Nachdem nun VIBE alle sechs Parts des 2Pac Videointerviews
veröffentlicht hat, haben wir nun auch alle Parts in Textform. Falls
der eine oder andere Probleme beim Verstehen hat/te:
The Lost Interview, Part 1
Where do you see yourself in twenty years from now?
If God give me breath for twenty more years, I see myself changing
the world because my thought patterns are so opposite of what is the
norm, so I would have to change the world or I have to be changed by
the world.
How is it working with Suge and how do you keep the fans close to
you? And a lot of your East Coast fans feel like your new
allegiance to the West Coast has felt… you know… a lot of them
feel like maybe you’re not loyal to the East Coast anymore, and—
That’s so nonsense. Poppycock! Because this is not a new
allegiance to the West Coast. I’ve been on the West Coast all this
time. It’s just because some people—not all—some people on the East
Coast be on their dicks so hard that they never heard me say I’m
living on the West Coast!
Right.
It’s just that by me keeping it real, I always said where I came
from. I always gave New York their props. On Me Against the World, I
took a whole song to give it up. So now, on the next album, when I
want to give it up for my home—where I’m at—everybody got a problem?
Why didn’t they have no problem when Biggie say “Brooklyn in the
house” every fucking show he do? Why didn’t they have a problem with
“Bronx,” and they just did a Sprite commercial with the Bridge and
KRS, but why is it not hip-hop when I do it? I mean, goddamn! Why is
it suddenly, a nigga tripping when I do it? Why everybody else can
have a war, have beef within the music, talk about differences, and
“It’s okay, it’s music, it’s hip-hop, it’s groundbreaking.” When I
do it, it’s war? And that’s all I’m doing. All I’m doing is saying
I’m tired of you talking about where you from. And if that’s what we
gonna do now? ‘Cause we was doing it like hip-hop was one nation,
and I have proof to say what I was doing. I did more for the East
Coast than the East Coast did. I put more guns in East Coast niggas’
hands than East Coast niggas did when they came out here. I put them
niggas onto more weed gates and weed spots and safe havens and safe
spots than the East Coast did. I put more rappers on than they did!
I gave Biggie his first shows! I was the one, I was that bridge that
niggas used to walk on to get over here; I explained it. I’m the one
that told you. I’m why all these niggas running around with a
gangbanger on their payroll now.
The Lost Interview, Part 2
Is there still a beef going on between you and Biggie?
It was never a beef, it’s only a difference of opinion. To me… my
homeboy Suge gave me the best advice I could ever get from anybody.
He said when people ask if he’s beefing with Bad Boy, with Puffy, he
said, “It’s like me going to the playground and picking on little
kids.” That’s like me being mad at my little brother because he’s
getting cash now; I’m not mad at that. I’m just mad at my little
brother when he don’t respect me. And when you don’t respect me, I’m
gonna spank your ass. I don’t give a fuck how rich you got; on the
block, I’m your big brother. I will break your big ass down. And
that’s my only point, and I feel as though he wronged me. You got
out of hand and you wronged me, you got seduced by the power. Not
because he’s an evil person, but because money is evil, if it’s not
handled right. If you lose your composure, you could do anything,
and fear got stronger than love, and niggas did what they wasn’t
supposed to do. They know in their heart! That’s why they in hell
now.
Right.
They can’t sleep. That’s why they’re telling all the reporters and
all the people, “Why they doing this, they fucking up hip-hop, blah
blah blah,” ‘cause they in hell. They can’t make money, they can’t
go anywhere, they can’t look at themselves ‘cause they know the
Prodigal Son has returned; I’m alive, the ghost is walking around,
you know what I mean? And I’m alive, talking. In jail, I didn’t
talk; I made peace. Now, everybody that thinks that I disrespected,
I love, I love my East Coast fans. I’m from there. I’m eating New
York pizza, I drive New York Jeeps. But I’m saying let’s keep it
real for a second. If you half the lover of music that you think you
are, study. Go back and study. Study how “Party and Bullshit” was me
before I met Biggie; you don’t hear my music in his raps. Study how
after I met Biggie, Ready to Die came out, and his whole style
changed. Study. Study why I would be mad. Study why I would be mad
when half of New York, half of the major New York rappers or their
managers or their agents or their somebody was there when I got
shot, and nobody could give me no information. Just study that.
