1 00:51:17,989 --> 00:51:24,629 [But for the person I tried to reach,] he'll pick it up, and I'll be able to talk to him. 2 00:51:24,629 --> 00:51:26,151 I try to be responsible, but it's hard. 3 00:51:26,151 --> 00:51:29,487 If you worry about what you're saying, I get writer's block. 4 00:51:29,487 --> 00:51:32,363 Kind of like, "I can't say that. That's too harsh. Can't say this." 5 00:51:32,363 --> 00:51:36,948 I have to block it out and trust my heart that I'm doing the right thing. 6 00:51:36,948 --> 00:51:39,947 Pretty spit... I was spitting. 7 00:51:39,947 --> 00:51:44,007 - Chill out. Chill out. - That's my style. That's my new style. 8 00:51:44,007 --> 00:51:47,743 - That's my new style. - 'Pac, chill out. 9 00:51:47,743 --> 00:51:50,254 That's my new style. 10 00:51:50,254 --> 00:51:54,232 Hey, have a good summer. 11 00:51:54,232 --> 00:51:57,644 Have a good summer, bitch! 12 00:51:57,644 --> 00:52:00,490 But I'm not saying I didn't make mistakes. 13 00:52:00,490 --> 00:52:06,031 Like some of the things I said when I was fighting the Hughes brothers. 14 00:52:06,031 --> 00:52:08,637 I beat up the directors to Menace II Society. 15 00:52:08,637 --> 00:52:12,402 - All right, tell them why you did that. - These chump, punk, slump... 16 00:52:12,402 --> 00:52:16,138 - You'll be able to rebuttal to that. - No, they better come now. 17 00:52:16,138 --> 00:52:20,809 Check this out, they fired me in a roundabout, punk, snitch way. 18 00:52:20,809 --> 00:52:23,341 So I caught them on the streets and beat they behinds. 19 00:52:23,341 --> 00:52:26,089 I was a menace to the Hughes brothers. It ain't over! 20 00:52:26,089 --> 00:52:30,038 I still got more for you chumps! I read what you said about me! 21 00:52:30,038 --> 00:52:33,269 I'm gonna kick their ass! 22 00:52:33,269 --> 00:52:35,572 My big mouth. 23 00:52:35,572 --> 00:52:38,565 Mind y'all business, I'll mind mine. I do what I gotta do, 24 00:52:38,565 --> 00:52:40,999 you do what you gotta do. Long as I give you 12 tracks, 25 00:52:40,999 --> 00:52:45,325 you give me my $12, and we even. I don't gotta be a role model. 26 00:52:45,325 --> 00:52:48,734 I don't gotta hold your hand. I don't gotta do shit. 27 00:52:48,734 --> 00:52:52,411 My big mouth. I got a big mouth, can't help it. 28 00:52:52,411 --> 00:52:55,148 - I talk from my heart, I'm real. - We talked about 29 00:52:55,148 --> 00:52:59,918 people in this business that you feel don't have a love for their own people. 30 00:52:59,918 --> 00:53:03,385 We was talking about Spike Lee, Arsenio Hall, 31 00:53:03,385 --> 00:53:07,068 Eddie Murphy and the rest of them. 32 00:53:07,068 --> 00:53:11,103 I thought I was charming, but I was immature. I did things without thinking. 33 00:53:11,103 --> 00:53:13,493 Michael Jackson, Randy Jackson, 34 00:53:13,493 --> 00:53:16,184 Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, all of them. 35 00:53:16,184 --> 00:53:18,737 She wants to not be black, but sell to blacks. 36 00:53:18,737 --> 00:53:23,548 I don't appreciate her going out of her way to say she's not black. 37 00:53:23,548 --> 00:53:27,743 My actions came before thought. Things that I did, things I said. 38 00:53:27,743 --> 00:53:29,319 So many things I wanna take back. 39 00:53:29,319 --> 00:53:32,940 Eddie Murphy, with all that dough he's making, hasn't done nothing for us. 40 00:53:32,940 --> 00:53:36,657 - He does a lot of charity. - Charity doesn't get to the ghetto. 41 00:53:36,657 --> 00:53:38,392 Everybody knows that. 42 00:53:38,392 --> 00:53:39,758 I was young and dumb. 43 00:53:39,758 --> 00:53:42,906 Being mad at Spike Lee and all those people, all of that. 44 00:53:42,906 --> 00:53:45,075 The thing I said of Quincy Jones, 45 00:53:45,075 --> 00:53:47,325 he shouldn't mess with white women. 46 00:53:47,325 --> 00:53:49,462 I said I was sorry personally for that. 47 00:53:49,462 --> 00:53:51,531 I didn't think of how it would hurt people. 48 00:53:51,531 --> 00:53:54,639 I'm gonna catch y'all in traffic and be the roughest nigga you ever seen. 49 00:53:54,639 --> 00:53:57,641 That turned into more legal problems. 50 00:53:57,641 --> 00:54:01,622 The People truly believe that Mr. Shakur has shown no remorse 51 00:54:01,622 --> 00:54:04,376 whatsoever for his action in this case. 52 00:54:04,376 --> 00:54:08,712 We view Mr. Shakur's appearance on Yo! MTV Raps as bragging. 53 00:54:08,712 --> 00:54:11,188 He was proud of what he did and does not feel sorry. 54 00:54:11,188 --> 00:54:15,028 I just want to say, judge, that I have a great deal of remorse. 55 00:54:15,028 --> 00:54:18,860 As far as I want you to treat me different, I don't want that. 56 00:54:18,860 --> 00:54:23,764 I just want the chance to make right from all the bad things that I got. 57 00:54:23,764 --> 00:54:27,078 I got things against me and people that look up to me. 58 00:54:27,078 --> 00:54:29,709 I don't want the last place they see me to be jail. 59 00:54:29,709 --> 00:54:32,810 I guess it's now time for me to render the sentence. 60 00:54:32,810 --> 00:54:36,934 I obviously find that the defendant is a talented individual. 61 00:54:36,934 --> 00:54:40,755 However, this court believes that jail time is warranted with a battery 62 00:54:40,755 --> 00:54:42,724 with some injury involved. 63 00:54:42,724 --> 00:54:45,865 The defendant will serve 15 days in the county jail. 64 00:54:45,865 --> 00:54:47,703 I think the judge was fair. 65 00:54:47,703 --> 00:54:50,339 I still don't feel like I got the decision that I wanted, 66 00:54:50,339 --> 00:54:52,453 but he was as fair as he could be. 67 00:54:52,453 --> 00:54:56,737 Really, to my homeboys, I mean, a fight is a fight, battery is battery. 68 00:54:56,737 --> 00:55:01,169 A two and a half minute problem just cost me 15 days in jail, 69 00:55:01,169 --> 00:55:02,842 and that was lenient. 70 00:55:02,842 --> 00:55:05,577 But my most serious legal problems came from women. 71 00:55:05,577 --> 00:55:08,557 How I was acting with women. 72 00:55:08,557 --> 00:55:12,510 The Underground just don't stop For ho's, I get around 73 00:55:12,510 --> 00:55:17,178 I will no longer sit passively, allowing this degradation 74 00:55:17,178 --> 00:55:20,757 to be continued by our children. 75 00:55:20,757 --> 00:55:23,228 I think we live in a very sexist society, 76 00:55:23,228 --> 00:55:25,335 and everybody's pointing the finger at me. 77 00:55:25,335 --> 00:55:29,520 When somebody asks me, "Do you exploit women?" 78 00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:33,371 With her permission, I might smack a girl on the butt in the video. 79 00:55:33,371 --> 00:55:37,341 I might be drinking champagne, but everything in moderation, 80 00:55:37,341 --> 00:55:39,043 and everything with class. 81 00:55:39,043 --> 00:55:41,953 Fingertips on the hips as I dip Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip 82 00:55:41,953 --> 00:55:45,047 Loose lips sink ships, it's a trip I love the way she licks her lips 83 00:55:45,047 --> 00:55:48,268 See me jocking, put a little twist In her hips because I'm watching 84 00:55:48,268 --> 00:55:50,963 I don't have to always do a song with the good woman. 85 00:55:50,963 --> 00:55:54,798 I don't see women as all one thing. I think all women are different. 86 00:55:54,798 --> 00:55:59,108 You wonder why they call you bitch You wonder why they call you bitch 87 00:55:59,108 --> 00:56:02,574 We African-American women, particularly, 88 00:56:02,574 --> 00:56:08,351 are tired of being called ho's, bitches and sluts by our children. 89 00:56:08,351 --> 00:56:12,104 Dear Ms. DeLores Tucker You keep stressing me 90 00:56:12,104 --> 00:56:15,125 Fucking with a motherfucking mind I figured you wanted to know 91 00:56:15,125 --> 00:56:17,155 Why we call them ho's bitches 92 00:56:17,155 --> 00:56:20,146 If I do something that has a bad woman, people go, "He hates women." 93 00:56:20,146 --> 00:56:25,126 I don't think like that. But there are definitely a type of female, 94 00:56:25,126 --> 00:56:28,491 label them a bitch, whose main thing is to get what they can, 95 00:56:28,491 --> 00:56:31,825 and they revel in breaking a nigga's heart and taking what he owns. 96 00:56:31,825 --> 00:56:33,698 Shut the fuck up! 97 00:56:33,698 --> 00:56:35,642 There's male bitches too. 98 00:56:35,642 --> 00:56:39,299 Women know there are bitches. I don't know why they're surprised. 99 00:56:39,299 --> 00:56:42,352 They know. They say it louder. 100 00:56:42,352 --> 00:56:45,904 They think we say they're all bitches. That's not what we're saying. 