SOURCE:
http://www.anecdotage.com/browse.php?action=search
Would be interesting to know which of these are true and which not...
Tupac Shakur: Bad Credit?
Wendy Day (of Rap Coalition) once visited Tupac Shakur in Clinton Prison (45 minutes from Montreal) where he had been incarcerated for eight months.
"He had just hired a new lawyer who taught at Harvard and Pac was up for appeal which most likely would spring him (and eventually did). But at this time I asked him, 'so what happens with the 8 months you were locked down if the verdict is overturned? Do you get reimbursed for what you've missed?' And he said, 'Hell no, but I'm gonna ask the judge for a credit towards the next time.'"
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Homies
In 1992, Tupac Shakur visited his old Bay Area neighborhood in Los Angeles to attend a cultural festival. "My homies want to see me," he explained. They sure did...
Shakur's homies promptly destroyed his brand new Jeep with baseball bats and chased him down the street. The rapper finally took refuge in the safest place he could find - underneath an LAPD cruiser.
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Free Turkeys
In 1995, despite Tupac Shakur's legal troubles (for various gun-related offenses), it was announced that he and his friends at Death Row Records would hand out free turkeys in South Central Los Angeles on Thanksgiving day. Though the turkeys arrived as scheduled at 11 a.m., Tupac and his posse were several hours late. Indeed, by the time he arrived, local residents who had once been chanting "Free Tupac!" had begun to shout a different message: "F--- Tupac! Free the turkeys!"
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Gangsta Security
Whenever Tupac Shakur forgot the keys to his apartment, he would simply break a window and crawl right in. One day a friend asked him whether he was worried about security. "Nah," Pac replied, producing an automatic weapon and blasting the floor. "Like rappin'," Pac explained to his astonished friend. "You gotta practice!"
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Young Tupac Shakur: Life of Crime
In April 1969, Tupac Shakur's mother, a Black Panther named Afeni Shakur, was arrested on charges of conspiring to bomb New York City police stations and landmarks. While out on bail in 1970, she became pregnant but was forced to return to jail (until her acquittal in May 1971) because several other defendants had skipped town. Tupac, who was born in June and was soon flirting with crime himself, took a gangster's pride in his renegade roots. "My embryo," he once chuckled, "was in prison..."
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Yo Dog
When rapper Tupac Shakur was robbed and gunned down in the lobby of a recording studio in a drive-by shooting in 1994, he accused his former protege Biggie Smalls (aka The Notorious B.I.G.) of involvement. (Biggie rushed down just in time to see Pac being loaded into a ambulance, extending a middle finger). Their disagreement quickly escalated into a full-blown East Coast-West Coast war.
On his song "Hit 'em Up," Tupac refered to Smalls as a "fat motherf---er." Some time later, Biggie was asked whether he had any pets. No, not really. "Tupac, at one point," he explained, "was my dog."
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Tupac Shakur: Young Playa
"I was f---ing white girls," Tupac Shakur once recalled of his teen years at the Baltimore School for the Arts (where he majored in drama and studied ballet). And white boys?
Tupac once promised to have sex with a bisexual male student (named Eskiah) in exchange for setting Tupac up with his girlfriend, a fellow student named Kelly. When Eskiah came through, Tupac reneged: "After I bust my nut, Eskiah was like, 'When's my turn?'" he recalled. "I told him, 'You must be out of your f---in' mind!'"
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Nick Broomfield: Prison Riot Precaution
While amassing research for Biggie & Tupac (a revealing examination of the unsolved murders of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur), Nick Broomfield visited Death Row Records founder Suge Knight (who allegedly ordered Tupac's death) in jail. The guards, he found, were as fearsome as the prisoners.
"The yard was like being in Dante's Inferno," he later recalled. "They more or less tell you before you go inside that in the event of a riot, the first thing [the prison guards] do is shoot you in the knees, in case you're taken hostage � because the last thing they want is for you to be useful to the prisoners in that situation."
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Tupac Shakur: On the Street
"On a trip to New York, [Digital Underground member Tupac Shakur] spied a bootlegged copy of Digital Underground's This Is an E.P. Release on a street merchant's stand, and toppled the rack in a rage. 'You're robbing from me!' he yelled."
http://www.anecdotage.com/browse.php?action=search
Would be interesting to know which of these are true and which not...
