"2pac wasnt a gangster, he was a method actor who took the part 2 far. He was a clown "Marlon Wayans

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"I think he would have matured at this point to be the leader that I think this generation could use in a lot of ways," Marlon Wayans says of Tupac.

Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the 1994 film Above The Rim, Marlon Wayans shared stories about seeing both The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur less than an hour before each was shot and killed. Appearing on ESPN’s Numbers Never Lie series hosted by Michael Smith and Jemele Hill, Wayans explained working alongside Tupac in the Jeff Pollack directed movie.

“Me and Pac had a great relationship,” Wayans said. “You know what was great about Pac? Everybody think he was this thug, this gangster. First of all, he was a performance high school kid. Pac was very smart and he was very silly. He was a clown. He wasn’t real gangster but he acted gangster. He was a method actor, so he went a little too far. He was like, ‘Oh, I’ll shoot you!’ Pow! He’d really shoot you. He’d overcommit. I could tell he wasn’t a gangster because he had the softest hands. No gangster has hands [like that], I call him a Palmolive thug. He’d be like, ‘Come here, you want some of this,’ and then he’d give you this gentle hand. It was soft. Then he had these long eyelashes looking like [Mr.] Snuffleupagus, just like, ‘You don’t want none of this. I’m thug!’

Asked what he thinks Tupac might have gone on to accomplish had his life not been cut short, Wayans explained feeling like the rapper was at a turning-point in his life and career around the time of his murder.

“I think he would have matured at this point to be the leader that I think this generation could use in a lot of ways because he was that,” Wayans said, apparently touching on the emcee’s gangster image. “I think Pac was about to come to his come-to-Jesus moment where he actually became the philanthropist and the teacher that he honestly could have and should have been. He was an amazing dude. He was a well-rounded dude. He’s missed. And he was silly. We had a lot of fun. We laughed a lot.”
Marlon Wayans Describes Spending Time With Tupac & Biggie On The Night Of Their Respective Deaths

Near the end of his appearance, Wayans went on to share a story about seeing both Biggie and Tupac separately on the night of their respective deaths.

“I saw Biggie and Pac perform together,” Wayans said. “But before that. Okay, so Pac, the night he died, I saw him. Me and Omar Epps who I went to school with...I was with them. I was with my best friends. So we saw 'Pac standing outside of the Luxor. So we went on over to say what’s up and Suge [Knight] was there. Omar was like, ‘Yo I’m gonna go say what’s up.’ I was like, ‘Hey Pac!’ from far away. I was like, ‘Mmhmm.’ He had all these thugs with him. So we went over, shook his hand, said, ‘What’s up,’ gave him love. We got in a cab, went off. Pac looked at us, and then he went in the car that he wound up getting shot.

“Biggie, I saw at the museum at that party,” he continued. “I went to that party. I saw him 20 minutes before. He goes, ‘Yo, I love your family. I love what ya’ll do man. Yo, you heard the shoutout I gave you in the song?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah!’ So, I got to meet him, 20 minutes later, he got shot.

“If you see this shot, there’s a famous shot of Tupac and Biggie," he added. "It’s on Vibe magazine. In the corner—it’s at club Glam Slam downtown L.A.—I’m in the corner just twisting my hair looking at both of them. It was crazy because I saw both of them right before they got shot.”

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[Youngblood Priest]

Man fukk this nikka.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

How many thugs hands has this nikka been touched with

 

[SmokinNLiftin]

"nikkas tough on them blogs but they aint done nothin at all"

its so easy to talk shyt about how someone isn't about that life when ur sitting at ur fukking computer posting on a mother fukking internet forum. lame asses[DOUBLEPOST=1397512471][/DOUBLEPOST]

That's why he got into shyt before juice?... Marlon needs to shut the fukk up and let the man rest in peace honestly...cause if he wasn't willing to say the shyt while he was alive what's the point?..nikka runnin round defending men wearing skirts and has the nerve to bad mouth Pac?.Pac wasn't no gangsta and he wasn't no actor either...Pac did real shyt and got into real shyt...and most street dudes who been around him can vouch for him...but u get actors like Marlon who wasn't even close to him who talk sideways ..fukk outta here..

its like talkin to a wall bruh. same dudes think ross is floatin kilos across the country.

 

[Illuminatos]

 

[Flav]

I didnt know "Thugs" or "Gangstas" was known to around the hood with no gloves on wile helping people with construction work all day everyday.

if you got rough hands its because you have a job that requires a lot of lifting or your a bum.2pac was a rapper the only thing he had to lift was a pen & paper.

 

[SmokinNLiftin]

its like u dudes try to check people for not being gangster enough. seriously i think some of u glorify that gangster shyt TOO HARD trying to live that life thru ur favorite rappers and postin shyt about rappers like u know the streets when all u know is what u read on the internet

 

[Formerly known as...]

Tupac seemed like someone who would die for a cause he believed in.....therefore he is gangsta as fukk to me.

 

[thewave]

Pac still lives on almost 20 years after his death

 

[DontEemTry]

I thought this was common knowledge

 

[Homer Simpson]

pause

 

[Im Kemet Rocky & I like penis]

man from now on thecoli, we dont wanna see shyt with this fakkit ass c00n on here..

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

This nikka Marlon Wayans is an expert on a thug's caress

 

[Youngblood Priest]

Tupac seemed like someone who would die for a cause he believed in.....therefore he is gangsta as fukk to me.

Realest shyt said in this entire post.

 

[god shamgod]

as usual pac stans see someone roasting their father and come in

This nikka old news let him r.i.p. in the ballerina heaven