101 00:56:45,904 --> 00:56:48,086 I give a holler to my sisters on welfare 102 00:56:48,086 --> 00:56:51,422 Tupac cares And don't nobody else care 103 00:56:51,422 --> 00:56:53,193 That's "Keep Ya Head Up" and "Get Around". 104 00:56:53,193 --> 00:56:55,276 I said, "I'm gonna write a song about women like my mom, 105 00:56:55,276 --> 00:56:58,663 "who represent a strong black woman." I did that. 106 00:56:58,663 --> 00:57:01,665 I'll rap about women I see daily. That's "Get Around". 107 00:57:01,665 --> 00:57:05,460 If I just did "Keep Ya Head Up", it makes me seem more than I am, 108 00:57:05,460 --> 00:57:07,013 but I'm just a normal man. 109 00:57:07,013 --> 00:57:11,669 America, America 110 00:57:11,669 --> 00:57:18,078 - God shed his grace on thee - Stop. 111 00:57:18,078 --> 00:57:20,054 I'm gonna close the door. 112 00:57:20,054 --> 00:57:22,105 Come on, Mr. Cameraman. 113 00:57:22,105 --> 00:57:28,456 This is some real private shit that's about to happen, Mr. Cameraman. 114 00:57:28,456 --> 00:57:31,683 Bye. 115 00:57:31,683 --> 00:57:33,714 Anyway, I'll let you hear the sounds. 116 00:57:33,714 --> 00:57:36,126 Is there a double standard for men being promiscuous? 117 00:57:36,126 --> 00:57:38,496 Yeah, but we didn't start that double standard. 118 00:57:38,496 --> 00:57:42,295 - I'm not saying you did. - And I'm not saying it's fair. 119 00:57:42,295 --> 00:57:46,778 I'm saying this is how it is. How can we rap about a world that is not like that? 120 00:57:46,778 --> 00:57:49,850 - This is how it is. - Do you look down on males 121 00:57:49,850 --> 00:57:52,413 if they're as promiscuous as women? 122 00:57:52,413 --> 00:57:55,208 I don't look down on anybody that's promiscuous. 123 00:57:55,208 --> 00:57:57,715 I only look down on people who don't control the situation. 124 00:57:57,715 --> 00:58:01,226 If a girl sleeps with a lot of guys, she's still my homegirl. 125 00:58:01,226 --> 00:58:04,052 You're only a bitch, not if you sleep with a lot of guys, 126 00:58:04,052 --> 00:58:05,787 but if you're sleeping with them for money. 127 00:58:05,787 --> 00:58:08,688 - So you put a price on yourself. - Because they have a nice car. 128 00:58:08,688 --> 00:58:12,916 Guys, when they sleep around, they do it for free. 129 00:58:12,916 --> 00:58:17,238 At that time, a lot of girls, they'd seen my face on TV so many times, 130 00:58:17,238 --> 00:58:20,539 they wanna be associated with that person. 131 00:58:20,539 --> 00:58:23,438 It's the fame that gets these people. It's not me. It's the fame. 132 00:58:23,438 --> 00:58:26,779 I've seen females look at me when they didn't know me, 133 00:58:26,779 --> 00:58:28,777 and I can see it, nothing. 134 00:58:28,777 --> 00:58:31,830 Then someone whisper who I was, it's this glare in the eye. 135 00:58:31,830 --> 00:58:35,154 - You make yourself want them. - How do you feel about that? 136 00:58:35,154 --> 00:58:38,295 I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year, 137 00:58:38,295 --> 00:58:42,903 and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. 138 00:58:42,903 --> 00:58:46,763 They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club, 139 00:58:46,763 --> 00:58:48,760 walking around, lonely like a motherfucker. 140 00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:52,775 Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, 141 00:58:52,775 --> 00:58:56,755 and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!" 142 00:58:56,755 --> 00:59:03,239 But I still enjoyed sex without the emotional connection. 143 00:59:03,239 --> 00:59:07,427 And it was always a fantasy for me to have sex 144 00:59:07,427 --> 00:59:09,761 with a lot of people in the room. 145 00:59:09,761 --> 00:59:13,516 But I didn't play one situation correctly. 146 00:59:13,516 --> 00:59:17,892 Rap singer Tupac Shakur was released on $50,000 bail today, 147 00:59:17,892 --> 00:59:20,978 accused of a sexual attack in a New York hotel. 148 00:59:20,978 --> 00:59:23,840 The singer was arrested Thursday night after a woman claimed 149 00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:27,698 he and three other men overpowered her in a hotel suite. 150 00:59:27,698 --> 00:59:32,767 - Are you disappointing your fans? - Very, but they're gonna support me. 151 00:59:32,767 --> 00:59:36,180 With bodyguards and attorneys, he went into Manhattan Criminal Court. 152 00:59:36,180 --> 00:59:39,925 There, the rapper and two friends were charged with first-degree sodomy. 153 00:59:39,925 --> 00:59:43,071 The allegations stem from an incident last Thursday 154 00:59:43,071 --> 00:59:44,975 in which a woman claims she was held down 155 00:59:44,975 --> 00:59:48,026 as he and two others allegedly sodomized her. 156 00:59:48,026 --> 00:59:51,193 The allegations by this young lady are without merit. 157 00:59:51,193 --> 00:59:53,904 Defense attorneys say the woman went there consensually, 158 00:59:53,904 --> 00:59:56,604 and answering machine tapes that indicate 159 00:59:56,604 --> 01:00:00,070 her interest in Shakur were erased by police. 160 01:00:00,070 --> 01:00:04,409 OK, so you tell me when your lawyers have asked you to stop. 161 01:00:04,409 --> 01:00:08,913 The girl who claims that... 162 01:00:08,913 --> 01:00:10,612 What does she claim? 163 01:00:10,612 --> 01:00:12,947 - I can't even say it, man. - OK. 164 01:00:12,947 --> 01:00:15,422 But technically, it's a rape case. 165 01:00:15,422 --> 01:00:17,461 I wasn't convicted of no rape charge. 166 01:00:17,461 --> 01:00:20,733 My charge was sexual abuse, forcibly touching the buttocks. 167 01:00:20,733 --> 01:00:25,025 I have a female saying that... I can't say it, but... 168 01:00:25,025 --> 01:00:27,741 It just bothers me so much, you know? 169 01:00:27,741 --> 01:00:29,899 To go through my life and everything I did, coming out 170 01:00:29,899 --> 01:00:32,769 of a family and household with just women, 171 01:00:32,769 --> 01:00:37,922 to get to this point to have a woman say that I took something from her. 172 01:00:37,922 --> 01:00:42,220 It was hard. 173 01:00:42,503 --> 01:00:45,616 It was an emotional day for a 20-year-old female fan, 174 01:00:45,616 --> 01:00:48,863 who admitted that she had consensual sex with Shakur on Sunday night, 175 01:00:48,863 --> 01:00:52,128 four days before her alleged rape in the hotel room. 176 01:00:52,128 --> 01:00:55,515 During her cross-examination, defense attorney Michael Warren 177 01:00:55,515 --> 01:01:00,919 painted a picture of a starstruck, naive girl anxious to have sex with Shakur. 178 01:01:00,919 --> 01:01:04,732 Word is, you had a relationship with this woman prior to all this friction. 179 01:01:04,732 --> 01:01:08,155 If you can say that's a relationship. I bumped in a club. I seen her. 180 01:01:08,155 --> 01:01:11,375 Let's use a clinical term. There was oral copulation? 181 01:01:11,375 --> 01:01:13,685 Yeah, she performed oral sex on the dance floor. 182 01:01:13,685 --> 01:01:17,308 A lot of guys could say what they wouldn't do 183 01:01:17,308 --> 01:01:20,281 and what they would do, but when it happens, you know...? 184 01:01:20,281 --> 01:01:24,774 - Yeah. - It just goes down. And it's... Really. 185 01:01:31,004 --> 01:01:34,895 She did some things there at the club, and we got together later that night. 186 01:01:34,895 --> 01:01:38,580 I saw her again another time with these guys that introduced me to her. 187 01:01:38,580 --> 01:01:42,678 Everybody was having a good time, nothing sexual, just a good time. 188 01:01:42,678 --> 01:01:45,708 Me and her went in, she gave me a massage, went to sleep, woke up, 189 01:01:45,708 --> 01:01:49,329 she's screaming, "Rape, rape." I raped her. 190 01:01:49,329 --> 01:01:53,983 And she's yelling at me, "This is not the last you're gonna see of me." 191 01:01:53,983 --> 01:01:57,890 I'm cursing her out because I'm not thinking she's really gonna do that. 192 01:01:57,890 --> 01:02:00,536 And the next thing I know, I'm going to jail. 193 01:02:00,536 --> 01:02:03,514 In your opinion there was no truth to the sexual abuse charges? 194 01:02:03,514 --> 01:02:05,624 Not on my part at all. 195 01:02:05,624 --> 01:02:07,567 The defense pounded away at her, 196 01:02:07,567 --> 01:02:11,597 asking her why she didn't scream for help at the time of the alleged attack. 197 01:02:11,597 --> 01:02:13,842 The woman testified that Shakur's friends said: 198 01:02:13,842 --> 01:02:17,769 "Tupac needs his fans. Don't go to the White Man with this. 199 01:02:17,769 --> 01:02:21,551 "Millions of girls would love to be in your shoes right now." 200 01:02:21,551 --> 01:02:23,142 What about your cronies? 