WEBVTT 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. 00:51:24.629 --> 00:51:26.151 I try to be responsible, but it's hard. 00:51:26.151 --> 00:51:29.487 If you worry about what you're saying, I get writer's block. 00:51:29.487 --> 00:51:32.363 Kind of like, "I can't say that. That's too harsh. Can't say this." 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. 00:51:36.948 --> 00:51:39.947 Pretty spit... I was spitting. 00:51:39.947 --> 00:51:44.007 - Chill out. Chill out. - That's my style. That's my new style. 00:51:44.007 --> 00:51:47.743 - That's my new style. - 'Pac, chill out. 00:51:47.743 --> 00:51:50.254 That's my new style. 00:51:50.254 --> 00:51:54.232 Hey, have a good summer. 00:51:54.232 --> 00:51:57.644 Have a good summer, bitch! 00:51:57.644 --> 00:52:00.490 But I'm not saying I didn't make mistakes. 00:52:00.490 --> 00:52:06.031 Like some of the things I said when I was fighting the Hughes brothers. 00:52:06.031 --> 00:52:08.637 I beat up the directors to Menace II Society. 00:52:08.637 --> 00:52:12.402 - All right, tell them why you did that. - These chump, punk, slump... 00:52:12.402 --> 00:52:16.138 - You'll be able to rebuttal to that. - No, they better come now. 00:52:16.138 --> 00:52:20.809 Check this out, they fired me in a roundabout, punk, snitch way. 00:52:20.809 --> 00:52:23.341 So I caught them on the streets and beat they behinds. 00:52:23.341 --> 00:52:26.089 I was a menace to the Hughes brothers. It ain't over! 00:52:26.089 --> 00:52:30.038 I still got more for you chumps! I read what you said about me! 00:52:30.038 --> 00:52:33.269 I'm gonna kick their ass! 00:52:33.269 --> 00:52:35.572 My big mouth. 00:52:35.572 --> 00:52:38.565 Mind y'all business, I'll mind mine. I do what I gotta do, 00:52:38.565 --> 00:52:40.999 you do what you gotta do. Long as I give you 12 tracks, 00:52:40.999 --> 00:52:45.325 you give me my $12, and we even. I don't gotta be a role model. 00:52:45.325 --> 00:52:48.734 I don't gotta hold your hand. I don't gotta do shit. 00:52:48.734 --> 00:52:52.411 My big mouth. I got a big mouth, can't help it. 00:52:52.411 --> 00:52:55.148 - I talk from my heart, I'm real. - We talked about 00:52:55.148 --> 00:52:59.918 people in this business that you feel don't have a love for their own people. 00:52:59.918 --> 00:53:03.385 We was talking about Spike Lee, Arsenio Hall, 00:53:03.385 --> 00:53:07.068 Eddie Murphy and the rest of them. 00:53:07.068 --> 00:53:11.103 I thought I was charming, but I was immature. I did things without thinking. 00:53:11.103 --> 00:53:13.493 Michael Jackson, Randy Jackson, 00:53:13.493 --> 00:53:16.184 Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, all of them. 00:53:16.184 --> 00:53:18.737 She wants to not be black, but sell to blacks. 00:53:18.737 --> 00:53:23.548 I don't appreciate her going out of her way to say she's not black. 00:53:23.548 --> 00:53:27.743 My actions came before thought. Things that I did, things I said. 00:53:27.743 --> 00:53:29.319 So many things I wanna take back. 00:53:29.319 --> 00:53:32.940 Eddie Murphy, with all that dough he's making, hasn't done nothing for us. 00:53:32.940 --> 00:53:36.657 - He does a lot of charity. - Charity doesn't get to the ghetto. 00:53:36.657 --> 00:53:38.392 Everybody knows that. 00:53:38.392 --> 00:53:39.758 I was young and dumb. 00:53:39.758 --> 00:53:42.906 Being mad at Spike Lee and all those people, all of that. 00:53:42.906 --> 00:53:45.075 The thing I said of Quincy Jones, 00:53:45.075 --> 00:53:47.325 he shouldn't mess with white women. 00:53:47.325 --> 00:53:49.462 I said I was sorry personally for that. 00:53:49.462 --> 00:53:51.531 I didn't think of how it would hurt people. 00:53:51.531 --> 00:53:54.639 I'm gonna catch y'all in traffic and be the roughest nigga you ever seen. 00:53:54.639 --> 00:53:57.641 That turned into more legal problems. 00:53:57.641 --> 00:54:01.622 The People truly believe that Mr. Shakur has shown no remorse 00:54:01.622 --> 00:54:04.376 whatsoever for his action in this case. 00:54:04.376 --> 00:54:08.712 We view Mr. Shakur's appearance on Yo! MTV Raps as bragging. 00:54:08.712 --> 00:54:11.188 He was proud of what he did and does not feel sorry. 00:54:11.188 --> 00:54:15.028 I just want to say, judge, that I have a great deal of remorse. 00:54:15.028 --> 00:54:18.860 As far as I want you to treat me different, I don't want that. 00:54:18.860 --> 00:54:23.764 I just want the chance to make right from all the bad things that I got. 00:54:23.764 --> 00:54:27.078 I got things against me and people that look up to me. 00:54:27.078 --> 00:54:29.709 I don't want the last place they see me to be jail. 00:54:29.709 --> 00:54:32.810 I guess it's now time for me to render the sentence. 00:54:32.810 --> 00:54:36.934 I obviously find that the defendant is a talented individual. 00:54:36.934 --> 00:54:40.755 However, this court believes that jail time is warranted with a battery 00:54:40.755 --> 00:54:42.724 with some injury involved. 00:54:42.724 --> 00:54:45.865 The defendant will serve 15 days in the county jail. 00:54:45.865 --> 00:54:47.703 I think the judge was fair. 00:54:47.703 --> 00:54:50.339 I still don't feel like I got the decision that I wanted, 00:54:50.339 --> 00:54:52.453 but he was as fair as he could be. 00:54:52.453 --> 00:54:56.737 Really, to my homeboys, I mean, a fight is a fight, battery is battery. 00:54:56.737 --> 00:55:01.169 A two and a half minute problem just cost me 15 days in jail, 00:55:01.169 --> 00:55:02.842 and that was lenient. 00:55:02.842 --> 00:55:05.577 But my most serious legal problems came from women. 00:55:05.577 --> 00:55:08.557 How I was acting with women. 00:55:08.557 --> 00:55:12.510 The Underground just don't stop For ho's, I get around 00:55:12.510 --> 00:55:17.178 I will no longer sit passively, allowing this degradation 00:55:17.178 --> 00:55:20.757 to be continued by our children. 00:55:20.757 --> 00:55:23.228 I think we live in a very sexist society, 00:55:23.228 --> 00:55:25.335 and everybody's pointing the finger at me. 00:55:25.335 --> 00:55:29.520 When somebody asks me, "Do you exploit women?" 00:55:29.520 --> 00:55:33.371 With her permission, I might smack a girl on the butt in the video. 00:55:33.371 --> 00:55:37.341 I might be drinking champagne, but everything in moderation, 00:55:37.341 --> 00:55:39.043 and everything with class. 00:55:39.043 --> 00:55:41.953 Fingertips on the hips as I dip Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip 00:55:41.953 --> 00:55:45.047 Loose lips sink ships, it's a trip I love the way she licks her lips 00:55:45.047 --> 00:55:48.268 See me jocking, put a little twist In her hips because I'm watching 00:55:48.268 --> 00:55:50.963 I don't have to always do a song with the good woman. 00:55:50.963 --> 00:55:54.798 I don't see women as all one thing. I think all women are different. 00:55:54.798 --> 00:55:59.108 You wonder why they call you bitch You wonder why they call you bitch 00:55:59.108 --> 00:56:02.574 We African-American women, particularly, 00:56:02.574 --> 00:56:08.351 are tired of being called ho's, bitches and sluts by our children. 00:56:08.351 --> 00:56:12.104 Dear Ms. DeLores Tucker You keep stressing me 00:56:12.104 --> 00:56:15.125 Fucking with a motherfucking mind I figured you wanted to know 00:56:15.125 --> 00:56:17.155 Why we call them ho's bitches 00:56:17.155 --> 00:56:20.146 If I do something that has a bad woman, people go, "He hates women." 00:56:20.146 --> 00:56:25.126 I don't think like that. But there are definitely a type of female, 00:56:25.126 --> 00:56:28.491 label them a bitch, whose main thing is to get what they can, 00:56:28.491 --> 00:56:31.825 and they revel in breaking a nigga's heart and taking what he owns. 00:56:31.825 --> 00:56:33.698 Shut the fuck up! 00:56:33.698 --> 00:56:35.642 There's male bitches too. 00:56:35.642 --> 00:56:39.299 Women know there are bitches. I don't know why they're surprised. 