On September 03, 1996 Tupac and Snoop Dogg went to the MTV awards in New York.
This photo was taken when Pac & Outlawz were walking down the streets of Manhattan giving homeless people money hours before he attended the award show.
Материалът 1996-09-03 / Tupac In New York For The MTV awards е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
Om 04 September, 1996, Tupac attends the MTV Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The show also marked Tupac Shakur’s final public appearance before being shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada three days later on September 7, dying of his wounds on September 13.
Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg presented Best Hard Rock Video.
He is interviewed several times, both at the show and the party afterwards.
Tupac talk about One Nation after MTV awards
Later in the night Tupac and Nas come face to face and clear the air about any pending beef.
Shortly afterwards, the two rappers and their accompanying crews met each other at Central Park during the 1996 MTV Video Awards. Nas grabbed Tupac by the back of shirt and surrounded him with 40 people in his entourage. Tupac resolved their beef and promised to remove all the disses aimed at him in his upcoming album “The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory.” There are varying accounts on what was actually said and who stepped to who first, but the bottom line is that Nas and Pac managed to hash out their differences and squash their beef.
Nas: “What [Tupac] said to me was, ‘Me and you are brothers. Me and you are never supposed to go at it. But I heard you was dissing me on mixtapes.’ I’m like, ‘I heard you was dissing me on this new Makaveli album. We both knew we were supposed to continue that conversation and probably just squash the whole thing. I was scheduled to meet him in Vegas; you and Jimmy Iovine called me at 4AM and told me he might not make it.“
Snoop Dogg: “…there was a story even more gangsta than that…Him(Tupac) and Nas. It was so gangsta. This was prequel to me meeting Angie Martinez for an interview…MTV had the Award show at Central Park, so Tupac and all of us from Death Row, we mobbing…we see Nas…He (Tupac) walked up to nas…nas had about a hundred goons with him that I see, that I know that they killers, but pac aint tripping and he just don’t care, so he walk up to nas…nas reached out to shake pac hand, and nas say ‘I got love for you pac’, and pac said, ‘well nigga, if you got love for me, I got a song coming out where I dissed you, Jay-Z, Biggie…’ He named like about 40 niggaz…he named a bunch of niggas, and he told nas, ‘if you got love for me, you aint gon say nothing after this record come out.’ Nas shook the nigga hand and looked over his shoulder…he had about a hundred niggaz with him, all them niggaz had their hands on their shit (guns). He did them niggaz like this…like he winked his eye…like don’t do it. And he shook pac hand and he said I love you pac, and they separated. And then pac looked at me (on the way back) ‘I told you, nigga, we got these niggazs…we got this niggas punked out here’. But to me, nas was gangsta, cos he didn’t push the light…He could have pushed the green button, and we’d have been done, cos we didn’t have no artillery in New York and they did.”
Tupac and Snoop Dogg Fall Out
After appearing on New York’s Hot97 radio show Snoop states he has no problem with Notorious B.I.G. This later in the day causes a blow out between Tupac and Snoop Dogg at the hotel. The friendship never get repaired.
Snoop Dogg: “We had just left New York. I had gotten off the HOT 97 radio station with Angie Martinez. That’s when me and him clashed, because she asked me on the air, ‘How do you feel about Diddy and Biggie?’ And I said what I felt. ‘They my homeboys. I love ’em.“
„After Tupac perceived that Snoop had betrayed him by siding with Puffy and the The Notorious B.I.G.., with whom Tupac was beefing, Snoop’s interactions with Pac completely changed. “When I got back to the hotel, it was a whole ‘nother atmosphere, like he sent his homeboy to get the bud from me as opposed to him coming to get it from me. …So I felt funny… When I got on the plane to go to LA the next day, Suge Knight didn’t let none of my security ride with me. I had to ride on the plane with him, his homies, and Pac. And it was the most uncomfortable ride I had in my life, because my nigga didn’t say nothin’ to me the whole ride. That’s a five-hour flight on a private plane.“
„At one point, Snoop actually feared for his life on the flight. “I walk up to him, maybe three hours into the flight, sit next to him like, ‘Yo goin’ to Vegas, cuz?’ He turns [away from me], starts talkin’ to somebody else. I’m like, alright, go in the back, put the blanket on my head, knife in my hand, fork in my hand, and just sleep the rest of the ride, because I feel like they finna try to do something.“
„When we walk out…I’m like, ‘Cuz, you goin’ to Vegas?’ He do me like [dismissive gesture]. He went his way, I went my way. Next time I get a call, niggas like, ‘Turn on the news! Turn on the news!“
Материалът 1996-09-04 / Tupac At MTV Music Awards In New York е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
On September 06, 1996, Tupac filmed music video of the „Toss It Up“ (Beach Version) with Danny Boy and K-Ci and Jojo.
In this day Tupac comes the last time in the studio where he recorded three songs: „Let’s Get It On“, “Hell 4 A Hustler“ with Outlaw Immortalz and “All Out“ with E.D.I. Mean, Napoleon & Kastro.
2Pac – „Let’s Get It On“
Produced by Scott Gutierrez
Played at Mike Tyson Vs. Bruce Seldon Fight
He records a track for Mike Tyson to walk out to the following night titled „Let’s Get It On“
2Pac – Hell 4 A Hustler (OG) feat. Outlaw Immortalz
2Pac – All Out feat. E.D.I. Mean, Napoleon, Kastro
Producer: Big Simon Says
Материалът 1996-09-06 / The Last Day In The Studio е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
I first met Tupac when I was fourteen, a freshman in high school, just a few days after my little sister was born, and about a year and a half before my step-brother, a year younger than me, would die of brain cancer.
It was May 1991. My step-brother’s dream was to meet Digital Underground, which was granted by the Make a Wish Foundation, so we flew to Oakland for the weekend and hung out with Tupac, Money B, Shock G (aka Humpty Hump) as they filmed something (was it a video?) at a Go-Kart racing rink in Oakland. That weekend we spent a few afternoons at the recording studio where they put the finishing touches on their album This is an EP Release. At one point, my family and I stood in the recording studio wearing headphones and clapping along to the track “Same Song” (which I am listening to on Youtube as I write this); who knows whether they ever used our clapping on the album, which would come out on July 1, or if it was just a nice gesture. For years I misremembered that Tupac was the one who had written “take care of those sexy blue eyes, Amy” on my page of autographs written on a piece of paper torn out from a tablet from LaQuinta Inn, but that was really Shock G; Tupac had signed off Love Always 2PAC.
When we arrived at the Go-Kart track in Oakland, Tupac told all the kids swarming around that my stepbrother, in his 49ers cap, Ray-Bans, and Simpsons T-shirt, was the kid from “Home Alone,” so suddenly there Frank was signing autographs, which Tupac seemed to get a kick out of. I got the sense that Tupac was fond of practical jokes. He was very funny and quick; he teased the way an older brother might.
At this point, in 1991, Tupac wasn’t yet 2Pac; he was just a kid, really, only five years older than me, who debuted his rapping in Digital Underground’s “Same Song” and who distinguished himself, to me, by his great laugh, his ridiculously long eyelashes, and by offering me a piece of Big Red (which I kept for years), by hamming it up for all the pictures I took, and by giving me a very sweet kiss on the cheek before we all left town. He also distinguished himself by continuing to call my step-brother to check in on him, from time to time, and sending him that new CD before it came out in July.
The next time I met Tupac, he had become 2Pac. It was the fall of 1994 at the premiere of a Keenen Ivory Wayans film, “A Low-down Dirty Shame,” in New York, and this time I was a freshman in college, my very first semester, covering the premiere for The Barnard Bulletin, my school newspaper. Security was lax, so before the movie started I worked up the nerve to make my way to the front of the theatre to interrupt Tupac and his date, Jada Pinkett (not yet Pinkett Smith), who was a star of the film, and none too pleased by the interruption.
I managed to get Tupac’s attention and asked if he remembered meeting my family in Oakland a few years before. I told him that my step-brother had died and thanked him for being so kind. He got up to give me a big hug. I was close enough to admire his long eyelashes once again. We met again in line at the concession stand later that night; more conversation, another hug, as a bunch of kids interrupted for autographs and I was reminded of the time when Tupac had my step-brother signing autographs back in Oakland. The film was released on November 23, 1994, and I remember it was cold enough to require several layers, so this second meeting with Tupac must have occured sometime that week. Just a week before he would be shot several times at a recording studio in Manhattan, on November 30, 1994, the day before the verdict of his sexual abuse trial would be announced.
