1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of double Elvis Tupac Shakur. His background, 2 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 1: his beginning days as an artist, and the story of 3 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: his fight to survive the streets he came up on 4 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: and the career he knew he was destined for. Is 5 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: so complex that two episodes were needed to properly tell 6 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: this story. If you're just getting hit to this now, 7 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 1: I suggest you hit pause and go back to the 8 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 1: last episode of Disgraceland, part one of the Tupac Shakor story, 9 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,599 Speaker 1: or if you're looking exclusively for a deep dive into 10 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 1: the East Coast West Coast beef between Tupac and the 11 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: notorious Big, there is an entire episode dedicated to this subject. 12 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: In both these artists from season one of Disgraceland. We 13 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: get into their famous rivalry in this episode, but we 14 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: also explore Tupac's time in prison, how it affected him, 15 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: his time with Death Row Records, and the potential he 16 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: had as an actor. We also, of course, get into 17 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: the great music Tupac made, specifically while signed to death Row. 18 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: Great music, unlike that music I played for you at 19 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 1: the top of the show that wasn't great music that 20 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: was a preset loop for my melotron called Mello Cosby 21 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: Sweater MK. 22 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 2: Two. 23 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: I played you that loop because I can't afford the 24 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: rights to Fantasy by Mariah Carey. And why would I 25 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: play you that specific slice of whistle registered cheese. Could 26 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: I afford it? Because that was the number one song 27 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: in America on October twelfth, nineteen ninety five, And that 28 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: was the day Shuge Knight sprung Tupac Shakur from prison, forever, 29 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: changing the course of hip. 30 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 2: Hop in the young rapper's life. 31 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: On this episode in Aborted Prison Sentence Exported East Coast 32 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: g fonk In tuop hak Skor, I'm Jake Brennan, and 33 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: this is disgrace land. Shooting two off duty police officers 34 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: and getting away with it does something to a young man. 35 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: The cops were racist, and the cops were crooked, and 36 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: the justice systems saw right through them. Tupac got off. 37 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: The cops were drunk and carrying weapons stolen from the 38 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: precinct evidence locker. The case was fucked, and Tupac felt 39 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: not only vindicated, he felt invincible. At least that's what 40 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: he told her. At least that's what she remembered. It 41 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: was so long ago in such a crazy time, and 42 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: who could really remember anyway. Memories have a way of 43 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: taking their own shape after a while, a way of 44 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: fitting whatever narrative makes most sense in the present. In 45 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 1: the present, twenty fourteen was a much different reality. 46 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 2: Than nineteen ninety three. 47 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: The playlist found its way to Janet Jackson's misso much 48 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: she hated herself for liking it, because she hated Janet. 49 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: Their rivalry on and off the charts was intense, but 50 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,679 Speaker 1: in the end, Janet was no match because she had 51 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: no equals, not on the charts, not on record, not 52 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: on the screen, not in bed. Except when it came 53 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: to her husband. He was her equal. He could go 54 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: toe to toe with her round for round. It's in 55 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: part why she loved him so much. He was as 56 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: big a personality and talent as she was, and he 57 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: was creatively and emotionally mature enough to know better than 58 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: it could pete with her, which is why she was 59 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 1: genuinely proud of him. Tonight, a Kennedy Center on her 60 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: Him the thug turned Academy Award winner, turned philanthropists turned 61 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: renowned artists, celebrated by the likes of President Barack Obama, 62 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: no less Janet Jackson could kiss her ass, and Quincy 63 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: Jones too, for that matter, the first rapper to receive 64 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:19,239 Speaker 1: a Kennedy Center honor for his tremendous lifetime contribution. 