00:56:39.299 --> 00:56:42.352 They know. They say it louder. 00:56:42.352 --> 00:56:45.904 They think we say they're all bitches. That's not what we're saying. 00:56:45.904 --> 00:56:48.086 I give a holler to my sisters on welfare 00:56:48.086 --> 00:56:51.422 Tupac cares And don't nobody else care 00:56:51.422 --> 00:56:53.193 That's "Keep Ya Head Up" and "Get Around". 00:56:53.193 --> 00:56:55.276 I said, "I'm gonna write a song about women like my mom, 00:56:55.276 --> 00:56:58.663 "who represent a strong black woman." I did that. 00:56:58.663 --> 00:57:01.665 I'll rap about women I see daily. That's "Get Around". 00:57:01.665 --> 00:57:05.460 If I just did "Keep Ya Head Up", it makes me seem more than I am, 00:57:05.460 --> 00:57:07.013 but I'm just a normal man. 00:57:07.013 --> 00:57:11.669 America, America 00:57:11.669 --> 00:57:18.078 - God shed his grace on thee - Stop. 00:57:18.078 --> 00:57:20.054 I'm gonna close the door. 00:57:20.054 --> 00:57:22.105 Come on, Mr. Cameraman. 00:57:22.105 --> 00:57:28.456 This is some real private shit that's about to happen, Mr. Cameraman. 00:57:28.456 --> 00:57:31.683 Bye. 00:57:31.683 --> 00:57:33.714 Anyway, I'll let you hear the sounds. 00:57:33.714 --> 00:57:36.126 Is there a double standard for men being promiscuous? 00:57:36.126 --> 00:57:38.496 Yeah, but we didn't start that double standard. 00:57:38.496 --> 00:57:42.295 - I'm not saying you did. - And I'm not saying it's fair. 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? 00:57:46.778 --> 00:57:49.850 - This is how it is. - Do you look down on males 00:57:49.850 --> 00:57:52.413 if they're as promiscuous as women? 00:57:52.413 --> 00:57:55.208 I don't look down on anybody that's promiscuous. 00:57:55.208 --> 00:57:57.715 I only look down on people who don't control the situation. 00:57:57.715 --> 00:58:01.226 If a girl sleeps with a lot of guys, she's still my homegirl. 00:58:01.226 --> 00:58:04.052 You're only a bitch, not if you sleep with a lot of guys, 00:58:04.052 --> 00:58:05.787 but if you're sleeping with them for money. 00:58:05.787 --> 00:58:08.688 - So you put a price on yourself. - Because they have a nice car. 00:58:08.688 --> 00:58:12.916 Guys, when they sleep around, they do it for free. 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, 00:58:17.238 --> 00:58:20.539 they wanna be associated with that person. 00:58:20.539 --> 00:58:23.438 It's the fame that gets these people. It's not me. It's the fame. 00:58:23.438 --> 00:58:26.779 I've seen females look at me when they didn't know me, 00:58:26.779 --> 00:58:28.777 and I can see it, nothing. 00:58:28.777 --> 00:58:31.830 Then someone whisper who I was, it's this glare in the eye. 00:58:31.830 --> 00:58:35.154 - You make yourself want them. - How do you feel about that? 00:58:35.154 --> 00:58:38.295 I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year, 00:58:38.295 --> 00:58:42.903 and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. 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, 00:58:46.763 --> 00:58:48.760 walking around, lonely like a motherfucker. 00:58:48.760 --> 00:58:52.775 Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, 00:58:52.775 --> 00:58:56.755 and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!" 00:58:56.755 --> 00:59:03.239 But I still enjoyed sex without the emotional connection. 00:59:03.239 --> 00:59:07.427 And it was always a fantasy for me to have sex 00:59:07.427 --> 00:59:09.761 with a lot of people in the room. 00:59:09.761 --> 00:59:13.516 But I didn't play one situation correctly. 00:59:13.516 --> 00:59:17.892 Rap singer Tupac Shakur was released on $50,000 bail today, 00:59:17.892 --> 00:59:20.978 accused of a sexual attack in a New York hotel. 00:59:20.978 --> 00:59:23.840 The singer was arrested Thursday night after a woman claimed 00:59:23.840 --> 00:59:27.698 he and three other men overpowered her in a hotel suite. 00:59:27.698 --> 00:59:32.767 - Are you disappointing your fans? - Very, but they're gonna support me. 00:59:32.767 --> 00:59:36.180 With bodyguards and attorneys, he went into Manhattan Criminal Court. 00:59:36.180 --> 00:59:39.925 There, the rapper and two friends were charged with first-degree sodomy. 00:59:39.925 --> 00:59:43.071 The allegations stem from an incident last Thursday 00:59:43.071 --> 00:59:44.975 in which a woman claims she was held down 00:59:44.975 --> 00:59:48.026 as he and two others allegedly sodomized her. 00:59:48.026 --> 00:59:51.193 The allegations by this young lady are without merit. 00:59:51.193 --> 00:59:53.904 Defense attorneys say the woman went there consensually, 00:59:53.904 --> 00:59:56.604 and answering machine tapes that indicate 00:59:56.604 --> 01:00:00.070 her interest in Shakur were erased by police. 01:00:00.070 --> 01:00:04.409 OK, so you tell me when your lawyers have asked you to stop. 01:00:04.409 --> 01:00:08.913 The girl who claims that... 01:00:08.913 --> 01:00:10.612 What does she claim? 01:00:10.612 --> 01:00:12.947 - I can't even say it, man. - OK. 01:00:12.947 --> 01:00:15.422 But technically, it's a rape case. 01:00:15.422 --> 01:00:17.461 I wasn't convicted of no rape charge. 01:00:17.461 --> 01:00:20.733 My charge was sexual abuse, forcibly touching the buttocks. 01:00:20.733 --> 01:00:25.025 I have a female saying that... I can't say it, but... 01:00:25.025 --> 01:00:27.741 It just bothers me so much, you know? 01:00:27.741 --> 01:00:29.899 To go through my life and everything I did, coming out 01:00:29.899 --> 01:00:32.769 of a family and household with just women, 01:00:32.769 --> 01:00:37.922 to get to this point to have a woman say that I took something from her. 01:00:37.922 --> 01:00:42.220 It was hard. 01:00:42.503 --> 01:00:45.616 It was an emotional day for a 20-year-old female fan, 01:00:45.616 --> 01:00:48.863 who admitted that she had consensual sex with Shakur on Sunday night, 01:00:48.863 --> 01:00:52.128 four days before her alleged rape in the hotel room. 01:00:52.128 --> 01:00:55.515 During her cross-examination, defense attorney Michael Warren 01:00:55.515 --> 01:01:00.919 painted a picture of a starstruck, naive girl anxious to have sex with Shakur. 01:01:00.919 --> 01:01:04.732 Word is, you had a relationship with this woman prior to all this friction. 01:01:04.732 --> 01:01:08.155 If you can say that's a relationship. I bumped in a club. I seen her. 01:01:08.155 --> 01:01:11.375 Let's use a clinical term. There was oral copulation? 01:01:11.375 --> 01:01:13.685 Yeah, she performed oral sex on the dance floor. 01:01:13.685 --> 01:01:17.308 A lot of guys could say what they wouldn't do 01:01:17.308 --> 01:01:20.281 and what they would do, but when it happens, you know...? 01:01:20.281 --> 01:01:24.774 - Yeah. - It just goes down. And it's... Really. 01:01:31.004 --> 01:01:34.895 She did some things there at the club, and we got together later that night. 01:01:34.895 --> 01:01:38.580 I saw her again another time with these guys that introduced me to her. 01:01:38.580 --> 01:01:42.678 Everybody was having a good time, nothing sexual, just a good time. 01:01:42.678 --> 01:01:45.708 Me and her went in, she gave me a massage, went to sleep, woke up, 01:01:45.708 --> 01:01:49.329 she's screaming, "Rape, rape." I raped her. 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." 01:01:53.983 --> 01:01:57.890 I'm cursing her out because I'm not thinking she's really gonna do that. 01:01:57.890 --> 01:02:00.536 And the next thing I know, I'm going to jail. 01:02:00.536 --> 01:02:03.514 In your opinion there was no truth to the sexual abuse charges? 01:02:03.514 --> 01:02:05.624 Not on my part at all. 01:02:05.624 --> 01:02:07.567 The defense pounded away at her, 01:02:07.567 --> 01:02:11.597 asking her why she didn't scream for help at the time of the alleged attack. 