We all know what happens after that; or, I suppose, we don’t; but we do know that Tupac died on September 13, 1996. It’s hard to believe that that was sixteen years ago today. I hope that Tupac and Frank have run into each other in the afterlife, that they are kicking it like they did back in ’91, somewhere up in the sky…
Материалът Love Always 2Pac: Memories of Tupac Shakur by Fan е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
The events leading up to September 7, 1996, the tragic day Tupac was shot are as controversial as the shooting itself. It was said that there were some problems between Deathrow’s lawyer and Suge’s right hand man, David Kenner and Tupac. On August 26th, 12 days before Tupac was shot, he was on the set all day and at the studio all night. On the 27th, he sent Yaasmyn Fula, who managed his business affairs, to the studio to get tapes of what he was done. Deathrow would not allow her access to the tapes as David Kenner, Deathrow’s lawyer and Suge’s right hand man, denied her the tapes. It’s rumored that Tupac had Yaasmyn write Deathrow a letter saying that Tupac had finished his last album and would be leaving Deathrow. Tupac later went back to LA, and although he wanted to go to Atlanta to visit relatives, Suge convinced Tupac to go to the Tyson/Seldon fight in Las Vegas as he had promised.
Boxing Match
The Tyson vs. Seldon boxing match was held Saturday, September 7, 1996. Tupac and Suge sat up front and Tupac cheered Tyson on as he had done so many times before. The fight lasted only 109 seconds. (8:39 PM)
8:45 PM: While walking through the lobby of the MGM grand after the fight the entourage noticed Orlando Anderson. In a prior incident in a Lakewood Mall, Orlando Anderson stole Travon Lane’s Death Row medallion that happened to be a personal give from Suge Knight.
MGM Security Video
Tupac stepped up to Orlando and said „You from the south?“ Tupac then punched him in the face knocking him on the ground, after which Suge and the Deathrow entourage proceeded to beat him. Rumors surrounding the shooting have Orlando’s Anderson with Jerry Bonds driving the white Cadillac while Dwayne Keith Davis (Keefee D) was the shooter.
An article in Details magazine stated that Orlando and his brother wanted to start a studio, but didn’t have the resources. Allegedly after the shooting they came into some money, and the possibility of a pay off for some role in the shooting is possible. Anderson, an alleged crip who claims he’s not affiliated, also denied the shooting and stated he was a possible scapegoat. He was shot 2 years later in an incident outside a car wash.
Heading to Club 662 There were some strange occurrences in Las Vegas according to the book written by Tupac’s bodyguard Frank Alexander. The first, was that permits were not sent ahead of time so they were not allowed to carry guns. The second was that he ended up without his phone, and the third coincidence would come after the fight.
8:55 PM: After the beating of Orlando Anderson the entourage returned to where they were staying at the Luxor Hotel, a block south of the Las Vegas strip.
Tupac went up to MC Hammer’s car and relayed the incident that had just happened to his bodyguard, Frank Alexander. Hammer asked Tupac some questions about the fight and ‘pac said it was all squashed and not to worry about it. While Tupac was getting in his car he was bragging about how Tyson took Seldon out in 50 punches and all he had to do was three punches and the dude was on the ground. Frank Alexander said he had trouble getting Tupac to wear his vest, and that he wouldn’t wear it very often, in fact Tupac didn’t wear his vest the whole of that night, even though he’d just been in a fight. Frank said in his book he released that Tupac only wore his vest one time out of every 10. Since they were in Las Vegas they legally couldn’t carry guns, but guns were brought along anyways. They were in a hurry leaving the fight though, and Tupac’s bodyguard forgot his gun in his car.
When he got to the hotel he told Kidada, “Some nigga started a fight with me for nothing. Something’s up, you stay here.” He was also upset because he couldn’t find the Outlaws, who were supposed to be at the Tyson fight
Tupac changed from tan silk shirt and jeans to a basketball top and sweat pants and wore his Euphanasia Medallion.
Time Unknown: The cars were delivered to the front, Tupac went with Suge, and Frank Alexander ended up driving Keisha’s car, with no gas, and supposedly no weapon. They headed to Suge Knight’s Las Vegas residence on Monte Rosa Avenue. They stayed there until after 10 PM when they left towards Club 662 at 1700 East Flamingo Road. Suge and Tupac were driving with Suge at the wheel of a newly purchased 1996 black 750 BMW sedan.
10:55 PM: Tupac rolled down the window and a photographer took their picture at a red light, this was to be the very last picture of Tupac alive.
11:05 PM: They were cruising down the strip playing Tupac’s album ‘The Don Killuminati The 7 Day Theory’ when they were stopped for playing the stereo too loud and not displaying proper plates. Of interesting note, is that the shooting took place just after the police stopped them, and this time may well have been used to plan the timing of the drive-by shooting.
After they were let go Suge and Tupac headed East on Flamingo road where they stopped for a red light at Koval Lane, half mile from the Strip.
One car pulled up a car-length ahead to the right and Kadafi, Frank and EDI were in the car behind them. A jeep full of girls pulled up to the left and got Suge and Tupac’s attention, and that’s when it happened.
The Shooting
A late-model Cadillac with four men inside pulled up directly to the right of the BMW and sprayed 13 rounds into the car.
Video scene: 02:35 min.
Police reported that a .45 was shot, but it’s believed that information was withheld to identify the real shooter; apparently a .9mm was used. Tupac saw it going down and tried to jump into the back seat. He was hit twice, one bullet hit him his leg and ricocheted up into his lung. Suge was hit in the head with a piece of shrapnel. There were reports that gunfire was returned, but this has been debated and has not been verified completely. The Cadillac turned right onto Koval Lane and vanished. Some cars in the entourage tried to follow the Cadillac but it seemingly disappeared.
Suge meanwhile, pulled a u-turn and headed back down East Flamingo. Suge reportedly told Tupac that he was going to get him to a hospital and Tupac replied, “I need a hospital? You’re the one shot in the head.” The U-turn was questionable because the Desert Springs Hospital is located at 2075 East Flamingo, not far from club 662. Suge knows the area all to well as he used to play for the UNLV Rebels.
The cops turned and followed Suge down the road instead of securing the crime scene. As a result the scene and evidence was ran over and dispersed through traffic. Three cars from their entourage also followed Suge down East Flamingo. Suge got caught up in traffic, went up over a median, ran a red light and popped a couple tires on the center divider. He ran the red light at Harmon Avenue and then got stuck on the median with four flat tires. Police, ambulance and the fire department arrived on the scene that was in total chaos. Reports were made of people running up trying to snatch side-mirrors and such off of the car.
The BMW was covered with blood and pieces of gold (from Tupac’s jewelry), and also had two flat tires. They brought Tupac out of the car and layed him down on the stretcher. He kept saying, “I can’t breath, I can’t breath.” Tupac’s entourage was ordered to get on the ground and held at gunpoint while Tupac was loaded into an ambulance and taken to University Medical Center.
Sgt Kevin Manning was assigned as leading investigator, and Cathy Scott was named lead reporter for the shooting (see pics). When the police questioned the bodyguard they continously asked if he had shot back, and when he said no they asked who had shot back. The bodyguard thought it was Suge’s friends, who were mostly members of the street gang known as The Bloods. Yafeu Fula (Yaki Kadafi of the Outlawz) had been in the car behind the BMW with bodyguards. He told the police that he could do a photo lineup for the shooters and gave the officers his number. A man told Compton police that at Club 662, he heard Tray say that the shooter was Orlando’s uncle Dwayne Keith Davis (Keefee D).
The Hospital
Tupac lost 22 oz of blood on the way to the hospital. As he was being carried to the emergency room he said, “I’m dying.” Tupac was admitted and listed in critical condition. His injuries included a gunshot wound to his right chest with a massive hemothorax and a gunshot wound to the right thigh with the bullet palpable within the abdomen. He also had a gunshot wound to a right finger with a fracture. The pre-operative diagnosis was a gunshot wound to the chest and abdomen and post-operative bleeding.
Just before midnight ‘Pac was taken to UMC’s Trauma Center. He was wheeled into the recovery area and was resuscitated according to advanced trauma life support protocol and a full trauma activation was called. He was placed on life support machines. Two liters of blood that had hemorrhaged into his chest cavity were removed. His pulse was very thready and initially he had minimal bloodpressure, which rapidly declined. He was taken immediately to the operating room for operative intervention and further resuscitation. He underwent surgery which consisted of ligation of bleeding, and a surgeon removed a bullet from his pelvic area which was done at midnight and finished at 2:35 AM on the 8th September. ‘Pac underwent another operation that started at 6:25 PM and lasted an hour. It was exploratory surgery, and his punctured right lung was removed to stop internal bleeding. He was back in his room at 7:45 PM.
Tupac remained at the intensive care unit while family and friends had a vigil at the hospital. When I found out Tupac had been shot I was shocked, I really wasn’t expecting it. I said “yeah, just wait till he comes this time, he’s gonna be really pissed.” The thought that Tupac could have died really didn’t occur to me at first, he always seemed larger than life. While in the hospital Tupac had his right lung removed, he was in and out of consciousness and was highly sedated. Later he was placed on a ventilator and respirator, life-support, and put into a drug-induced coma. The doctor made a promising statement that Tupac had passed the critical phase and had a fifty percent chance of survival. Considering the odds Tupac had been faced with through out life and had always succeeded, a fifty percent chance seemed like a certainty. Unfortunately they couldn’t stop the internal bleeding and Tupac passed. After several attempts to revive him, his mother Afeni, decided to let him rest. “I really felt it was important for Tupac, who fought so hard, to have a free spirit. I felt it was important for his spirit to be allowed to be free. So I rejoiced with him, with the release of his spirit.” On September, Friday the 13th, the always-lively Tupac had breathed his last breath.
