1 00:00:01,491 --> 00:00:02,729 - [man 1] Wait, hold on - [man 2] No, it's okay. 2 00:00:02,829 --> 00:00:04,535 [man 3] We're rolling. 3 00:00:05,604 --> 00:00:10,417 [man 4] Glo, day two, take one, comma marker. 4 00:00:10,519 --> 00:00:12,792 [Allen] This a random question, Glo, the first one... 5 00:00:12,892 --> 00:00:14,329 [man 3] All right, here we go. 6 00:00:14,429 --> 00:00:16,537 [Allen] Everyone talks about, um, 7 00:00:16,637 --> 00:00:19,277 - how there were two Tupacs. - Yeah. 8 00:00:19,377 --> 00:00:21,050 There's like two different extremes of, like, him, 9 00:00:21,150 --> 00:00:22,622 getting back. 10 00:00:22,722 --> 00:00:25,496 That he had multiple personality disorder, essentially? 11 00:00:25,598 --> 00:00:29,776 Bullshit. He did not have multiple personality nothing. 12 00:00:29,876 --> 00:00:32,316 It was a kid, a young man, 13 00:00:32,416 --> 00:00:35,092 who was-- some days you saw him, he was excited. 14 00:00:35,192 --> 00:00:37,567 Some days you saw him, he was angry. 15 00:00:37,667 --> 00:00:39,237 And some days you saw him, 16 00:00:39,337 --> 00:00:40,743 he was the sweetest thing in the world. 17 00:00:40,843 --> 00:00:44,252 And maybe because, astrologically, 18 00:00:44,352 --> 00:00:45,724 being a Gemini, 19 00:00:45,824 --> 00:00:49,167 I can see the duality of the personality, 20 00:00:49,267 --> 00:00:52,578 but not in terms of being psycho nothing. 21 00:00:52,679 --> 00:00:54,182 He wasn't bipolar. 22 00:00:54,282 --> 00:00:56,188 He was full of anxiety. 23 00:00:56,288 --> 00:00:58,227 - [Allen] Mm-hmm, why? - He was-- 24 00:00:58,328 --> 00:00:59,532 Well, his life. Look at his life. 25 00:00:59,633 --> 00:01:01,136 Look what was happening to him. 26 00:01:01,236 --> 00:01:02,842 You know, his life wasn't running smooth. 27 00:01:02,942 --> 00:01:05,415 He wanted to do music. 28 00:01:06,620 --> 00:01:08,324 [Gloria] He moved with the feeling. 29 00:01:09,763 --> 00:01:12,705 [Donald] Feelings unite us. 30 00:01:12,805 --> 00:01:14,376 Thoughts kind of separate us, 31 00:01:14,476 --> 00:01:16,784 but no matter what we may think, 32 00:01:16,884 --> 00:01:19,593 we all feel the same things the same way. 33 00:01:20,796 --> 00:01:23,403 And it kind of is what makes art work. 34 00:01:23,504 --> 00:01:26,378 But showing emotion for a boy is, you know, 35 00:01:26,478 --> 00:01:28,620 we was conditioned from childhood, you know, 36 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:29,956 big boys don't cry. 37 00:01:30,057 --> 00:01:33,332 And I don't think Tupac had any fear 38 00:01:33,433 --> 00:01:35,774 of expressing his feelings. 39 00:01:36,610 --> 00:01:38,214 For whatever reason, 40 00:01:38,314 --> 00:01:39,786 that barrier just didn't exist for him. 41 00:01:39,886 --> 00:01:42,226 He had a pretty open channel. 42 00:01:42,326 --> 00:01:43,965 ♪ I hear Brenda's got a baby ♪ 43 00:01:44,065 --> 00:01:45,637 ♪ But Brenda's Barely got a brain ♪ 44 00:01:45,738 --> 00:01:47,509 ♪ A damn shame ♪ 45 00:01:47,610 --> 00:01:49,649 ♪ The girl can hardly Spell her name ♪ 46 00:01:49,750 --> 00:01:51,856 ♪ That's not our problem That's up to Brenda's family ♪ 47 00:01:51,956 --> 00:01:54,329 ♪ Well, let me show you how it Affects our whole community ♪ 48 00:01:54,429 --> 00:01:56,468 ♪ Now Brenda never really knew Her moms ♪ 49 00:01:56,569 --> 00:01:59,277 ♪ And her dad was a junkie Puttin' death into his arms ♪ 50 00:01:59,377 --> 00:02:01,952 ♪ It's sad 'cause I bet Brenda doesn't even know ♪ 51 00:02:02,052 --> 00:02:03,590 ♪ Just 'cause You're in the ghetto ♪ 52 00:02:03,691 --> 00:02:05,764 ♪ Doesn't mean you can't grow ♪ 53 00:02:05,864 --> 00:02:08,640 ♪ But oh, that's a thought My own revelation ♪ 54 00:02:08,740 --> 00:02:11,649 ♪ Do whatever it takes To resist the temptation ♪ 55 00:02:11,749 --> 00:02:13,855 ♪ Brenda got herself A boyfriend ♪ 56 00:02:13,955 --> 00:02:16,697 ♪ Her boyfriend was her cousin Now let's watch the joy end ♪ 57 00:02:16,797 --> 00:02:18,301 ♪ She tried To hide her pregnancy ♪ 58 00:02:18,401 --> 00:02:19,873 ♪ From her family ♪ 59 00:02:19,973 --> 00:02:21,376 ♪ Who really Didn't care to see ♪ 60 00:02:21,477 --> 00:02:23,316 ♪ Or give a damn if she ♪ 61 00:02:23,416 --> 00:02:25,422 ♪ Went out and had a church Of kids ♪ 62 00:02:25,523 --> 00:02:26,927 ♪ As long as When the check came ♪ 63 00:02:27,027 --> 00:02:30,739 ♪ They got first dibs ♪ 64 00:02:30,839 --> 00:02:34,718 [Karen] Tupac was living in the valley off of Coldwater. 65 00:02:35,452 --> 00:02:37,727 And when Afeni got out of rehab, 66 00:02:37,827 --> 00:02:41,604 there was happiness, a lot of emotion, and relief 67 00:02:41,705 --> 00:02:44,580 because he knew his mother was on the road to recovery. 68 00:02:44,681 --> 00:02:46,451 And that made him really happy. 69 00:02:46,553 --> 00:02:48,457 And he wanted her to be a part... 70 00:02:49,796 --> 00:02:50,832 of his success. 71 00:02:51,835 --> 00:02:54,342 ♪ Now Brenda's belly's Getting bigger ♪ 72 00:02:54,442 --> 00:02:57,084 ♪ But no one seems to notice Any change in her figure ♪ 73 00:02:57,184 --> 00:02:59,826 ♪ She's 12 years old And she's having a baby ♪ 74 00:02:59,926 --> 00:03:02,534 ♪ In love with the molester Who's sexing her crazy ♪ 75 00:03:02,634 --> 00:03:04,072 [interviewer 2] Let's talk a little bit about 76 00:03:04,172 --> 00:03:05,777 the song that's hitting real big right now. 77 00:03:05,877 --> 00:03:08,150 "Brenda's Got a Baby." Oh, God. 78 00:03:08,251 --> 00:03:10,591 "Brenda's Got a Baby" is based on a true story, 79 00:03:10,692 --> 00:03:12,463 and it started out big... 80 00:03:12,564 --> 00:03:14,035 [reporter] A bizarre story of child abandonment, 81 00:03:14,135 --> 00:03:16,676 incest, and attempted suicide. 82 00:03:17,847 --> 00:03:20,722 A newborn was thrown into the garbage of Brooklyn yesterday. 83 00:03:20,822 --> 00:03:22,560 The mother was just 12 years old. 84 00:03:22,661 --> 00:03:24,500 And today, the father, her cousin, 85 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:26,774 was arrested after he tried to kill himself. 