65 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 2: To American arts. 66 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: She'd be lying if she said she didn't secretly take 67 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: some of the credit. She was his lucky star, after all. 68 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: It was her idea for him to give up music 69 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: and focus solely on acting. When they took back up, 70 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: he was a mess, at the top of his game musically, 71 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 1: but in debt and enslaved by his record contract, a 72 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: contract held by a ruthless street thug. But now she 73 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,159 Speaker 1: couldn't help but laugh at the course of events that 74 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 1: led to this moment. It was funny, she thought, how 75 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 1: life can turn on a dime, one different move in 76 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: the future. Consequences can be monumental, life changing without you 77 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: knowing it in the moment. Even all of this, his career, 78 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: his influences, wealth, the Kennedy Center honor, none of it 79 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: likely would have come to be had she not paid 80 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: him a visit in prison back in ninety five, and 81 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: she almost never made the trip. At the time, the 82 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: relationship was just a rumor. There was no Internet back then. 83 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: At least not like. 84 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:19,679 Speaker 2: There is now. 85 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 1: The tabloids of paparazzi were vicious, sure, but the cult 86 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: of celebrity wasn't the industry it has become in the 87 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,359 Speaker 1: age of social media today. There would have been no 88 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 1: way to keep the relationship secret, and thus likely no 89 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: way for her to visit him, but she figured it. 90 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 2: Was worth the risk. 91 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: She knew she loved him, she knew she wanted to 92 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:40,159 Speaker 1: spend the rest of her life with him. But she 93 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: also knew that if their celebrity couples status was made public, 94 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: that the pressure of it all would destroy the relationship, 95 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: not because of her, but because she knew he wouldn't 96 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: be able to handle it. He could hardly handle it 97 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: in secret, never mind under the bright lights of the 98 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: vicious tabloid media. So they arranged for her to make 99 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: the visit to Danima, upstate New York, Clinton Correction Center. 100 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: He was serving a sentence for sexual assault, a one 101 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: and a half to four and a half year sentence, 102 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 1: depending on behavior. The conditions were awful. Rats trash everywhere, 103 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: disgusting food, racist guards, racist skinheads, gang sexual predators. He 104 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: retreated into himself to pass the time. Twenty three hours 105 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: a day in solitary, he read Maya Angelou sun Zu 106 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: Sidfield's book on how to write screenplays. He wrote one himself, 107 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: entitled Live to Tell. She couldn't help but think that 108 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 1: her influence had a little something to. 109 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 2: Do with that. 110 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,479 Speaker 1: She put the ugly trial behind her and tried to 111 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 1: think about the man she knew. It was hard for 112 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: her to imagine him doing what he was accused of doing, 113 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: sexually assaulting a young woman along with two others, sodomizing 114 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: her against her will in a midtown hotel. He was convicted, sure, 115 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: but as he exclaimed outside the courtroom, there was no evidence, 116 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: no seamen, no signs of forced entry. It was as 117 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,039 Speaker 1: confusing to her as it was to his fans. She 118 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:04,479 Speaker 1: had to see him and sort it all out for herself. 119 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: Word was he was. 120 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 2: On the men these days. 121 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: His latest album had gone to number one while he 122 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: was in jail, knocking off Bruce Springsteen. 123 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 2: She was happy for him. 124 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: What did she care, She already had a number one 125 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: hit that year. He spent the last few weeks getting 126 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: ready for her visit, working out, eating better. The guards 127 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: are even excited. They spiffed the joint up. Let him 128 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: take an extra shower that day, but when she arrived, 129 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: she was treated like royalty, well as much of a 130 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: royal treatment as a prison could provide. Their visit was brief, 131 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: but significant. She attempted to impart whatever wisdom she had 132 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: at her disposal. She tried to plant a seed show 133 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: him away toward a different kind of success after prison, 134 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: the type of career and celebrity that she had. It 135 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: was possible, she told him, But there were rules. They 136 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: were ridiculous and hypocritical, sure, but not following them had consequences. 