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.
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 racism, and how if he were 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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