01:02:11.597 --> 01:02:13.842 The woman testified that Shakur's friends said: 01:02:13.842 --> 01:02:17.769 "Tupac needs his fans. Don't go to the White Man with this. 01:02:17.769 --> 01:02:21.551 "Millions of girls would love to be in your shoes right now." 01:02:21.551 --> 01:02:23.142 What about your cronies? 01:02:23.142 --> 01:02:26.091 That was a big misconception. The people with me weren't friends. 01:02:26.091 --> 01:02:29.521 - Why were they in your room? - I hang with lots of people. 01:02:29.521 --> 01:02:32.523 And that's how I am. It's similar to like you said, 01:02:32.523 --> 01:02:36.126 about Led Zeppelin. They don't know all of the people with them. 01:02:36.126 --> 01:02:38.630 This guy got the weed? OK, you can kick it. 01:02:38.630 --> 01:02:40.025 Got the money? You can kick it. 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. 01:02:43.743 --> 01:02:50.136 But that was my fault, I had that kind of environment around me. 01:02:54.135 --> 01:02:57.775 I didn't do nothing. I'm charged with being in concert with some guys. 01:02:57.775 --> 01:02:59.618 Well, where are they at? 01:02:59.618 --> 01:03:01.079 Why me? Because I'm Tupac... 01:03:01.079 --> 01:03:02.316 I'm not mad at them. I'm mad at the system. 01:03:02.316 --> 01:03:04.727 I don't want nobody to go to jail, 01:03:04.727 --> 01:03:07.209 but I don't wanna go for something I didn't do. 01:03:07.209 --> 01:03:10.862 I just don't wanna be the scapegoat. 01:03:10.862 --> 01:03:12.997 I just couldn't believe this was going on in my life. 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. 01:03:19.102 --> 01:03:22.637 Hi, Tupac. Can you tell me how you're doing today? 01:03:22.637 --> 01:03:27.918 Well, I just had to listen to the prosecution's closing argument, 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. 01:03:32.735 --> 01:03:34.907 But I'm leaving it in the hands of the jury. 01:03:34.907 --> 01:03:39.386 I'm learning a lot about people's innermost fears in this trial. 01:03:39.386 --> 01:03:41.490 It's not even about my trial no more. It's just about 01:03:41.490 --> 01:03:45.657 Ioud rap music, tattoo-having thugs. 01:03:45.657 --> 01:03:50.340 It's about some nightmare that these people are having. 01:03:50.340 --> 01:03:52.066 I can't understand why it's so close. 01:03:52.066 --> 01:03:58.316 There's no evidence I sodomized her, even though you put that in the paper. 01:03:58.316 --> 01:04:00.445 Print the facts so everybody can sort it out. 01:04:00.445 --> 01:04:03.899 My life is ruined because nobody has a chance to get the facts. 01:04:03.899 --> 01:04:05.591 Fact is, there was no semen found. 01:04:05.591 --> 01:04:11.815 No semen found, no forcible entry, no entry into the anal, no nothing. 01:04:11.815 --> 01:04:13.485 I wanted to explain it. 01:04:13.485 --> 01:04:15.788 If you could go back to the night when the abuse occurred, 01:04:15.788 --> 01:04:18.299 - Is there anything you'd do differently? - Yeah. 01:04:18.299 --> 01:04:22.634 I would not have closed my eyes until she was out of the room, 01:04:22.634 --> 01:04:24.903 until everybody was out of the room. 01:04:24.903 --> 01:04:28.510 So when you left the room and left her with those people... 01:04:28.510 --> 01:04:31.748 I didn't leave her with those people or bring her to them. 01:04:31.748 --> 01:04:32.814 - She came over? - Right. 01:04:32.814 --> 01:04:36.012 She came over, knew those people, knew everything. 01:04:36.012 --> 01:04:40.540 I just didn't grab her out of there. 01:04:40.702 --> 01:04:44.390 I'm guilty of not being a smart man, not being a goodhearted man, 01:04:44.390 --> 01:04:46.548 I guess, or being more considerate. 01:04:46.548 --> 01:04:50.421 At any point, were you aware she was involved in something she... 01:04:50.421 --> 01:04:54.341 - Cut. That's a problem right there. - Excuse me. 01:04:54.341 --> 01:04:57.506 None of these legal matters can be asked. 01:04:57.506 --> 01:05:00.069 I have a list of the stuff you'll have to cut out. Sorry. 01:05:00.069 --> 01:05:02.568 - All right. - The gentleman is out on bail. 01:05:02.568 --> 01:05:05.241 I see. 01:05:05.241 --> 01:05:07.273 I couldn't defend myself. 01:05:07.273 --> 01:05:09.817 This would never have happened to anybody else. 01:05:09.817 --> 01:05:12.624 They have no evidence on me, and it's about to come out. 01:05:12.624 --> 01:05:14.993 Now my life is over. This is a year later. 01:05:14.993 --> 01:05:17.862 A year after the world's been thinking I'm a rapist. 01:05:17.862 --> 01:05:20.383 The whole world owes me an apology. 01:05:20.383 --> 01:05:22.626 I went through it and didn't kill myself like Kurt Cobain. 01:05:22.626 --> 01:05:26.231 And I should, because this is some crazy madness. 01:05:35.224 --> 01:05:39.400 Central, I got a black male shot at 48th and 7th. 01:05:42.016 --> 01:05:45.250 Last night, just after midnight, at 723 7th Avenue, 01:05:45.250 --> 01:05:48.276 that's between 48th and 49th Street, 01:05:48.276 --> 01:05:52.185 rap star Tupac Shakur and three members of his group 01:05:52.185 --> 01:05:55.228 were robbed and shot. 01:06:02.503 --> 01:06:04.029 They shot me, straight up. 01:06:04.029 --> 01:06:06.599 I just kept thinking, "They really did shoot me." 01:06:06.922 --> 01:06:10.603 When I wasn't dead, immediately I was like, "Oh, man." 01:06:10.603 --> 01:06:12.573 I was like, "No, this ain't it." 01:06:12.573 --> 01:06:16.074 I know how it's gonna be when I die. It's gonna be no noise. 01:06:16.074 --> 01:06:22.097 You ain't gonna hear people screaming. I'm gonna fade out. 01:06:22.405 --> 01:06:26.236 And I didn't... None of that was there. 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." 01:06:32.374 --> 01:06:35.345 When Shakur resisted, he was shot five times, 01:06:35.345 --> 01:06:38.205 twice in the head and twice in the groin area. 01:06:38.205 --> 01:06:41.440 And his most serious wound, a gunshot through the hand, 01:06:41.440 --> 01:06:43.428 hitting an artery in his thigh. 01:06:43.428 --> 01:06:48.250 He's listed in serious but stable condition. 01:06:48.250 --> 01:06:52.791 Until it happened, I really did believe no black person would ever shoot me. 01:06:52.791 --> 01:06:56.951 I believed that I didn't have to fear my own community. 01:06:56.951 --> 01:06:59.773 You know, I was like, "I represent them. 01:06:59.773 --> 01:07:03.194 "I'm their ambassador to the world. They would never do me wrong." 01:07:03.194 --> 01:07:06.007 I believe that this was a robbery. 01:07:06.007 --> 01:07:09.292 Anybody who was gonna walk into that building was gonna be robbed. 01:07:09.292 --> 01:07:13.891 The police don't wanna find out who shot me. They're happy. 01:07:20.873 --> 01:07:23.549 As far as that Vibe interview, just read everything over 01:07:23.549 --> 01:07:28.953 and read my reply, read their reply, read what people say. 01:07:28.953 --> 01:07:36.448 Everybody that was there knows what happened. 01:07:36.909 --> 01:07:40.268 My recollection was, I was shooting a video, the second half of "Warning", 01:07:40.268 --> 01:07:44.103 which is the B-side of "Big Poppa", and I was shooting around the block. 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. 01:07:47.971 --> 01:07:51.611 So I got off at the reception area, and I saw Andre and Little Shawn. 01:07:51.611 --> 01:07:58.972 I said, "What's up?" about to get on the elevator, and he comes out shot. 01:08:06.325 --> 01:08:08.994 The Tupac article had me pissed off, you know what I'm saying? 01:08:08.994 --> 01:08:12.725 Because first of all, he dissed my man, 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. 01:08:18.524 --> 01:08:22.063 And, like, the rumors that's spreading 01:08:22.063 --> 01:08:28.205 is on some tip like we set him up. And that's crazy. 01:08:28.809 --> 01:08:32.054 As soon as he comes out shot, me and my man try to sit him down. 01:08:32.054 --> 01:08:35.427 He called his mom. He asked my man if he can roll him a blunt. 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." 