137 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: She could see it in his eyes. He was hearing her. 138 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: She could also see innocence in his eyes. She believed him, 139 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: and she impressed upon him to continue to work on 140 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: his mind, to try and feed his soul with his 141 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: creativity while on the inside, to keep the light from 142 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: burning out, to not give in to anger and resentment. 143 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: This would soon come to an end. His appeal would 144 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: have win out in court, sure, he thought, but he 145 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: couldn't help. But wonder why she didn't just pony up 146 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: the one point four mill and bail herself to spring 147 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,680 Speaker 1: him from his sentence while his appeal played out. 148 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,719 Speaker 2: It's not like she didn't have the bread. It was 149 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 2: a test. 150 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,439 Speaker 1: He knew it, and she knew he knew it too. 151 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 1: Ride this out, get your head right, do the time, 152 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: don't let it do you, and come out a better man. 153 00:08:46,760 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 1: But it didn't quite happen that way. Tupac Shakur had 154 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: the number one album in the country, Me Against the World, 155 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 1: aptly titled as he was alone in jail and broke. 156 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: Despite his fame and celebrity stature, he was currently at 157 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 1: rock bottom. Depressed. He missed his mother, a Foenie Shakur, 158 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: the once proud black panther who is now living a 159 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: life of squalor and heavily addicted to crack cocaine. He 160 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: missed his girlfriend, the pop star, who was living her 161 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: celebrity life on the outside while they rotted away behind bars. 162 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: He missed his old life, his boys, the parties, the girls, 163 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,719 Speaker 1: the shows, the feeling he got when he walked into 164 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: a room, a studio or a club, the feeling that 165 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: he was somebody and here he was just another shipbird. 166 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 1: His loneliness turned to anger, anger at not only having 167 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,680 Speaker 1: to serve time for something he felt he did not do, 168 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: but anger over the fact that he felt betrayed, raided, 169 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: by his friends. The shots came as soon as he 170 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 1: entered the hallway a quad studios, five of them from 171 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: the pair of nine millimeters carried by the roughnecks shaking 172 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 1: him down. They wanted his money and his jewels. Two 173 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,839 Speaker 1: shots to the head, two to the leg and groin, 174 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: one to the hand. The shooters split after running Tupos 175 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 1: jewels and his cash. He crawled into the hallway elevator, 176 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: got a bloody finger on the button, and was lifted 177 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: to the second floor studio. When the elevator doors opened, 178 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: there was shock on the faces of his friends. Rapper 179 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,840 Speaker 1: the Notorious Big and his producer Slashed Mogul on the 180 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: make Sean Puff Daddy Combs. Why were they surprised to 181 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: see him? They just buzzed him into the front door 182 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: of the Times Square building to come upstairs to the 183 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: previously scheduled recording session to guest on a new single 184 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 1: by Little Sean, a rising star of Big and Puffy's. 185 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 2: Label Bad Boy Records at the time. 186 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: Thirty, nineteen ninety four shooting was too much to handle 187 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: for Tupac. It came right in the middle of his 188 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: trial for sexual assault. He survived the five gunshots, but 189 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: had to be wheeled into court with fresh bullet wounds. 190 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: The why of at all, the how and the who. 191 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: He didn't have the brain space with all that was 192 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:21,559 Speaker 1: going on to piece it together then, but now behind bars, 193 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 1: with all the time in the world to think. 194 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:25,599 Speaker 2: He'd figured it out. 195 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: In a prison interview with Vibe magazine, Pack implied Biggie 196 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: and Puff may have been involved in the attack, considering 197 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: they were so shocked to see him, possibly shocked to 198 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 1: see him alive and not moving into help even as 199 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: he bled out in the studio waiting for an ambulance. 