Study how when Wu-Tang got their chain snatched at Six-Six-Deuce, I
not only found who did it, but gave them the message that if they
want to see the niggas that did it, they could see ‘em, man-to-man,
just you and them, no guns, no nothing, if you feel like that.
That’s all I ask for. That’s all I ask for, if you gon’ act like you
a gangster or a G or a king of New York, I’ma expect that. And when
you don’t come through, I’m gonna want to crush your empire, and
that’s what it’s time for.
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The Lost Interview, Part 3
So, do you think Puffy was involved in the shooting?
Only they can answer that question. I have my own opinion, but I
wouldn’t slander their name like they did mine. I wouldn’t say
things that I knew, you know what I mean? I believe so, I do believe
so. I have proof—things that I could say that would back up my
claim, but this is not for the world to know about, you know what I
mean? This is between me and him, and only he knows. So every time
he say it didn’t happen or blah, blah, blah, that’s the only thing
that makes this become an issue to everybody. You seen what I said
in the VIBE article; I basically bowed out and was gon’ go ahead
about my life. The next issue… no, it wasn’t even the next issue,
‘cause them cowards waited about four issues to get their story
together. Four issues later, half of New York is commenting on me
getting shot, and before, they was all like, “We didn’t see
nothing,” in the first issue; read it, VIBE viewers! Nobody seen
shit. The fourth issue when they came back with a reply, everybody
knew what I did, they knew what I said, I was “acting.” Who gets
shot five times and acts? Oh, I didn’t get shot five times in their
vision; I only got shot once ‘cause they “found the bullet.” The
police found it, but now they’re the cops, now they’re doing
detective work. They found the bullet? Oh, you found the bullet,
huh? So what is this other shit in me then? What was the doctors
talking about? Can you explain these other holes in me? How did I
get gunpowder all over me? That insulted my intelligence.
So yes, I did say Thug Life was dead. Yes, I bowed out, all of that.
But when they said that, they breathed new life in me. And Thug Life
not only became a rap group, but it became a way of life for life
for me because they disrespected me, my name, my family, what I had
been through. They said that I couldn’t be in pain, I could not
feel, I could not be hurt in my moment in pain when I was shot five
times in jail for a crime I didn’t commit. While every other black
person, I mean, whoever, they was fuckin’ babies in the ass, or
killing bitches and cutting them in fifty pieces; these niggas got
support. I go to jail for a crime everybody know I did not commit,
get shot five times and I’m getting “raped in jail,” whoomptie,
womptie; they just say anything to assassinate my character. What
that show me? Remember. Remember this lack of a conscience… when I
come out. Remember this lack of mercy… when I come out. Remember
this lack of compassion… when I come out. But now I come out,
everybody want to calm down and relax and forget what you said?
Donnie Simpson was on TV in front of bars like this going, “Who am
I? Tupac, hahaha.” But I’m wrong? You feel me? Niggas is hypocrites!
You read while I gave my whole soul to you mothafuckas and said,
“Yo, I’m through, I just want to chill, I just want to live life,”
and mothafuckas took shots from every direction. They thought that
I’m gay now, he a “fuck me in the ass” now. So okay, you want to see
some macho shit? I’m the most macho nigga out here. I thought you
niggas knew, I’m the most thuggish nigga out here. I have no
mothafuckin’ fear… I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want
mine, and I will do anything to protect and feed my family, and
these niggas represent a threat ‘cause I worked too hard on this.
And as far as hip-hop and all of that, I feel as though I’m not the
god of hip-hop, but what we do on the West Coast, I sold five
million in two months. Biggie been out two years, he’s barely
touching two million. This nigga had fifty remixes, a thousand… he
got everybody in New York in his videos, and still barely touching
two million. I’ve been out two months, my shit sold five million
with two videos out. I’m just starting. These niggas can’t touch us.