01:08:41.995 --> 01:08:50.391 We were just trying to comfort him. Andre Harrell called the ambulance. 01:08:50.391 --> 01:08:56.268 And everybody there was very supportive of him. 01:08:56.268 --> 01:09:00.104 It was just the total opposite. He came out and everyone ran to him. 01:09:00.104 --> 01:09:01.884 It was nothing but love and concern. 01:09:01.884 --> 01:09:06.030 They got different accounts of it, and I'm the one with the bullet wounds. 01:09:06.030 --> 01:09:10.151 I also understand that if you was to get shot five times, 01:09:10.151 --> 01:09:12.438 your mind is just completely spinning. 01:09:12.438 --> 01:09:14.601 You're real confused about your situation. 01:09:14.601 --> 01:09:16.790 It'll make you say things you don't mean. 01:09:16.790 --> 01:09:20.831 I was there for the whole thing. No one else was there for the whole thing. 01:09:20.831 --> 01:09:25.733 I don't know the purpose of why the story was said in another context. 01:09:25.733 --> 01:09:28.938 It's not important that others know what happened. I said it. 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. 01:09:32.585 --> 01:09:34.018 God knows the truth. 01:09:34.018 --> 01:09:38.784 There's no religion about getting shot. I don't want any converts. 01:09:41.045 --> 01:09:45.093 After getting shot, I was like, "Shit, I don't know who to trust." 01:09:45.093 --> 01:09:46.943 In a bizarre twist of events, 01:09:46.943 --> 01:09:51.894 Tupac Shakur checked himself out of Bellevue Hospital Wednesday night. 01:09:51.894 --> 01:09:57.265 After surgery, Tupac checked himself out of Bellevue against doctor's orders. 01:09:57.695 --> 01:10:01.033 It was just time to leave. I didn't feel safe there. 01:10:01.033 --> 01:10:04.137 I kept getting these crazy phone calls. 01:10:07.120 --> 01:10:10.495 At that point, I'm just paranoid, just bugging out. 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..." 01:10:15.644 --> 01:10:21.857 And I felt like I'm like a victim, a target. 01:10:21.857 --> 01:10:24.806 I couldn't even sleep at home. People could kill me at home. 01:10:24.806 --> 01:10:27.114 And are the police gonna come in and kill me? 01:10:27.114 --> 01:10:31.248 You know, is there secret police? 01:10:31.248 --> 01:10:34.940 I was so deep into the weed at that point. 01:10:34.940 --> 01:10:39.907 And I was like, "I'm petrified. I'm vulnerable." 01:10:39.907 --> 01:10:43.742 I felt like just a prisoner to my own fame. 01:10:43.742 --> 01:10:47.689 That's why I wanted to die at that point. 01:10:47.689 --> 01:10:53.475 I felt like, "If everybody's so worried, why ain't nobody came to help?" 01:10:53.475 --> 01:10:56.689 - Mr. Shakur? - Open up, please. Open up. 01:10:56.689 --> 01:10:58.305 - Excuse me. - Step back, please. 01:10:58.305 --> 01:11:01.847 - Just keep it tight, that's all. - How are you this morning? 01:11:01.847 --> 01:11:07.314 The jury deliberated, then, after days of twists worthy of a Hollywood drama, 01:11:07.314 --> 01:11:10.136 Tupac Shakur has finally had one question answered. 01:11:10.136 --> 01:11:13.139 Tonight, the jury found him guilty of three counts of sexual abuse, 01:11:13.139 --> 01:11:17.289 but innocent on six other charges, including sodomy. 01:11:17.289 --> 01:11:21.575 Please, give me some space. Please, man. 01:11:21.575 --> 01:11:23.247 Why did you decide to leave the hospital? 01:11:23.247 --> 01:11:27.149 Please, y'all are not letting me get through, man. Let me get through! 01:11:27.149 --> 01:11:30.104 - Back it up. - Why did you leave? 01:11:30.104 --> 01:11:34.835 And sentencing for this trial has yet to be scheduled. 01:11:45.151 --> 01:11:48.732 Where I was sent was a maximum-security penitentiary. 01:11:58.302 --> 01:12:02.099 I know when I was young, I couldn't wait to get to jail, straight up. 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. 01:12:10.254 --> 01:12:12.574 Now that I'm here, this is not the spot. 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. 01:12:17.441 --> 01:12:21.444 Somebody tells you when to get up, when you can shower, do this, do that. 01:12:21.444 --> 01:12:26.910 They can speak to you any way they want to, and you've gotta accept it. 01:12:27.379 --> 01:12:31.580 You can die here, know what I mean? Yesterday, a dude was murdered. 01:12:31.580 --> 01:12:34.229 He wasn't in here on no murder beef. He was in on a drug beef. 01:12:34.229 --> 01:12:38.128 He's gone. He's dead in jail, you know what I mean? 01:12:38.128 --> 01:12:40.292 By another prisoner who had life. 01:12:40.292 --> 01:12:43.129 He had nothing to lose, you know what I mean? 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. 01:12:50.170 --> 01:12:52.178 At first, me and the guards had problems. 01:12:52.178 --> 01:12:54.740 I got smacked and treated bad. 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. 01:13:00.168 --> 01:13:02.668 As soon as I got there, they went, "There he goes, the rich nigger." 01:13:02.668 --> 01:13:08.963 I was like, "Oh, shit, he said nigger!" Everybody's looking at me like, "So?" 01:13:08.963 --> 01:13:12.493 And I was like, "My God, this is where I'm gonna be staying?" 01:13:12.493 --> 01:13:13.979 He just said "nigger"! 01:13:13.979 --> 01:13:16.067 You've got "niggas" in one of your records. 01:13:16.067 --> 01:13:19.476 Niggas. He's talking about niggers. 01:13:19.476 --> 01:13:22.838 Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing. 01:13:22.838 --> 01:13:29.103 Niggas is the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs. 01:13:32.589 --> 01:13:36.786 I learned things there. In jail, it's like how we should be in life, humble. 01:13:36.786 --> 01:13:39.690 I was talking to skinheads because if you don't like black people, 01:13:39.690 --> 01:13:42.496 all right, that's fine. That's your opinion. 01:13:42.496 --> 01:13:46.279 I want people to respect my opinion when I'm rapping, so I'll respect yours. 01:13:46.279 --> 01:13:50.774 You treat me with respect, I'll treat you with respect, and we'll get along. 01:13:50.774 --> 01:13:54.601 This skinhead, "hate black people" all over, getting autographs for cousins. 01:13:54.601 --> 01:13:56.197 I accomplished something. 01:13:56.197 --> 01:14:00.630 I know, by him getting my autograph, that meant something to me. 01:14:00.630 --> 01:14:05.561 He couldn't hate black people and get my autograph. 01:14:05.561 --> 01:14:07.697 - The food was terrible, I guess. - Oh, my goodness. 01:14:07.697 --> 01:14:10.454 They've got this liver surprise thing. 01:14:10.454 --> 01:14:13.820 The liver surprise. They're trying to pump that jail on the menu. 01:14:13.820 --> 01:14:17.189 They're trying to get it to go prime-time, get it in the rotation. 01:14:17.189 --> 01:14:21.033 I was like, "We had this yesterday. I liked it already, goddamn." 01:14:21.033 --> 01:14:24.350 - No Tater Tots? - No. Are you crazy? Tater Tots? 01:14:24.350 --> 01:14:29.374 I used to get baked potatoes with a huge finger imprint on it. 01:14:29.374 --> 01:14:31.170 - All right. - It was bad. 01:14:31.170 --> 01:14:34.276 No, you don't wanna get me started. Jell-O with hair all in the mold. 01:14:34.276 --> 01:14:38.828 I'd be like, "Damn, man, how are you gonna mess up Jell-O?" 01:14:38.828 --> 01:14:42.592 Jell-O is so wholesome and family-like. It just ruins it for me. 01:14:42.592 --> 01:14:44.304 To have a hair in there, yeah. 01:14:44.304 --> 01:14:49.204 I mean, I'm like, "Come on, Bill Cosby pumps this, man!" 01:14:49.204 --> 01:14:52.426 Put the hair in my Jell-O. 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. 01:14:57.200 --> 01:14:58.839 "Can I see the cook, please?" 01:14:58.839 --> 01:15:03.018 The cook is a big dude named Bubba Joe. 01:15:03.018 --> 01:15:07.449 The first eight months I spent in solitude 23 hours a day, reading. 01:15:07.449 --> 01:15:09.463 I wrote a script called Live 2 Tell. 01:15:09.463 --> 01:15:12.924 I got How to Write a Screenplay, that big famous book by Syd Field. 