200 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: The writer, who was familiar with Tupac knew him from 201 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: way back, would later remark that at the time of 202 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 1: the interview he no longer recognized him. He was a 203 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: different person, far more aggressive, even angrier than his critics 204 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: accused him of. Being prison changed him. He was broken, vulnerable, 205 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 1: Something had to give, something had to change. Tupac was 206 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 1: worried he wouldn't survive his sentence, and then he was 207 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 1: saved from prison by death row. Shoulde Knight, the notorious 208 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 1: Blood Streak gang affiliated record label boss, put up one 209 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 1: point four million in bail. The spring Tupac Shakur from 210 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: jail while he waited his appeal in exchange for shifting 211 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: Tupac's Innerscope records contract over to Shug's Inderscope imprint death 212 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 1: row records in addition to the one point four million 213 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 1: should pledge to manage Tupac and to finance his lifestyle, 214 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 1: his legal defense, and even by his mother a house 215 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: in exchange for Tupac Shakur's next three records, Tupac came 216 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: out of prison swinging. He was indeed a very different man, 217 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,559 Speaker 1: emboldened by surge Knights millions in a addition to his 218 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: notorious street reap, Tupac dropped the gloves and, as a 219 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: semi free man on the outside, immediately began spouting off 220 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 1: at the media, who he believed betrayed him by convicting 221 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: him in the public eye before he was able to 222 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: get a fair trial. He shouted down the authorities who 223 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: he believed or traded their promised to uphold the law 224 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: at his personal expense, and he doubled down on his 225 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:25,439 Speaker 1: claim that his friends Biggie Small's and Puff Daddy had 226 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: betrayed him as well, claiming in no uncertain terms that 227 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: they were behind the shooting at Quad Studios. Biggie's track 228 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: who Shot You, even though it was recorded before the shooting, 229 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: enraged Tupac, who was convinced it was a distrack aimed 230 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,680 Speaker 1: at him. The beef between the two larger than life 231 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:47,319 Speaker 1: rap stars was officially on. Tupac was battling his detractors 232 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:52,559 Speaker 1: and his enemies, and he was winning. His first piece 233 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: of work with death Row was the Doctor dre produced 234 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 1: California Love, a banger that went to number one on 235 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 1: the charts in firmly established Tupac and the East Coast 236 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,719 Speaker 1: ex pat as now being without a doubt property of. 237 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 2: The West Coast. 238 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: Tupac's debut album with death Row, All Eyes On Me, 239 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: also hit number one on the back of subsequent singles 240 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: another banger, how Do You Want It, and two of 241 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: America's Most Wanted. The video for the latter featured death 242 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: Row labelmate Snoop Doggie Dog and included a parody scene 243 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 1: of Poc meeting with Big and Puffy lookalikes and discussing 244 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: the studio shooting. It further fueled the theory that they 245 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: were involved, and then in the summer of nineteen ninety five, 246 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: Tupac released hit Him Up, one of the most famous 247 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: disc tracks ever, in which Pac talked shit about literally 248 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: fucking Biggie's wife and made his accusations about the studio 249 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 1: shooting clearer than ever, repeatedly calling out Biggie and Puff 250 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: by name. Whatever the truth, the song drove in hard, 251 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: driven by Tupac's bottomless rage over what had. 252 00:14:58,920 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 2: Happened to him. 253 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: East Coast West Coast Beef was in full flex with 254 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: Tupac sha korse smack dab in the eye of the storm, 255 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: right alongside his former friend than Notorious Big, and with 256 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 1: a notoriously cunning and violent Suge Knight riding shotgun. 257 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this word word word. 258 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: The prosecuting attorney called sug Knight a quote unquote one 259 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 1: man crime wave. Should wasn't worried he'd beat the rat. 260 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: The bulldog prosecutor was going for a max sentence. Sug 261 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: It was alleged, had pistol whipped a couple of no 262 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: talent rappers who were getting too big for their Jordans, 263 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: but Sugaring got probation. The prosecutor's daughter, an aspiring singer, 264 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 1: got a fifty thousand dollars record contract, and the prosecutor 265 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: got a new tenant to rent his beach house for 266 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: nineteen grand a month. 