They can’t! They can’t really, it’s funny.
The Lost Interview, Part 4
Do you think the new era of rap is, like, not Thug Life or
whatever? Where do you see yourself?
That’s what they want to do. That’s what they want to do because
everybody is shell-shocked, and they having trauma. We’ve been
having traumatic nights always. I want to get away from it a lot; I
tried to get away from it, but you can’t, that’s what they taught
me.
Right.
The streets didn’t teach me that Thug Life can never die, the world
taught me that. I thought I could retire and move on. When I moved
on to the so-called “real world.” the “civilized world,” these
mothafuckas is worse than the niggas on the streets! They was
telling, I had little girls writing to me, crying, saying, “You got
raped in jail, I’m so sorry.” That shit right there is what will
fuel the anger that will never die. I had to write letters to a
thousand little kids, explaining to them that I will be dead before
a mothafucka will rape me, and you know that. So, as far as
everybody, there is no mercy in my heart, you know what I mean? I’m
not out here on no wild shit like I was before. This is not the same
Tupac, believe me. I’m just very pissed off. And don’t think ‘cause
you see me at an award show smiling or giving away an award, or
because I don’t fight at this time, that don’t mean that I ain’t
mad. I’m pissed off. And don’t tell me ain’t nothing wrong and we
should all be together and woo-woo-woo, ‘cause y’all niggas ain’t
getting no money. You ain’t getting no money ‘cause I made it that
way.
Do you have groups coming out that you’re producing?
Yup, the Outlawz.
Oh really?
I murdered Thug Life and gave birth to the Outlawz. I murdered Thug
Life, them niggas ain’t act right. I murdered all of them, as far as
the music business, and I gave birth to the Outlawz, and they all
blood relatives. Now, I got a military—not “mob” like Italians—but
mob like we’ve been mob-orientated all our lives. Fuck that shit
they’ve been telling me about, because everybody saying because we
choose to be organized now that we are emulating Italians? And we
should imitate Italians ‘cause they don’t like us? Mothafuckas got
it twisted, you know what I mean? We got organization because we
peep game! And it’s not the mob really that we seen, it’s really the
government! They the biggest mob. That’s what we study—governments.
Just like me, they say, “This guy is Mr. Duplicity, he’s always
saying this good shit to the females, then he say ‘ho’ and this,
that.” See, that’s where you’re wrong. First, you tell all them
niggas; you telling Too $hort, he never say nice shit, and they
telling him he’s a horrible person. I say one bad shit on one side,
a good shit on the other side, and I’m Mr. Duplicity? What does the
world want? They need to sit their politically correct ass down and
figure out what they want ‘cause they bullshit.
Do you read a lot?
All the time. I’m really into books.
What’s your favorite title?
Right now, I’m into Mastering the Art of War, The Art of War, I just
found all these new books. Thoughts of a General, How to win an
Argument Every Time, The Buying of the President. What’s that book I
got? The Russian guy?
Stalin.
Stalin, I got that. Christopher Darden’s book. You’ll Never Work
Again in Hollywood, whatever that is that they’re talking about, all
the people that slept together, I’ve been reading that, a lot of
different things, but mostly shit on what built generals and what
made countries. I want to read what Clinton reads ‘cause he does the
same shit I do, but don’t get in trouble. All his homeboys commit
suicide, he get caught with his pants down in the bathroom, and this
nigga is still the President! I got women all marching outside my
shows, this nigga is the fuckin’ President! I’m 24, he 40, what’s
his excuse?
Aside from the fame and the money, what do you think you can
offer someone in a relationship?
With a woman, you mean?
Yeah.
