --> 01:01:44,705
[announcer] And now, ladies
and gentlemen in attendance,

1547
01:01:44,705 --> 01:01:48,509
boxing fans
joining us around the world,

1548
01:01:48,509 --> 01:01:51,578
- it's showtime!
- [cheering and applause]

1549
01:01:51,578 --> 01:01:54,448
♪ My family tree
Consists of drug dealers
Thugs and killers ♪

1550
01:01:54,448 --> 01:01:57,451
♪ Strugglin', known to hustle
Screamin', Fuck they
Feelings! ♪

1551
01:01:57,451 --> 01:01:59,786
♪ I got advice from my father
All he told me was this ♪

1552
01:01:59,786 --> 01:02:02,523
♪ "Nigga, get off your ass
If you plan to be rich! ♪

1553
01:02:02,523 --> 01:02:05,092
♪ There's ten rules
To the game, but I'll share
With you two ♪

1554
01:02:05,092 --> 01:02:07,528
♪ Know niggas gon' hate you
For whatever you do ♪

1555
01:02:07,528 --> 01:02:10,264
♪ Now, rule one
Get your cash on, M. O. B. ♪

1556
01:02:10,264 --> 01:02:12,733
♪ That's Money Over Bitches
'Cause they breed envy ♪

1557
01:02:12,733 --> 01:02:15,569
♪ Now, rule two is a hard one
Watch for phonies ♪

1558
01:02:15,569 --> 01:02:18,105
♪ Keep your enemies close
Nigga, watch your homies" ♪

1559
01:02:18,105 --> 01:02:20,674
♪ It seemed
A little unimportant
When he told me, I smiled ♪

1560
01:02:20,674 --> 01:02:23,243
♪ Picture jewels bein' handed
To an innocent child ♪

1561
01:02:23,243 --> 01:02:26,013
♪ I never knew, in my lifetime
I'd live by these rules ♪

1562
01:02:26,013 --> 01:02:28,448
♪ Initiated as an outlaw
Studyin' rules ♪

1563
01:02:28,448 --> 01:02:31,151
♪ Now, Papa ain't around
So I gotta recall ♪

1564
01:02:31,151 --> 01:02:33,654
♪ Or come to grips with bein'
Written on my enemy's walls ♪

1565
01:02:33,654 --> 01:02:36,323
♪ Promised if I have a seed
I'mma guide him right ♪

1566
01:02:36,323 --> 01:02:39,159
♪ Dear Lord,
Don't let me die tonight ♪

1567
01:02:39,159 --> 01:02:41,195
♪ I got words for my comrades
Listen and learn ♪

1568
01:02:41,195 --> 01:02:43,697
♪ Ain't nothin' free
Get back what you earned ♪

1569
01:02:43,697 --> 01:02:46,567
♪ No doubt, gettin' higher
Than a motherfucka
Bless me, please ♪

1570
01:02:46,567 --> 01:02:48,435
♪ This Thug Life'll be
The death of me ♪

1571
01:02:48,435 --> 01:02:50,270
♪ Come on, yeah ♪

1572
01:02:50,270 --> 01:02:52,072
♪ And I remember
What my papa told me ♪

1573
01:02:52,072 --> 01:02:53,340
♪ Remember
What my papa told me ♪

1574
01:02:53,340 --> 01:02:55,242
♪ Blasphemy! ♪

1575
01:02:55,242 --> 01:02:57,077
♪ Love for dem dat steal
In the name of da Lord ♪

1576
01:02:57,077 --> 01:02:59,179
♪ And I remember
What my pops told me ♪

1577
01:02:59,179 --> 01:03:00,781
♪ Dem a-tell enuff lie but
holdin' my bird in a cloud ♪

1578
01:03:00,781 --> 01:03:02,549
♪ Usin' de name
Of de Lord in vain ♪

1579
01:03:02,549 --> 01:03:04,318
♪ Remember
What my pops told me ♪

1580
01:03:04,318 --> 01:03:06,520
♪ We probably in Hell already ♪