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. 01:15:18.036 --> 01:15:19.620 I read a lot of good books. 01:15:19.620 --> 01:15:25.222 I read a lot of Maya Angelou's books. The Art of War by Sun Tzu. 01:15:25.865 --> 01:15:29.234 But in terms of writing music and lyrics, I couldn't do it. 01:15:29.234 --> 01:15:33.110 Everybody's like, "He's in jail now. He's gonna have the bomb album." 01:15:33.110 --> 01:15:34.509 But it's the opposite. 01:15:34.509 --> 01:15:38.299 Prison kills your spirit, straight up. It kills your spirit. 01:15:38.299 --> 01:15:44.682 I couldn't write. My inspiration was gone because I was a caged animal. 01:15:44.974 --> 01:15:47.739 But when I was in jail, a lot of people supported me. 01:15:47.739 --> 01:15:50.861 Jasmine Guy, Jada Pinkett, 01:15:50.861 --> 01:15:53.498 Mickey Rourke, he just wrote me funny stories. 01:15:53.498 --> 01:15:57.158 The name that sticks out the most, I'll keep saying this, is Tony Danza. 01:15:57.158 --> 01:16:01.022 To me, he is the bomb forever. 01:16:01.022 --> 01:16:03.035 I will be his number one fan forever, 01:16:03.035 --> 01:16:05.651 because when I got his letter, I was like, "Whoa!" 01:16:05.651 --> 01:16:10.500 I was screaming out to everybody, "Guess who wrote me!" 01:16:10.500 --> 01:16:14.721 They had a story on the local news that Madonna was coming to visit me. 01:16:14.721 --> 01:16:18.215 Madonna has so much power that the guards gave me an extra shower 01:16:18.215 --> 01:16:20.510 because they thought she was coming to visit me. 01:16:20.510 --> 01:16:24.886 I had guards walking me downstairs, everything, trying to peep a look. 01:16:24.886 --> 01:16:26.180 - Did she come? - No. No, I'm glad. 01:16:26.180 --> 01:16:31.307 - But you got the extra shower? - Hey, I got the shower. 01:16:32.568 --> 01:16:37.072 The person that supported me the most was my mother. 01:16:37.072 --> 01:16:41.077 When my mother got clean, we got real close again. 01:16:41.077 --> 01:16:46.354 And even as a crack fiend, Mama You always was a black queen, Mama 01:16:46.354 --> 01:16:51.247 I finally understand, for a woman It ain't easy, trying to raise a man 01:16:51.247 --> 01:16:55.351 I don't blame her for anything. 01:16:55.351 --> 01:17:01.631 My mom's the bomb, you know. The world's best mom. 01:17:01.631 --> 01:17:04.464 - You are appreciated - Lady 01:17:04.464 --> 01:17:08.602 Don't you know we love you Sweet lady 01:17:08.818 --> 01:17:11.339 "Dear Mama" is the song I wrote for my mother. 01:17:11.339 --> 01:17:13.138 But it's also for all the mothers. 01:17:13.138 --> 01:17:16.380 I'm proud of that. It affected a lot of people. 01:17:16.380 --> 01:17:18.238 It was from Me Against the World, 01:17:18.238 --> 01:17:20.854 which was completed before I went to jail. 01:17:20.854 --> 01:17:25.913 It's just me against the world 01:17:25.913 --> 01:17:28.125 Me against the world, baby 01:17:28.125 --> 01:17:29.784 It was the number one record. 01:17:29.784 --> 01:17:34.547 Me Against the World was one of those... My career highs. 01:17:35.254 --> 01:17:36.439 It was a trip in jail. 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." 01:17:39.789 --> 01:17:43.589 I'd be like, "My album is number one in the country. 01:17:43.589 --> 01:17:45.946 "It just beat Bruce Springsteen." 01:17:45.946 --> 01:17:49.391 And they'd be like, "Go back to your cell." 01:17:49.391 --> 01:17:52.674 I used to get Entertainment Weekly and see where my record was 01:17:52.674 --> 01:17:56.605 and just trip out and be like, "Number one in the whole country." 01:17:56.605 --> 01:18:03.856 To me, it will always be my favorite, and jail made me wanna dig deeper. 01:18:13.285 --> 01:18:16.703 It took five bullets for me to see what was really going on. 01:18:16.703 --> 01:18:20.337 In jail, you get perspective, and you start looking at things differently, 01:18:20.337 --> 01:18:22.392 like everything is not so important. 01:18:22.392 --> 01:18:25.678 You know, you try not to take it personal. 01:18:25.678 --> 01:18:27.525 Because you're talking to killers. 01:18:27.525 --> 01:18:29.733 They say something you don't like, you can't say, "What?" 01:18:29.733 --> 01:18:35.566 You gotta be like, "OK, look man, would you mind not calling me...?" 01:18:35.566 --> 01:18:39.235 Anger management like a mother. 01:18:40.451 --> 01:18:44.015 In jail, I tried not to have negative feelings towards nobody. 01:18:44.015 --> 01:18:47.478 It's not like I wanted to get out and go shoot somebody up. 01:18:47.478 --> 01:18:53.431 People said, "You softened up." Ain't nothing soft. Nothing changed. 01:18:54.120 --> 01:18:57.751 If anything, my mentality was like, "Trust nobody. 01:18:57.751 --> 01:19:02.024 "Trust nobody." 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. 01:19:08.142 --> 01:19:10.479 I just thought, "I already took five bullets, 01:19:10.479 --> 01:19:14.062 "and if I can help it, I don't plan on taking more." 01:19:16.045 --> 01:19:19.975 Rapper, actor and convict, Tupac Shakur, walked out of jail last week, 01:19:19.975 --> 01:19:24.040 bailed out to the tune of $1.4 million by Suge Knight of Death Row Records, 01:19:24.040 --> 01:19:25.706 which signed Shakur to a deal. 01:19:25.706 --> 01:19:29.002 My closest friends did me in. My closest friends, my homeys. 01:19:29.002 --> 01:19:32.047 I took care of their whole family, took care of everything, 01:19:32.047 --> 01:19:35.388 Iooked out for them, put them in the game, turned on me. 01:19:37.540 --> 01:19:40.877 So I just thought, "How could I make them sorry they ever did this to me? 01:19:40.877 --> 01:19:46.672 "How can I come back, like, 50 times stronger and better?" 01:19:50.195 --> 01:19:54.457 Fear is stronger than love. Remember that. Fear is stronger than love. 01:19:54.457 --> 01:19:58.033 The love I gave meant nothing when it came to fear. 01:19:58.033 --> 01:20:01.848 No question, sign with Death Row. 01:20:10.900 --> 01:20:13.025 Suddenly, I was out on bail, pending appeal. 01:20:13.025 --> 01:20:15.650 If I win my appeal, which, if God wills, I will, 01:20:15.650 --> 01:20:18.739 I would've done 11 months for nothing. 01:20:27.166 --> 01:20:30.997 You see that, judge? I didn't curse. Probation people, I didn't curse. 01:20:30.997 --> 01:20:33.234 Give me my props. Let me stay free. 01:20:33.234 --> 01:20:38.391 I was relieved, happy to be home. 01:20:39.478 --> 01:20:41.744 I wanted to drive up and down Sunset 01:20:41.744 --> 01:20:46.672 because I love L.A. with a passion. I love Sunset, everything about L.A. 01:20:46.672 --> 01:20:49.864 Can I get tatted up real quick? I want a crown here. 01:20:49.864 --> 01:20:52.104 You know, the energy, that's L.A. 01:20:52.104 --> 01:20:53.559 - Hello? - I'm saying, 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. 01:20:57.466 --> 01:20:59.644 You're supposed to put "I love you". 01:20:59.644 --> 01:21:02.465 You got to let me get a look at something. 01:21:02.465 --> 01:21:05.232 It's a trip when last week you were in a cell, 01:21:05.232 --> 01:21:08.235 and then, next week, I'm up at Monty's with Cristal champagne 01:21:08.235 --> 01:21:13.089 and filet mignon and lobster and shrimps. 01:21:13.089 --> 01:21:18.304 Everybody went, "Let me take you out. You're home? Let me take you to this!" 01:21:18.304 --> 01:21:22.611 We was all up in Roscoe's. I even celebrated at El Pollo Loco 01:21:22.611 --> 01:21:27.486 because I was dreaming about El Pollo Loco the whole time. 01:21:27.486 --> 01:21:31.223 Then I went straight to the studio. 01:21:31.223 --> 01:21:34.314 And I did 24 tracks in less than two weeks. 01:21:34.314 --> 01:21:37.163 You can mix it later and have niggas that love being in the studio 01:21:37.163 --> 01:21:41.110 just add the drumbeat and shit. You can do that after the rappers leave. 01:21:41.110 --> 01:21:42.936 That's when it's fresh. 