Tupac Shakur: Bad Credit?
Wendy Day (of Rap Coalition) once visited Tupac Shakur in Clinton Prison (45 minutes from Montreal) where he had been incarcerated for eight months.
"He had just hired a new lawyer who taught at Harvard and Pac was up for appeal which most likely would spring him (and eventually did). But at this time I asked him, 'so what happens with the 8 months you were locked down if the verdict is overturned? Do you get reimbursed for what you've missed?' And he said, 'Hell no, but I'm gonna ask the judge for a credit towards the next time.'"
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Homies
In 1992, Tupac Shakur visited his old Bay Area neighborhood in Los Angeles to attend a cultural festival. "My homies want to see me," he explained. They sure did...
Shakur's homies promptly destroyed his brand new Jeep with baseball bats and chased him down the street. The rapper finally took refuge in the safest place he could find - underneath an LAPD cruiser.
***************************************************
Free Turkeys
In 1995, despite Tupac Shakur's legal troubles (for various gun-related offenses), it was announced that he and his friends at Death Row Records would hand out free turkeys in South Central Los Angeles on Thanksgiving day. Though the turkeys arrived as scheduled at 11 a.m., Tupac and his posse were several hours late. Indeed, by the time he arrived, local residents who had once been chanting "Free Tupac!" had begun to shout a different message: "F--- Tupac! Free the turkeys!"
***************************************************
Gangsta Security
Whenever Tupac Shakur forgot the keys to his apartment, he would simply break a window and crawl right in. One day a friend asked him whether he was worried about security. "Nah," Pac replied, producing an automatic weapon and blasting the floor. "Like rappin'," Pac explained to his astonished friend. "You gotta practice!"
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Young Tupac Shakur: Life of Crime
In April 1969, Tupac Shakur's mother, a Black Panther named Afeni Shakur, was arrested on charges of conspiring to bomb New York City police stations and landmarks. While out on bail in 1970, she became pregnant but was forced to return to jail (until her acquittal in May 1971) because several other defendants had skipped town. Tupac, who was born in June and was soon flirting with crime himself, took a gangster's pride in his renegade roots. "My embryo," he once chuckled, "was in prison..."
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Yo Dog
When rapper Tupac Shakur was robbed and gunned down in the lobby of a recording studio in a drive-by shooting in 1994, he accused his former protege Biggie Smalls (aka The Notorious B.I.G.) of involvement. (Biggie rushed down just in time to see Pac being loaded into a ambulance, extending a middle finger). Their disagreement quickly escalated into a full-blown East Coast-West Coast war.
On his song "Hit 'em Up," Tupac refered to Smalls as a "fat motherf---er." Some time later, Biggie was asked whether he had any pets. No, not really. "Tupac, at one point," he explained, "was my dog."
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Tupac Shakur: Young Playa
"I was f---ing white girls," Tupac Shakur once recalled of his teen years at the Baltimore School for the Arts (where he majored in drama and studied ballet). And white boys?
Tupac once promised to have sex with a bisexual male student (named Eskiah) in exchange for setting Tupac up with his girlfriend, a fellow student named Kelly. When Eskiah came through, Tupac reneged: "After I bust my nut, Eskiah was like, 'When's my turn?'" he recalled. "I told him, 'You must be out of your f---in' mind!'"
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Nick Broomfield: Prison Riot Precaution
While amassing research for Biggie & Tupac (a revealing examination of the unsolved murders of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur), Nick Broomfield visited Death Row Records founder Suge Knight (who allegedly ordered Tupac's death) in jail. The guards, he found, were as fearsome as the prisoners.
"The yard was like being in Dante's Inferno," he later recalled. "They more or less tell you before you go inside that in the event of a riot, the first thing [the prison guards] do is shoot you in the knees, in case you're taken hostage � because the last thing they want is for you to be useful to the prisoners in that situation."
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Tupac Shakur: On the Street
"On a trip to New York, [Digital Underground member Tupac Shakur] spied a bootlegged copy of Digital Underground's This Is an E.P. Release on a street merchant's stand, and toppled the rack in a rage. 'You're robbing from me!' he yelled."