Bloods vs Crips Aftermath
In the following week of Tupac’s shooting three people were killed in 12 shootings. The police performed a massive raid of almost 40 houses including Orlando Anderson’s where they confiscated a Deathrow Pendant.
On Sept the 9th, on East Alondra, a man who Las Vegas police said may have been in the Cadillac was shot in the back.
On the 11th September, Bobby Finch, a Southside Crip who Compton cops said may have also been in the Cadillac, was gunned down on South Mayo at 9:05 AM. Suge and three lawyers spoke with METRO police for an hour and left them with nothing in the way of leads towards suspects or motives. In Compton, Orlando’s cousin Jerry Bonds drove the white Cadillac into an autoshop on White and Alondra with another guy at 3pm.
On the 12th September Tupac was supposed to have gone to court for sentencing on weapons charges for carrying a concealed gun when he attacked Allen Hughes.
On Friday the 13th, doctors tried to resuscitate Tupac several times, then Afeni said not to try again. When Tupac took his last breath Tupac’s aunt Gloria Jean praised his body and could bear witness to who it was. He died at 4:03 PM at the Intensive Care Unit. He was pronounced dead by Dr. Lovett of respiratory failure and cardiopulmonary arrest.
Frank Alexander, ‘Pac’s bodyguard had been at Suge’s house, and Suge was mad at him and blaming him for not having his gun with him. He was coming towards him in a threatening way when the phone rang, and he found out Tupac had died. Suge told the bodyguard that it didn’t matter now because he’s gone, and Suge’s voice was cracking up like he was about to cry. Afeni made a positive identification of Tupac’s body at 5:00 PM. A mortuary van took his body to the Clark County Coroner’s office at 5:10 PM. They did an autopsy which determined that Tupac didn’t have any illegal drugs in his body, but was heavily sedated. The autopsy report is on file at the office, but is deemed by Nevada state law not to be public.
There were ballistics tests, but the results have not been made public either. They took six pictures of him which were put on file at the office. Two general assignment detectives took Polaroid pictures of Tupac at the morgue for a police training book, but later they were removed from the book and destroyed. They sent his blood to Long Beach Genetics, who did the DNA testing to find the probability of Afeni and Billy Garland parentage which came back as 99.97%. Tupac was then cremated. Also on this day two more Bloods were shot and killed in the area by an assailant who fled on foot. On the 14th, Afeni spread some of his ashes on a hill in L.A. and some on her garden. Tupac’s family held a private funeral for him in Las Vegas. On the 15th, he was mourned during a memorial service at The House of the Lord Pentecostal Church in Brooklyn, where he was still listed as a member of the congregation. Police had thought that the man at the MGM Grand could have been a suspect, but was ruled out because security was still holding him when Tupac had left the building.
Because Tupac didn’t have a will, Afeni had to file court papers as the only living heir and that she was the administer of his estate. Death Row emptied the apartment and took the furniture which Tupac was charged over $100,000 for. Reporter Cathy Scott got hold of a supposed autopsy photo of Tupac dissected on a table at the morgue and was offered $100,000 for it from The National Enquirer. It is not an official coroner or police photo and could be a fake.
On May 29, 1998, Anderson and his friend Michael Reed Dorrough pulled into the parking lot of Cigs Record Store at the intersection of Alondra and Oleander in Compton. Here he met Michael Stone, also a crip, who was with his nephew, Jerry Stone. Tempers rose and a gunfight erupted. Orlando and the Stones were all fatally injured. An informant told police it was connected with the killing of Tupac, others said it was over money. It seems odd that if Orlando Anderson were responsible for the killing of Tupac it would take two years before he was killed, by a fellow crip nonetheless.
Suge Knight Parole Violation
In the beating of Orlando Anderson Suge Knight was charged with violating his probation. Suge claimed that he was trying to break up the rumble, and Anderson confirmed his story in his testimony. However, Anderson later changed his story and said that Suge was in fact involved. Suge was sentenced to nine years in prison, however he got out early and is now a free man.
Police investigation
The police investigations in the two shootings of Tupac were shabby at best. It would seem that the police were not interested in solving the shootings and as EDI of the Outlawz stated “(He) was just another black man that had a strong opinion—and now he’s out of the way.” Tupac’s dislike for the police and vice-versa was not a secret. Tupac had previously been charged for shooting two off duty officers in the rear end after they harassed him for jay walking. The case was dismissed because the officers had guns that were taken from evidence. In the 1996 Las Vegas shooting, the police department claimed that the witnesses weren’t cooperating. Kadafi as an eye witness, wasn’t helped in custody. Police said that David Kenner, Deathrow’s lawyer, made meetings with the police but never showed up. Kadafi was later shot and killed in New Jersey. Some other interesting points was that no helicopter was called in to look for the Cadillac, the crime scene was destroyed, trained bodyguards couldn’t give an accurate description and it happened just off the strip with no witnesses. The irony of Tupac’s last movie, Gang Related is heavy. Tupac proposes to setup their crimes on a drug dealer because nobody will care.
Conclusion
The impact of Tupac’s death spans from the inner workings of rap to all the people and fans alike who have suffered the loss. It was hard to believe that somebody so fearless, so alive, and who defied all odds, could actually be mortal, and it’s hard to except his passing. Indeed there are many oddities about the death of Tupac that have caused fans to dissect, probe and evaluate the information in search of answers. While the lack of closure has made it hard to accept, the theories surrounding his death have only added to his controversial and legendary status.
Материалът Tupac’s Death in Las Vegas (Videos, Photos & Full Information) е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
On March 15, 1996, Tupac and Suge Knight visit Las Vegas to attend a boxing match Tyson-Bruno, the next day.
Материалът 1996-03-15 / Tupac In Las Vegas (Tyson’s Match) е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
On Oct. 14, 1993, he made a last-minute flight from New York to Aberdeen to visit Joshua Torres, an 11-year-old fan dying of complications from muscular dystrophy. The meeting was private: no television cameras; no live broadcast by the radio station that had helped set up the meeting. Shakur spent 30 to 40 minutes with Joshua. He held Joshua’s hand, talked to him, cried with him. Then, he was gone, and within two hours, Joshua was dead.
„When I told him Josh passed away, he was like, ‘Aw, man.’ He was pretty emotional,“ says Sgt. Abdul-Hakim Torres, Joshua’s father. „I was really shocked that he stopped what he was doing, got in the jet and came down here to visit my son. Just like that, Bang! It happened.“
„He held on till then,“ said his father, a sergeant stationed at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
„He was getting really sick,“ his mother said. To lift Joshua’s spirits, she called a radio station to find out how she could get Mr. Shakur to phone her dying son.
Not only did the singer call, but in a matter of hours, he arrived via jet to the proving ground from New York and was knocking on the Torreses’ door.
„Joshua was very weak, but he smiled for him and quoted some of his lyrics,“ Mrs. Torres said.
Then he died.
Dear Judge G. Wu,
We (The Torres family) are writing to you in reference to Mr. Tupac Shakur’s sentencing on March 10, 1994. We feel that we are more than just fans of Mr. Shakur due to what he did for our son on October 14, 1993. Our son Joshua, 11 years old passed away on that evening due to Muscular Dystrophy that led to a Cardiomyopathy (Enlargement of the heart). Our son felt very proud of Mr. Shakur’s music and the way he acted in movies. When Joshua listened to the music he would pick up the messages behind the music and disseminate them to his friends and his sister. Our son’s health conditions declined and he was admitted to the John Hopkins Hospital for a week and a half. Two days after arriving home October 14, Joshua became very ill and was not looking well. My wife Diane stated calling the Make – A – Wish Foundation to see if we could grant a wish for him to be visited by one of his favorite stars. The Foundation could not help due to time and travel limitations. As my wife sat near Joshua, she asked him who would he like to see and he named five stars including Mr. Tupac Shakur. Out of the five names, Mr. Shakur was the only one to make Joshua’s wish come true. My wife called WPGC FM Radio Station and spoke with Ms. Dawn Scott (Promotion Coordinator) and asked if she could contact Mr. Tupac Shakur for her and have him call our son. Thirty minutes later Mr. Shakur called our son and talked to him for about fifteen minutes. During the conversation our son was having difficulties and Mr. Shakur told him to hang in there and to „Keep ya head up“ which was Joshua’s favorite song on the latest album. Mr. Shakur asked our son what else could he do for him and our son asked Mr. Shakur could he visit him. Mr. Shakur told Joshua that he was not too sure but he would look in to it and really try. Prior to hanging up the phone I spoke with Mr. Shakur and he asked for directions on getting here to our home in Aberdeen, Maryland. Joshua was so happy knowing Mr. Shakur was on his way to visit him as he lay on his bed in pain waiting as patient as he could possibly wait. At 8:00pm Mr. Shakur arrived and spent over an hour beside our son holding him and comforting him as much as possible and expressing lots of sympathy for our son Joshua. Mr. Shakur talked to my wife and I and expressed his sympathies followed by hugs and departed. Later that evening forty five minutes after Mr. Shakur left our son Joshua passed away. We have lots of respect and feel very close to Mr. Shakur for dropping everything on his agenda to fly down from New York to visit our beloved son Joshua. We can never thank him enough for all that he did. He sent our son some memorabilia’s and flowers upon hearing the news of our son. We know that some of the public look at Mr. Shakur as a negative example however there is a positive side to him that is definitely greater than the public see or hears. In closing this letter we are asking you to please consider the positive things Mr. Shakur has done for the community but most importantly for our son Joshua Torres who’s wish was fulfilled prior to passing away. Along with that consideration please try to realize that sending him to jail is a disservice to our community in which Mr. Shakur has always supported and been there for. I believe that having Mr. Shakur give time to spend with the children is better than putting him in jail. Thank You.