86 00:03:26,874 --> 00:03:28,980 ♪ He left her and she had The baby solo ♪ 87 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:30,618 ♪ She had it On the bathroom floor ♪ 88 00:03:30,719 --> 00:03:32,489 ♪ And didn't know so ♪ 89 00:03:32,590 --> 00:03:33,627 ♪ She didn't know what To throw away ♪ 90 00:03:33,728 --> 00:03:34,898 ♪ And what to keep ♪ 91 00:03:34,998 --> 00:03:36,669 ♪ She wrapped the baby up ♪ 92 00:03:36,770 --> 00:03:38,007 ♪ And threw him In the trash heap ♪ 93 00:03:38,107 --> 00:03:39,746 Everything about that song was new, 94 00:03:39,846 --> 00:03:41,149 because at that time, 95 00:03:41,249 --> 00:03:43,222 either you were making a party song 96 00:03:43,322 --> 00:03:45,161 or aggressive gangster music. 97 00:03:45,261 --> 00:03:47,702 But Pac read the story and he was so moved by it, 98 00:03:47,803 --> 00:03:49,541 he wrote the song. 99 00:03:49,642 --> 00:03:51,013 ♪ I guess she thought She'd get away ♪ 100 00:03:51,113 --> 00:03:52,182 ♪ Wouldn't hear the cries ♪ 101 00:03:52,282 --> 00:03:54,088 ♪ She didn't realize ♪ 102 00:03:54,188 --> 00:03:56,028 ♪ How much the little baby Had her eyes ♪ 103 00:03:56,128 --> 00:03:57,933 ♪ Now the baby's In the trash heap bawlin' ♪ 104 00:03:58,034 --> 00:03:59,738 ♪ Mama can't help her ♪ 105 00:03:59,839 --> 00:04:01,511 ♪ But it hurts To hear her calling ♪ 106 00:04:01,611 --> 00:04:03,149 [Phillips] The infant boy was found 107 00:04:03,249 --> 00:04:04,754 in the building's trash compactor yesterday. 108 00:04:04,854 --> 00:04:06,124 This maintenance worker was just about 109 00:04:06,224 --> 00:04:07,729 to turn the compactor on. 110 00:04:07,830 --> 00:04:09,601 ♪ Brenda wants to run away ♪ 111 00:04:09,702 --> 00:04:11,206 ♪ Mama say "You making me lose pay ♪ 112 00:04:11,306 --> 00:04:12,778 ♪ And social workers here Every day" ♪ 113 00:04:12,878 --> 00:04:13,981 [reporter] Hospital officials say 114 00:04:14,082 --> 00:04:15,118 they will turn the infant over 115 00:04:15,218 --> 00:04:16,890 to the Bureau of Child Welfare. 116 00:04:16,990 --> 00:04:18,930 [Tupac] It was like a week-long series. 117 00:04:19,030 --> 00:04:21,203 The mother has been charged with juvenile delinquency 118 00:04:21,303 --> 00:04:23,209 [Tupac] And I was like, "That's so wild, 119 00:04:23,309 --> 00:04:24,680 the media was pimping that little, 120 00:04:24,781 --> 00:04:25,750 small, poor, helpless girl." 121 00:04:25,851 --> 00:04:27,555 And no changes was made. 122 00:04:27,655 --> 00:04:29,093 She was nothing more than a story to them. 123 00:04:29,193 --> 00:04:30,899 And it was getting smaller and smaller. 124 00:04:30,999 --> 00:04:32,872 ♪ Now Brenda's gotta make Her own way ♪ 125 00:04:32,972 --> 00:04:35,178 ♪ Can't go to her family They won't let her stay ♪ 126 00:04:35,278 --> 00:04:38,087 ♪ No money, no babysitter She couldn't keep a job ♪ 127 00:04:38,187 --> 00:04:40,962 ♪ She tried to sell crack But end up gettin' robbed ♪ 128 00:04:41,062 --> 00:04:43,871 So now, same story they reported on, I'm reporting on. 129 00:04:43,971 --> 00:04:46,779 ♪ So she sees sex As a way of leaving hell ♪ 130 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,721 ♪ It's paying the rent So she really can't complain ♪ 131 00:04:49,823 --> 00:04:51,727 ♪ Prostitute found, slain ♪ 132 00:04:51,829 --> 00:04:54,135 ♪ And Brenda's her name She's got a baby ♪ 133 00:04:54,235 --> 00:04:56,642 [Berman] You don't know where the journey's gonna take you 134 00:04:56,742 --> 00:04:57,980 when you begin with an artist. 135 00:04:58,114 --> 00:04:59,953 And I remember with Tupac, 136 00:05:00,053 --> 00:05:02,259 with "Brenda's Got a Baby," it all changed. 137 00:05:02,359 --> 00:05:04,265 [Tupac] My publicist sent a gang of letters to my house. 138 00:05:04,365 --> 00:05:06,304 People writing me, "Keep your head up." 139 00:05:06,404 --> 00:05:08,244 Or, "My mother smoke crack, I just need a big brother." 140 00:05:08,344 --> 00:05:10,316 Or, "My cousin in that situation, 141 00:05:10,416 --> 00:05:11,922 we don't know what to do, should she get an abortion?" 142 00:05:12,022 --> 00:05:13,828 And a lot of it, is you see a lot of evil things 143 00:05:13,928 --> 00:05:15,699 and it's like, I wanna get involved in everything 144 00:05:15,799 --> 00:05:17,104 and my publicist and my manager's like, "You can't..." 145 00:05:17,204 --> 00:05:18,742 [Gloria] Genius comes with a price. 146 00:05:18,843 --> 00:05:20,648 I want to be everywhere. I want to go everywhere. 147 00:05:20,748 --> 00:05:22,386 I want to expand and blow up. 148 00:05:22,486 --> 00:05:24,793 [Berman] The urgency for things to move. 149 00:05:24,894 --> 00:05:26,131 If it was hard for us, 150 00:05:26,231 --> 00:05:28,037 I can only imagine how hard it was for him. 151 00:05:28,137 --> 00:05:29,909 What I'm trying to encourage is for people to make a change. 152 00:05:30,009 --> 00:05:31,346 - He had so much to say. - [Tupac] 'Cause we can do that. 153 00:05:31,446 --> 00:05:32,918 [Berman] So much to do. 154 00:05:33,018 --> 00:05:34,891 We got brains. We can reeducate. 155 00:05:34,991 --> 00:05:36,428 - [woman] And he was hopped up. - [Tupac] I mean, I think 156 00:05:36,529 --> 00:05:38,200 that's what my moms was talkin' about 157 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:39,805 what makes you a man, responsibility. 158 00:05:39,906 --> 00:05:41,276 [woman] The album was doing good. 159 00:05:41,376 --> 00:05:43,015 "2pacalypse Now" Powerful, powerful stuff. 160 00:05:43,115 --> 00:05:44,820 [woman] Juice is coming out. He was hot. 161 00:05:44,921 --> 00:05:46,324 [reporter] The new movie comes out this Friday. 162 00:05:46,424 --> 00:05:47,997 [Gloria] He knew he nailed Juice. 163 00:05:48,097 --> 00:05:49,801 ...and I like that reaction from the crowd. 164 00:05:49,903 --> 00:05:51,006 [Gloria] And all of a sudden, we got money. 165 00:05:51,106 --> 00:05:52,309 [Tupac] Juice is respect, power. 166 00:05:52,409 --> 00:05:54,148 How far will you go to get it? 167 00:05:54,248 --> 00:05:55,485 [Karen] People in the film business 168 00:05:55,586 --> 00:05:57,291 saw his talent as an actor, 169 00:05:57,391 --> 00:05:59,798 but he wasn't prepared... 170 00:05:59,899 --> 00:06:01,336 - [gunshot] - [screaming] 171 00:06:02,205 --> 00:06:04,713 ...for the reaction at the theaters. 172 00:06:04,813 --> 00:06:05,951 [man] Freeze, motherfucker! 