201 01:02:23,142 --> 01:02:26,091 That was a big misconception. The people with me weren't friends. 202 01:02:26,091 --> 01:02:29,521 - Why were they in your room? - I hang with lots of people. 203 01:02:29,521 --> 01:02:32,523 And that's how I am. It's similar to like you said, 204 01:02:32,523 --> 01:02:36,126 about Led Zeppelin. They don't know all of the people with them. 205 01:02:36,126 --> 01:02:38,630 This guy got the weed? OK, you can kick it. 206 01:02:38,630 --> 01:02:40,025 Got the money? You can kick it. 207 01:02:40,025 --> 01:02:43,743 This guy has connections to the clubs? OK, you can kick it. I don't know him. 208 01:02:43,743 --> 01:02:50,136 But that was my fault, I had that kind of environment around me. 209 01:02:54,135 --> 01:02:57,775 I didn't do nothing. I'm charged with being in concert with some guys. 210 01:02:57,775 --> 01:02:59,618 Well, where are they at? 211 01:02:59,618 --> 01:03:01,079 Why me? Because I'm Tupac... 212 01:03:01,079 --> 01:03:02,316 I'm not mad at them. I'm mad at the system. 213 01:03:02,316 --> 01:03:04,727 I don't want nobody to go to jail, 214 01:03:04,727 --> 01:03:07,209 but I don't wanna go for something I didn't do. 215 01:03:07,209 --> 01:03:10,862 I just don't wanna be the scapegoat. 216 01:03:10,862 --> 01:03:12,997 I just couldn't believe this was going on in my life. 217 01:03:12,997 --> 01:03:18,610 See the cameras. It wasn't like I had a chance for justice like a normal citizen. 218 01:03:19,102 --> 01:03:22,637 Hi, Tupac. Can you tell me how you're doing today? 219 01:03:22,637 --> 01:03:27,918 Well, I just had to listen to the prosecution's closing argument, 220 01:03:27,918 --> 01:03:32,735 and it was so far from the truth that it has me drained at the end of the day. 221 01:03:32,735 --> 01:03:34,907 But I'm leaving it in the hands of the jury. 222 01:03:34,907 --> 01:03:39,386 I'm learning a lot about people's innermost fears in this trial. 223 01:03:39,386 --> 01:03:41,490 It's not even about my trial no more. It's just about 224 01:03:41,490 --> 01:03:45,657 Ioud rap music, tattoo-having thugs. 225 01:03:45,657 --> 01:03:50,340 It's about some nightmare that these people are having. 226 01:03:50,340 --> 01:03:52,066 I can't understand why it's so close. 227 01:03:52,066 --> 01:03:58,316 There's no evidence I sodomized her, even though you put that in the paper. 228 01:03:58,316 --> 01:04:00,445 Print the facts so everybody can sort it out. 229 01:04:00,445 --> 01:04:03,899 My life is ruined because nobody has a chance to get the facts. 230 01:04:03,899 --> 01:04:05,591 Fact is, there was no semen found. 231 01:04:05,591 --> 01:04:11,815 No semen found, no forcible entry, no entry into the anal, no nothing. 232 01:04:11,815 --> 01:04:13,485 I wanted to explain it. 233 01:04:13,485 --> 01:04:15,788 If you could go back to the night when the abuse occurred, 234 01:04:15,788 --> 01:04:18,299 - Is there anything you'd do differently? - Yeah. 235 01:04:18,299 --> 01:04:22,634 I would not have closed my eyes until she was out of the room, 236 01:04:22,634 --> 01:04:24,903 until everybody was out of the room. 237 01:04:24,903 --> 01:04:28,510 So when you left the room and left her with those people... 238 01:04:28,510 --> 01:04:31,748 I didn't leave her with those people or bring her to them. 239 01:04:31,748 --> 01:04:32,814 - She came over? - Right. 240 01:04:32,814 --> 01:04:36,012 She came over, knew those people, knew everything. 241 01:04:36,012 --> 01:04:40,540 I just didn't grab her out of there. 242 01:04:40,702 --> 01:04:44,390 I'm guilty of not being a smart man, not being a goodhearted man, 243 01:04:44,390 --> 01:04:46,548 I guess, or being more considerate. 244 01:04:46,548 --> 01:04:50,421 At any point, were you aware she was involved in something she... 245 01:04:50,421 --> 01:04:54,341 - Cut. That's a problem right there. - Excuse me. 246 01:04:54,341 --> 01:04:57,506 None of these legal matters can be asked. 247 01:04:57,506 --> 01:05:00,069 I have a list of the stuff you'll have to cut out. Sorry. 248 01:05:00,069 --> 01:05:02,568 - All right. - The gentleman is out on bail. 249 01:05:02,568 --> 01:05:05,241 I see. 250 01:05:05,241 --> 01:05:07,273 I couldn't defend myself. 251 01:05:07,273 --> 01:05:09,817 This would never have happened to anybody else. 252 01:05:09,817 --> 01:05:12,624 They have no evidence on me, and it's about to come out. 253 01:05:12,624 --> 01:05:14,993 Now my life is over. This is a year later. 254 01:05:14,993 --> 01:05:17,862 A year after the world's been thinking I'm a rapist. 255 01:05:17,862 --> 01:05:20,383 The whole world owes me an apology. 256 01:05:20,383 --> 01:05:22,626 I went through it and didn't kill myself like Kurt Cobain. 257 01:05:22,626 --> 01:05:26,231 And I should, because this is some crazy madness. 258 01:05:35,224 --> 01:05:39,400 Central, I got a black male shot at 48th and 7th. 259 01:05:42,016 --> 01:05:45,250 Last night, just after midnight, at 723 7th Avenue, 260 01:05:45,250 --> 01:05:48,276 that's between 48th and 49th Street, 261 01:05:48,276 --> 01:05:52,185 rap star Tupac Shakur and three members of his group 262 01:05:52,185 --> 01:05:55,228 were robbed and shot. 263 01:06:02,503 --> 01:06:04,029 They shot me, straight up. 264 01:06:04,029 --> 01:06:06,599 I just kept thinking, "They really did shoot me." 265 01:06:06,922 --> 01:06:10,603 When I wasn't dead, immediately I was like, "Oh, man." 266 01:06:10,603 --> 01:06:12,573 I was like, "No, this ain't it." 267 01:06:12,573 --> 01:06:16,074 I know how it's gonna be when I die. It's gonna be no noise. 268 01:06:16,074 --> 01:06:22,097 You ain't gonna hear people screaming. I'm gonna fade out. 269 01:06:22,405 --> 01:06:26,236 And I didn't... None of that was there. 270 01:06:26,236 --> 01:06:32,374 I was like, "I got shot five times. I'm not dead. They missed. I'm back." 271 01:06:32,374 --> 01:06:35,345 When Shakur resisted, he was shot five times, 272 01:06:35,345 --> 01:06:38,205 twice in the head and twice in the groin area. 273 01:06:38,205 --> 01:06:41,440 And his most serious wound, a gunshot through the hand, 274 01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:43,428 hitting an artery in his thigh. 275 01:06:43,428 --> 01:06:48,250 He's listed in serious but stable condition. 276 01:06:48,250 --> 01:06:52,791 Until it happened, I really did believe no black person would ever shoot me. 277 01:06:52,791 --> 01:06:56,951 I believed that I didn't have to fear my own community. 278 01:06:56,951 --> 01:06:59,773 You know, I was like, "I represent them. 279 01:06:59,773 --> 01:07:03,194 "I'm their ambassador to the world. They would never do me wrong." 280 01:07:03,194 --> 01:07:06,007 I believe that this was a robbery. 281 01:07:06,007 --> 01:07:09,292 Anybody who was gonna walk into that building was gonna be robbed. 282 01:07:09,292 --> 01:07:13,891 The police don't wanna find out who shot me. They're happy. 283 01:07:20,873 --> 01:07:23,549 As far as that Vibe interview, just read everything over 284 01:07:23,549 --> 01:07:28,953 and read my reply, read their reply, read what people say. 285 01:07:28,953 --> 01:07:36,448 Everybody that was there knows what happened. 286 01:07:36,909 --> 01:07:40,268 My recollection was, I was shooting a video, the second half of "Warning", 287 01:07:40,268 --> 01:07:44,103 which is the B-side of "Big Poppa", and I was shooting around the block. 288 01:07:44,103 --> 01:07:47,971 And I heard my man was up at the studio doing a Junior M.A.F.I.A. session. 289 01:07:47,971 --> 01:07:51,611 So I got off at the reception area, and I saw Andre and Little Shawn. 290 01:07:51,611 --> 01:07:58,972 I said, "What's up?" about to get on the elevator, and he comes out shot. 291 01:08:06,325 --> 01:08:08,994 The Tupac article had me pissed off, you know what I'm saying? 292 01:08:08,994 --> 01:08:12,725 Because first of all, he dissed my man, 293 01:08:12,725 --> 01:08:18,232 saying he turned his back on him, and I know for a fact it didn't happen. 294 01:08:18,524 --> 01:08:22,063 And, like, the rumors that's spreading 295 01:08:22,063 --> 01:08:28,205 is on some tip like we set him up. And that's crazy. 296 01:08:28,809 --> 01:08:32,054 As soon as he comes out shot, me and my man try to sit him down. 297 01:08:32,054 --> 01:08:35,427 He called his mom. He asked my man if he can roll him a blunt. 