Sincerely Yours,
Robert Torres
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(After Joshua died , Tupac was so affected that he renamed his publishing company’s name from Ghetto Gospel Music to Joshua’s Dream.)
Материалът Tupac & Joshua Torres’s Dream е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
During his TV interview, which aired on July 16, 1993, Tupac got riled up when Ed Lover touched on an altercation between the Hughes Brothers and ‘Pac which took place after they fired ‘Pac from their movie, „Menace II Society.“ „They fired me but did it in a round about punk snitch way. So I caught them on the streets and whipped their behinds,“ ‘Pac said on camera. „I was a menace to the Hughes Brothers and it ain’t over.“
The Hughes Brothers used the show footage as evidence in an assault case against Tupac. ‘Pac ultimately spent 15 days in jail for the attack.
Материалът 1993-07-13 / Tupac Interview ‘Yo: The Story of Yo! MTV Raps’ (I was a menace to the Hughes Brothers) е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
“Master T: Can we talk about Death Row East , what exactly is happening. What can we expect from it?
Tupac Shakur: Do you believe in God?
Master T: Certainly!!!
Tupac Shakur: Then believe in Death Row East, believe in that for real. If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
We plan to take the same strategy we used with Death Row West, which is mind over matter; taking all our weaknesses, and making them into our strengths. And numbers…We already run the streets out here. So now we just gonna help some of these brothers get their pimp-paper on, cause we know they got talent. And we got the ways to make them use their talent, to the maximum effect. And that’s what it’s about. Everybody raps – we don’t rap. We rap to make money, we do business. Ain’t no other record company out there, that sold as many records as we did. We outsold Bad Boy, LaFace, every black record label out there we outsold them, and in one year! And I’m a convict and my homeboy just got off a murder case, so that tells you that it’s pure talent. No hype, we don’t got no all-american smiles, they don’t even wanna buy our records – but they gotta buy our records cause we represent the streets.
So Death Row East, is gonna be a personification of what we did on the West Side, we gonna do it to the East Side. We gonna prove once and for all, that all these people talking about a East Coast West Coast war, they like what Judas was to Jesus. They only here to cause confusion. We here to bring money, and to bring change, they here to bring confusion. All these weak rappers…Nas, and all these suckers they’re battling off East and West like it’s a game. This ain’t no game! If this was chess, we’d be yelling checkmate three motherfuckin’ years ago, cause we been beatin these motherfuckas. It’s not a game!
We out here trying to help our people make money, we trying to get out of this three strike, circle they got us in and start gettin our paper on. So that’s what we’re doin – by strength in numbers we coming to the East Coast to prove there is no fear, there is no problem; there ain’t nothing but opportunity and opportunity is, overthrow the government y’all got right now which is Bad Boy, and Nas, and all that bullshit – and we will bring a new government right here that will feed every person in New York.
Master T: Alright man thank you. Take care.“
Материалът 1996-09-04 / Tupac Interview About Death Row East (MTV Video Music Awards) е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
2Pac – Runnin’ On E (Original Version 1) with Hussein Fatal, Yaki Kadafi, Young Noble, Nutt-So
Recorded date: 1996
Studio: Can-Am Studios, Tarzana, California
Producer: 2Pac
2Pac – Runnin’ On E (OG 2) with Napoleon, Storm, Yaki Kadafi, Young Noble, Nutt-So
Lyrics:
[Tupac]
Mr. If you a bad boy
[Fatal]
Yo, whats up man
[Tupac]
The police comin, nigga
[Fatal]
Oh shit
[Tupac]
Get outta there
[Fatal]
yo yo get the fuck out the way
Five O, Five O
[Hussein Fatal]
This is Fatal, outlaw
I’m runnin up out this muthafucka (five oh)
I’m goin past niggaz
Aint gettin me out the game like this, fuck that (hurry the fuck up, hurry the fuck up)
This outlaw, nigga (what the fuck is y’all doing?)
[Chorus: Tupac + Fatal/Yaki Kadafi]
If you a bad boy then you die
Westside outlawz when we ride, get me high
They fucked up when they robbed me
Put another contract on Mobb Deep (hehe)
If you a bad boy then you die
Westside Outlawz when we ride, get me high
They fucked up when they robbed me
Put another contract on Mobb Deep
(bitch ass niggaz)
[Hussein Fatal]
Heh
I focus my locus thought on the enemy
Sick off the Hennessey, it’s necessary to finish me (eh yo)
I’m anti-social immortal when it come to the vocals (eh yo)
Jersey them niggaz down and won’t appoach em til it’s time to smoke em
Hussein the terrorist, (haha) nigga they think I’m crazy and creepy
And as we speak they try to find me therapist
Rapid fire I clap and hire till you die a liar
Strap intact hittin’ corners dropped didn’t want to spin the tires
My man’ll find ya (eh yo)
This 357 anaconda, is enough to brand your mama then turn around and hand ya drama
Military comradery Outlaw till they body me
Havoc I gotta have it steady blastin at Prodigy (bow down)
Mobb 6 feet deep, you try to blast me to death
And suppose you got the dopest moves like Chucky on fresh
You know the verdict, who what when and why he die murdered
Get your physical diverted and your vision deserted
[Tupac]
Ever since mama got fucked and papa ducked out
Look at us murderous thugs showin less love in the drug house (yo yo)
Similar to savage it’s a wonder we manage
Bring chaos causin damage on our quest for cabbage
They ask my style similar to cash we flaunt it
Most wanted by the population murdered you for it
Exploit your weakness revenge flow deep without release
Criminal orders across the water bringin the war to the streets
Why fear me, fear the shit I speak
Once this shit drop it’s heard on every fuckin street
like the sound of police, who run the street really
And every hood legends grow
from the hustlaz up at Harlem to shot callers in O’
And though, Congress, don’t want us to progress, we stress
My homie buried at an early age hustled to death
His last breath, a lesson I posses like jewels
Stay thugged out keep it movin’ (eh yo, where you)
[Yaki Khadafi]
Half way thugs don’t budge when we stalk the streetz
Sort of like chalk and narcotics when we walk the beat (bang)
You speak of beef pussy throw down and drop it (drop)
Hit you with 6 shots lay the law down and throw the shells in my pocket (buck buck buck)
Getting mine with nines cocked extorting
Block shots with (eh yo) 22’s with my socks with the butt hangin out the chocolate
You never seen time I travel across the dream crime
My rolls like a million dollar bills folded with green pine (hahaha)
With my pulse racing, drink my henney straight no chasin
Catch my body like cases, 5 minutes from the station
[Young Noble]
Hit the hole like Allen Iverson with confidence
No finger prints that mean there was no evidence or proof that I was present
At the scene of the crime around 10 niggas bleed
After they made this punk fag motherfucker bleed
All the money was bloody as shit, y’all niggas shoulda seen it
Bust a cap and freak with, bow down on your knees shit (hahaha)
The glock to your head nigga, don’t let inside action (westside outlaw, do it to em nigga)
Hit innocent by-standers when you blasted, shot fuckin backwards
Little homies puttin work for stripes
But is it worth your life, g-rides runnin red lights (ahhh)
I wish somebody would have told me then
Since I’m an outlaw like Napolean ain’t no cell they can hold me in (biatch)
Caucasian, crazy like Arabians
Hold this spot like some niggas fade me in
Havin’ a fiend’s baby (maybe)
When they want the product nigga I got the smoke (smoke)
Got the weed and the coke what you need what you want (coke, coke)
What you working with I’m on some immortal shit
Outlawz we straight hurtin shit use artillery to murder with (murderous)
Put then on the box gangsta party like Pac (Pac)
Lifes hard from the ox me and my niggas on top (party)
[Tupac: 5X]
I know the law hate me dearly, comin for me
We outlaws, thugged out, niggas runnin on E
[Nutt-So]
The glock, put the lead in pop, fuck the law
Carry steel cause I live in the niggaz side of the law
Ridin’ foes cause I can’t let hoes catch me slippin
Quick to blow and dispose if you block on hittin
Ridin high, blazin, cryptonite got a nigga dazing
Jerkin and smirken at enemies before I grave em
Ride em, look behind em, I see him
He slipped, at a stop light on this lonely night
(This motherfuckin’ trick)
Slide on him, so I can dip and put it in him
(Damn, I guess this motherfucka know that I sent him)
Hit the pedal now we high speed
With my metal tryin’ to make these motherfuckaz die speed (haha thats right)
Up the way I seen him slow down
(Shit!! I think I gon’ bust these hoes down, hoes down)
Caught em runnin’ on E it’s kinda funny to me
They knew they was funkin’ with me but they dumb and see
[Tupac]
Open up fire watch em expire when my shells split em
Plus all them trick niggaz basically can go to hell with em
Fuck em they phony claimin they homies but they foes
Speakin on thug niggaz daily, while we nailing they hoes
Explode boldly at my stage shows and formation
Words are known to spray blaze as I raise my thug nation
A crooked thought, cops get bought, no longer caught
Out on bail raisin hell, nigga fuck what you thought
Did you cry when my girl died?
