Never Had A Friend Like Me: (Suge and Pac were said to always sing this song in the studio.)1. "And you wonder if these white judges like us, Just stay strong, we'll appeal, nigga you'll be free,Down wit cha to the very end."1a. Sounds like Suge's situation now.2. Listen ...
51. “Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers.” 52. “The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.” 53. “Just because you lost me as a friend doesn’t mean you gained me as an enemy. I’m bigger than that. I still wanna see you eat, just not ...
his multi-platinum album, Me Against the World, was released. Shakur has the distinction of being the only artist with an album at number one on the charts while serving a prison sentence. From jail, he married his long-time girlfriend, Keisha Morris. He also had time ...
I was production partners with my then-girlfriend Tracy Robinson, who had been a production assistant on [Thug Life‘s] “Pour Out a Little Liquor.” And when he got out of [New York State prison in] Dannemora [in 1995], he sent [longtime friend] Molly Monjauze to find Tracy and ...
The beautiful Stevie Wonder sample flip from Shock G and lyrics like, “My every move is a calculated step, to bring me closer to embrace an early death, now there’s nothing left” showcase Pac’s eerie habit of predicting an early exit from this world. If you missed Me Against the ...
One of Tupac's friends remembers watching them sing a song from the soundtrack of "Gridlock''d": "You Ain''t Never Had a Friend Like Me." The combination of Tupac and Knight seems to have been combustible, with each activating the most explosive elements in the other. Someone who ...
Tupac’s Enduring Style: Tupac was one of the original fashion killers, pioneering the melding of street style—bandanas, gold chains, exposed boxers—with high fashion, which is now commonplace in mags and on runways worldwide. He even walked a Versace runway show with then girlfriend Kidada...
“let me tell you the reality,” she begins, her words as sharp as his lyrics. “my great-grandmother was a slave. my grandmother was a sharecropper. my mother was a domestic, and i was whatever the fuck i was. that child changed things for all of us.” there are moments, though,...
“I had a job [to protect her], and I never showed up,” he said. Joining Death Row Records and ‘All Eyez on Me’ While Tupac was in prison on rape charges, he was visited by Suge Knight, the notorious head of Death Row records. Knight offered to post the $1.3 million dollar ...
On September 7, 1996, his former friend Tupac was shot dead in Las Vegas. Nobody has ever been charged for the murder, but as a consequence of the ongoing East Coast/West Coast rap beef that Biggie and Tupac's rivalry had come to embody, and also of Tupac publicly blaming Biggie and...