298 01:08:35,427 --> 01:08:40,702 We asked if he was all right. He's like, "Yeah, I don't know what's going on." 299 01:08:41,995 --> 01:08:50,391 We were just trying to comfort him. Andre Harrell called the ambulance. 300 01:08:50,391 --> 01:08:56,268 And everybody there was very supportive of him. 301 01:08:56,268 --> 01:09:00,104 It was just the total opposite. He came out and everyone ran to him. 302 01:09:00,104 --> 01:09:01,884 It was nothing but love and concern. 303 01:09:01,884 --> 01:09:06,030 They got different accounts of it, and I'm the one with the bullet wounds. 304 01:09:06,030 --> 01:09:10,151 I also understand that if you was to get shot five times, 305 01:09:10,151 --> 01:09:12,438 your mind is just completely spinning. 306 01:09:12,438 --> 01:09:14,601 You're real confused about your situation. 307 01:09:14,601 --> 01:09:16,790 It'll make you say things you don't mean. 308 01:09:16,790 --> 01:09:20,831 I was there for the whole thing. No one else was there for the whole thing. 309 01:09:20,831 --> 01:09:25,733 I don't know the purpose of why the story was said in another context. 310 01:09:25,733 --> 01:09:28,938 It's not important that others know what happened. I said it. 311 01:09:28,938 --> 01:09:32,585 Now that I said it, it's dead. Believe me or not, I did what I had to. 312 01:09:32,585 --> 01:09:34,018 God knows the truth. 313 01:09:34,018 --> 01:09:38,784 There's no religion about getting shot. I don't want any converts. 314 01:09:41,045 --> 01:09:45,093 After getting shot, I was like, "Shit, I don't know who to trust." 315 01:09:45,093 --> 01:09:46,943 In a bizarre twist of events, 316 01:09:46,943 --> 01:09:51,894 Tupac Shakur checked himself out of Bellevue Hospital Wednesday night. 317 01:09:51,894 --> 01:09:57,265 After surgery, Tupac checked himself out of Bellevue against doctor's orders. 318 01:09:57,695 --> 01:10:01,033 It was just time to leave. I didn't feel safe there. 319 01:10:01,033 --> 01:10:04,137 I kept getting these crazy phone calls. 320 01:10:07,120 --> 01:10:10,495 At that point, I'm just paranoid, just bugging out. 321 01:10:10,495 --> 01:10:15,505 I couldn't sleep or rest. I was like, "I'm just tired, and I wanna just..." 322 01:10:15,644 --> 01:10:21,857 And I felt like I'm like a victim, a target. 323 01:10:21,857 --> 01:10:24,806 I couldn't even sleep at home. People could kill me at home. 324 01:10:24,806 --> 01:10:27,114 And are the police gonna come in and kill me? 325 01:10:27,114 --> 01:10:31,248 You know, is there secret police? 326 01:10:31,248 --> 01:10:34,940 I was so deep into the weed at that point. 327 01:10:34,940 --> 01:10:39,907 And I was like, "I'm petrified. I'm vulnerable." 328 01:10:39,907 --> 01:10:43,742 I felt like just a prisoner to my own fame. 329 01:10:43,742 --> 01:10:47,689 That's why I wanted to die at that point. 330 01:10:47,689 --> 01:10:53,475 I felt like, "If everybody's so worried, why ain't nobody came to help?" 331 01:10:53,475 --> 01:10:56,689 - Mr. Shakur? - Open up, please. Open up. 332 01:10:56,689 --> 01:10:58,305 - Excuse me. - Step back, please. 333 01:10:58,305 --> 01:11:01,847 - Just keep it tight, that's all. - How are you this morning? 334 01:11:01,847 --> 01:11:07,314 The jury deliberated, then, after days of twists worthy of a Hollywood drama, 335 01:11:07,314 --> 01:11:10,136 Tupac Shakur has finally had one question answered. 336 01:11:10,136 --> 01:11:13,139 Tonight, the jury found him guilty of three counts of sexual abuse, 337 01:11:13,139 --> 01:11:17,289 but innocent on six other charges, including sodomy. 338 01:11:17,289 --> 01:11:21,575 Please, give me some space. Please, man. 339 01:11:21,575 --> 01:11:23,247 Why did you decide to leave the hospital? 340 01:11:23,247 --> 01:11:27,149 Please, y'all are not letting me get through, man. Let me get through! 341 01:11:27,149 --> 01:11:30,104 - Back it up. - Why did you leave? 342 01:11:30,104 --> 01:11:34,835 And sentencing for this trial has yet to be scheduled. 343 01:11:45,151 --> 01:11:48,732 Where I was sent was a maximum-security penitentiary. 344 01:11:58,302 --> 01:12:02,099 I know when I was young, I couldn't wait to get to jail, straight up. 345 01:12:02,099 --> 01:12:09,467 I mean, I was scared and everything, but I felt that's part of being a man. 346 01:12:10,254 --> 01:12:12,574 Now that I'm here, this is not the spot. 347 01:12:12,574 --> 01:12:17,441 I know everybody that comes out says, "This ain't the spot." This isn't the spot. 348 01:12:17,441 --> 01:12:21,444 Somebody tells you when to get up, when you can shower, do this, do that. 349 01:12:21,444 --> 01:12:26,910 They can speak to you any way they want to, and you've gotta accept it. 350 01:12:27,379 --> 01:12:31,580 You can die here, know what I mean? Yesterday, a dude was murdered. 351 01:12:31,580 --> 01:12:34,229 He wasn't in here on no murder beef. He was in on a drug beef. 352 01:12:34,229 --> 01:12:38,128 He's gone. He's dead in jail, you know what I mean? 353 01:12:38,128 --> 01:12:40,292 By another prisoner who had life. 354 01:12:40,292 --> 01:12:43,129 He had nothing to lose, you know what I mean? 355 01:12:43,129 --> 01:12:49,441 I came to jail. I'm telling you, it's dirty. It's filthy. It's like you're an animal. 356 01:12:50,170 --> 01:12:52,178 At first, me and the guards had problems. 357 01:12:52,178 --> 01:12:54,740 I got smacked and treated bad. 358 01:12:54,740 --> 01:12:59,399 They did whatever they could to break me because I used to talk a lot of shit. 359 01:13:00,168 --> 01:13:02,668 As soon as I got there, they went, "There he goes, the rich nigger." 360 01:13:02,668 --> 01:13:08,963 I was like, "Oh, shit, he said nigger!" Everybody's looking at me like, "So?" 361 01:13:08,963 --> 01:13:12,493 And I was like, "My God, this is where I'm gonna be staying?" 362 01:13:12,493 --> 01:13:13,979 He just said "nigger"! 363 01:13:13,979 --> 01:13:16,067 You've got "niggas" in one of your records. 364 01:13:16,067 --> 01:13:19,476 Niggas. He's talking about niggers. 365 01:13:19,476 --> 01:13:22,838 Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing. 366 01:13:22,838 --> 01:13:29,103 Niggas is the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs. 367 01:13:32,589 --> 01:13:36,786 I learned things there. In jail, it's like how we should be in life, humble. 368 01:13:36,786 --> 01:13:39,690 I was talking to skinheads because if you don't like black people, 369 01:13:39,690 --> 01:13:42,496 all right, that's fine. That's your opinion. 370 01:13:42,496 --> 01:13:46,279 I want people to respect my opinion when I'm rapping, so I'll respect yours. 371 01:13:46,279 --> 01:13:50,774 You treat me with respect, I'll treat you with respect, and we'll get along. 372 01:13:50,774 --> 01:13:54,601 This skinhead, "hate black people" all over, getting autographs for cousins. 373 01:13:54,601 --> 01:13:56,197 I accomplished something. 374 01:13:56,197 --> 01:14:00,630 I know, by him getting my autograph, that meant something to me. 375 01:14:00,630 --> 01:14:05,561 He couldn't hate black people and get my autograph. 376 01:14:05,561 --> 01:14:07,697 - The food was terrible, I guess. - Oh, my goodness. 377 01:14:07,697 --> 01:14:10,454 They've got this liver surprise thing. 378 01:14:10,454 --> 01:14:13,820 The liver surprise. They're trying to pump that jail on the menu. 379 01:14:13,820 --> 01:14:17,189 They're trying to get it to go prime-time, get it in the rotation. 380 01:14:17,189 --> 01:14:21,033 I was like, "We had this yesterday. I liked it already, goddamn." 381 01:14:21,033 --> 01:14:24,350 - No Tater Tots? - No. Are you crazy? Tater Tots? 382 01:14:24,350 --> 01:14:29,374 I used to get baked potatoes with a huge finger imprint on it. 383 01:14:29,374 --> 01:14:31,170 - All right. - It was bad. 384 01:14:31,170 --> 01:14:34,276 No, you don't wanna get me started. Jell-O with hair all in the mold. 385 01:14:34,276 --> 01:14:38,828 I'd be like, "Damn, man, how are you gonna mess up Jell-O?" 386 01:14:38,828 --> 01:14:42,592 Jell-O is so wholesome and family-like. It just ruins it for me. 387 01:14:42,592 --> 01:14:44,304 To have a hair in there, yeah. 388 01:14:44,304 --> 01:14:49,204 I mean, I'm like, "Come on, Bill Cosby pumps this, man!" 389 01:14:49,204 --> 01:14:52,426 Put the hair in my Jell-O. 390 01:14:52,426 --> 01:14:57,200 And you can't go, "There's a hair in my Jell-O. I'd like to send this back. 391 01:14:57,200 --> 01:14:58,839 "Can I see the cook, please?" 392 01:14:58,839 --> 01:15:03,018 The cook is a big dude named Bubba Joe. 393 01:15:03,018 --> 01:15:07,449 The first eight months I spent in solitude 23 hours a day, reading. 