Put out the hit, politic niggaz worldwide, grabbin my dick
I’ll never learn, take away the pain with sherm
Throwin’ gas on my enemies watchin em burn
Kamikaze, I’m shootin’ up the casket take the body
Whip the corpse like a pin’ata and party
His last breath, a straight lesson I possess like jewels
Stay thugged out keep it movin
Running on E
Stay thugged out keep it movin
Running on E
[Tupac talkin]
One time, one time for the niggaz that stayed down for me
Runnin on E
Smiff and Wessun
The Cocoa Brovaz
Buckshot, B.D.I.
Heltah Skeltah
Runnin on E
Boot Camp Click
Aiite
What happened?
That was it?
Материалът 2Pac – Runnin’ On E (OG 1) with Hussein Fatal, Yaki Khadafi, Young Noble, Nutt-So е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
2Pac – Runnin’ On E (Original Version 2) with Napoleon, Storm, Yaki Kadafi, Young Noble, Nutt-So
Recorded date: 1996
Studio: Can-Am Studios, Tarzana, California
Producer: 2Pac
2Pac – Runnin’ On E (Original Version 1) with Hussein Fatal, Yaki Kadafi, Young Noble, Nutt-So
Lyrics:
[Verse 1: Napoleon]
Where do these niggaz I go runnin back, With my Outlaw pack
Don’t make me handle your head, So I proceed, young and mind I act
We on the mad for this cash, Left some dead in the back (eh yo)
We be burnin how bad, Puttin holes to they head
The game turned on’em, We got the word and we rolled on’em
Beat him so bad, he thought Jesus took his soul from’em
We cold on’em, Told him we gon’ mash this way
As I bash you on sight, Might take the pressure away
[Verse 2: Storm]
Yo, I’m a broad breaking the front lawns, My army if you wit me
Battle positions, they got the rookies, Holdin quicken
Ride for me deep and dirty, Copyin is sloppy
You got to drop me ‘fore stop me, Push the crucial to lock me
Aint a street that you Kadafi, With my mission beside
For a diehard 3rd soldier still ridin for Pac
The war ain’t over, raise your guns high
They say it’s peace? That’s a lie
So my homies die, now tell me why?
[Verse 3: 2Pac]
Ever since mama got fucked and papa ducked out
Look at us murderous thugs showin less love in the drug house
Similar to savage it’s a wonder we manage
Bring chaos causin damage on our quest for cabbage
They ask my style similar to cash we flaunt it
Most wanted by the population murdered you for it
Exploit your weakness revenge flow deep without release
Criminal orders across the water bringin the war to the streets
Why fear me, fear the shit I speak
Once this shit drop it’s heard on every fuckin street
like the sound of police, who run the street really
And every hood legends grow
from the hustlaz up at Harlem to shot callers in O’
And though, Congress, don’t want us to progress, we stress
My homie buried at an early age hustled to death
His last breath, a lesson I posses like jewels
Stay thugged out keep it movin’ (eh yo, where you)
[Verse 4: Yaki Kadafi]
Half way thugs don’t budge when we stalk the streetz
Sort of like chalk and narcotics when we walk the beat (bang)
You speak of beef pussy draw down and drop it (drop)
Hit you with 6 shots lay the law down and throw the shells in my pocket (buck buck buck)
Getting mine with nines cocked extorting
Block shots with (eh yo) 22’s in my socks
With the butt hangin out the chocolate
You never seen time I travel across the dream crime
My rolls like a million dollar bills folded with green pine (hahaha)
With my pulse racing, drink my henney straight no chasin
Catch my body like cases, 5 minutes from the station
[Verse 5: Young Noble]
I hit the hole like Allen Iverson with confidence
No finger prints that mean there was no evidence or proof that I was present
At the scene of the crime around 10 niggas bleed
After they made this punk fag motherfucker bleed
Money was bloody as shit, y’all niggas shoulda seen it
Bust a cap and freak with, bow down on your knees shit (hahaha)
The glock to your head nigga, don’t let inside action
Hit innocent by-standers when you blasted, shot fuckin backwards
Little homies puttin work for stripes
But is it worth your life, g-rides runnin red lights (ahhh)
I wish somebody would have told me then
Since I’m an outlaw like Napolean ain’t no cell they can hold me in
Caucasian, crazy like Arabians
Hold this spot like some niggas fade me in
Havin’ the fiend’s page me (maybe)
When they want the product nigga I got the smoke (smoke)
Got the weed and the coke what you need what you want (coke, coke)
What you working with I’m on some immortal shit
Outlawz we straight hurtin shit use artillery to murder with
Put on the block gangsta party like Pac (Pac)
Lifes hard from the OX me, and my niggas on top, top (party)
[Verse 5: Nutt-So]
The glock, put the lead in pop, fuck the law
Carry steel cause I live in the niggaz side of the law
Ridin’ foes cause I can’t let hoes catch me slippin
Quick to blow and dispose if you block on hittin
Ridin high, blazin, cryptonite got a nigga dazing
Jerkin and smirken at enemies before I grave em
Ride em, look behind em, I see him
He slipped, at a stop light on this lonely night
Slide on him, so I can dump and put it in him
Hit the pedal now we high speed
With my metal tryin’ to make these motherfuckaz die speed
Up the way I seen him slow down
Caught em runnin’ on E it’s kinda funny to me
They knew they was funkin’ with me but they dumb and see
Материалът 2Pac – Runnin’ On E (OG 2) with Napoleon, Storm, Yaki Kadafi, Young Noble, Nutt-So е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
2Pac – Scared Straight ’91 with Ray Luv
Recorded date: 1991
Originally recorded for 2Pacalypse Now
Producers: Raw Fusion (Money B & DJ Fuze)
Bassline performer: Shock G
Played on Money B’s „Goin’ Way Back Show“
Samples: Xclan – Grand Verbalizer, What Time Is It
Lyrics:
[Intro – Ray Luv]
Scared straight, the one that you hate
With a pervs all be stepping with weapons
that keep my nerves on total destruction
The wrong one to be fucking with
The lyrical mastermind and 2Pacthalunatic
[Ray Luv]
Lovin’ the ladies and treat the females with true respect,
I love ’em and leave ’em and still collect on a county check
cuz these hoes don’t care they on a mission to ironside
So ride with the whoo ride i’ll give ya a joy ride,
so niggaz be steppin’ to the front with the weak shit,
I’m the one you can’t get with beware or you’ll get hit,
with a loose and very clever combination, I’m tearing up the competion like Jason,
money stack and racks and raps rip by Ray, Mishap and Epitats,
cuz suckers are scared straight
[2PAC]
Prepare for the wrath, a psychopath when this song play
Get iller than Johnny Gill and rub you the wrong way
Fuck sensitivity I get cruel when you’re doing me
Cause none of the rough stuff bitch stop pursuing me
So true to the game, it’s a name you don’t dare say
A lyrical lunatic when I kick it your scared straight
Motherfucker’s fall way to the roster
You step any closer and get hit with a dose of
iller-fied pimping-ass gang to bang to
And I ain’t ashamed to, get wicked with slang to
Niggas know, when I flow, I can give you mo’
Get sicker than psycho, and won’t let the Mic, go
Till I hear the whole crowd on they two feet
As I go through new beats, I’m running through MC’s
Nigga please you dizzy, you can’t take me
You stumble through break beats but you’ll never fade me
Scared straight cause you hate, when I motivate
You suffer a different fate, when music I mutilate
But some of the super suckers try to stop me
I’m gunning and running the stupid motherfucker’s now they jock me
What if I should trip? Or chill and a give fair break
Fuck it they feel the wrath of a motherfucker scared straight
[Chorus]
Fighting wars in the streets
Fighting… Fighting wars in the streets (Scared straight)
Fighting… Fighting wars in the streets
Fighting… Fighting wars in the streets
[Ray Luv]
Running through the rhyme, keepin’ em cuz i leaked the fumes,
had to pay my dues, but nigga you know you sure will lose,
now you’re after me, you better bring your whole posse,
or gang of punk emcees, Ray beat ’em down relentlessley,
a mastermind at work residing in the rose town,
closing foes and hosting shows and fucking them crazy hoes now,
brother black is back showing em all no mercy,
one verse you’ll here the hearse like…tec (when ya heard me)
The game is in affect, im stompin’ on necks and taking respect from niggaz who try to flex,
and roody poo collar blue police are tryin’ to sweat,
I’m taking your final breath and suprising you bitch cuz I aint dead yet,
time to get lethal finish ’em all in the first round, no sequal,