267 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 2: Suge Knight. 268 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 1: Death Row headquarters reflected the man who ran it, was intimidating, 269 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 1: painted blood red and homage of the La Street gang. 270 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: Should Night trucked with the bloods. Death Row was not. 271 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 2: An ordinary record label. 272 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: There were the armed guards, mountainous men, gangbangers who patted 273 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: you down upon entry. There was the list, the one 274 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: at the front door that the guards checked your name against. 275 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: If your name wasn't on it, then you couldn't enter 276 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: with your gun. And there was the beatdown Room, a 277 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: single room located inside the office space that was specifically 278 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 1: for beatdowns should you or anyone else across a Death 279 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: Row employee or artists during the course of doing business. 280 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: And of course there were the stories the Innerscope employee 281 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: who got choked out, the record promoter, the friend of 282 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: Puffy's who was tied to a chair, beaten with champagne 283 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: bottles and forced to drink urine, the rival record company 284 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: employee who was stripped and forced to stroll naked through 285 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: the office, and the pool of blood that left the 286 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: stubborn stain on the floor. And of course there was 287 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 1: intimidation through the constant threat of violence. 288 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 2: Word around the. 289 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,400 Speaker 1: Record industry was that sug Knight's reputation was so vicious, 290 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:11,159 Speaker 1: so intimidating, the vendors hired by the label neglected to 291 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: chase down the money owed to them, which isn't to 292 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: suggest that sug Knight or death Row were cheap. There 293 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: were anything but sug Knight. The notorious Blood Streak Gang 294 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,879 Speaker 1: affiliated record label boss put up one point four million 295 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 1: in bail the spring Tupac Shakur from jail while he 296 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: waited his appeal in exchange for shifting Tupac's Innerscope Records 297 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: contract over to Shug's Inderscope imprint death Row records. In 298 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: addition to the one point four million, sug pledged to 299 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:45,880 Speaker 1: manage Tupac and to finance his lifestyle, his legal defense, 300 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:48,439 Speaker 1: and even buy his mother a house an exchange for 301 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 1: Tupac Shakur's next three records, But when it came time 302 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 1: to pay out the cash Tupac needed to settle the 303 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: many legal suits filed against him. Death Row's attorney, the 304 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 1: same entertainment attorney Tupac agreed to have represent him as 305 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: part of his death Row contract sug Knight's attorney, David Kenner, 306 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: was notoriously slow in making payments regardless after prison, Tupac's 307 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 1: Decorp's entire life was financed by death Row Records. The 308 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 1: label estimated Tupac owed them four point nine million dollars 309 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 1: in return, but death Row had generated sixty million dollars 310 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 1: in record sales off of tupac records since his prison release. 311 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: That left a balance of fifty five point one million dollars. 312 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: Where was the money? Sure death Row is financiers, producers, manufacturers, promoters, 313 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:41,640 Speaker 1: and distributors of those records was entitled to its cut 314 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,160 Speaker 1: of the revenue, as was their parent company, Interscope Records. 315 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 1: But where was the rest of it? And there was 316 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: a rumor circulating the sug Knight was in debt to 317 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 1: the mafia for what. The rumor didn't specify, and Shug's 318 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: attorney publicly denied the rumor, along with most every other 319 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: allegation against his client. But one thing was certain. According 320 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: to Tupac's other attorney, his criminal attorney, Charles Ogletree, Tupac 321 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,400 Speaker 1: was plotting his life after death Row. He made inquiries 322 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: to Warner Brothers Records legally Tupac was now free to 323 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 1: go his own way after delivering his third album to 324 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 1: death Row, his final obligation per his contract. But surviving 325 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:28,640 Speaker 1: after walking away from death Row was a different story entirely. 