173 00:06:06,051 --> 00:06:07,990 Turn around hit the wall! 174 00:06:08,090 --> 00:06:09,929 [reporter] Juice opened around the country 175 00:06:10,029 --> 00:06:11,969 to the sound of gunfire 176 00:06:12,069 --> 00:06:14,375 inside and outside a number of theaters where it played. 177 00:06:14,475 --> 00:06:16,917 [Karen] I got so many calls. 178 00:06:17,017 --> 00:06:18,990 [woman] "What's he thinking about the violence in the theaters?" 179 00:06:19,090 --> 00:06:20,861 [Karen] He doesn't have anything to do 180 00:06:20,962 --> 00:06:22,867 with the violence happening in the theaters. 181 00:06:22,968 --> 00:06:24,974 [reporter] Police say much of the violence was random, 182 00:06:25,074 --> 00:06:26,779 although most of it involved moviegoers. 183 00:06:26,879 --> 00:06:28,350 [Karen] He said, "They want to talk to me." 184 00:06:28,450 --> 00:06:31,527 No! You don't talk to everybody who wants to talk to you. 185 00:06:31,627 --> 00:06:33,833 But Pac didn't listen all the time. 186 00:06:33,934 --> 00:06:35,506 [Tupac] What we're doing is using our brain 187 00:06:35,606 --> 00:06:37,545 to get out of the ghetto, any way we can. 188 00:06:37,645 --> 00:06:39,551 So, we tell these stories. And they tend to be violent, 189 00:06:39,651 --> 00:06:42,192 because our world tends to be filled with violence. 190 00:06:42,292 --> 00:06:44,533 [Karen] He wanted to get the attention he needed 191 00:06:44,633 --> 00:06:46,371 for the goals that he wants to reach. 192 00:06:46,471 --> 00:06:49,881 So, if this is reality, the next question becomes... 193 00:06:49,982 --> 00:06:51,854 How do we change it? 194 00:06:51,955 --> 00:06:54,295 [Karen] And he wanted attention for that assault case. 195 00:06:54,395 --> 00:06:56,836 [Tupac] ...these are "learn to be a nigga" scars. 196 00:06:56,937 --> 00:06:58,908 - [interviewer] Who did that? - [Tupac] Oakland Police Department. 197 00:06:59,009 --> 00:07:00,848 - [interviewer] You're suing them? - [Tupac] Ten mil. 198 00:07:00,949 --> 00:07:02,419 What else can I do? 'Cause you know how that go. 199 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:03,991 Rodney King is still fighting for his, 200 00:07:04,091 --> 00:07:05,829 and they got it on tape. 201 00:07:05,930 --> 00:07:07,568 You know what I'm saying? They got it on tape! 202 00:07:07,668 --> 00:07:10,511 [Karen] The Rodney King thing had a tremendous effect on him. 203 00:07:12,349 --> 00:07:13,920 [man] That's fucked up how they doing a nigga. 204 00:07:14,021 --> 00:07:15,124 Look how they doing him. 205 00:07:18,935 --> 00:07:21,276 [Snoop Dogg] Nigga, fuck that! Show me help, nigga. 206 00:07:22,312 --> 00:07:25,154 A Black man being done wrong by police officers, 207 00:07:25,254 --> 00:07:27,160 which happen to be White, 208 00:07:27,260 --> 00:07:30,136 we don't just film shit and let a nigga get killed. 209 00:07:30,236 --> 00:07:31,272 Fuck all that! 210 00:07:31,372 --> 00:07:34,381 What's happening? What it do? 211 00:07:34,482 --> 00:07:36,956 That's Tupac. That's the cloth that he was cut from. 212 00:07:37,057 --> 00:07:38,595 ♪ They claim that I'm violent ♪ 213 00:07:38,695 --> 00:07:40,667 ♪ Just 'cause I refuse To be silent ♪ 214 00:07:40,768 --> 00:07:42,172 ♪ These hypocrites Are havin' fits ♪ 215 00:07:42,272 --> 00:07:43,308 ♪ 'Cause I'm not buyin' it ♪ 216 00:07:43,408 --> 00:07:45,414 ♪ Defyin' it ♪ 217 00:07:45,516 --> 00:07:47,688 ♪ Envious because I will Rebel against any oppressor ♪ 218 00:07:47,789 --> 00:07:49,426 ♪ And this is known As self-defense ♪ 219 00:07:49,528 --> 00:07:50,564 [reporter] 2pacalypse Now, 220 00:07:50,664 --> 00:07:53,071 a rap album that has some songs 221 00:07:53,172 --> 00:07:55,077 about Blacks who kill cops. 222 00:07:55,178 --> 00:07:58,320 ♪ I told 'em fight back Attack on society ♪ 223 00:07:58,420 --> 00:08:00,092 ♪ If this is violence ♪ 224 00:08:00,193 --> 00:08:01,329 ♪ Then violent's What I gotta be ♪ 225 00:08:01,429 --> 00:08:03,268 You have a list of titles 226 00:08:03,368 --> 00:08:06,979 First one, "I Don't Give a F." "Crooked Ass Nigga." 227 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:08,718 ♪ If you investigate ♪ 228 00:08:08,818 --> 00:08:11,025 ♪ You'll find out Where it's coming from ♪ 229 00:08:11,125 --> 00:08:13,031 ♪ Look through our history America's the violent one ♪ 230 00:08:13,131 --> 00:08:14,468 [reporter] Many of the titles suggest 231 00:08:14,569 --> 00:08:16,407 violence, sex, drug use. 232 00:08:16,509 --> 00:08:18,581 - Let's pick... violent. - [reporter] ...and profanity. 233 00:08:18,681 --> 00:08:21,189 ♪ In every jeep and every car Brothers stomp this ♪ 234 00:08:21,289 --> 00:08:24,231 ♪ I'm never ignorant Getting goals accomplished ♪ 235 00:08:24,331 --> 00:08:26,371 [reporter 1] The album was playing in a stolen car 236 00:08:26,471 --> 00:08:29,246 when Texas Trooper Bill Davidson stopped it. 237 00:08:29,346 --> 00:08:31,085 [reporter 2] He was a family man. 238 00:08:31,185 --> 00:08:33,058 ♪ He had the nerve To say I had a curfew ♪ 239 00:08:33,158 --> 00:08:35,566 ♪ Get out the car Or I'll hurt you ♪ 240 00:08:35,666 --> 00:08:37,738 A cop from the country was shot dead 241 00:08:37,838 --> 00:08:39,744 by a teenager from the inner city. 242 00:08:39,844 --> 00:08:41,282 [reporter 3] Nineteen-year-old, Ronald Howard... 243 00:08:41,382 --> 00:08:43,121 ♪ Before I knew it ♪ 244 00:08:43,221 --> 00:08:44,726 ♪ I was beatin' the cop Senseless ♪ 245 00:08:44,826 --> 00:08:47,234 ♪ The other cop dropped his gun He was defenseless ♪ 246 00:08:47,334 --> 00:08:50,076 [lawyer] He believes the music he was listening to, from Tupac, 247 00:08:50,176 --> 00:08:51,580 probably did influence him 248 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:53,519 and caused him to shoot that trooper. 249 00:08:53,620 --> 00:08:55,659 ♪ Now I'm against this Cop who was racist ♪ 250 00:08:55,759 --> 00:08:58,501 ♪ Givin' him a taste of Trading Places ♪ 251 00:08:58,601 --> 00:09:00,507 [reporter 1] Did the music make him do it? 252 00:09:00,607 --> 00:09:03,081 [reporter 2] It proved to be the perfect campaign issue 253 00:09:03,181 --> 00:09:05,254 for Dan Quayle yesterday. 