In this previously unheard interview, the iconic rapper opened up about everything from his distaste for the media, to how he felt like the tragic hero in a Shakespeare play. SOURCE
In 1994, Tupac Shakur, then a rising movie star — starring in films like Poetic Justice and Above The Rim— sat down with journalist, Benjamin Svetkey, as part of profile piece for Entertainment Weekly.
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Never one to mince words, he opened up on a wide range of issues….
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…his views on racisim and how if he was white, he would be a hero…
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…that “Thug Life” was a necessity. Something that helped empower him…
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…how silencing him through imprisonment was the real death sentence…
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…his feelings on being used by everyone from the media, to the friends he grew up with…
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…and that in 10 years he saw himself as dead.
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Tupac was killed 2 1/2 years after the interview.
The animated video and interview is part of the PBS Digital Studios excellent series Blank on Blank:
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