I rush em down beat ’em down, don’t ask me what they hitting for I run ya down and leave ya
Fuck the pringle heres the single, now we love the evil
[2PAC]
Feel the funky funk house buster you’ll get rolled on
No matter how much they bring, I duck and dodge and hold on
Best a watch the swing
Nigga the game is so strong, catch me by surprise
You won’t realize your hoe’s gone
Nigga I’m on the creep
And if I know your address, girls as good as stuck
She eating my Mr. Badness
Pac don’t give a fuck, I got too many enemies
Fucking with the ginger juice the booze of fucking Hennessy
The closer they can get
But still don’t let them see me sweat, suckers ain’t trying to step
They know they’ll be breathing they last breathe
Niggas ain’t got no heart, but swear that they be rocking shit
Till they get a load of the bold ass 2Pacalypse
Tell them to bring the noise, and look like they wanna rift
Brother this is ain’t a game, a crook’s what’s you’re fucking with
Hitting him with the flurry, I’ll bury him if he steps to me
Sucker’s can’t get next to me, tripping off some ecstasy
Literal life insanity, even a form of suicide
This ain’t BBD, try doing me you’re do or die
Dropping them like a Mack, and smacking them like a weak bitch, nigga don’t even twitch
Cause them I’ma have to pull the switch
Victory to the switch, so fuck ’em if they, try to break
Freaking ’em with the funk left them drunk
Hella (Scared straight)
[Chorus/Outro]
Wars in the streets (Hell yeah)
Fighting wars in the streets (Scared straight)
Fighting… Fighting wars in the streets
Fighting… Fighting wars in the streets(Motherfuckers are scared straight)
Fighting… Fighting wars in the streets
Fighting… Fighting… Fighting wars in the streets(2Pacalypse in this motherfucker)
Fight… Fighting… Fighting wars
Fighting wars
Fighting wars in the streets (The whole motherfuckin’ posse in the house)
Fighting wars in the streets (Underground Railroad punks we layin’ the track leavin’ motherfuckers scared straight)
Материалът 2Pac – Scared Straight ’91 with Ray Luv (Unreleased) е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
2Pac – Secretz Of War (Original Version I) with Hussein Fatal, Yaki Kadafi, Young Noble
Recorded date: 1996
Studio: Can-Am Studios, Tarzana, California
Originally recorded for One Nation
Producer: Johnny „J“ Jackson
Samples: Willie Hutch – Brother’s Gonna Work It Out
2Pac – Secretz Of War (Rules Version) with Kurupt, Yaki Kadafi & Hussein Fatal
Lyrics:
[Intro: Makaveli/Outlawz]
Well goddamn let’s give these niggas
The secrets and the rules since these muthafuckaz, are fuckin
Outlawz in this muthafuckin
Mojo no go
Hm, uhgagaga
Secretz of war
Alright now
You know what time it is (Spice 1, ehhh yoooooooo)
(bust if we must and plus)
Put your hands on ya, hands on ya
(bust if we must and plus)
Outlawz in this muthafucka
(bust if we must and plus)
Fatal
[Verse 1: Hussein Fatal]
Let go my enemies, my heart beat, pump with the heat
So I bust instead of waiting for you punks to squeeze
See you all on my 3 pound rounds, since you conform
Bit the fact that Outlawz just kick down these doors
Bitch niggas be fouling out, hacking me with the wack rhymes
Grabbing ya .9, shooting scared, tryin’ to take mine
I’m putting pressure on you niggas when I’m mobb
Deep bringing the heat to you dirty ass squad
You can robb, point blank range, peek game
From the pleasure, taminated criminal Hussein
Bitch nigga I try to project steps with the Tec
Murder next, and robb any nigga any set
Hussein, the type of muthafucka dying with trey pounds
Ghetto type be drown, hollow points from the waist down
[Hook]
We go to war bust if we must, plus
Handle our business if them jealous niggas fuck with us
We go to war bust if we must, plus
Handle our business when them jealous niggas fuck with us
[Verse 2: 2Pac]
Now, as I approach the scene, from smoking green, got my eyes close
Niggas I call ’em my foes, I make ’em die froze
Watch me make ’em bleed, makin’ G’s, Lord help me with it
Got me fakin’ bitches of a meal ticket, help me get it
See me in and pray for options, when the precious love stop
Niggas get to pistol poppin’, then watch the body drop
I’m a lethal weapon, watch me hit yo set, flash on
Blast on them bitch made niggas with my mask on
Do it for profit, plus I’m, lookin’ for punks to bust on
If you ain’t screamin’ WestSide, nigga get the fuck on
I’m seeing demons hittin’ weed, got me hearing screams
Scared to go to sleep, I bust the scene like a dope feen
Probably be punished for it, although you can’t ignore it
I live the life of a thug nigga, and die for it
Niggas past the clip and watch me bring ’em to the floor
I got some shit that they ain’t ready for, I got the secrets to war
[Hook]
We go to war bust if we must, plus
Handle our business if them jealous niggas fuck with us
We go to war bust if we must, plus
Handle our business when them jealous niggas fuck with us
[Verse 3: Kadafi]
Kadafi, we do this thug life shit like 4 5 6 dick em
Down with no rounds left up in the pound when it sounds
Squeeze the lead off!, I blow his motherfuckin head off!
Gather all the other Outlawz, settle this shit and set off
Yaki Kadafi, there ain’t a cop here to stop me
These streets is black Hockey, your MOB? weak and sloppy
Put a pamper on your silly ass pussy-style grammer
Locked in the slammer while I’m layed cocked cocked back like a hammer
Y’all newly wed’s don’t want honey, some times I’m fed up
Dummys I Leave no trace found with you face down stuck
Your biggest cannons couldn’t come close to touch or even hit me
Doin’ my dirt puttin’ in work on your block tipsy”
[Verse 4: Young Noble]
Check the middle, represented, niggas is finished
Getting blood checks from clinics, this thug shit is in us
Flowing through my system, you a victim, blunts.. I twist them
Fuck the whole world it’s us against them
You got the heat? Pull it out, and cock the handle if you with it
Don’t make no differences, with a 25-to-Life sentence
We already doing life on the street, like Al G
Niggas be heated when they walking the beat
This shit is Flakey, making bags shaky, Niggas hate me
Scared to face me, knowing that the Outlawz raised me!
Put me up on game, put me up on a hustle
Once I flex my money muscle, all this cheese gotta double
Moving shit like a dolly, beating niggas like Rodney
Turn to a killa like Kadafi (Yaki Kadafi)
[Hook]
We go to war we bust if we must, plus
Handle our business when them jealous niggas fuck with us
We go to war bust if we must, plus
Handle our business when them jealous niggas fuck with us
(hahahaha)
We go to war, bust if we must, plus handle our business when them jealous niggas fuck with us
Outlawz
Outlawz
Outlawz
E more
Makaveli
E more
They ain’t ready for us
Fuck with us
They ain’t ready for us
Outlaw
Outlaw
E more
[Outro: Makaveli/Outlawz]
Secretz of war
And all you lil’ young ass souljahs
You play this shit back about fifty times
You’ll have enough game to roll up in a club or somethin
Teach these bitches a lil’ somethin’, you know what I mean?
Secretz of muthafuckin’ War live on Death Row, bitch (ehh yooo)
Hahahahahahaha
You niggas crazy
(We go to war, bust if we must, plus handle our business when them jealous niggas fuck with us
We go to war, bust if we must, plus handle our business when them jealous niggas fuck with us)
Young Noble
Fatal, Felony
Secrets of war
When we ride
Always have a good time
You know it’s Thug Life
Jealous niggas fuck with us
Handle our business
Aiite
Материалът 2Pac – Secretz Of War (Original Version I) with Hussein Fatal, Yaki Kadafi, Young Noble е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
2Pac – Secretz Of War (Rules Version) with Kurupt, Yaki Kadafi, Hussein Fatal
Recorded date: 1996
Studio: Can-Am Studios, Tarzana, California
Originally recorded for One Nation
Producer: Johnny „J“ Jackson
Samples: Willie Hutch – Brother’s Gonna Work It Out
2Pac – Secretz Of War (Original Version I) with Hussein Fatal, Yaki Kadafi, Young Noble
Lyrics:
[Intro: 2Pac]
Secrets of war
Get your pen and pads out, you lil’ young ass muthafuckas
Alright now, Fatal-n-Felony, you know what time it is
Kingpin Kurupt, with ‘Pac
Put your hands on ya, hands ya
Get y’all niggas up
Roll with the secrets now
Secrets of war
Put your hands on ya, hands on ya
Time to roll with the secrets now
Secrets of war
Put your hands on ya, hands on ya
Peep it
Check it
[Verse 1: 2Pac]
My melody is music that’s corrupt as a felony
Lethal weapon rebelling, so dope that niggas inhaling me, uh!