254 00:09:05,354 --> 00:09:07,427 ♪ This is a lesson to the Rednecks and crooked cops ♪ 255 00:09:07,528 --> 00:09:10,303 ♪ You fuck with real niggas Get 'ya fuckin' ass dropped ♪ 256 00:09:10,403 --> 00:09:13,178 There is absolutely no reason for a record like this 257 00:09:13,278 --> 00:09:15,217 - to be published. - It is sick. 258 00:09:15,952 --> 00:09:18,628 ♪ You wanna sweat me Never get me to be silent ♪ 259 00:09:18,728 --> 00:09:20,466 ♪ Givin' them a reason ♪ 260 00:09:20,567 --> 00:09:21,870 ♪ A reason to claim That I'm violent ♪ 261 00:09:21,971 --> 00:09:23,475 [gunshots] 262 00:09:33,238 --> 00:09:36,882 ♪ Just because we play What the people want ♪ 263 00:09:36,982 --> 00:09:38,821 ♪ Fuck a damn cop ♪ 264 00:09:38,921 --> 00:09:41,630 ♪ Just because we play What the people... ♪ 265 00:09:41,730 --> 00:09:43,301 ♪ Violence ♪ 266 00:09:43,402 --> 00:09:44,873 [Tupac] Fuck a damn cop, you understand? 267 00:09:44,973 --> 00:09:47,515 Some of it is cuts. We got a cut that goes, 268 00:09:47,615 --> 00:09:49,954 F-F-Fuck a damn cop. 269 00:09:50,055 --> 00:09:51,927 [gunshot] 270 00:10:07,675 --> 00:10:09,581 [Allen] When did you first come to learn of Tupac, as an artist? 271 00:10:09,681 --> 00:10:11,385 Uh, wow... 272 00:10:12,590 --> 00:10:15,464 I don't even know if it was "Brenda's Got a Baby," it was-- 273 00:10:15,565 --> 00:10:17,605 I think it was the first one. 274 00:10:17,705 --> 00:10:19,409 My impression of him was 275 00:10:19,511 --> 00:10:21,683 he was gangsta as a motherfucker, first of all. 276 00:10:21,784 --> 00:10:24,559 'Cause he would say shit other rappers wasn't saying. 277 00:10:24,659 --> 00:10:26,665 But he was known for shit happening with him. 278 00:10:26,765 --> 00:10:28,805 [Allen] What do you think that was with Tupac, 279 00:10:28,905 --> 00:10:31,479 where he would run into fire like that? 280 00:10:31,580 --> 00:10:32,950 What was he looking for? 281 00:10:33,050 --> 00:10:36,728 Mainly, he was looking for understanding. 282 00:10:36,829 --> 00:10:39,838 [lawyer] You are here under a court-ordered deposition 283 00:10:39,938 --> 00:10:44,016 for the case of Linda Davidson and the estate of Bill Davidson 284 00:10:44,116 --> 00:10:47,460 who are suing Time Warner, you, and other record companies. 285 00:10:47,561 --> 00:10:50,904 Now, what knowledge do you have about this lawsuit? 286 00:10:52,977 --> 00:10:54,549 Uh, I know that 287 00:10:54,649 --> 00:10:57,390 an officer was killed in the line of duty, 288 00:10:58,694 --> 00:11:02,740 by a-- a young male who's on death row currently. 289 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:06,484 His defense to save himself from the chair was that 290 00:11:06,585 --> 00:11:11,097 my music somehow induced him to commit this crime. 291 00:11:11,199 --> 00:11:15,377 And the widow of the slain officer and his children 292 00:11:15,477 --> 00:11:18,688 are suing everybody involved. 293 00:11:18,788 --> 00:11:20,527 [host] "The music made me do it." 294 00:11:20,627 --> 00:11:22,833 That's what Ronald Ray Howard claimed. 295 00:11:22,933 --> 00:11:25,809 Now, the officer's widow is suing Tupac 296 00:11:25,909 --> 00:11:28,551 and his record company for $100 million. 297 00:11:28,651 --> 00:11:30,456 What do the people claim, though? 298 00:11:30,557 --> 00:11:32,395 'Cause there were some lyrics in the song about cop-dusting 299 00:11:32,496 --> 00:11:34,133 - or something like that, right? - [Tupac] Well, actually, 300 00:11:34,234 --> 00:11:35,872 the story that they were talking about 301 00:11:35,972 --> 00:11:37,477 is called "Soulja's Story." 302 00:11:37,578 --> 00:11:38,714 And it wasn't about killing cops at all. 303 00:11:38,814 --> 00:11:40,151 That's just what the media took, 304 00:11:40,252 --> 00:11:42,124 'cause they're gonna take what they want. 305 00:11:42,225 --> 00:11:44,899 It was about somebody who was so scared of police brutality 306 00:11:44,999 --> 00:11:47,708 that he panicked when they pulled him over... 307 00:11:53,659 --> 00:11:55,532 ...and it shows how his life fell apart. 308 00:11:56,267 --> 00:11:58,473 At the end of the story, he died. 309 00:11:58,574 --> 00:12:00,011 ♪ Caught a bullet in my head ♪ 310 00:12:00,111 --> 00:12:01,783 ♪ The screams never left My mind ♪ 311 00:12:01,883 --> 00:12:03,656 ♪ My brother Caught a bullet too ♪ 312 00:12:03,756 --> 00:12:05,595 ♪ But I think he gonna Pull through ♪ 313 00:12:05,695 --> 00:12:07,635 ♪ 'Cause he deserves to ♪ 314 00:12:07,735 --> 00:12:09,071 ♪ This fast life ain't everything they told you ♪ 315 00:12:09,171 --> 00:12:10,877 ♪ They never get much older ♪ 316 00:12:10,977 --> 00:12:13,017 ♪ Following the tracks Of a soulja ♪ 317 00:12:13,117 --> 00:12:14,922 But they didn't say that. 318 00:12:15,023 --> 00:12:16,828 They didn't talk about that. They just took what they want. 319 00:12:16,928 --> 00:12:19,771 [woman] The media generally has portrayed Tupac 320 00:12:19,871 --> 00:12:21,777 in basically a negative light. 321 00:12:21,877 --> 00:12:24,116 Your song, "I Don't Give an F--" 322 00:12:24,216 --> 00:12:27,260 I start the song out sitting in a paddy wagon, 323 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,068 and the cops are bragging about beating up another brother. 324 00:12:30,168 --> 00:12:33,143 [woman] What that shows is what the media on any day 325 00:12:33,243 --> 00:12:35,952 is able to show you about anyone's life. 326 00:12:36,052 --> 00:12:39,797 In reality, people live their life on a day-to-day basis. 327 00:12:39,897 --> 00:12:42,271 So, I feel like my job is to tell the story, the whole story, 328 00:12:42,372 --> 00:12:44,277 and I can't censor, or whatever you say, 329 00:12:44,378 --> 00:12:45,849 censor it or making it right. 330 00:12:45,949 --> 00:12:47,688 It's still censoring it, you know. 331 00:12:47,788 --> 00:12:48,991 We all gotta have the knowledge of what's going on, 332 00:12:49,091 --> 00:12:50,630 and that's what I'm trying to do. 333 00:12:50,730 --> 00:12:52,603 Okay, so you don't advocate cop killing? 334 00:12:52,703 --> 00:12:55,143 Not at all. I don't advocate violence in any way. 335 00:12:55,243 --> 00:12:56,982 My music deals with self-defense. 