326 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: Tupac had another obligation to fulfill. He'd promised he'd a 327 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 1: company shug night to the Mike Tyson Fite in Las Vegas. 328 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 1: At this time, the are life life threading the persons. 329 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 3: We were already aware it was the passing no form 330 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 3: about the name of Tupac Shaki. 331 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 2: Tupac Shak. 332 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,479 Speaker 3: Two bocks Core was riting in this black BMW your 333 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 3: work Core, which was this is the man in the 334 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 3: morning who he's paid a visible and the door not 335 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 3: his tax. 336 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 1: Police say once that lags up next to it, and 337 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: the four men in side started shooting. They were already 338 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: taking what now I found out was Nupacy into the 339 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 1: atolicopter the way he had been shot. 340 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 3: He had been. 341 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 1: Shot, shakour shot several sides of the church should take. 342 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 2: Them when the young woman must have come together. Detectives 343 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,679 Speaker 2: are not sure what prompted this attack, are not. 344 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 3: Some reperre said the only way to make things better 345 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 3: is getting a coup back to the original state before 346 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 3: the advent of Eric said, glorified death from the. 347 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: Memory of the unturbulent life, and finally down the. 348 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 3: Regular reminder by the dollar, probably dead, serving a larger 349 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 3: parent from one sing that mad turned out sunnature. Whatever 350 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 3: had to you to step as. 351 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 1: Attorney a respect. 352 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 4: Fall saw. 353 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 1: The steam from the shower was now infiltrating the rest 354 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: of the hotel suite. Her husband had been in there 355 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: for a while, taking his time. The playlist had ended. 356 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: It was now nineties hip hop. Warren GE's regulate flowed 357 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: out of the speakers. By now she'd figured out the 358 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: maddening bluetooth situation. The track sounded so good. Say what 359 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: you will about Death Row Records. They released some great music, 360 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,880 Speaker 1: and he brazenly walked out on it. All his debt, 361 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 1: his contract, his master recordings, told his record label boss 362 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 1: to could have him, used him to recoup whatever he owed, 363 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 1: used them to enrich themselves off of his art for 364 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 1: the rest of their lives. For all he cared, do 365 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: whatever they want with them. 366 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:36,440 Speaker 2: He was out. 367 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 1: All he wanted was his freedom. No more looking over 368 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 1: his shoulder, no more shootings. She convinced him to bet 369 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 1: on himself and focus solely on acting, a world she 370 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 1: herself never quite conquered like she did the world of music. First, 371 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: he'd had to drop the thug life persona work some 372 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: supporting roles in a few big budget studio flicks, proof 373 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: he could show up, put in work be a professional. 374 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: At the same time, bang out a couple of indie 375 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:06,119 Speaker 1: flicks turned instellar performances showcasing his deep acting chops, and 376 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,359 Speaker 1: proved both up and coming and established directors alike that 377 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,920 Speaker 1: he still did indeed, how the goods his megawap big 378 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 1: screen charisma would take care of the rest, and it did. 379 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: Soon the choice roles started rolling in Columbia Pictures came 380 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,920 Speaker 1: calling in the early two thousands when will Smith backed 381 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: out of Men in Black two, her husband stepped into 382 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,159 Speaker 1: the role of Agent j and injected a level of 383 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 1: emotional resonance that took the entire franchise from being a 384 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:37,360 Speaker 1: rope popcorn blockbuster to a critically acclaimed special effects comedic 385 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 1: drama that, to this day, as far as movies go, 386 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: is rivaled only by the Star Wars franchise and its 387 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 1: modern day cultural influence. After starring opposite Tommy Lee Jones, 388 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,159 Speaker 1: who they both still counted as a dear friend. Her 389 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 1: husband took the lead role and Steven Spielberg's War of 390 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 1: the Worlds. It was another critically acclaimed blockbuster. Her husband 391 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 1: was now one of the few stars in the history 392 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,879 Speaker 1: of Hollywood whose studios could bank on for the highest 393 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: grossing films that were as successful commercially as they were critically. 