I believe that… I always discuss this… I feel like I’m one of the
old-fashioned type of guys, where as soon as I find me a woman who
doesn’t mind the fact that I want to be in charge and that I believe
that, just like the yin-and-yang, there’s a masculine and a
feminine, I believe in that in a relationship. I believe that most
of our problems as black people and as people in general is that
we’ve forgotten our roles. The men have forgotten their roles as
men; therefore, the women have forgotten their roles, and that’s
where we get all this duplicity in lovemaking and duplicity in
sexuality, and it’s ‘cause we’ve forgotten our roles and are willing
to settle for less. Not that there are not legitimate people who
really do like this style, but a lot of it right are like, “Niggas
ain’t shit, so I want some pussy,” you know what I mean? And the
niggas is being like, “These black bitches ain’t shit,” or “These
white bitches ain’t shit.” For me, I can’t do that. I can’t turn my
love off for a woman, no matter if they send me to jail and they
talk shit, and they really do piss me off, but I still can’t love a
man. I still love women, I still get excited when they come in the
room and all that. So I feel as though what I can offer is my
viewpoint, who I am, my style, my lifestyle, and that I believe in
my heart I’m a man’s man. I’ve made myself, I’m a millionaire by my
own hands, you know what I mean? I fight for myself. I’ve been
fighting for myself. I’m a struggler, a striver. I take care of my
family. I take everything you would want, I do it, you know what I
mean? It’s just that I’m real. I’m not politically correct, but I’m
a man’s man, and I believe in family values.
What type of woman would it take for you to settle down?
A very, very, very strong woman, and one who is more in love with me
than I was, because I have to be more in love with her than she is,
and that’s what it is. Every time I fall in love with a woman, I
don’t fall in love with the woman she is, I fall in love with the
woman that she could be. I haven’t found a woman yet that fits up to
my standards, and I’m sure that I don’t fit up to anybody’s
standards, but I haven’t found one yet. But I’ve found ones that I
think that have the potential to be the rawest woman in the world,
you know what I mean? I feel like it’s natural for a man, especially
being black, to feel like he’s the king, and he’s looking for his
queen, and that’s where I’m at right now. You can’t be a king until
you’ve made yourself, until you’ve done something, and I’ve
accomplished my goals, my goals I set out to become a man. Now I
feel that I’m a man now, I set out goals to make me a king; not a
king of anybody else, but me. Nobody else is under my rule but me
and my kids, you know what I mean? But I made myself into a king,
now I need a queen to be happy so I that can be a teacher and a
father. I can’t be that until I find a queen, so I’m stuck in limbo.
The Lost Interview, Part 6
Do you have any movies coming out?
Yeah, I’m working on one right now with Tim Roth and Thandie Newton
called Gridlock’d.
Oh, when’s it coming out?
It should be out in January-February. We’re doing the soundtrack to
it though.
Are you feeling positive about it?
Very, very positive, great. This movie is gonna be totally
different. Hopefully this will do something for me. If nothing else,
at best, it’ll just show that I can show up on the set, on time, and
still have an album that sells five million, doing my shit.
That’s right, congratulations on that.
And still be pushing this—thank you—and still be doing that to show
just that, that I work hard. If nothing else, to show why I should
not be in jail ‘cause in the little bit of time I’ve been out, I’ve
made these things to show I don’t need to be in jail and you can
still rehabilitate my ass out here with everybody else ‘cause it’s
the money that rehabilitated me, not the jail.
Okay. What about father figures? You don’t hear much about it ‘cause
you speak about your mother, not your father. Do you have a
relationship with him?
I thought my father was dead all my life. After I got shot, I looked
up, and there was this nigga that looked dead on me, and he was my
father, so I found out. We didn’t take no blood test, but the nigga
looked like me, and the other nigga is dead. So, to me, it’s like,
I’m past the father thing, you know what I mean? But I do want to
know him and I do know him. We do talk, and he did help me when I
was locked up and he did come visit me, and it’s all love, but I’m
past that.
What religion are you?
I’m the religion that to me is the realest religion there is. I
believe in God, I try to pray to God every night unless I pass out.
To me, religion… my idea of religion is this. I think that… I
learned this in jail, I talked to every god there was in jail. I
think that if you take one of the “O’s” out of “good,” it’s “God.”