336 00:12:57,082 --> 00:12:58,788 I'm curious whether the song he was listening to 337 00:12:58,888 --> 00:13:01,027 had anything to do with cop killing, or... 338 00:13:01,127 --> 00:13:02,800 - No. Not-- I'm-- - Not at all? 339 00:13:02,900 --> 00:13:05,307 I just said I don't write songs about cop killing. 340 00:13:05,407 --> 00:13:06,945 [woman] But it did have the lyrics-- 341 00:13:07,045 --> 00:13:08,316 [man] Don't six of the songs 342 00:13:08,416 --> 00:13:10,154 - mention cop killing? - [Tupac] No. 343 00:13:10,254 --> 00:13:11,291 - [man] They don't? - [woman] Oh, that's not true. 344 00:13:11,392 --> 00:13:12,863 Nope. All my songs talk about 345 00:13:12,963 --> 00:13:14,635 police brutality and self-defense. 346 00:13:14,735 --> 00:13:16,072 Now, that's something different. 347 00:13:16,172 --> 00:13:18,078 [audience cheers] 348 00:13:18,178 --> 00:13:20,352 [man] If we're gonna talk about police, this man over here 349 00:13:20,452 --> 00:13:22,023 is in a really rough area, 350 00:13:22,124 --> 00:13:23,762 and he puts his life on the line every day. 351 00:13:23,863 --> 00:13:25,635 [Tupac] I got so much respect for him for that, 352 00:13:25,735 --> 00:13:27,072 but look, we have to live in the same neighborhoods 353 00:13:27,172 --> 00:13:29,078 without bulletproof vests, without backup, 354 00:13:29,178 --> 00:13:31,217 without walkie-talkies, without guns, 355 00:13:31,318 --> 00:13:34,327 without tear gas, without pepper spray, without batons. 356 00:13:34,427 --> 00:13:36,099 So, now we have to fix the problem. 357 00:13:36,199 --> 00:13:37,938 [man] Pac knew that media is a machine 358 00:13:38,038 --> 00:13:39,810 that you either work with it, or against it. 359 00:13:39,911 --> 00:13:41,214 So he worked with it. 360 00:13:41,314 --> 00:13:43,120 These people don't see it every day-- 361 00:13:43,220 --> 00:13:45,226 But what I would like to see is for children in our country 362 00:13:45,327 --> 00:13:48,068 to have a better future than what you guys have. 363 00:13:48,168 --> 00:13:51,077 And that's not gonna happen when he's repressing his generation 364 00:13:51,177 --> 00:13:53,083 and his people by saying they have no hope. 365 00:13:53,183 --> 00:13:54,956 What do you know about my people? 366 00:13:55,056 --> 00:13:57,229 - I know a lot about your people. - What do you know about my-- 367 00:13:57,329 --> 00:13:59,235 [audience shouts and boos] 368 00:13:59,335 --> 00:14:00,740 [Tupac] Just because you give charity, 369 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:02,378 give money to wipe the guilt away 370 00:14:02,478 --> 00:14:04,283 does not mean you know about the young Black males 371 00:14:04,384 --> 00:14:07,125 and females in today's society. 372 00:14:07,225 --> 00:14:08,898 What would you say is the answer to that? Violence? 373 00:14:08,998 --> 00:14:11,873 No, it's making music. It's what I'm doing now. 374 00:14:11,973 --> 00:14:14,213 It sparks dialogue, and that's how laws get made. 375 00:14:14,313 --> 00:14:16,152 That's how change get made. 376 00:14:16,252 --> 00:14:18,994 ♪ I see no changes All I see is racist faces ♪ 377 00:14:19,094 --> 00:14:21,067 ♪ Misplaced hate makes Disgrace to races ♪ 378 00:14:21,167 --> 00:14:23,273 ♪ We under, I wonder What it takes to make this ♪ 379 00:14:23,374 --> 00:14:25,414 ♪ One better place Let's erase the wasted ♪ 380 00:14:25,515 --> 00:14:27,888 ♪ Take the evil out the people They'll be actin' right ♪ 381 00:14:27,988 --> 00:14:30,027 ♪ 'Cause both Black and White Are smokin' crack tonight ♪ 382 00:14:30,127 --> 00:14:32,100 ♪ And the only time we chill Is when we kill each other ♪ 383 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,373 ♪ It takes skill to be real Time to heal each other ♪ 384 00:14:34,474 --> 00:14:36,815 Guys, get serious, all BS aside, 385 00:14:36,915 --> 00:14:40,191 it all comes down to, we got to survive here in this country, 386 00:14:40,291 --> 00:14:41,997 'cause I'm not going back to Africa. 387 00:14:42,097 --> 00:14:43,802 I mean, if this is truly a melting pot, 388 00:14:43,902 --> 00:14:45,373 then we really need to be like that. 389 00:14:45,474 --> 00:14:47,547 White folks, Black folks, Korean folks, 390 00:14:47,648 --> 00:14:50,489 Mexican folks, Puerto Ricans, we gotta understand each other. 391 00:14:50,590 --> 00:14:52,796 [Snoop Dogg] He was teaching us to understand each other 392 00:14:52,896 --> 00:14:54,802 and to communicate, making more of an impact 393 00:14:54,902 --> 00:14:56,975 on the people coming behind us. 394 00:14:57,075 --> 00:14:58,981 He got that from the Panther Party. 395 00:14:59,081 --> 00:15:01,154 [man] The person that I'm gonna talk about next 396 00:15:01,254 --> 00:15:03,260 is a second-generation revolutionary. 397 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,399 [Snoop Dogg] He couldn't bring gangbanger to hip-hop. 398 00:15:05,501 --> 00:15:07,372 What he could bring was a military mind 399 00:15:07,473 --> 00:15:09,244 and being war-ready. 400 00:15:09,345 --> 00:15:10,917 [man] His mother was one of the New York Panther 21, 401 00:15:11,017 --> 00:15:12,856 - Afeni Shakur. - [Snoop Dogg] And to know 402 00:15:12,956 --> 00:15:14,259 what you're talking about when you're speaking. 403 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:16,265 I talked to you earlier about Dr. Mutulu Shakur, 404 00:15:16,366 --> 00:15:18,907 one of my young brothers in congress. 405 00:15:19,007 --> 00:15:23,186 A person who I've known all his life, brother Tupac Shakur. 406 00:15:23,286 --> 00:15:25,427 [Karen] Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. 407 00:15:25,528 --> 00:15:27,868 First, I want to say peace to my mother. 408 00:15:27,968 --> 00:15:30,543 That's where I saw the Black Panther part of him 409 00:15:30,643 --> 00:15:31,880 [Tupac] 'Cause I wouldn't have been here 410 00:15:31,980 --> 00:15:33,552 if it wasn't for my mother. 411 00:15:33,652 --> 00:15:35,457 And I looked on the front of this thing and it said, 412 00:15:35,625 --> 00:15:38,098 "Start from within to rebuild our original greatness," right? 