10 years. And I couldnt see nothing; it was just all white. I dont wanna die, but if I gotta go I wanna go without pain. Check out the fullVIBEstory here. I mean Im used on every level. Tupac: "They Shot Me 5 Times. Thats how I feel. Im not thinking something will happen to me in the lobby. And the main thing for us to remember: the same crime element that white people are scared of, black people are scared of. Dont nobody move. The in-depth conversation went down just six months before Pac was murdered in Las Vegas, and his unsettled, troubled state of mind is made clear thanks to his incredibly frank responses. I was sitting in a room, like there was two people in the room, evil and good. And my thug comes from my definition of thug comes from half of the street element. He looked me in the eyes as we spoke and smoked one Newport after another. The same crime element that white people fear, we fear. And Nigel and Trevor are looking at her like a chicken, like shes, like, food. We have more conditioning. If you want to be successful, you want to be like Trump? I didnt feel nothing. It just tore me apart. So Im going unconscious, and Im not feeling no blood on my head or nothing. Im going to team up with Mike Tyson when we get out. He was writing a profile thatran in Entertainment Weekly. Instead of defenseless, having power. The Last Pacs Day In L.A. Tupac is Holding a Baby Bottle. I saw Booker, and he had this look on his face like he was surprised to see me. You dont ever hear about anybody telling you about white folks wasnt allowed into this place. Never. It went through the skin and out the skin. Same thing with my head. I was Thug Life. Thats just stupid. 2Pac: The concept is the young Black male. But theres something else I understand now: If we really are saying rap is an art form, then we got to be true to it and be more responsible for our lyrics. It's a double standard because every movie that's out today, there . This is Gods will. We live in hell. They say I spit hateful, vicious, violent lyrics. But then youre leading us into more of a slaughter, because were gonna find out all whites aint evil And you cant say that all black folks is inherently lazy and evil, because thats not true either. Theres no way that these people should own planes and there are people who dont have houses, apartments, shacks, drawers, pants If they earned it, I think that thats good and you deserve it, but even if you earned it, you still owe. After pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge. In creating the song, Kendrick took excerpts from an interview Tupac did with Swedish music journalist Mats Nileskr on the P3 Soul radio show. In the sit-down, Tupac implicated Biggie, Combs, and Harrell in the ambush, although he was unclear about the motive for such a betrayal. You cant tell me Im gonna sit down and hug and kiss n*ggas to make everybody else feel good. At any point did you think you were going to die? She just tripping. I asked him what happened, and he was, like, Too many niggas. You know, I aint even tripping no more, you know? Right. Best case: multimillionaire. white. I mean, she called me, and shes on her way. But I wasnt thinking about her no second time. People telling me they hate the dudes that shot me, theyre going to pray for me. Straight up, there is no beef. But I was conscious. But she was not attractive; she looked dumpy, like. It wasnt like I was being brave or nothing; I just could not get on the floor. You mentioned Marvin Gaye in Keep Ya Head Up. A lot of people have compared you to him, in terms of your personal conflicts. Its not as easy as these people are making us think, that we are some criminal ass black kids with guns. He attended Tamalpais High School and devoted much of his time to acting in school productions. That was the hardest part. Im going to make them all proud. And because I already laid it down, I can be free. They just give me love. Ill see you all later. Nigel was, like, No, no, no. The light-skinned dude, the one that was standing outside, was on me. All of them had jewels on. Now Ive got a brand-new vision of them, because in here, its mostly black female guards. Already whitelisted us? Press play on new albums from Wizkid, GloRilla, SleazyWorld Go, Sarkodie, and SoFaygo. It just takes being revolutionary. Fuck it! Then I got scared, because the dude had the gun to my stomach. A black woman. They started grabbing at me to see if I was strapped. Dogs? Or a dollar. He was telling the light-skin dude, Shoot that motherfucker! She is a supporter. Where do you see yourself? Can you imagine what its like for you to be who I am, who I was, and for them to say that I raped a woman? When they got there, he told her, "I love New York, but I'm not fucking with New York right now. All Rights Reserved. I swear to God, the farthest thing from my mind was sympathy. Somebody has to do something.. So, I felt that my job as a VIBE magazine journalist, as a reporter, as an interviewer was to at least give him the space to tell his side of the story., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3tErYERj8k, It was a chilly January morning when I made my way to Rikers Island for a conversation with Tupac Shakur, what would be his first words to any journalist since being shot last November 30. His murder has never been solved. It was like they