394 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,880 Speaker 1: As an acting talent, his reputation was approaching the likes 395 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:16,160 Speaker 1: of Marlon Brando, Julia Roberts, and Christian Vale rare Air. 396 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: In twenty twelve, he starred in the title role of 397 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: Django and Quentin Tarantino's Jango Unchained. He took home the 398 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 1: Best Actor Oscar for that one, and the collaboration between 399 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: the two men with such a success that they were 400 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: both currently obsessed and hard at work on their next collaboration, 401 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,439 Speaker 1: a superhero film adaptation of the Marvel comic Black Panther, 402 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,400 Speaker 1: a film Quentin would direct and her husband would star 403 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,479 Speaker 1: in and bring his life's work full circle back to 404 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: his first love, his mama. So strong was her husband's 405 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 1: Hollywood career turnaround that it became the model for another 406 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: young talent who'd fallen from grace, Robert Danny Junior, who 407 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: himself had climbed back to the top in similar fashion 408 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,400 Speaker 1: and was comfortably positioned at the top of his own 409 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 1: superhero franchise. Her husband's success never jaded him. He gave 410 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,159 Speaker 1: back every step of the way, establishing arts centers and 411 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 1: black neighborhoods, funding charter schools, mentoring young black talent, and 412 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 1: contributing to political and social causes. He believed in putting 413 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 1: his money where his famous big mouth was. He established 414 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,520 Speaker 1: a Black Talent union, pooled the collective power of his 415 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,679 Speaker 1: peers in Hollywood, and negotiated not only better pay, but 416 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 1: better opportunities. As a result, the Academy Awards, once known 417 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: for its bias toward white nominees, was now truly integrated 418 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: on merit and is the envy of other awards shows 419 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: as well as the international film industry. Her husband was 420 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 1: out of the shower, now half drying off, half listening 421 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,160 Speaker 1: to his longtime friend Jada Pinkett Smith on the other 422 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 1: end of the telephone. She called under the auspices of 423 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: congratulating him, but no doubt by now the conversation had 424 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: likely turned to Jada griping about her husband Will's career. 425 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 2: Could he help get. 426 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,640 Speaker 1: Him sorted out with a comeback roll, that sort of thing. 427 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 1: She knew her husband was a sucker for Jada. He'd 428 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: do anything for her, he'd figure it out, and if not, 429 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: she would help him figure it out, just like she 430 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: did when he was in prison. Except that never happened. 431 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 1: She never made it up to Danamora, to Clinton Correctional Facility. 432 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 1: It was all a fantasy, a fantasy she indulged in often. 433 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,639 Speaker 1: What if What if she did make the trip, What 434 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:32,400 Speaker 1: if she did. 435 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 2: Lay down an alternate path? 436 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 1: What if he did listen to her? What if he 437 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,639 Speaker 1: didn't sign on with Death Row? Or what if he 438 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 1: walked away from Death Row before going to Vegas on 439 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 1: that night? 440 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 2: Would it be any different? Would he still be alive? 441 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 1: Rumors more rumors that he faked his death, that he 442 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 1: was still alive, living off some island with Rihanna or whoever, 443 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: unreal tacky fan fiction. Truth was, he still was among 444 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,879 Speaker 1: the living. Truth was, Tupac's decor was and still is 445 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: very much alive. He survived. Turn on your television, open 446 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: up your web browser, thumb through any history of hip 447 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,360 Speaker 1: hop pop, open Spotify, Tune into your local Hot one 448 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,919 Speaker 1: hundred radio station. Tupac Shakur can be heard and seen everywhere. 449 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 1: Such is the power of his music, his acting, his legacy. 450 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: He will live forever, just not in a way that 451 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 1: she wanted, and that is a disgrace. 452 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 2: I'm Jake Brennan and this is. 453 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 3: Disgracelamb Disgraceland was created by Yours Truly and is produced 454 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 3: in partnership with Double Elvis. 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