413 00:15:38,198 --> 00:15:39,904 Okay, well, that's what my mother did. 414 00:15:40,004 --> 00:15:41,910 During the time when women were scared to speak up, 415 00:15:42,010 --> 00:15:45,119 but a Black Panther, she spoke at Harvard, Yale, everywhere, 416 00:15:45,219 --> 00:15:47,961 and now, it ain't time to cool out and banquets and all that. 417 00:15:48,061 --> 00:15:50,334 It's still on, just like it was on when you was young 418 00:15:50,434 --> 00:15:52,073 and you wanna say, "Fuck that." 419 00:15:52,173 --> 00:15:53,343 Just like you said "fuck that" back then. 420 00:15:53,443 --> 00:15:55,082 [Karen] Pac was speaking, 421 00:15:55,182 --> 00:15:56,955 and a woman next to him leaned over and said, 422 00:15:57,055 --> 00:15:59,194 "Watch your language, please." And Pac said... 423 00:15:59,294 --> 00:16:02,070 I apologize, I apologize, but check this out. 424 00:16:02,170 --> 00:16:03,542 You can't be no more offended by my cursing 425 00:16:03,642 --> 00:16:05,515 than what's really going on. 426 00:16:05,615 --> 00:16:09,124 [Karen] The room went silent, because he was right. 427 00:16:09,224 --> 00:16:13,103 The thing about Tupac is, it didn't matter who it was, 428 00:16:13,203 --> 00:16:15,009 you couldn't tell him anything. 429 00:16:15,109 --> 00:16:17,551 How come now I'm 20 years old and ready to start some shit up, 430 00:16:17,651 --> 00:16:19,421 everybody telling me to calm down? 431 00:16:19,523 --> 00:16:21,729 When you tell him to calm down, that was the trigger word. 432 00:16:21,830 --> 00:16:23,466 Well, fuck that! 433 00:16:23,569 --> 00:16:25,406 [Leila] He was fighting with the elders. 434 00:16:25,508 --> 00:16:27,581 [Tupac] If we keep looking for who got the most colors on 435 00:16:27,681 --> 00:16:30,154 and who got the baddest dashiki, we still gonna get-- 436 00:16:30,254 --> 00:16:31,759 excuse my language, fucked! 437 00:16:31,860 --> 00:16:34,333 Because we coming up in a totally different world. 438 00:16:34,433 --> 00:16:37,141 This is not the same world that you had. 439 00:16:37,242 --> 00:16:39,550 He didn't wanna be another KRS-One and Chuck D, 440 00:16:39,650 --> 00:16:41,420 and Martin Luther King preaching to the converted. 441 00:16:41,523 --> 00:16:43,159 In our strive to be enlightened, 442 00:16:43,260 --> 00:16:45,432 we forgot about all our brothers in the street. 443 00:16:45,535 --> 00:16:48,308 About all our dope dealers, our pushers, and our pimps, 444 00:16:48,408 --> 00:16:50,716 and that's who's teaching the new generation. 445 00:16:50,816 --> 00:16:52,589 - [woman] That's right. - 'Cause y'all not doing it. 446 00:16:52,689 --> 00:16:54,226 [Shock G] Pac knew most of the desolate out there 447 00:16:54,326 --> 00:16:55,631 don't even read. 448 00:16:55,731 --> 00:16:57,335 The cats he was trying to reach 449 00:16:57,435 --> 00:16:59,509 don't know nothing about African-American history. 450 00:16:59,610 --> 00:17:01,280 [Tupac] We didn't get any of that history 451 00:17:01,380 --> 00:17:02,752 from all of those souljas that we lost. 452 00:17:02,852 --> 00:17:04,825 We did not grow up with our parents. 453 00:17:04,925 --> 00:17:07,198 We grew up BC: Before Crack. 454 00:17:07,298 --> 00:17:08,770 That should say it all. 455 00:17:08,870 --> 00:17:10,543 So, I take all of this lightly. 456 00:17:10,643 --> 00:17:12,347 What I want you to take seriously, 457 00:17:12,447 --> 00:17:14,353 is what we have to do for the youth. 458 00:17:14,453 --> 00:17:17,428 The young Black males are the future of us, 459 00:17:17,529 --> 00:17:20,404 and the young Black sisters are the future of us. 460 00:17:20,505 --> 00:17:22,410 It's gonna be what you put into it. 461 00:17:22,511 --> 00:17:26,122 If you don't put shit into it, don't get mad when we blow up. 462 00:17:26,222 --> 00:17:29,532 Changes. In '92, it's time for us as a people 463 00:17:29,633 --> 00:17:31,170 to start making some changes. 464 00:17:31,337 --> 00:17:32,876 Let's change the way we eat, 465 00:17:32,976 --> 00:17:34,815 let's change the way we live, 466 00:17:34,915 --> 00:17:36,888 and let's change the way we treat each other. 467 00:17:36,988 --> 00:17:38,827 You see, the old way wasn't working, 468 00:17:38,927 --> 00:17:42,170 so it's on us to do what we gotta do to survive. 469 00:17:53,805 --> 00:17:55,845 [theme song playing] We continue with Tupac Shakur. 470 00:17:55,945 --> 00:17:57,382 And let's talk a little bit 471 00:17:57,482 --> 00:17:59,321 about what do you think your parents 472 00:17:59,421 --> 00:18:01,629 were trying to accomplish with the movement? 473 00:18:01,729 --> 00:18:04,537 I think that my mother-- like a lot of people, 474 00:18:04,638 --> 00:18:07,647 like a lot of 'em, like Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, 475 00:18:07,747 --> 00:18:09,753 uh, Harriet Tubman, they felt like 476 00:18:09,853 --> 00:18:14,735 they were laying tracks for the generation to come. 477 00:18:14,835 --> 00:18:17,208 What happened to her? Why was she in jail? 478 00:18:17,308 --> 00:18:19,683 Because, like-- you know, there's racism. 479 00:18:19,783 --> 00:18:22,892 So, when the Panthers hit, the government panicked. 480 00:18:24,698 --> 00:18:26,235 [Berman] 1968. 481 00:18:26,838 --> 00:18:29,277 The Panthers had expanded from 482 00:18:29,377 --> 00:18:31,853 that original office in Oakland, California, 483 00:18:31,953 --> 00:18:34,292 to about 30 different cities. 484 00:18:34,392 --> 00:18:36,533 [Mike Wallace] Panther headquarters is in Berkeley, California. 485 00:18:36,634 --> 00:18:39,007 The Panthers moved here after their headquarters in Oakland 486 00:18:39,107 --> 00:18:41,816 were shot up by two policeman who had been drinking on duty. 487 00:18:41,916 --> 00:18:44,356 [reporter] The Oakland Police, well known for its brutality, 488 00:18:44,456 --> 00:18:46,596 never misses the chance to harass the Black Panthers 489 00:18:46,697 --> 00:18:48,435 and even to shoot them. 490 00:18:48,536 --> 00:18:51,310 Attacks began early on in the Black Panther Party. 491 00:18:51,410 --> 00:18:52,949 First, Huey Newton gets into 492 00:18:53,049 --> 00:18:55,724 what the Oakland Police says was a shootout. 493 00:18:55,825 --> 00:18:58,431 [reporter] The facts: Nine shots, one dead policeman. 494 00:18:58,532 --> 00:19:00,337 Another wounded, and Newton shot. 495 00:19:00,437 --> 00:19:02,043 [Jamal] And then, Bobby Hutton, 496 00:19:02,143 --> 00:19:04,517 the first to join the Panthers in Oakland, 497 00:19:04,617 --> 00:19:07,493 was shot in the back and killed at age 17. 