Like Sun Tzu or Machiavelli
The secrets of war, the art of combat, bustin’ will never fail me
Now Rule 1: Follow yo’ enemies and peep his weakness
Constitute while he’s asleep and make the game deeper
Rule 2: Locate his crew, and peep the things they do
Now get some infra-red beams and waste them niggas too
Rule 3: Let’s find a place where they rest they head
You jealous bastards make caskets out ya comfy beds
Rule 4: Now peep the secrets of war
I got surveillance on muthafuckas beware of my forty-four
Rule 5: Right before you bustas die
Letchu look me inside my eyes say ya good-byees
Then Rule 6: Witness the death of a trick
He was a coward from day one, and died like a bitch, see BIIATCH
Hahahahahaha
[Hook: 2Pac]
We bust if we must, plus, we handle business if you jealous niggas fuck with us, you know what time it is
Secrets of war, we bust if we must, plus, we handle business if you jealous niggas fuck with us
Put your hands on ya, hands on ya
Secrets of war
[Verse 2: Hussein Fatal]
I diffuse troops with interviews and they metabolism
Sure mad and I’m snappin on rappers actin’ they stacks is wit’ ’em
Expose you like spades, who the fuck out they heart
I pull your projects apart and find more ism than narcs
We play parks and side streets, keepin’ it 9 to 5 B
Last week plan is jump to 21 jump street
Poisonous led, spread ya legs on the rake
Or I’m gettin’ mine feel about 29 that’s sittin’ on the ledge
This ain’t the place to creep, so don’t be practicin’
How to get my niggas on the block, when you think we sleep
No I don’t think ya know our styles, you ain’t got shit I wreck
Mechanic will have ’em empty like them 7th ave projects
You half way crooks, ya guys are scared to step foot and look fast
On the strength they can get hit up quick or their shit took fast
I smile, and I’ll commitin’ murder, money live
Pager 325, on some shit you never fuckin’ heard of
[Hook: 2Pac]
Here we go, secrets of war
We bust if we must, plus, we handle business
If you jealous niggas fuck with us
Secrets of war (y’all know what time it is)
We bust if we must, plus, we handle business
If you jealous niggas fuck with us
Put your hands on ya, hands on ya
[Verse 3: Yaki Kadafi]
Nowadays
With all these fast cash tendencies
Yo straight up, they got me lookin’ eye to eye, with all my enemies
Spottin’ almost plottin’, claimin’ to be a fuckin’ friend of me
Triple connections, Two Teks sittin’ shot gun up in the Lexus
Ready to release some ripples in a nigga mid-section
With bullets that’s hollow, rules to follow
Crews get swallowed, down wit’ the clowns
Get drowned like deuce deuce bottles
We clique gettin’ major, clappin’ glasses, spittin’ razors
It’s insane how I live, it’s unexplained
Across the neighbors
Streets of war
[Hook: 2Pac]
We bust if we must, plus, we handle business
If you jealous niggas fuck with us
Secrets of war (y’all know what time it is)
We bust if we must, plus, we handle business
If you jealous niggas fuck with us
Hands on ya, hands on ya
[Verse 4: Kurupt]
I’ve seen it over, and over, no win sit-yay-tions
The end, the end of gladiations so now they facin’ (uh)
They faced with metaphoric phrases hysteria (uh huh)
Engages the death toll to spread like malaria
What I can cock and stop thoughts from circulatin’ through ya head
In the form of writers block and spread like a plague (hm)
I break, batter and bruise neck, arms and legs
In my profession, my thoughts conceal weapons (uhh)
Gettin’ ready to drop the bomb like the B-1
Ya 145 pound rhymes and mines a 3 ton
Concoctions, mystic can spot the gator
Before ya get a dosage of the greatest rhyme creator in this existence
Relax and explore the scene, I get this shit pumped the fuck up like morphine
And uh, and uh, and uh
[Outro: 2Pac]
Hahahahehehehe, be-itch
Secrets of muthafuckin’ war
(We bust, if we must, plus, jealous niggas fuck wit’ us)
Y’all don’t even understand it
(secrets of war, we bust if we must, plus, jealous niggas fuck wit’ us)
Secrets of war
And all you lil’ young ass souljahs
You play this shit back about 50 times
You’ll have enough game to roll up to the club or somethin’ (we thuggin’ be-itch)
Teach these bitches a lil’ somethin’, you know what I mean?
Secrets of muthafuckin’ war, live on Death Row, BITCH!
Hahahahahehehehehe
You niggas crazy
Well that was Kurupt
Fatal, Felony
And ‘Pac
That nigga Johnny J on the beat so
You know it’s thug life
Материалът 2Pac – Secretz Of War (Rules Version) with Kurupt, Yaki Kadafi & Hussein Fatal е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
2Pac – Shorty Wanna Be A Thug (Demo Version)
Recorded date: December 18, 1995
Studio: Can-Am Studios, Tarzana, California
– Producer: Johnny „J“ Jackson
– Samples: Hank Crawford – Wildflower
Lyrics:
[Hook]
Said he wanna be, shorty’s gonna be a thug
Said he wanna be, one day he’s gonna be
Said he’s gonna be, shorty’s gonna be a thug
Said he’s gonna be, one day he’s gonna be
Said he wanna be, shorty’s gonna be a thug!
Said he wanna be, one day he’s gonna be
Said he wanna be, shorty’s gonna be a thug
[Verse 1]
Was a nice middle-class nigga
But no one knew the evil he’d do when he got a little bigger
You’d often find him blazed, for puffing on a Newport
Plotting on a another way to catch a case
Was only 16, yet convicted as a felon
With a bunch of old niggas, but you the only one ain’t tellin’
I tell you it’s a cold world, stay in school
You tell me it’s a man’s world, play the rules
And fade fools, break rules until we major
Blaze up, getting with hoes through my pager
Was raised up, commence to money-makin’ tactics
It’s getting drastic, niggas got automatics
My finger’s on the trigger
Tell the Lord to make way for another straight thug nigga
I’m sitting, getting buzzed, looking for some love
From the homies, ‘cause shorty wanna be a thug
[Hook]
Said he’s gonna be, said he’s gonna be
One day he’s gonna be, shorty’s gonna be a thug
Said he’s wanna be, said he’s wanna be
One day he’s gonna be, shorty’s gonna be a thug
Said he’s gonna be, one day he’s gonna be
Said he wanna be, shorty’s gonna be a thug
Said he wanna be, one day he’s gonna be
Said he wanna be, shorty’s gonna be a thug
[Verse 2]
Straight from the hall to the pen
An adolescent nigga standing way higher than six feet ten
He carried weight, like a Mack truck
Gonna bust on playa haters, if them mothafuckas act tuff
Then that’s when, a lethal weapon with the razor
This little nigga smoking weed and getting blazed up
No one could figure, when the guns blast, pull the trigger
Could take the life of a young nigga, guns bigger
No mother and father, you see, the nigga’s all alone
Old timers my role model, the war zone
Been laced with this game ’til it’s a part of me
My heart don’t beat no fear, and that ain’t hard to see
The future is looking dim
I’m tryin’ to make a profit out of living in this sin
I’m in the dark, getting buzzed, looking for some love
Out with the homies, ‘cause shorty wanna be a thug
[Hook]
Said he’s gonna be, said he’s gonna be
One day he’s gonna be, shorty’s gonna be a thug
Said he’s wanna be, one day he’s gonna be
Said he’s gonna be, shorty’s gonna be a thug
Said he’s wanna be, one day he’s gonna be
Said he wanna be, shorty’s gonna be a thug
Said he wanna be, one day he’s gonna be
Said he wanna be, shorty’s gonna be a thug
[Outro]
Shorty’s gonna be a thug
Little bad ass nigga, to the young niggas
Gotta stay sharp, nigga, play your part!
Got plenty of time (you bad mothafuckas)
You only get three mistakes, and then it’s life, big baby
(Niggas craaazy) Watch the signs!
Damn, nigga! Sixteen, nigga?
Sixteen?! Too bad, mothafuckers
Материалът 2Pac – Shorty Wanna Be A Thug (Demo Version) е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
2Pac – Skandalouz (Demo Version) with Nate Dogg
Recorded date: November 24, 1995
Studio: Can-Am Studios, Tarzana, California
Producer: Dat Nigga Daz
Lyrics:
[2Pac]
Hey Nate you know you got to focus on this motherfucker
We’s gonna talk about these scandalous hoes
[Nate]
I can talk about scandalous bitches
[2Pac]
Oh I know you can!