394 01:15:07,449 --> 01:15:09,463 I wrote a script called Live 2 Tell. 395 01:15:09,463 --> 01:15:12,924 I got How to Write a Screenplay, that big famous book by Syd Field. 396 01:15:12,924 --> 01:15:18,036 I got that, and I remembered all of the scripts I ever read, and I wrote one. 397 01:15:18,036 --> 01:15:19,620 I read a lot of good books. 398 01:15:19,620 --> 01:15:25,222 I read a lot of Maya Angelou's books. The Art of War by Sun Tzu. 399 01:15:25,865 --> 01:15:29,234 But in terms of writing music and lyrics, I couldn't do it. 400 01:15:29,234 --> 01:15:33,110 Everybody's like, "He's in jail now. He's gonna have the bomb album." 401 01:15:33,110 --> 01:15:34,509 But it's the opposite. 402 01:15:34,509 --> 01:15:38,299 Prison kills your spirit, straight up. It kills your spirit. 403 01:15:38,299 --> 01:15:44,682 I couldn't write. My inspiration was gone because I was a caged animal. 404 01:15:44,974 --> 01:15:47,739 But when I was in jail, a lot of people supported me. 405 01:15:47,739 --> 01:15:50,861 Jasmine Guy, Jada Pinkett, 406 01:15:50,861 --> 01:15:53,498 Mickey Rourke, he just wrote me funny stories. 407 01:15:53,498 --> 01:15:57,158 The name that sticks out the most, I'll keep saying this, is Tony Danza. 408 01:15:57,158 --> 01:16:01,022 To me, he is the bomb forever. 409 01:16:01,022 --> 01:16:03,035 I will be his number one fan forever, 410 01:16:03,035 --> 01:16:05,651 because when I got his letter, I was like, "Whoa!" 411 01:16:05,651 --> 01:16:10,500 I was screaming out to everybody, "Guess who wrote me!" 412 01:16:10,500 --> 01:16:14,721 They had a story on the local news that Madonna was coming to visit me. 413 01:16:14,721 --> 01:16:18,215 Madonna has so much power that the guards gave me an extra shower 414 01:16:18,215 --> 01:16:20,510 because they thought she was coming to visit me. 415 01:16:20,510 --> 01:16:24,886 I had guards walking me downstairs, everything, trying to peep a look. 416 01:16:24,886 --> 01:16:26,180 - Did she come? - No. No, I'm glad. 417 01:16:26,180 --> 01:16:31,307 - But you got the extra shower? - Hey, I got the shower. 418 01:16:32,568 --> 01:16:37,072 The person that supported me the most was my mother. 419 01:16:37,072 --> 01:16:41,077 When my mother got clean, we got real close again. 420 01:16:41,077 --> 01:16:46,354 And even as a crack fiend, Mama You always was a black queen, Mama 421 01:16:46,354 --> 01:16:51,247 I finally understand, for a woman It ain't easy, trying to raise a man 422 01:16:51,247 --> 01:16:55,351 I don't blame her for anything. 423 01:16:55,351 --> 01:17:01,631 My mom's the bomb, you know. The world's best mom. 424 01:17:01,631 --> 01:17:04,464 - You are appreciated - Lady 425 01:17:04,464 --> 01:17:08,602 Don't you know we love you Sweet lady 426 01:17:08,818 --> 01:17:11,339 "Dear Mama" is the song I wrote for my mother. 427 01:17:11,339 --> 01:17:13,138 But it's also for all the mothers. 428 01:17:13,138 --> 01:17:16,380 I'm proud of that. It affected a lot of people. 429 01:17:16,380 --> 01:17:18,238 It was from Me Against the World, 430 01:17:18,238 --> 01:17:20,854 which was completed before I went to jail. 431 01:17:20,854 --> 01:17:25,913 It's just me against the world 432 01:17:25,913 --> 01:17:28,125 Me against the world, baby 433 01:17:28,125 --> 01:17:29,784 It was the number one record. 434 01:17:29,784 --> 01:17:34,547 Me Against the World was one of those... My career highs. 435 01:17:35,254 --> 01:17:36,439 It was a trip in jail. 436 01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:39,789 They'd say stuff like, "You're in jail. Won't be any rapping for a long time." 437 01:17:39,789 --> 01:17:43,589 I'd be like, "My album is number one in the country. 438 01:17:43,589 --> 01:17:45,946 "It just beat Bruce Springsteen." 439 01:17:45,946 --> 01:17:49,391 And they'd be like, "Go back to your cell." 440 01:17:49,391 --> 01:17:52,674 I used to get Entertainment Weekly and see where my record was 441 01:17:52,674 --> 01:17:56,605 and just trip out and be like, "Number one in the whole country." 442 01:17:56,605 --> 01:18:03,856 To me, it will always be my favorite, and jail made me wanna dig deeper. 443 01:18:13,285 --> 01:18:16,703 It took five bullets for me to see what was really going on. 444 01:18:16,703 --> 01:18:20,337 In jail, you get perspective, and you start looking at things differently, 445 01:18:20,337 --> 01:18:22,392 like everything is not so important. 446 01:18:22,392 --> 01:18:25,678 You know, you try not to take it personal. 447 01:18:25,678 --> 01:18:27,525 Because you're talking to killers. 448 01:18:27,525 --> 01:18:29,733 They say something you don't like, you can't say, "What?" 449 01:18:29,733 --> 01:18:35,566 You gotta be like, "OK, look man, would you mind not calling me...?" 450 01:18:35,566 --> 01:18:39,235 Anger management like a mother. 451 01:18:40,451 --> 01:18:44,015 In jail, I tried not to have negative feelings towards nobody. 452 01:18:44,015 --> 01:18:47,478 It's not like I wanted to get out and go shoot somebody up. 453 01:18:47,478 --> 01:18:53,431 People said, "You softened up." Ain't nothing soft. Nothing changed. 454 01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:57,751 If anything, my mentality was like, "Trust nobody. 455 01:18:57,751 --> 01:19:02,024 "Trust nobody." 456 01:19:03,456 --> 01:19:07,743 It's not like I'm untouchable. I could be killed as soon as I get out. 457 01:19:08,142 --> 01:19:10,479 I just thought, "I already took five bullets, 458 01:19:10,479 --> 01:19:14,062 "and if I can help it, I don't plan on taking more." 459 01:19:16,045 --> 01:19:19,975 Rapper, actor and convict, Tupac Shakur, walked out of jail last week, 460 01:19:19,975 --> 01:19:24,040 bailed out to the tune of $1.4 million by Suge Knight of Death Row Records, 461 01:19:24,040 --> 01:19:25,706 which signed Shakur to a deal. 462 01:19:25,706 --> 01:19:29,002 My closest friends did me in. My closest friends, my homeys. 463 01:19:29,002 --> 01:19:32,047 I took care of their whole family, took care of everything, 464 01:19:32,047 --> 01:19:35,388 Iooked out for them, put them in the game, turned on me. 465 01:19:37,540 --> 01:19:40,877 So I just thought, "How could I make them sorry they ever did this to me? 466 01:19:40,877 --> 01:19:46,672 "How can I come back, like, 50 times stronger and better?" 467 01:19:50,195 --> 01:19:54,457 Fear is stronger than love. Remember that. Fear is stronger than love. 468 01:19:54,457 --> 01:19:58,033 The love I gave meant nothing when it came to fear. 469 01:19:58,033 --> 01:20:01,848 No question, sign with Death Row. 470 01:20:10,900 --> 01:20:13,025 Suddenly, I was out on bail, pending appeal. 471 01:20:13,025 --> 01:20:15,650 If I win my appeal, which, if God wills, I will, 472 01:20:15,650 --> 01:20:18,739 I would've done 11 months for nothing. 473 01:20:27,166 --> 01:20:30,997 You see that, judge? I didn't curse. Probation people, I didn't curse. 474 01:20:30,997 --> 01:20:33,234 Give me my props. Let me stay free. 475 01:20:33,234 --> 01:20:38,391 I was relieved, happy to be home. 476 01:20:39,478 --> 01:20:41,744 I wanted to drive up and down Sunset 477 01:20:41,744 --> 01:20:46,672 because I love L.A. with a passion. I love Sunset, everything about L.A. 478 01:20:46,672 --> 01:20:49,864 Can I get tatted up real quick? I want a crown here. 479 01:20:49,864 --> 01:20:52,104 You know, the energy, that's L.A. 480 01:20:52,104 --> 01:20:53,559 - Hello? - I'm saying, 481 01:20:53,559 --> 01:20:57,466 we on Venice Beach. It's what you do. I've been in jail 11 months, Tabitha. 482 01:20:57,466 --> 01:20:59,644 You're supposed to put "I love you". 483 01:20:59,644 --> 01:21:02,465 You got to let me get a look at something. 484 01:21:02,465 --> 01:21:05,232 It's a trip when last week you were in a cell, 485 01:21:05,232 --> 01:21:08,235 and then, next week, I'm up at Monty's with Cristal champagne 486 01:21:08,235 --> 01:21:13,089 and filet mignon and lobster and shrimps. 487 01:21:13,089 --> 01:21:18,304 Everybody went, "Let me take you out. You're home? Let me take you to this!" 488 01:21:18,304 --> 01:21:22,611 We was all up in Roscoe's. I even celebrated at El Pollo Loco 489 01:21:22,611 --> 01:21:27,486 because I was dreaming about El Pollo Loco the whole time. 490 01:21:27,486 --> 01:21:31,223 Then I went straight to the studio. 491 01:21:31,223 --> 01:21:34,314 And I did 24 tracks in less than two weeks. 