If you add a “D” to “evil,” it’s “Devil.” I think some cool
mothafucka sat down a long time ago and said, “Let’s figure out a
way that we can control mothafuckas.” And that’s what they came up
with, it’s the Bible. ‘Cause if God wrote the Bible, I’m sure there
would’ve been a revised copy by now, you know what I mean? Because a
lot of shit has changed, and I’ve been looking for this revised
copy, and I don’t see it. I still see that same old copy that
they’ve had from then.
And I’m not disrespecting anybody’s religion—please forgive me if it
comes off like that—I’m just stating my opinion. I feel like we get
crucified. I mean, the Bible is telling us all these people did
this; because they suffered this much, that’s what makes them
special. I got shot five times—one, two, three, four, five. You know
what I mean? And I got crucified to the media, you know what I mean?
And I walked through with the thorns on, and I had shit thrown on
me, and I had the “thief” at the top. I told that nigga, “I’ll be
back for you,” you know what I mean? Trust me, this is not supposed
to be going down, I’ll be back. So, I’m not saying I’m Jesus, but we
go through that type of thing everyday. We don’t part the Red Sea,
but we walk through the hood without getting shot, you know what I
mean? We don’t turn water into wine, but we turn mothafuckin’ dope
heads and dope fiends into productive citizens of society, you know
what I mean? We turn words into money, you know what I mean? What
greater gift can there be?
So I believe God blesses us. I believe God blesses those that
hustle, those that use their mind and those that overall are
righteous. I believe that your karma, everything that you do bad,
comes back to you. So anything that I’m doing that’s bad, I’m gonna
have to suffer for, but I feel in my heart, what I’m doing is right,
you know what I mean, so I feel like I’m going to heaven, you know
what I mean? And I think heaven is just when you sleep, you sleep
with a good conscience. You don’t have nightmares. Hell is when you
sleep, the last thing you see is all the fucked up things that you
did in your life, and you see it over and over again. ‘Cause you
don’t burn, ‘cause if that’s the case, it’s hell on earth ‘cause
bullets burn, you know what I mean? There’s people that got burnt in
fires. That means they went to hell already? You know what I mean?
All that is here. So what do you got there that we ain’t seen there?
What, you gonna walk around aimlessly? Zombie? Nigga, that’s here,
you ain’t been on the streets lately? You know what I mean? But
heaven is now. Look, we sitting up here, big screen, this heaven—for
the moment. Hell is jail, I’ve seen that one.
Trust me, this is what’s real. And all that other shit is to control
you. If the churches took half the money that they was making and
gave it back to the community, we’d be alright. If they take half of
the buildings that they use to praise God and gave it to mothafuckas
who need God, we’d be alright. We’d be alright! Have you seen some
of these goddamn churches lately? There’s one that take up the whole
block in New York. There’s homeless people out here, why ain’t God
letting them stay there? Why these niggas got gold ceilings and
shit? Why God need gold ceilings to talk to me? Why do God need
colored windows to talk to me? Why God can’t come where I’m at,
where he sent me? If God wanted to talk to me in the pretty spot
like that, why the hell he sent me here then, you know what I mean?
That makes ghetto kids not believe in God. Why? So that’s the wrong
religion. I believe in God, I believe God puts us wherever we want
to be at, then it makes sense that God would put us in the ghetto.
That means He wants us to work hard to get up out of here. That
means He’s testing us even more. That makes sense. It makes sense
that if you’re good in your heart, then you’re closer to God. But if
you’re evil, you’re closer to the devil. That makes sense, I see
that everyday. All that other spooky shit don’t make sense.
And I don’t even believe—I’m not dissing them—but I don’t believe in
the brothas I was in jail with and having conversations with. “I’m
god, I’m god.” If you god, then open the gate for me. You know how
far the sun is and how far the moon is. How the hell do I pop this
fucking gate? And get me free up out of here? Then I’ll be a
Five-Percenter for life. But, I’ve never seen it.
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