498 00:19:08,697 --> 00:19:10,602 [reporter] He was running without arms, 499 00:19:10,703 --> 00:19:12,073 having left the basement where he and Eldridge Cleaver 500 00:19:12,173 --> 00:19:14,079 had taken refuge after a gun battle 501 00:19:14,179 --> 00:19:16,954 involving 50 policemen, shooting a thousand rounds. 502 00:19:17,054 --> 00:19:19,863 [Jamal] And then it became more clear our lives were in danger. 503 00:19:19,963 --> 00:19:22,470 [Marlon Brando] We just came from Bobby Hutton's funeral... 504 00:19:23,406 --> 00:19:25,412 and I'm gonna do as much as I can 505 00:19:25,513 --> 00:19:27,687 to inform White people 506 00:19:27,787 --> 00:19:29,693 of what they don't know. 507 00:19:29,793 --> 00:19:31,498 That I myself as a White man 508 00:19:31,598 --> 00:19:33,705 have got a long way to go and a lot to learn. 509 00:19:33,805 --> 00:19:35,778 I haven't suffered the way you've suffered. 510 00:19:35,878 --> 00:19:38,084 And somehow, that has to be translated 511 00:19:38,184 --> 00:19:40,390 to the White community now. 512 00:19:40,926 --> 00:19:43,399 Then, my godfather, Geronimo Pratt... 513 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:44,938 [reporter] Geronimo Pratt. 514 00:19:45,038 --> 00:19:46,676 ...had a top-rank position with the Panthers 515 00:19:46,777 --> 00:19:47,981 on the West Coast. 516 00:19:48,081 --> 00:19:49,853 [Watani] Geronimo was a war hero. 517 00:19:49,953 --> 00:19:51,892 [reporter] Silver Star, Bronze Star. Purple Heart. 518 00:19:51,993 --> 00:19:55,135 And he trained the Black Panther Party 519 00:19:55,235 --> 00:19:57,542 with his military skills, not only in California, 520 00:19:57,643 --> 00:19:58,947 but all over the country. 521 00:20:00,819 --> 00:20:02,490 ♪ Come with me ♪ 522 00:20:02,591 --> 00:20:05,165 ♪ Hail Mary Nigga, run quick, see ♪ 523 00:20:05,265 --> 00:20:07,438 ♪ What do we have here now? ♪ 524 00:20:07,539 --> 00:20:09,512 ♪ Do you wanna ride or die? ♪ 525 00:20:09,612 --> 00:20:11,450 ♪ La di-di-da La, la, la, la ♪ 526 00:20:11,551 --> 00:20:14,459 [Jamal] 1969, the Year of the Panther. 527 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,465 This is the year that we win. 528 00:20:16,566 --> 00:20:17,904 [Shaba] I was really excited. 529 00:20:18,004 --> 00:20:19,743 I said, "I'm gonna get my gun today, yay!" 530 00:20:20,611 --> 00:20:21,816 [Jamal] More books to read... 531 00:20:23,822 --> 00:20:26,797 because the greatest, most lethal weapon 532 00:20:26,897 --> 00:20:29,740 is a free and armed Black mind. 533 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:32,749 So, the FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, 534 00:20:32,849 --> 00:20:34,755 the most powerful person in Washington, 535 00:20:34,855 --> 00:20:36,827 testifies before Congress. 536 00:20:36,927 --> 00:20:38,197 [Harry Reasoner] "... of the Black extremist group, 537 00:20:38,297 --> 00:20:39,903 the Black Panthers represent 538 00:20:40,003 --> 00:20:41,776 the greatest internal threat to the nation." 539 00:20:41,876 --> 00:20:44,517 And with that, he got the funding he needed 540 00:20:44,617 --> 00:20:47,659 and the permission to do anything he wanted to do 541 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,067 to destroy the Black Panther Party. 542 00:20:50,167 --> 00:20:53,544 - ♪ La di-di-da la la la la ♪ - [Tupac] COINTELPRO. 543 00:20:53,644 --> 00:20:55,148 ♪ I ain't a killer But don't push me ♪ 544 00:20:55,248 --> 00:20:56,821 ♪ Revenge is like The sweetest joy ♪ 545 00:20:56,921 --> 00:20:58,224 ♪ Next to gettin' pussy ♪ 546 00:20:58,324 --> 00:20:59,863 [Shaba] COINTELPRO was an acronym 547 00:20:59,963 --> 00:21:01,601 for the Counter Intelligence Program. 548 00:21:01,701 --> 00:21:03,674 It was first used against the Communist Party. 549 00:21:03,775 --> 00:21:05,848 After Malcolm X was assassinated, 550 00:21:05,948 --> 00:21:07,586 Hoover needed to make sure 551 00:21:07,686 --> 00:21:09,558 there would not be a new Black messiah. 552 00:21:09,658 --> 00:21:11,263 Martin Luther King was a target. 553 00:21:11,363 --> 00:21:13,905 Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, Max Stanford. 554 00:21:14,005 --> 00:21:15,643 The Black Panther Party was a target. 555 00:21:15,743 --> 00:21:17,616 ♪ Picture paragraphs unloaded ♪ 556 00:21:17,716 --> 00:21:19,722 ♪ Wise words bein' quoted ♪ 557 00:21:19,823 --> 00:21:21,796 ♪ Peeped the weakness in This rap game and sewed it ♪ 558 00:21:21,896 --> 00:21:24,302 [anchor] Three hundred Los Angeles policemen 559 00:21:24,402 --> 00:21:27,612 are involved in a raging gun battle for nearly five hours. 560 00:21:27,712 --> 00:21:31,826 Special Sniper Squad borrowed armored vehicles from the Army, 561 00:21:31,926 --> 00:21:34,600 employing the modern weapons of warfare used in Vietnam. 562 00:21:34,700 --> 00:21:36,138 [Jamal] A lot of the shootouts and raids 563 00:21:36,238 --> 00:21:38,144 on the Panthers were engineered by the FBI. 564 00:21:38,244 --> 00:21:40,016 [anchor] They have a search warrant for this apartment. 565 00:21:40,117 --> 00:21:41,754 [Tupac] They raided every Panther's house, 566 00:21:41,856 --> 00:21:43,159 especially the ones they felt like 567 00:21:43,259 --> 00:21:45,165 could do the most damage as an orator. 568 00:21:45,265 --> 00:21:48,374 The most famous example of that is the murder of Fred Hampton. 569 00:21:48,474 --> 00:21:50,080 [man] Fred Hampton. 570 00:21:50,180 --> 00:21:51,316 [woman] Fred Hampton was a young man. 571 00:21:51,416 --> 00:21:52,787 [Jamal] 21 years old. 572 00:21:52,889 --> 00:21:54,259 [woman] The Defense Minister 573 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:56,131 or the Illinois Black Panther Party. 574 00:21:56,231 --> 00:21:58,004 - I just want to tell you... - [Jamal] A man of peace. 575 00:21:58,104 --> 00:22:00,678 ...that when Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton 576 00:22:00,778 --> 00:22:04,757 got together in 1966, they got together as peacemakers, 577 00:22:04,858 --> 00:22:07,131 - not as peace-breakers. - [Jamal] But an FBI informer 578 00:22:07,231 --> 00:22:09,873 drew the floor plans to Hampton's apartment 579 00:22:09,973 --> 00:22:11,879 and he gave that to the Chicago Police Department. 