01:21:42.936 --> 01:21:46.735 Get that beat popping, throw them niggas on the track, put it down. 01:21:46.735 --> 01:21:49.621 Everybody will listen, be like, "This is the hook." 01:21:49.621 --> 01:21:52.048 We'll go lay the hook. That's the song. 01:21:52.048 --> 01:21:55.652 Plus, I had so much to say, I figured this was the best way to vent, 01:21:55.652 --> 01:21:58.106 instead of paying some psychotherapist $50 million. 01:21:58.106 --> 01:22:00.505 I went in the studio. It was cheaper. 01:22:00.505 --> 01:22:04.624 Here we go! California, get up! 01:22:07.900 --> 01:22:10.031 Out on bail, fresh out of jail California dreaming 01:22:10.031 --> 01:22:12.506 Soon as I step on the scene I'm hearing hoochies screaming 01:22:12.506 --> 01:22:15.808 Fiending for money and alcohol The life of the West Side player 01:22:15.808 --> 01:22:17.513 Where cowards die And the strong ball 01:22:17.513 --> 01:22:19.973 Only in Cali, where we riot, not rally To live and die 01:22:19.973 --> 01:22:22.711 In L.A., we wear Chucks, not Ballies 01:22:22.711 --> 01:22:25.151 Dressed in Locs and khaki suits And ride is what we do 01:22:25.151 --> 01:22:27.645 Flossin' but have caution We collide with other crews 01:22:27.645 --> 01:22:32.381 You gotta realize one thing: Tupac is Death Row. 01:22:32.381 --> 01:22:35.416 I feel I have more than just a business relationship with him. 01:22:35.416 --> 01:22:37.469 He can be like a brother, a friend. 01:22:37.469 --> 01:22:41.624 I like everyone on the record company. I like Suge, Snoop and Dre. 01:22:41.624 --> 01:22:44.341 I hang out with them anyway, now it's official. 01:22:44.341 --> 01:22:47.308 This is Tupac and Dr. Dre, and this is the Week in Rock! 01:22:47.308 --> 01:22:50.638 - Week in Rock, baby! - Week in Rock, baby! 01:22:50.638 --> 01:22:53.978 I came out, I was like, "Dre, I want some beats right now." 01:22:53.978 --> 01:22:56.808 He's like, "I'm working on 'California Love'." 01:22:56.808 --> 01:22:58.557 I said, "You know you owe me this. 01:22:58.557 --> 01:23:01.285 "I'm new on Death Row, fresh out of jail. 01:23:01.285 --> 01:23:03.995 "You ain't gonna be finishing your album soon." 01:23:03.995 --> 01:23:07.992 I love collaborating with creative people that's as talented as 'Pac. 01:23:07.992 --> 01:23:11.072 He got right in and wrote his lyrics while he was behind the mike 01:23:11.072 --> 01:23:13.133 and dropped it, and it's funky. 01:23:13.133 --> 01:23:15.425 Say what you say But give me that bomb beat from Dre 01:23:15.425 --> 01:23:17.933 Let me serenade the streets of L.A. 01:23:17.933 --> 01:23:22.239 Me coming to Death Row, for another reason was Snoop. 01:23:22.239 --> 01:23:23.969 Please welcome America's Most Wanted, 01:23:23.969 --> 01:23:26.948 Snoop Doggy Dogg and Tupac. 01:23:26.948 --> 01:23:28.972 The man got so much style. 01:23:28.972 --> 01:23:31.682 Ya'll know we down with this rock thing, nine-six flavor, Death Row. 01:23:31.682 --> 01:23:35.582 But who knew it would last, this West Side staff? 01:23:35.582 --> 01:23:40.192 Yep, yep, yep. This is me and Snoop, "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted", 01:23:40.192 --> 01:23:42.424 the bomb track. It's the first single. 01:23:42.424 --> 01:23:44.859 It's gonna be like the anthem of West Coast rap. 01:23:44.859 --> 01:23:47.925 This is gonna shake the whole music scene, guaranteed. 01:23:47.925 --> 01:23:52.671 Ain't nothing but a gangsta party 01:23:52.671 --> 01:23:56.805 Oh, shit You done fucked up now 01:23:56.805 --> 01:23:59.379 You done put two of America's Most Wanted 01:23:59.379 --> 01:24:03.369 In the same motherfucking place At the same motherfucking time 01:24:04.323 --> 01:24:07.727 Y'all niggas about to feel this Break out the champagne glasses 01:24:07.727 --> 01:24:09.815 Picture perfect I paint a perfect picture 01:24:09.815 --> 01:24:12.022 Bomb the hoochies with precision My intention's to get richer 01:24:12.022 --> 01:24:14.886 With the S-N-double-O-P Dogg My fucking homey 01:24:14.886 --> 01:24:16.522 You's a cold-ass nigga On them hogs 01:24:16.522 --> 01:24:18.791 I keep my hand on my gun 'Cause they got me on the run 01:24:18.791 --> 01:24:21.302 Now I'm back in the courtroom Waiting on the outcome 01:24:21.302 --> 01:24:25.228 Me and Snoop represent the nucleus of the entire ghetto. 01:24:25.228 --> 01:24:28.806 Snoop represents the more calm, all legit, by the book, 01:24:28.806 --> 01:24:30.977 no waves, let's get our business handled. 01:24:30.977 --> 01:24:32.607 You're doing your job every day 01:24:32.607 --> 01:24:34.842 And then you work so hard Till your hair turn gray 01:24:34.842 --> 01:24:37.080 Let me tell you about life And about the way it is 01:24:37.080 --> 01:24:39.571 You see, we live by the gun So we die by the gun's kids 01:24:39.571 --> 01:24:41.981 Tell me not to roll with my Glock So now I gotta throw away 01:24:41.981 --> 01:24:44.648 Floating in a black Benz And trying to do a show a day 01:24:44.648 --> 01:24:49.760 I represent the hard-core, no-holds- barred, no-prisoners, relentless thug. 01:24:49.760 --> 01:24:53.999 They wonder how I live with five shots Niggas is hard to kill on my block 01:24:53.999 --> 01:24:55.858 Schemes for currency And dough-related 01:24:55.858 --> 01:24:58.999 Affiliated with the hustlers And so we made it 01:24:58.999 --> 01:25:01.749 We both represent both sides of the game. 01:25:01.749 --> 01:25:05.645 The calm one and the relentless one. 01:25:05.645 --> 01:25:08.843 My nigga, Dogg, with me Eternally the most wanted 01:25:08.843 --> 01:25:10.843 Here's my commercial for Death Row. 01:25:10.843 --> 01:25:13.544 If you come to Death Row, you will see 01:25:13.544 --> 01:25:18.789 your art brought to a bigger plateau, and you will be paid one of these days. 01:25:18.789 --> 01:25:21.391 Death Row. Count with me. Count with me. 01:25:21.391 --> 01:25:22.987 This is for my homeboys in jail. 01:25:22.987 --> 01:25:24.817 These are 100s. And they ain't counterfeit. 01:25:24.817 --> 01:25:28.999 If I said it was the money, the struggle continues. 01:25:28.999 --> 01:25:33.181 I got money, but I have to pay everybody even more money. 01:25:33.181 --> 01:25:35.297 I owe money to Death Row. 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. 01:25:43.111 --> 01:25:46.722 People wanna sue you, and I have to settle for this and that 01:25:46.722 --> 01:25:48.785 when I know I didn't do anything, just because it's like: 01:25:48.785 --> 01:25:54.233 "I don't wanna go to court another eight months." Makes you work harder. 01:25:58.658 --> 01:26:01.807 Next year, Death Row is gonna print our own money. 01:26:01.807 --> 01:26:04.306 We make so much, we need to start printing our own. 01:26:04.306 --> 01:26:06.979 It's gonna be me and Suge on the $100 bill. 01:26:06.979 --> 01:26:09.534 Me, Suge and Damu gonna be on the $100 bill. 01:26:09.534 --> 01:26:12.097 I felt I'm getting pimped. 01:26:12.097 --> 01:26:14.214 This is the $100 bill on Death Row money, here. 01:26:14.214 --> 01:26:19.217 But you have to come up, start from the bottom and work up to the top. 01:26:19.217 --> 01:26:22.503 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome acclaimed rap artist 01:26:22.503 --> 01:26:25.975 and Grammy nominee, Tupac. 01:26:29.619 --> 01:26:32.735 People fail to realize this is not just play. I work. 01:26:32.735 --> 01:26:35.261 Run! Scatter, scatter! 01:26:35.261 --> 01:26:38.429 Drag K off the stage. Y'all come on, man. 01:26:38.429 --> 01:26:40.978 Do it for real, man. One, two, three. 01:26:40.978 --> 01:26:44.674 When it's time to get down and do my business, I'm going to. 01:26:44.674 --> 01:26:47.191 I can't get no blood on the set? 01:26:47.191 --> 01:26:48.329 Shit. 01:26:52.602 --> 01:26:57.215 I believe I'm more responsible, more mature and more focused. 01:26:57.215 --> 01:27:01.415 You don't say you need me 01:27:01.415 --> 01:27:05.023 You don't sing me love songs 01:27:05.023 --> 01:27:10.916 Y'all don't bring us flowers anymore 01:27:13.947 --> 01:27:16.473 When I was in jail, I couldn't remember why I was rapping. 