492 01:21:34,314 --> 01:21:37,163 You can mix it later and have niggas that love being in the studio 493 01:21:37,163 --> 01:21:41,110 just add the drumbeat and shit. You can do that after the rappers leave. 494 01:21:41,110 --> 01:21:42,936 That's when it's fresh. 495 01:21:42,936 --> 01:21:46,735 Get that beat popping, throw them niggas on the track, put it down. 496 01:21:46,735 --> 01:21:49,621 Everybody will listen, be like, "This is the hook." 497 01:21:49,621 --> 01:21:52,048 We'll go lay the hook. That's the song. 498 01:21:52,048 --> 01:21:55,652 Plus, I had so much to say, I figured this was the best way to vent, 499 01:21:55,652 --> 01:21:58,106 instead of paying some psychotherapist $50 million. 500 01:21:58,106 --> 01:22:00,505 I went in the studio. It was cheaper. 501 01:22:00,505 --> 01:22:04,624 Here we go! California, get up! 502 01:22:07,900 --> 01:22:10,031 Out on bail, fresh out of jail California dreaming 503 01:22:10,031 --> 01:22:12,506 Soon as I step on the scene I'm hearing hoochies screaming 504 01:22:12,506 --> 01:22:15,808 Fiending for money and alcohol The life of the West Side player 505 01:22:15,808 --> 01:22:17,513 Where cowards die And the strong ball 506 01:22:17,513 --> 01:22:19,973 Only in Cali, where we riot, not rally To live and die 507 01:22:19,973 --> 01:22:22,711 In L.A., we wear Chucks, not Ballies 508 01:22:22,711 --> 01:22:25,151 Dressed in Locs and khaki suits And ride is what we do 509 01:22:25,151 --> 01:22:27,645 Flossin' but have caution We collide with other crews 510 01:22:27,645 --> 01:22:32,381 You gotta realize one thing: Tupac is Death Row. 511 01:22:32,381 --> 01:22:35,416 I feel I have more than just a business relationship with him. 512 01:22:35,416 --> 01:22:37,469 He can be like a brother, a friend. 513 01:22:37,469 --> 01:22:41,624 I like everyone on the record company. I like Suge, Snoop and Dre. 514 01:22:41,624 --> 01:22:44,341 I hang out with them anyway, now it's official. 515 01:22:44,341 --> 01:22:47,308 This is Tupac and Dr. Dre, and this is the Week in Rock! 516 01:22:47,308 --> 01:22:50,638 - Week in Rock, baby! - Week in Rock, baby! 517 01:22:50,638 --> 01:22:53,978 I came out, I was like, "Dre, I want some beats right now." 518 01:22:53,978 --> 01:22:56,808 He's like, "I'm working on 'California Love'." 519 01:22:56,808 --> 01:22:58,557 I said, "You know you owe me this. 520 01:22:58,557 --> 01:23:01,285 "I'm new on Death Row, fresh out of jail. 521 01:23:01,285 --> 01:23:03,995 "You ain't gonna be finishing your album soon." 522 01:23:03,995 --> 01:23:07,992 I love collaborating with creative people that's as talented as 'Pac. 523 01:23:07,992 --> 01:23:11,072 He got right in and wrote his lyrics while he was behind the mike 524 01:23:11,072 --> 01:23:13,133 and dropped it, and it's funky. 525 01:23:13,133 --> 01:23:15,425 Say what you say But give me that bomb beat from Dre 526 01:23:15,425 --> 01:23:17,933 Let me serenade the streets of L.A. 527 01:23:17,933 --> 01:23:22,239 Me coming to Death Row, for another reason was Snoop. 528 01:23:22,239 --> 01:23:23,969 Please welcome America's Most Wanted, 529 01:23:23,969 --> 01:23:26,948 Snoop Doggy Dogg and Tupac. 530 01:23:26,948 --> 01:23:28,972 The man got so much style. 531 01:23:28,972 --> 01:23:31,682 Ya'll know we down with this rock thing, nine-six flavor, Death Row. 532 01:23:31,682 --> 01:23:35,582 But who knew it would last, this West Side staff? 533 01:23:35,582 --> 01:23:40,192 Yep, yep, yep. This is me and Snoop, "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted", 534 01:23:40,192 --> 01:23:42,424 the bomb track. It's the first single. 535 01:23:42,424 --> 01:23:44,859 It's gonna be like the anthem of West Coast rap. 536 01:23:44,859 --> 01:23:47,925 This is gonna shake the whole music scene, guaranteed. 537 01:23:47,925 --> 01:23:52,671 Ain't nothing but a gangsta party 538 01:23:52,671 --> 01:23:56,805 Oh, shit You done fucked up now 539 01:23:56,805 --> 01:23:59,379 You done put two of America's Most Wanted 540 01:23:59,379 --> 01:24:03,369 In the same motherfucking place At the same motherfucking time 541 01:24:04,323 --> 01:24:07,727 Y'all niggas about to feel this Break out the champagne glasses 542 01:24:07,727 --> 01:24:09,815 Picture perfect I paint a perfect picture 543 01:24:09,815 --> 01:24:12,022 Bomb the hoochies with precision My intention's to get richer 544 01:24:12,022 --> 01:24:14,886 With the S-N-double-O-P Dogg My fucking homey 545 01:24:14,886 --> 01:24:16,522 You's a cold-ass nigga On them hogs 546 01:24:16,522 --> 01:24:18,791 I keep my hand on my gun 'Cause they got me on the run 547 01:24:18,791 --> 01:24:21,302 Now I'm back in the courtroom Waiting on the outcome 548 01:24:21,302 --> 01:24:25,228 Me and Snoop represent the nucleus of the entire ghetto. 549 01:24:25,228 --> 01:24:28,806 Snoop represents the more calm, all legit, by the book, 550 01:24:28,806 --> 01:24:30,977 no waves, let's get our business handled. 551 01:24:30,977 --> 01:24:32,607 You're doing your job every day 552 01:24:32,607 --> 01:24:34,842 And then you work so hard Till your hair turn gray 553 01:24:34,842 --> 01:24:37,080 Let me tell you about life And about the way it is 554 01:24:37,080 --> 01:24:39,571 You see, we live by the gun So we die by the gun's kids 555 01:24:39,571 --> 01:24:41,981 Tell me not to roll with my Glock So now I gotta throw away 556 01:24:41,981 --> 01:24:44,648 Floating in a black Benz And trying to do a show a day 557 01:24:44,648 --> 01:24:49,760 I represent the hard-core, no-holds- barred, no-prisoners, relentless thug. 558 01:24:49,760 --> 01:24:53,999 They wonder how I live with five shots Niggas is hard to kill on my block 559 01:24:53,999 --> 01:24:55,858 Schemes for currency And dough-related 560 01:24:55,858 --> 01:24:58,999 Affiliated with the hustlers And so we made it 561 01:24:58,999 --> 01:25:01,749 We both represent both sides of the game. 562 01:25:01,749 --> 01:25:05,645 The calm one and the relentless one. 563 01:25:05,645 --> 01:25:08,843 My nigga, Dogg, with me Eternally the most wanted 564 01:25:08,843 --> 01:25:10,843 Here's my commercial for Death Row. 565 01:25:10,843 --> 01:25:13,544 If you come to Death Row, you will see 566 01:25:13,544 --> 01:25:18,789 your art brought to a bigger plateau, and you will be paid one of these days. 567 01:25:18,789 --> 01:25:21,391 Death Row. Count with me. Count with me. 568 01:25:21,391 --> 01:25:22,987 This is for my homeboys in jail. 569 01:25:22,987 --> 01:25:24,817 These are 100s. And they ain't counterfeit. 570 01:25:24,817 --> 01:25:28,999 If I said it was the money, the struggle continues. 571 01:25:28,999 --> 01:25:33,181 I got money, but I have to pay everybody even more money. 572 01:25:33,181 --> 01:25:35,297 I owe money to Death Row. 573 01:25:35,297 --> 01:25:41,711 So it's not just, "Oh, he's paid. He's living large." It's not like that. 574 01:25:43,111 --> 01:25:46,722 People wanna sue you, and I have to settle for this and that 575 01:25:46,722 --> 01:25:48,785 when I know I didn't do anything, just because it's like: 576 01:25:48,785 --> 01:25:54,233 "I don't wanna go to court another eight months." Makes you work harder. 577 01:25:58,658 --> 01:26:01,807 Next year, Death Row is gonna print our own money. 578 01:26:01,807 --> 01:26:04,306 We make so much, we need to start printing our own. 579 01:26:04,306 --> 01:26:06,979 It's gonna be me and Suge on the $100 bill. 580 01:26:06,979 --> 01:26:09,534 Me, Suge and Damu gonna be on the $100 bill. 581 01:26:09,534 --> 01:26:12,097 I felt I'm getting pimped. 582 01:26:12,097 --> 01:26:14,214 This is the $100 bill on Death Row money, here. 583 01:26:14,214 --> 01:26:19,217 But you have to come up, start from the bottom and work up to the top. 584 01:26:19,217 --> 01:26:22,503 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome acclaimed rap artist 585 01:26:22,503 --> 01:26:25,975 and Grammy nominee, Tupac. 586 01:26:29,619 --> 01:26:32,735 People fail to realize this is not just play. I work. 587 01:26:32,735 --> 01:26:35,261 Run! Scatter, scatter! 588 01:26:35,261 --> 01:26:38,429 Drag K off the stage. Y'all come on, man. 589 01:26:38,429 --> 01:26:40,978 Do it for real, man. One, two, three. 590 01:26:40,978 --> 01:26:44,674 When it's time to get down and do my business, I'm going to. 591 01:26:44,674 --> 01:26:47,191 I can't get no blood on the set? 592 01:26:47,191 --> 01:26:48,329 Shit. 593 01:26:52,602 --> 01:26:57,215 I believe I'm more responsible, more mature and more focused. 