I know you that’s why we gonna do it
Daz on the beat
Hey Daz, nigga stop fuckin around with the piano nigga
Just drop that shit like uhh, this here
[2Pac]
I met you through my homie now you act like you don’t know me
So disappointed cause baby that shit was so phony
It’s not for me, you see no lovin from my closest homies
Woulda paid you no mind, but baby you was all up on me
While you proceed with precision, you had the table hosed
No, I ain’t mad at you baby, go ‘head and play them fools
They chose not to listen, so now he stuck inside his house
and can’t leave without his bitch permission
The mission’s to be a playa, my alias is Boss
Drop a top on these jealous niggaz, playa let me floss
Y’all don’t wanna see me in pain
I’ll leave that ass like Toni Braxton, „Never breathing again“
It’s scandalous, I never liked your back stabbin ass, triiick
Used to watch you money grabbin, who you baggin beeyitch?
Ready to bust, in the city you don’t know who to trust
But bitches lookin scandalous
[Chorus: Nate Dogg]
Scandalous.. she’s so scandalous, she’s so scandalous
She’s so scandalous.. she’s so scandalous, she’s so scandalous
Scandalous.. she’s so scandalous, she’s so scandalous
She’s so scandalous.. she’s so scandalous, she’s so scandalous
[2Pac]
How’s it hangin? Cause baby from the back the shit is bangin
I’ve been stressin in this ghetto game, tryin to do my thang
Won’t be no bullshit, no ass-kissin
This bitch’ll have ya wakin up with all your cash missin
I’m askin, as if I’m qualified to analyze
You’re lookin at a bitch who specialize in tellin lies
She got a body make a motherfucker fantasize
Her face ain’t never shed a tear through them scandalous eyes
My sister ? in poverty
Plus I knew she was a freak bitch so why should it bother me?
I’d probably be sprung, addicted to the heat of her tongue
and though I don’t where we’re goin, she’s makin me come
I’ve been trained as a boss playa, so what you sayin?
Let me show you, got some hookers we can toss later
Before I let her get me off guard
Went in the purse took a hundred dollars
Nigga I’m so scandalous
[Chorus]
[2Pac]
Dangerous and ambitious, while schemin on gettin riches
I’m spittin at tricks cause I’m addicted to pretty bitches
Currency motivated, not easily terminated
Now that we made it, my niggaz can never be faded
This is my prophecy – I gotta be paid
All you cowards that try to stop me is beggin for early graves
I thought we was cool, I was a fool, thinkin you could be true
when I don’t fuck with your punk crew
These are the tales for my niggaz doin time in the cell
I went from hell, to livin well
Bustin at niggaz who said my name in vain
I got no time for them tricks, I’m heavy in the game
I wanna be a baller, please
But the bitches and the liquor keep on callin me
I’m floatin free on the highway, formulatin plans
Can’t wait til I see L.A., cause it’s so scandalous
[Chorus]
[Chorus repeat to end (2Pac speaks over it)]
[2Pac]
Aiyyo.. how the prettiest bitch be the more scandalous the hoe be
You ever peep that shit? (Nah)
A bitch can be like fifteen, fuckin with a nigga 35
Gettin him for ends
Hoes these days is way too motherfuckin intelligent
When these niggaz get to trickin, hahaha, it’s over then
That’s aight though
Keep a nigga heavy in the game, bout so long
Watch them hoes
All you niggaz out there
Beware these lyin ass scandalous bitches
Материалът 2Pac – Skandalouz (Demo Version) with Nate Dogg е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
2Pac – So Many Tears (OG Incomplete) with Stretch
Originally recorded for Me Against The World
Recorded date: 1994
Studio: Soundcastle Studios
Producer: D-Flizno Production Squad
Samples: Stevie Wonder – That Girl
Материалът 2Pac – So Many Tears (OG) with Stretch е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
2Pac – Soon As I Get Home (OG) with Yaki Kadafi
Recorded date: December 13, 1995 / During “All Eyez On Me“ Session
Studio: Can-Am Studios, Tarzana, California
Producer: QDIII
Samples: Timex Social Club – Rumors; Whodini – Five Minutes Of Funk; Club Nouveau – Jealousy
Lyrics:
[Verse 1: 2Pac]
Dear baby, it’s me again, stuck inside this max pen
Tryna pay my debt for all my sins
See, these penitentiary times be so heavy on my mind
At times it’s like I’m living just to die
I’m living in hell, stuck in my jail cell
Stranded in the county jail, waiting for my chance to post bail
I wanna be paid in large stacks and mash in fast Jags
I blast and wonder „How long will I last?“
My memories fade when I’m intoxicated
Busters are shady, so I’m dumping on cowards
Crazy when ever faded
I know I said it all before, but now I mean it
Visions of me and you ballin’, so crystal clear I seen it
Even though you mad at me
You’ll be glad to see the strategy
Of making these chips come so easily
I max out in the morning, baby, life is good
Me and you against the whole hood, soon as I get home
[Hook: 2Pac]
Grab my straps, locate my comrades
Let’s get my enemies not knowing I’m coming back
Soon as I get home
Go get the money out the safe
It’s time to turn the streets into a war zone
Soon as I come home
[Verse 2: 2Pac]
Sittin’ here looking at pictures of me and you livin’
But now you out in the world, while I’m twistin’ in prison
Love letters come daily, words of affection
You send me money and nude pictures beggin’ for some sexin’
Stay wide open, keep your eyes peeled
And my advice is „Keep it real or you can die squeelin’.“
Plus I never had to worry ’bout a visit
‘Cause you’re there daily
Guards tryna get your number, you don’t dare tell me
Tongue-kissing, steady humpin’, tryna touch up somethin’
Before the C-O in the corner jump in, frontin’
Late night reminiscing, everybody’s quiet
I think something’s in the air, prepare for the riot
It’s padlocks in my socks, steel from the bed springs
I touch ’em with thug love and then let they heads ring
I started a war, but now I’m gone
Release me to the streets in the morning
It’s on, soon as I get home
[Hook: 2Pac]
Grab my gats, locate my comrades
Let’s get my enemies not knowing I’m coming back
Let’s get my money out the safe
It’s time to turn the streets into a war zone
Soon as I get home
[Verse 3: Yaki Khadafi]
Since you’ve been gone
My whole life’s been like a game of Cee-low
Thinking big, like the kid from Casino
Fulfillin’ my dreams, like Nino
Brown, the whole town be shook up
And me and Mama surviving
Depends on how many rocks a nigga cook up
Narcotics got traffic, seen those niggas you blasted
Wanting me in a casket, on a ground, kind of plastic
Yeah, nigga, I heard, Lil’ Mu gave the word
You get paroled on the third, it’s all love
We out here frontin’, still here but all about nothin’
But double O’s is what I’m wantin’
And I’m tryna see somethin’ that we ain’t never had
Luxury life, results living bad
Tricks of the trade, shit that should’ve been taught by Dad
But learned through the crew
Lessons between me and you
And once we lock this shit down it ain’t a thing they can do
Meanwhile I stay waiting by the phone
Hoping I’ll get a call telling a nigga that you home
[Hook: 2Pac *repeats until end*]
Grab the gats, locate my comrades
Let’s get my enemies not knowing I’m coming back
Go get my money out the safe
It’s time to turn the streets into a war zone
Soon as I get home
Материалът 2Pac – Soon As I Get Home (OG) with Yaki Kadafi е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
2Pac – Revenge Of A Soulja (OG Unreleased)
Originally recorded for Black Starry Night / Troublesome 21 / Strictly For My N.I.G.G.A.Z (The track was supposed to be the album intro)
Original version of Soldier Like Me (a/k/a Return Of The Soulja) from the “Loyal To The Game“ album (2004)
Recorded date: 1992
Producer: Big D The Impossible (Deon Evans) & Stretch
Samples: The Lord’s Prayer: Matthew 6:9-13, 2Pac – Soulja’s Story
Материалът 2Pac – Revenge Of A Soulja (OG Unreleased) е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
Tupac was announced as a nominee for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, stemming from the release of his debut album 2Pacalypse Now.
We are incredibly honored by the nomination, and with it the recognition of how impactful Tupac’s words, music and artistic mission remain today. He set out to inspire, to provoke, and to give a voice to those who didn’t have one.
A revolutionary.
We are so grateful that his message of change has resonated with the nominating committee of the Hall of Fame…The millions of people touched by him and his music are acutely aware of this message, and we thank you for tour support.
You are the reason Tupac continues to live in our hearts and – more importantly to him – our minds. / 2pac.com
Beginning October 18 and continuing through 11:59 p.m. EST on December 5, 2016, fans can cast votes for who they believe to be most deserving of induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
The top five artists, as selected by the public, will comprise a “fans’ ballot” that will be tallied along with the other ballots to choose the 2017 inductees. Fans will need to login with a Facebook account or email to vote. Voting is capped at one ballot per day.
Материалът #VOTE4PAC For The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame е публикуван за пръв път на 2Pac Legacy.