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. 01:27:21.392 --> 01:27:22.542 "I really like creating." 01:27:22.542 --> 01:27:24.750 Living held down My game plan, to be trained 01:27:24.750 --> 01:27:26.964 And military mind of a thug lord 01:27:26.964 --> 01:27:30.028 I like music, and I like acting. I like doing it. 01:27:30.028 --> 01:27:35.476 She's a super freak, super freak She's super-freaky 01:27:37.676 --> 01:27:41.230 I can be me. I can be whoever because I'm true to me. 01:27:41.230 --> 01:27:42.908 The reason I sell six million records, 01:27:42.908 --> 01:27:45.705 the reason I can go to jail and come out without a scratch, 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. 01:27:51.917 --> 01:27:53.809 It's there. I didn't sell it. 01:27:53.809 --> 01:27:55.211 So lash out and get a glass 01:27:55.211 --> 01:27:57.605 Done finally got his own drink Call it the best 01:27:57.605 --> 01:27:59.993 Introducing a special brew Made for a chosen few 01:27:59.993 --> 01:28:03.957 I'm thugged out While Snoop Dogg's sipping blue 01:28:04.357 --> 01:28:07.789 I thought, "I'm a superpower. Death Row is a superpower. 01:28:07.789 --> 01:28:12.482 "Let's combine superpowers and ally." 01:28:15.058 --> 01:28:18.802 Damu! My dog's going crazy, ready to kill a few people. 01:28:18.802 --> 01:28:21.350 - Yeah. Yeah. - He wanna kill. 01:28:21.350 --> 01:28:22.889 I love my artists. 01:28:22.889 --> 01:28:26.085 I don't consider my people artists. I consider them family. 01:28:26.085 --> 01:28:29.749 It's just a big difference, if they decided to turn in rapping or singing, 01:28:29.749 --> 01:28:32.646 they'd still be my homeboys. We'd still travel together. 01:28:32.646 --> 01:28:35.352 If they needed something, what's mine will still be theirs. 01:28:35.352 --> 01:28:39.593 It's no situation where I'm dealing with them strictly for business, 01:28:39.593 --> 01:28:41.586 because they're good. It's not like that. 01:28:41.586 --> 01:28:44.052 You've gotta have more respect for your people. 01:28:44.052 --> 01:28:47.069 Plus we've got a Death Row East going on. 01:28:47.069 --> 01:28:49.782 - I'm sure you heard about that. - Tell me about that. 01:28:49.782 --> 01:28:52.401 Hold on. Damu! Damu, sit! 01:29:04.136 --> 01:29:09.289 But Death Row has a reputation for having a thug-like mentality. 01:29:09.289 --> 01:29:12.702 Won't that get you in trouble? 01:29:12.702 --> 01:29:15.950 Death Row has a bigger reputation for success than anything else. 01:29:15.950 --> 01:29:18.994 The reason for all of the fear involves the world of this man, 01:29:18.994 --> 01:29:21.089 the man getting out of the limousine. 01:29:21.089 --> 01:29:25.673 Six-foot-three, 335-pound Marion Knight, 01:29:25.673 --> 01:29:29.035 known by the nickname of "Suge", short for "Sugar". 01:29:29.035 --> 01:29:32.206 It's an efficient camp over here, 01:29:32.206 --> 01:29:35.715 professional, business-oriented. I like that. 01:29:35.715 --> 01:29:39.249 At the age of only 30, and with a lengthy criminal record, 01:29:39.249 --> 01:29:41.912 including three felony convictions, 01:29:41.912 --> 01:29:44.514 Suge Knight has managed to become the head 01:29:44.514 --> 01:29:46.686 of a $100 million record company 01:29:46.686 --> 01:29:51.295 and one of the most powerful and feared men in the music industry. 01:29:51.295 --> 01:29:54.057 The controversy over Death Row Records 01:29:54.057 --> 01:29:59.096 and its owner being sort of a gangster. 01:29:59.096 --> 01:30:01.059 Everybody's asking about Death Row. 01:30:01.059 --> 01:30:03.135 - Suge ain't no gangsta. He's chilling. - No? 01:30:03.135 --> 01:30:06.541 No, man, Suge a rider. 01:30:06.541 --> 01:30:10.011 I know what good morals are, but you're supposed to disregard 01:30:10.011 --> 01:30:12.881 good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. 01:30:12.881 --> 01:30:14.854 If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? 01:30:14.854 --> 01:30:18.420 You're surrounded by devils, trying to be an angel? 01:30:18.420 --> 01:30:20.880 That's like suicide. 01:30:20.880 --> 01:30:23.633 I'd like to tell Tupac to keep his guards up. We're with him. 01:30:23.633 --> 01:30:24.994 One other thing I'd like to say, 01:30:24.994 --> 01:30:27.252 any artist out there that want to be an artist 01:30:27.252 --> 01:30:30.594 and wants to stay a star and don't wanna have to worry 01:30:30.594 --> 01:30:33.742 about the executive producer trying to be all in the videos, 01:30:33.742 --> 01:30:39.195 all on the records, dancing, come to Death Row. 01:30:40.332 --> 01:30:44.013 When I got out of jail, the West Coast- East Coast shit was really starting. 01:30:44.013 --> 01:30:47.471 Wait, the East Coast don't love Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg? 01:30:48.701 --> 01:30:51.005 The East Coast ain't got no love for Dr. Dre 01:30:51.005 --> 01:30:53.659 and Snoop Dogg and Death Row? 01:30:53.659 --> 01:30:57.288 West Coast was Death Row. The East Coast was Bad Boy. 01:30:57.288 --> 01:30:58.740 Check this out. 01:30:58.740 --> 01:31:02.360 I'm the executive producer that a comment was made about earlier. 01:31:02.360 --> 01:31:06.815 Everybody thought it was a war, a war for record sales and attention. 01:31:09.614 --> 01:31:11.805 But to me it was personal. 01:31:11.805 --> 01:31:14.674 I love the East Coast. I'm from the East Coast. 01:31:14.674 --> 01:31:19.417 But I felt like Puffy and Biggie wanted to dirty up everything I worked for. 01:31:19.417 --> 01:31:21.535 So it made me come back more relentless. 01:31:21.535 --> 01:31:24.218 I'm mad at Biggie. I'm rushing the nigga. What's the problem? 01:31:24.218 --> 01:31:26.928 Yo, Piggie, man, we got it going on, baby. 01:31:26.928 --> 01:31:30.341 It's on and cracking, man. He's gone, baby. You the man. 01:31:30.341 --> 01:31:32.511 So I directed videos. 01:31:32.511 --> 01:31:37.399 'Pac, you alive? I mean, you safe? Man, I'm so happy you're free. 01:31:37.399 --> 01:31:42.091 Yeah? Happy to see you, lying piece of shit. 01:31:42.091 --> 01:31:45.092 'Pac, please don't kill me. It was Buff's idea. 01:31:45.092 --> 01:31:46.598 - No, man. - I'm just a rapper. 01:31:46.598 --> 01:31:49.370 Please don't take me out of the game. 01:31:49.370 --> 01:31:52.399 I ain't going to kill you. We was homeboys once, Pig. 01:31:52.399 --> 01:31:54.946 Once we homeboys, we always homeboys, 01:31:54.946 --> 01:31:57.417 even if you is a fat phony. 01:31:57.417 --> 01:32:00.251 And I did a song with Faith, Biggie's wife. 01:32:00.251 --> 01:32:04.384 Faith's my homegirl. I just want to send a shout-out to Faith. Hey, girl. 01:32:04.384 --> 01:32:06.599 Then I did "Hit 'Em Up". 01:32:06.599 --> 01:32:10.021 That's why I fucked your bitch, You fat motherfucker 01:32:10.021 --> 01:32:12.373 Which is a classic battle record. 01:32:12.373 --> 01:32:14.454 First off, fuck your bitch And the clique you claim 01:32:14.454 --> 01:32:16.766 West Side, when we ride Come equipped with game 01:32:16.766 --> 01:32:19.090 You claim to be a player But I fucked your wife 01:32:19.090 --> 01:32:21.447 We bust on Bad Boys Niggas fucked for life 01:32:21.447 --> 01:32:23.338 I'm a self-made millionaire 01:32:23.338 --> 01:32:25.626 Thug living out of prison Pistols in the air 01:32:25.626 --> 01:32:28.750 Biggie, remember when I used To let you sleep on the couch 01:32:28.750 --> 01:32:31.281 And beg a bitch To let you sleep in the house 01:32:31.281 --> 01:32:33.814 - Now it's all about Versace - You copied my style 01:32:33.814 --> 01:32:35.926 - Five shots couldn't drop me - I took it and smiled 01:32:35.926 --> 01:32:37.769 Now I'm about set the record straight 01:32:37.769 --> 01:32:40.142 With my AK, I'm still the thug That you love to hate 01:32:41.802 --> 01:32:43.769 Grab your Glocks When you see Tupac 01:32:43.769 --> 01:32:46.294 Call the cops when you see Tupac 01:32:46.294 --> 01:32:48.677 Who shot me? But you punks didn't finish that 01:32:48.677 --> 01:32:50.397 You're about to feel The wrath of a menace 01:32:51.627 --> 01:32:55.386 Everything happened so fast at that point. 