594 01:26:57,215 --> 01:27:01,415 You don't say you need me 595 01:27:01,415 --> 01:27:05,023 You don't sing me love songs 596 01:27:05,023 --> 01:27:10,916 Y'all don't bring us flowers anymore 597 01:27:13,947 --> 01:27:16,473 When I was in jail, I couldn't remember why I was rapping. 598 01:27:16,473 --> 01:27:21,392 But I was away from it so long, I said, "I really like going to the studio. 599 01:27:21,392 --> 01:27:22,542 "I really like creating." 600 01:27:22,542 --> 01:27:24,750 Living held down My game plan, to be trained 601 01:27:24,750 --> 01:27:26,964 And military mind of a thug lord 602 01:27:26,964 --> 01:27:30,028 I like music, and I like acting. I like doing it. 603 01:27:30,028 --> 01:27:35,476 She's a super freak, super freak She's super-freaky 604 01:27:37,676 --> 01:27:41,230 I can be me. I can be whoever because I'm true to me. 605 01:27:41,230 --> 01:27:42,908 The reason I sell six million records, 606 01:27:42,908 --> 01:27:45,705 the reason I can go to jail and come out without a scratch, 607 01:27:46,582 --> 01:27:51,917 the reason I am who I am is because I can look into my face and find my soul. 608 01:27:51,917 --> 01:27:53,809 It's there. I didn't sell it. 609 01:27:53,809 --> 01:27:55,211 So lash out and get a glass 610 01:27:55,211 --> 01:27:57,605 Done finally got his own drink Call it the best 611 01:27:57,605 --> 01:27:59,993 Introducing a special brew Made for a chosen few 612 01:27:59,993 --> 01:28:03,957 I'm thugged out While Snoop Dogg's sipping blue 613 01:28:04,357 --> 01:28:07,789 I thought, "I'm a superpower. Death Row is a superpower. 614 01:28:07,789 --> 01:28:12,482 "Let's combine superpowers and ally." 615 01:28:15,058 --> 01:28:18,802 Damu! My dog's going crazy, ready to kill a few people. 616 01:28:18,802 --> 01:28:21,350 - Yeah. Yeah. - He wanna kill. 617 01:28:21,350 --> 01:28:22,889 I love my artists. 618 01:28:22,889 --> 01:28:26,085 I don't consider my people artists. I consider them family. 619 01:28:26,085 --> 01:28:29,749 It's just a big difference, if they decided to turn in rapping or singing, 620 01:28:29,749 --> 01:28:32,646 they'd still be my homeboys. We'd still travel together. 621 01:28:32,646 --> 01:28:35,352 If they needed something, what's mine will still be theirs. 622 01:28:35,352 --> 01:28:39,593 It's no situation where I'm dealing with them strictly for business, 623 01:28:39,593 --> 01:28:41,586 because they're good. It's not like that. 624 01:28:41,586 --> 01:28:44,052 You've gotta have more respect for your people. 625 01:28:44,052 --> 01:28:47,069 Plus we've got a Death Row East going on. 626 01:28:47,069 --> 01:28:49,782 - I'm sure you heard about that. - Tell me about that. 627 01:28:49,782 --> 01:28:52,401 Hold on. Damu! Damu, sit! 628 01:29:04,136 --> 01:29:09,289 But Death Row has a reputation for having a thug-like mentality. 629 01:29:09,289 --> 01:29:12,702 Won't that get you in trouble? 630 01:29:12,702 --> 01:29:15,950 Death Row has a bigger reputation for success than anything else. 631 01:29:15,950 --> 01:29:18,994 The reason for all of the fear involves the world of this man, 632 01:29:18,994 --> 01:29:21,089 the man getting out of the limousine. 633 01:29:21,089 --> 01:29:25,673 Six-foot-three, 335-pound Marion Knight, 634 01:29:25,673 --> 01:29:29,035 known by the nickname of "Suge", short for "Sugar". 635 01:29:29,035 --> 01:29:32,206 It's an efficient camp over here, 636 01:29:32,206 --> 01:29:35,715 professional, business-oriented. I like that. 637 01:29:35,715 --> 01:29:39,249 At the age of only 30, and with a lengthy criminal record, 638 01:29:39,249 --> 01:29:41,912 including three felony convictions, 639 01:29:41,912 --> 01:29:44,514 Suge Knight has managed to become the head 640 01:29:44,514 --> 01:29:46,686 of a $100 million record company 641 01:29:46,686 --> 01:29:51,295 and one of the most powerful and feared men in the music industry. 642 01:29:51,295 --> 01:29:54,057 The controversy over Death Row Records 643 01:29:54,057 --> 01:29:59,096 and its owner being sort of a gangster. 644 01:29:59,096 --> 01:30:01,059 Everybody's asking about Death Row. 645 01:30:01,059 --> 01:30:03,135 - Suge ain't no gangsta. He's chilling. - No? 646 01:30:03,135 --> 01:30:06,541 No, man, Suge a rider. 647 01:30:06,541 --> 01:30:10,011 I know what good morals are, but you're supposed to disregard 648 01:30:10,011 --> 01:30:12,881 good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. 649 01:30:12,881 --> 01:30:14,854 If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? 650 01:30:14,854 --> 01:30:18,420 You're surrounded by devils, trying to be an angel? 651 01:30:18,420 --> 01:30:20,880 That's like suicide. 652 01:30:20,880 --> 01:30:23,633 I'd like to tell Tupac to keep his guards up. We're with him. 653 01:30:23,633 --> 01:30:24,994 One other thing I'd like to say, 654 01:30:24,994 --> 01:30:27,252 any artist out there that want to be an artist 655 01:30:27,252 --> 01:30:30,594 and wants to stay a star and don't wanna have to worry 656 01:30:30,594 --> 01:30:33,742 about the executive producer trying to be all in the videos, 657 01:30:33,742 --> 01:30:39,195 all on the records, dancing, come to Death Row. 658 01:30:40,332 --> 01:30:44,013 When I got out of jail, the West Coast- East Coast shit was really starting. 659 01:30:44,013 --> 01:30:47,471 Wait, the East Coast don't love Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg? 660 01:30:48,701 --> 01:30:51,005 The East Coast ain't got no love for Dr. Dre 661 01:30:51,005 --> 01:30:53,659 and Snoop Dogg and Death Row? 662 01:30:53,659 --> 01:30:57,288 West Coast was Death Row. The East Coast was Bad Boy. 663 01:30:57,288 --> 01:30:58,740 Check this out. 664 01:30:58,740 --> 01:31:02,360 I'm the executive producer that a comment was made about earlier. 665 01:31:02,360 --> 01:31:06,815 Everybody thought it was a war, a war for record sales and attention. 666 01:31:09,614 --> 01:31:11,805 But to me it was personal. 667 01:31:11,805 --> 01:31:14,674 I love the East Coast. I'm from the East Coast. 668 01:31:14,674 --> 01:31:19,417 But I felt like Puffy and Biggie wanted to dirty up everything I worked for. 669 01:31:19,417 --> 01:31:21,535 So it made me come back more relentless. 670 01:31:21,535 --> 01:31:24,218 I'm mad at Biggie. I'm rushing the nigga. What's the problem? 671 01:31:24,218 --> 01:31:26,928 Yo, Piggie, man, we got it going on, baby. 672 01:31:26,928 --> 01:31:30,341 It's on and cracking, man. He's gone, baby. You the man. 673 01:31:30,341 --> 01:31:32,511 So I directed videos. 674 01:31:32,511 --> 01:31:37,399 'Pac, you alive? I mean, you safe? Man, I'm so happy you're free. 675 01:31:37,399 --> 01:31:42,091 Yeah? Happy to see you, lying piece of shit. 676 01:31:42,091 --> 01:31:45,092 'Pac, please don't kill me. It was Buff's idea. 677 01:31:45,092 --> 01:31:46,598 - No, man. - I'm just a rapper. 678 01:31:46,598 --> 01:31:49,370 Please don't take me out of the game. 679 01:31:49,370 --> 01:31:52,399 I ain't going to kill you. We was homeboys once, Pig. 680 01:31:52,399 --> 01:31:54,946 Once we homeboys, we always homeboys, 681 01:31:54,946 --> 01:31:57,417 even if you is a fat phony. 682 01:31:57,417 --> 01:32:00,251 And I did a song with Faith, Biggie's wife. 683 01:32:00,251 --> 01:32:04,384 Faith's my homegirl. I just want to send a shout-out to Faith. Hey, girl. 684 01:32:04,384 --> 01:32:06,599 Then I did "Hit 'Em Up". 685 01:32:06,599 --> 01:32:10,021 That's why I fucked your bitch, You fat motherfucker 686 01:32:10,021 --> 01:32:12,373 Which is a classic battle record. 687 01:32:12,373 --> 01:32:14,454 First off, fuck your bitch And the clique you claim 688 01:32:14,454 --> 01:32:16,766 West Side, when we ride Come equipped with game 689 01:32:16,766 --> 01:32:19,090 You claim to be a player But I fucked your wife 690 01:32:19,090 --> 01:32:21,447 We bust on Bad Boys Niggas fucked for life 691 01:32:21,447 --> 01:32:23,338 I'm a self-made millionaire 692 01:32:23,338 --> 01:32:25,626 Thug living out of prison Pistols in the air 693 01:32:25,626 --> 01:32:28,750 Biggie, remember when I used To let you sleep on the couch 694 01:32:28,750 --> 01:32:31,281 And beg a bitch To let you sleep in the house 695 01:32:31,281 --> 01:32:33,814 - Now it's all about Versace - You copied my style 696 01:32:33,814 --> 01:32:35,926 - Five shots couldn't drop me - I took it and smiled 697 01:32:35,926 --> 01:32:37,769 Now I'm about set the record straight 698 01:32:37,769 --> 01:32:40,142 With my AK, I'm still the thug That you love to hate 699 01:32:41,802 --> 01:32:43,769 Grab your Glocks When you see Tupac 700 01:32:43,769 --> 01:32:46,294 Call the cops when you see Tupac 701 01:32:46,294 --> 01:32:48,677 Who shot me? But you punks didn't finish that 702 01:32:48,677 --> 01:32:50,397 You're about to feel The wrath of a menace 703 01:32:51,627 --> 01:32:55,386 Everything happened so fast at that point. 