I gotta rewatch it cause it's been 20 years or so but, I'm wondering now who those dudes were, if it was like Ryan D and the 5150 cats or just some random Marin unknowns. So many Pac docs in the late 90s I mix a lot of them up or think scenes from one are from another.
2Pac's Biographer: “He wasn’t tough,” “He couldn’t fight”, “didn’t know how to shoot a gun.”
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I dont understand why that video where hes talking soft and making flirt eyes with the female hes talking to is always brought up to try and discount his Panther background or his masculinity. It seems to me theres some weird projection going on, I'm convinced some of these guys are either closet gay for a 17 year old 2Pac or they're jealous of how well a dead guy did with the ladies, either way it's pretty fukking weird.
If it's the one I'm thinking of that's Mouse Man, def not fake, I have a bunch of the unreleased stuff from when he was in a group with Mopreme.cameron diaz???
i wasnt trying to downplay his poverty in baltimore, just saying that marin city was that much worse for him, imo. iirc there was an interview with jada talking about how raggy his clothes were at the time, i think its the same doc with the random dude in baltimore trying to sell a 'never before heard' pac tape to the crew... pretty sure that shyt was fake, but who knows?
People stopped dressing like Eddie Murphy by 91
You talk the same way when you're flirting with a girl as you do to your boys?
He never stood up let alone walked in that video (the only piece of evidence in your prosecution)
Most human beings experience a pretty dramatic shift in how they're perceived from when they're a teenager to when they enter their 20s.
Sounds like the origin story of every JBO poster ever
He literally just told you, no wonder you're bushed smh
He still had a high top fade during 2Pacypse you dont even know what the eff you're talking about, lousy disinformation agent, disingenuous bushed b*stard .
ArchStanton
All Star
That was my mistake, someone else corrected me on it in here as well, I completely misremembered what happened.
You get the hardcover or soft? I gotta re-set the book, someone thiefed it from me years ago. The Michael Eric Dyson book was good, Rose That Grew obviously I would recommend and Tupac Shakur Legacy is cool, it has all the replicas of handwritten Pac stuff and the book had heavy involvement from the family. But yeah, if a book has no involvement from shakurs or Cox's I'd leave it alone.
Word. I do think basketball can be art in the way dance is art but I get what you're saying.
Chuck D wrote an essay about why Pac is still alive. God bless and protect Mista Chuck but...
Kevin Powell. He was on the first season of MTVs The Real World (which Heather B was as well) he wasn't a lot older than Pac, 4 or 5 years maybe, they had a lot of things in common, both wrote poetry, both thrown into a spotlight where ppl were actively gaslighting and crazy-making them, both outspoken about a myriad of topics but were both really attacked for how they spoke openly about race in Amerikkka, both were raised by single mothers who pushed them to be really well read and informed, theres a reason Pac fukked with Powell so tuff.
Yeah I saw that after catching up in the thread, to be fair we're talking about events that happened like 30 years ago lol
I got the soft cover didn't know it came in hardcover. But it's high quality and glossy.
Yes, you're right the journalist is Kevin Powell!
"After a brush with death and the barrage of rumor and innuendo that followed, Tupac said he’d summoned me because “this is my last interview. If I get killed, I want people to get every drop. I want them to have the real story.” - Kevin Powell
While Vibe as a magazine was part of the East coast west coast mess, Kevin is a gem!
I never knew he was part of MTV. Thank you for that, gonna check it out.
Tupac trusted him and their work to me is the best I read so far!
After all these older fake heads with Pac war stories - reading Tupac's interviews with Kevin are beyond diamond.
Those older fall off wack heads are an embarrassment. Trying to get morsels for clout.
MooseMouthMthafuga
Veteran
I think him & Tupac had a falling out after that interview.Tupac was trying to expose Jimmy Henchmen, Haitian Jack, and some of their associates in that interview.Kevin got cold feet at the last second and changed all their names before the article got published.Pissed Tupac off, but I don't blame Kevin for that.Smart move on his part.You know how Pac was, tho.Ride or die.
EastsideRio
You Can’t Stop The Rain ☔️
This.He shot two police officers and knocked a bigger Orlando anderson to the ground with one punch
And all of this shyt is verified and documented. People randomly trying to change the narrative of what really happened decades later is sick.