were mad at me. Right now we got a million people thats listening, now we could tell em something. Thats why I was looking like that in the chair when they were wheeling me away. DAMN what a tragic story, PAC felt betrayed, someones gotta pay for their crimes, only God knows who shot PAC. This rare glimpse at the end of Tupacs story finds him erratic, introspective, and brilliantly insightful as always. They came to the bed and said, Pac, you dont need to go to court. I was, like, no. Run your shit. I was, like, What should I do? FOR THE RECORD: Due to an editing error in Wednesday's Q & A with Tupac Shakur, The Times incorrectly characterized the rapper's conviction stemming from a 1993 incident. They also seek to state their intention for posting the excerpt: We print this transcript not to perpetuate negative narratives, but to add another chapter to our journalistic traditionto show Tupac as he was toward the end of his days. We now live in a time when Drake and Kanye publicly fight over who has the larger pool, when a lottery winning could net someone $1.5 billion, not a mere $36 million, and whentech moguls run companies valued at $16 billiondespite never making a single penny of profit. Click the icon of the ad-blocker extension installed on your browser. Theres a real Trevor, but Nigel took on both aliases, you understand? . Nothing can faze me. Get familiar with FNF Chop, skaiwater, BabyDrill, 21 Lil Harold, BigXthaPlug, Gloss Up, and more. The notorious rap mogul painted a terrifying and grim picture of the final. Thats hell. Because Ive got bigger nuts than all these niggas. I felt like because I was this big Black Panther type of nigga, I couldnt be friends with Madonna. But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. Tupac was known to have a strong personality and constantly clashed with others. You know what time it is. We were watching TV when the phone rings, and shes downstairs. Speaker 2: You dressed right for it. Even me, I dont have that mega money, but I feel guilty walking by somebody, I gotta give em some mail , hes wrong for saying kill a jew, because a jew didnt do that shit, Rick Rubin admits, "I know nothing about music". You've got two kids? I wanted to keep it real, and thats what I thought I was doing. Because anywhere else, if I was white I would have been like John Wayne. Tupac first arrived in the Bay Area in June of 1988. The addict in Tupac is dead. I met him through some rough characters I knew. Then this girl came out and started dancing-and the shit that was weird, she didnt even come to me face-first, she came ass-first. You know. We offer it with deep appreciation for Pac, and with respect for his family, friends and fans., In the interview, Powell questions Tupac on his role in the hostile nature of the hip hop community at the time. All I could think of was, Stand up and fight for your life like you fight for your life in this hospital. From this level to the street level. Do you think rap music is going to come under more attack, given whats happened to you? Pages 6. Im just as guilty for not doing nothing as I am for doing things. So I have an upper hand. Because five bullets had passed through your body. We are hungry, please let us in. After about a week that song is gonna change to, We hungry, we need some food. After two, three weeks, its like, Give me the food or Im breaking down the door. After a year youre just like, Im picking the lock, coming through the door blasting! Its like, you hungry, you reached your level. Benjamin Svetkey is an author and former writer and editor at Entertainment Weekly. Never did nothing. I was reading whole books in one day, and writing, and that was putting me in a peace of mind. Read Benjamins bookLeading Man. I put out Keep Ya Head Up from the bottom of my heart. They wouldnt buy my records if my records wasnt good. : 1) T.S. 2Pac 2Pac - BET Interview With Ed Gordon (1994) Transcript [ Not yet finished, feel free to help out ] 2Pac: I have something to offer, the business that hasn't been shown before I have a whole energy that represents not just black youth. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society. Americas got jewels, they paid and lending money to everybody except us. Tupac: Okay. I drew my arm around him to move the gun to my side. Interviewer: And he said he's been a little chilly, so this is good for him. I didnt want to pull them down to see if my dick was still there. When Suge Knight drove away from the scene Tupac told him 'You the one that got shot in the head', according to the full transcript of his police interview. In the interview, Powell questions Tupac on his role in the hostile nature of the hip hop community at the time. When I got in here, all the prisoners was, like, Fuck that gangsta rapper. Im not a gangsta rapper. If you see everybody dying because of what you saying, it dont matter that you didnt make them die, it just matters that you didnt save them. Finesse2Tymes, Luh Tyler, Antha Pantha, TS Lagga, and Xhulooo are among the artists on our radar they should be on your radar, too. Candyman 187 Talks About The Havenotz Group and The Savior Tupac, Sekyiwa Set Shakur What Its Like To Be Tupacs Sister, DL: 2Pac Ready 4 War [1998] OG Bootleg by G. Litt, DL: 2Pac Hit Em Up 2 [1998] OG Bootleg by G. 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