704 01:32:55,504 --> 01:32:58,451 I was looking at things, the East Coast-West Coast thing, 705 01:32:58,451 --> 01:32:59,864 it just got out of control. 706 01:32:59,864 --> 01:33:02,217 Dudes was getting killed, and I felt responsible. 707 01:33:02,217 --> 01:33:04,512 But I couldn't stop it. 708 01:33:04,512 --> 01:33:07,226 We ain't mad at the whole New York, just certain people. 709 01:33:07,226 --> 01:33:11,104 I got this project coming out along with some brothers called One Nation. 710 01:33:11,104 --> 01:33:13,595 It's like an East Coast-West Coast collaboration 711 01:33:13,595 --> 01:33:16,133 to kill this whole new vibe. 712 01:33:16,133 --> 01:33:17,869 Everybody want it to be a war 713 01:33:17,869 --> 01:33:19,707 between the East Coast and West Coast. 714 01:33:19,707 --> 01:33:21,595 It's really a problem with two rappers. 715 01:33:21,595 --> 01:33:23,714 The East Coast-West Coast thing is something journalists 716 01:33:23,714 --> 01:33:26,606 are making up to get paid off, so it can drag out 717 01:33:26,606 --> 01:33:29,191 and everybody can have albums. They perpetuate this, so it can be drama. 718 01:33:29,191 --> 01:33:32,686 When it go down, don't look at me and Biggie 719 01:33:32,686 --> 01:33:34,787 and be like, "Why is there a big East Coast/West Coast war?" 720 01:33:34,787 --> 01:33:38,521 When you're shooting this to 3,300 homes, 300 countries, 721 01:33:38,521 --> 01:33:41,352 telling them about a war that they would never know exists. 722 01:33:41,352 --> 01:33:43,910 That's where information becomes a problem. 723 01:33:43,910 --> 01:33:46,365 We both need to exercise greater restraint. 724 01:33:47,718 --> 01:33:54,371 Damn, sometimes life gets messed up. 725 01:33:58,199 --> 01:34:02,706 When I was on Death Row, I was successful but not happy. 726 01:34:02,706 --> 01:34:06,555 Tupac, your life has been marred by considerable pain. 727 01:34:06,555 --> 01:34:09,582 Do you think you'll get to the point where you can live a normal life? 728 01:34:09,582 --> 01:34:12,449 No. But, I... 729 01:34:14,141 --> 01:34:17,488 I'm going for it. I'm trying for it, and until then 730 01:34:17,488 --> 01:34:21,087 I have to make the life that I do live as happy as I can 731 01:34:21,087 --> 01:34:24,090 and try to do the best with what I have. 732 01:34:24,090 --> 01:34:27,241 Live the best life I can live, be as happy as I can be. 733 01:34:27,241 --> 01:34:31,217 Nothing is perfect for anybody, I don't think. 734 01:34:31,477 --> 01:34:34,591 I felt trapped. 735 01:34:34,591 --> 01:34:36,279 They say, "You made your bed, lay in it"? 736 01:34:36,279 --> 01:34:38,344 I tried to move. I can't move to no other bed. 737 01:34:38,344 --> 01:34:41,757 I felt I can't live a different lifestyle. 738 01:34:41,757 --> 01:34:43,793 This the life they gave me, this the life I made. 739 01:34:43,793 --> 01:34:47,859 I felt I can't change, not for the courts, not for the parole board, 740 01:34:47,859 --> 01:34:50,179 not for nobody. This is it. 741 01:34:50,179 --> 01:34:54,195 I also felt like something was gonna happen to me because I'm paranoid. 742 01:34:54,195 --> 01:34:56,786 And I put it in my videos. 743 01:35:01,989 --> 01:35:04,884 That nigga ain't want none. I been drinking. Where he at? 744 01:35:04,884 --> 01:35:07,275 No, no, no, where he at? 745 01:35:07,275 --> 01:35:08,950 Yo, watch out. 746 01:35:14,657 --> 01:35:18,415 It was a prophecy. 747 01:35:24,927 --> 01:35:27,602 I had a prophecy about my death. 748 01:35:27,602 --> 01:35:32,930 That's why I go in the studio and do three songs a day, get things ready. 749 01:35:32,930 --> 01:35:34,778 We don't have time or the luxury 750 01:35:34,778 --> 01:35:38,101 to spend all of this time doing one song. We don't have it. 751 01:35:38,101 --> 01:35:39,928 If I die, it can happen. 752 01:35:39,928 --> 01:35:43,952 If anything were to happen to me, that album's ready to go. 753 01:35:43,952 --> 01:35:45,736 So it's all good. 754 01:35:45,736 --> 01:35:48,439 I felt as if the only thing that can kill me is death, 755 01:35:48,439 --> 01:35:48,439 and even then my music will live forever. 756 01:36:45,844 --> 01:36:49,605 At approximately 9:00 p.m., security cameras at the MGM Grand 757 01:36:49,605 --> 01:36:53,176 captured Tupac, Suge Knight and members of the Death Row entourage 758 01:36:53,176 --> 01:36:56,439 beating an alleged South Side Crip, Orlando Anderson. 759 01:36:56,439 --> 01:36:59,460 Tupac, Suge and others jumped Anderson, punching and kicking him. 760 01:36:59,460 --> 01:37:03,522 Terrified bystanders scattered as the group streamed into the casino 761 01:37:03,522 --> 01:37:04,932 then out into the street. 762 01:37:35,836 --> 01:37:38,940 Whoa. 763 01:37:41,263 --> 01:37:43,827 Just after the Mike Tyson fight, 764 01:37:43,827 --> 01:37:46,850 Shakur, with record company executive, Suge Knight, 765 01:37:46,850 --> 01:37:49,273 headed for a club. While stopping at this intersection 766 01:37:49,273 --> 01:37:52,743 a car with four people pulled up and fired on Shakur and Knight. 767 01:37:52,743 --> 01:37:55,207 Shakur was shot several times in the chest. 768 01:37:55,207 --> 01:37:57,749 The driver, his record producer, was grazed in the head. 769 01:37:57,749 --> 01:38:00,819 He's returned to intensive care after another surgery, 770 01:38:00,819 --> 01:38:02,794 still in critical condition. 771 01:38:02,794 --> 01:38:05,884 All week long fans of Tupac have gathered outside the hospital. 772 01:38:05,884 --> 01:38:07,559 He's undergone two operations. 773 01:38:07,559 --> 01:38:10,388 His right lung was removed. He's intermittently conscious. 774 01:38:10,388 --> 01:38:12,826 Jesse Jackson's been here. Family is keeping vigil. 775 01:38:12,826 --> 01:38:15,724 Despite reports that his wounds were not life-threatening, 776 01:38:15,724 --> 01:38:20,337 people at the hospital continue to tell us he is in very serious condition. 777 01:38:21,644 --> 01:38:28,913 At 4:03 this afternoon, Tupac Shakur was pronounced dead. 778 01:38:34,113 --> 01:38:37,162 Who shot me? Shit, I don't know. 779 01:38:37,162 --> 01:38:42,284 Sorry. 780 01:38:42,284 --> 01:38:44,828 My death, it's a tragedy like Shakespeare, I guess. 781 01:38:44,828 --> 01:38:47,858 But I have no bad feelings. I have love for everybody. 782 01:38:47,858 --> 01:38:51,647 Please welcome the mothers of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur, 783 01:38:51,647 --> 01:39:03,493 Afeni Shakur and Voletta Wallace. 784 01:39:14,034 --> 01:39:16,839 Coming to grips with my past, it was hard. 785 01:39:16,839 --> 01:39:20,230 I don't feel what I did was evil. I feel like the way I was living 786 01:39:20,230 --> 01:39:26,833 and my mentality was a part of my progression to be a man. 787 01:39:28,508 --> 01:39:30,744 But we grow. We all grow. We're made to grow. 788 01:39:30,744 --> 01:39:34,572 You either evolve, or you disappear. 789 01:39:34,572 --> 01:39:36,984 I don't want to be forgotten. 790 01:39:36,984 --> 01:39:40,360 I'll always be a troublemaker to some people. 791 01:39:40,360 --> 01:39:44,665 But I still get love from my community. 792 01:39:52,433 --> 01:39:56,963 I owe them everything. That's why I owe everything to the 'hood. 793 01:39:56,963 --> 01:39:59,173 I've got love there. 794 01:39:59,173 --> 01:40:03,244 I've got love from thugs and the street dudes. 795 01:40:03,244 --> 01:40:06,139 And that focuses me back on what I should be doing, 796 01:40:06,139 --> 01:40:12,337 lay out the real mat on the world and how it is. 797 01:40:13,316 --> 01:40:15,688 The message is, young black males could do anything 798 01:40:15,688 --> 01:40:19,022 if you just give us a shot, stop trying to beat us down. 799 01:40:19,022 --> 01:40:25,829 And to my homeboys, we need to be in control of ourselves. 800 01:40:25,940 --> 01:40:28,640 I'm not saying I'll change the world, but I guarantee I'll spark 801 01:40:28,640 --> 01:40:33,153 the brain that will change the world. 802 01:40:35,811 --> 01:40:38,779 So keep your head up. 803 01:40:38,779 --> 01:40:42,669 Do what you've gotta do. 804 01:40:42,669 --> 01:40:47,990 And then inside of you, I'll be reborn.