01:32:55.504 --> 01:32:58.451 I was looking at things, the East Coast-West Coast thing, 01:32:58.451 --> 01:32:59.864 it just got out of control. 01:32:59.864 --> 01:33:02.217 Dudes was getting killed, and I felt responsible. 01:33:02.217 --> 01:33:04.512 But I couldn't stop it. 01:33:04.512 --> 01:33:07.226 We ain't mad at the whole New York, just certain people. 01:33:07.226 --> 01:33:11.104 I got this project coming out along with some brothers called One Nation. 01:33:11.104 --> 01:33:13.595 It's like an East Coast-West Coast collaboration 01:33:13.595 --> 01:33:16.133 to kill this whole new vibe. 01:33:16.133 --> 01:33:17.869 Everybody want it to be a war 01:33:17.869 --> 01:33:19.707 between the East Coast and West Coast. 01:33:19.707 --> 01:33:21.595 It's really a problem with two rappers. 01:33:21.595 --> 01:33:23.714 The East Coast-West Coast thing is something journalists 01:33:23.714 --> 01:33:26.606 are making up to get paid off, so it can drag out 01:33:26.606 --> 01:33:29.191 and everybody can have albums. They perpetuate this, so it can be drama. 01:33:29.191 --> 01:33:32.686 When it go down, don't look at me and Biggie 01:33:32.686 --> 01:33:34.787 and be like, "Why is there a big East Coast/West Coast war?" 01:33:34.787 --> 01:33:38.521 When you're shooting this to 3,300 homes, 300 countries, 01:33:38.521 --> 01:33:41.352 telling them about a war that they would never know exists. 01:33:41.352 --> 01:33:43.910 That's where information becomes a problem. 01:33:43.910 --> 01:33:46.365 We both need to exercise greater restraint. 01:33:47.718 --> 01:33:54.371 Damn, sometimes life gets messed up. 01:33:58.199 --> 01:34:02.706 When I was on Death Row, I was successful but not happy. 01:34:02.706 --> 01:34:06.555 Tupac, your life has been marred by considerable pain. 01:34:06.555 --> 01:34:09.582 Do you think you'll get to the point where you can live a normal life? 01:34:09.582 --> 01:34:12.449 No. But, I... 01:34:14.141 --> 01:34:17.488 I'm going for it. I'm trying for it, and until then 01:34:17.488 --> 01:34:21.087 I have to make the life that I do live as happy as I can 01:34:21.087 --> 01:34:24.090 and try to do the best with what I have. 01:34:24.090 --> 01:34:27.241 Live the best life I can live, be as happy as I can be. 01:34:27.241 --> 01:34:31.217 Nothing is perfect for anybody, I don't think. 01:34:31.477 --> 01:34:34.591 I felt trapped. 01:34:34.591 --> 01:34:36.279 They say, "You made your bed, lay in it"? 01:34:36.279 --> 01:34:38.344 I tried to move. I can't move to no other bed. 01:34:38.344 --> 01:34:41.757 I felt I can't live a different lifestyle. 01:34:41.757 --> 01:34:43.793 This the life they gave me, this the life I made. 01:34:43.793 --> 01:34:47.859 I felt I can't change, not for the courts, not for the parole board, 01:34:47.859 --> 01:34:50.179 not for nobody. This is it. 01:34:50.179 --> 01:34:54.195 I also felt like something was gonna happen to me because I'm paranoid. 01:34:54.195 --> 01:34:56.786 And I put it in my videos. 01:35:01.989 --> 01:35:04.884 That nigga ain't want none. I been drinking. Where he at? 01:35:04.884 --> 01:35:07.275 No, no, no, where he at? 01:35:07.275 --> 01:35:08.950 Yo, watch out. 01:35:14.657 --> 01:35:18.415 It was a prophecy. 01:35:24.927 --> 01:35:27.602 I had a prophecy about my death. 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. 01:35:32.930 --> 01:35:34.778 We don't have time or the luxury 01:35:34.778 --> 01:35:38.101 to spend all of this time doing one song. We don't have it. 01:35:38.101 --> 01:35:39.928 If I die, it can happen. 01:35:39.928 --> 01:35:43.952 If anything were to happen to me, that album's ready to go. 01:35:43.952 --> 01:35:45.736 So it's all good. 01:35:45.736 --> 01:35:48.439 I felt as if the only thing that can kill me is death, 01:35:48.439 --> 01:35:48.439 and even then my music will live forever. 01:36:45.844 --> 01:36:49.605 At approximately 9:00 p.m., security cameras at the MGM Grand 01:36:49.605 --> 01:36:53.176 captured Tupac, Suge Knight and members of the Death Row entourage 01:36:53.176 --> 01:36:56.439 beating an alleged South Side Crip, Orlando Anderson. 01:36:56.439 --> 01:36:59.460 Tupac, Suge and others jumped Anderson, punching and kicking him. 01:36:59.460 --> 01:37:03.522 Terrified bystanders scattered as the group streamed into the casino 01:37:03.522 --> 01:37:04.932 then out into the street. 01:37:35.836 --> 01:37:38.940 Whoa. 01:37:41.263 --> 01:37:43.827 Just after the Mike Tyson fight, 01:37:43.827 --> 01:37:46.850 Shakur, with record company executive, Suge Knight, 01:37:46.850 --> 01:37:49.273 headed for a club. While stopping at this intersection 01:37:49.273 --> 01:37:52.743 a car with four people pulled up and fired on Shakur and Knight. 01:37:52.743 --> 01:37:55.207 Shakur was shot several times in the chest. 01:37:55.207 --> 01:37:57.749 The driver, his record producer, was grazed in the head. 01:37:57.749 --> 01:38:00.819 He's returned to intensive care after another surgery, 01:38:00.819 --> 01:38:02.794 still in critical condition. 01:38:02.794 --> 01:38:05.884 All week long fans of Tupac have gathered outside the hospital. 01:38:05.884 --> 01:38:07.559 He's undergone two operations. 01:38:07.559 --> 01:38:10.388 His right lung was removed. He's intermittently conscious. 01:38:10.388 --> 01:38:12.826 Jesse Jackson's been here. Family is keeping vigil. 01:38:12.826 --> 01:38:15.724 Despite reports that his wounds were not life-threatening, 01:38:15.724 --> 01:38:20.337 people at the hospital continue to tell us he is in very serious condition. 01:38:21.644 --> 01:38:28.913 At 4:03 this afternoon, Tupac Shakur was pronounced dead. 01:38:34.113 --> 01:38:37.162 Who shot me? Shit, I don't know. 01:38:37.162 --> 01:38:42.284 Sorry. 01:38:42.284 --> 01:38:44.828 My death, it's a tragedy like Shakespeare, I guess. 01:38:44.828 --> 01:38:47.858 But I have no bad feelings. I have love for everybody. 01:38:47.858 --> 01:38:51.647 Please welcome the mothers of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur, 01:38:51.647 --> 01:39:03.493 Afeni Shakur and Voletta Wallace. 01:39:14.034 --> 01:39:16.839 Coming to grips with my past, it was hard. 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 01:39:20.230 --> 01:39:26.833 and my mentality was a part of my progression to be a man. 01:39:28.508 --> 01:39:30.744 But we grow. We all grow. We're made to grow. 01:39:30.744 --> 01:39:34.572 You either evolve, or you disappear. 01:39:34.572 --> 01:39:36.984 I don't want to be forgotten. 01:39:36.984 --> 01:39:40.360 I'll always be a troublemaker to some people. 01:39:40.360 --> 01:39:44.665 But I still get love from my community. 01:39:52.433 --> 01:39:56.963 I owe them everything. That's why I owe everything to the 'hood. 01:39:56.963 --> 01:39:59.173 I've got love there. 01:39:59.173 --> 01:40:03.244 I've got love from thugs and the street dudes. 01:40:03.244 --> 01:40:06.139 And that focuses me back on what I should be doing, 01:40:06.139 --> 01:40:12.337 lay out the real mat on the world and how it is. 01:40:13.316 --> 01:40:15.688 The message is, young black males could do anything 01:40:15.688 --> 01:40:19.022 if you just give us a shot, stop trying to beat us down. 01:40:19.022 --> 01:40:25.829 And to my homeboys, we need to be in control of ourselves. 01:40:25.940 --> 01:40:28.640 I'm not saying I'll change the world, but I guarantee I'll spark 01:40:28.640 --> 01:40:33.153 the brain that will change the world. 01:40:35.811 --> 01:40:38.779 So keep your head up. 01:40:38.779 --> 01:40:42.669 Do what you've gotta do. 01:40:42.669 --> 01:40:47.990 And then inside of you, I'll be reborn.