580 00:22:11,979 --> 00:22:13,349 [man] For 12 minutes, 581 00:22:13,750 --> 00:22:15,121 there was gun firing in that apartment, 582 00:22:15,222 --> 00:22:17,094 yet the federal grand jury concludes 583 00:22:17,194 --> 00:22:18,967 that only one possible shot 584 00:22:19,067 --> 00:22:21,741 could've come from a Panther weapon. 585 00:22:24,115 --> 00:22:26,188 [distant police sirens] 586 00:22:31,203 --> 00:22:32,774 [reporter] A 20-year-old chairman 587 00:22:32,875 --> 00:22:34,279 of the Illinois Black Panther Party, 588 00:22:34,379 --> 00:22:36,285 Fred Hampton, was shot and killed 589 00:22:36,385 --> 00:22:38,960 in a pre-dawn shootout in his West Side apartment. 590 00:22:39,060 --> 00:22:44,409 [woman] Fred Hampton was killed December 4th, 1969. 591 00:22:44,510 --> 00:22:46,148 [reporter] Another party member, 592 00:22:46,248 --> 00:22:47,887 22-year-old Mark Clark of Peoria, 593 00:22:47,987 --> 00:22:49,190 also died in the shootout. 594 00:22:49,290 --> 00:22:51,063 [Jamal] The Year of the Panther. 595 00:22:51,163 --> 00:22:53,436 Ironically, more Panthers got killed 596 00:22:53,537 --> 00:22:55,978 and went to prison that year than any other year. 597 00:22:56,078 --> 00:22:58,384 [anchor] While there is no evidence to support the theory 598 00:22:58,484 --> 00:23:00,791 of a government plot to smash the party, 599 00:23:00,892 --> 00:23:03,199 local police have responded, in some cases 600 00:23:03,299 --> 00:23:04,870 with intelligence provided 601 00:23:04,971 --> 00:23:07,144 by the FBI's task force on the Panthers 602 00:23:07,244 --> 00:23:10,120 by raiding virtually every local headquarter. 603 00:23:10,220 --> 00:23:12,895 Files confiscated, even burned. 604 00:23:12,995 --> 00:23:15,201 [Jamal] It was the year of the L. A. shootout 605 00:23:15,302 --> 00:23:16,974 that offices were bombed, 606 00:23:17,074 --> 00:23:19,515 that they had brothers on the streets naked 607 00:23:19,615 --> 00:23:21,386 like they were runaway slaves. 608 00:23:21,486 --> 00:23:24,095 Literally, 12 weeks after that New Year's issue, 609 00:23:24,195 --> 00:23:27,872 I was in prison facing 360-plus years, 610 00:23:27,973 --> 00:23:29,878 along with Afeni Shakur, Lumumba Shakur. 611 00:23:29,979 --> 00:23:32,587 [anchor] A grand jury has returned an indictment 612 00:23:32,687 --> 00:23:35,395 charging members of the Black Panther Party 613 00:23:35,496 --> 00:23:39,040 with a conspiracy to bomb New York department stores, 614 00:23:39,140 --> 00:23:41,279 Macy's, Alexander's, Korvettes... 615 00:23:41,380 --> 00:23:43,620 [Afeni] April 2nd of '69, 616 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:48,134 I was awakened by someone holding fire to the people. 617 00:23:49,203 --> 00:23:50,875 [Tupac] Like, 5:00 in the morning, 618 00:23:50,976 --> 00:23:53,182 the police put a match to my mother's door and said... 619 00:23:53,282 --> 00:23:55,488 [Afeni] Fire. Open the door. Get out. Fire! 620 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:58,598 So, my mother opened the door and they burst in, 621 00:23:58,698 --> 00:24:00,336 put a shotgun to her belly, 622 00:24:00,437 --> 00:24:01,941 a gun to her head and said, "Don't move..." 623 00:24:02,042 --> 00:24:03,647 [Afeni speaking] 624 00:24:03,747 --> 00:24:05,586 ...you're under arrest. 625 00:24:05,686 --> 00:24:07,324 [Afeni] They went to everybody's house. 626 00:24:07,424 --> 00:24:10,066 And everybody had a story including Jamal. 627 00:24:10,166 --> 00:24:11,537 In my case, a tactical patrol unit 628 00:24:11,637 --> 00:24:13,409 kicked in the door of my grandmother's house, 629 00:24:13,510 --> 00:24:16,218 20 cops rushed in. So, my last words to Grandma 630 00:24:16,318 --> 00:24:18,357 as they were taking me out in handcuffs was, 631 00:24:18,457 --> 00:24:20,330 "Call the Panther office." 632 00:24:20,430 --> 00:24:22,269 [man] Information we received that some 10 or 12 members 633 00:24:22,369 --> 00:24:24,610 of the Black Panther Party in New York have been arrested, 634 00:24:24,710 --> 00:24:26,516 with pigs busting down doors while they're sleeping. 635 00:24:26,616 --> 00:24:29,023 [Shaba] I recall driving in, FBI... 636 00:24:29,123 --> 00:24:30,961 [imitating siren] 637 00:24:31,062 --> 00:24:32,500 I can't think of anything they didn't have. 638 00:24:32,700 --> 00:24:35,509 Machine guns, shotguns, ...357 Magnums, and rifles. 639 00:24:35,609 --> 00:24:38,384 [reporter] I can't speak too highly of the detectives, 640 00:24:38,484 --> 00:24:41,393 200 of whom are rounding up the defendants. 641 00:24:41,494 --> 00:24:43,667 If we'd have run, they would probably shot each other 642 00:24:43,767 --> 00:24:45,606 because it was just simply too much weaponry. 643 00:24:45,706 --> 00:24:47,745 The element of danger was great to the men involved. 644 00:24:47,846 --> 00:24:49,283 [reporter] Did they encounter any resistance? 645 00:24:49,383 --> 00:24:51,189 [police chief] No, they haven't. 646 00:24:51,356 --> 00:24:52,694 [reporter] Chief, what types of weapons were seized? 647 00:24:52,794 --> 00:24:56,137 Arms, revolvers, rifles, masks, et cetera. 648 00:24:56,238 --> 00:24:58,545 [reporter] Did they have bow and arrows, and spears? 649 00:24:58,645 --> 00:25:01,019 We were told that. We had the report. 650 00:25:01,787 --> 00:25:03,760 [Gloria] When I learned about the arrests, 651 00:25:03,860 --> 00:25:06,101 somebody called and said, "Turn on the TV." 652 00:25:06,201 --> 00:25:08,575 [Jamal] It was headline news that 21 Panthers 653 00:25:08,675 --> 00:25:10,714 were gonna unleash simultaneous attacks 654 00:25:10,814 --> 00:25:12,720 against New York City. 655 00:25:12,820 --> 00:25:15,395 [man] Indictment also charges attempted murder, arson... 656 00:25:15,496 --> 00:25:18,337 [Gloria] I was horrified, but the charges were irrelevant 657 00:25:18,437 --> 00:25:19,741 because I knew they weren't true. 658 00:25:19,841 --> 00:25:22,082 It was the $100,000 bail. 659 00:25:22,182 --> 00:25:24,088 No way she was getting out of jail. 660 00:25:24,188 --> 00:25:25,693 [Tanya Hart] What does it do to a young man 661 00:25:25,793 --> 00:25:27,632 when all of your heroes have been to jail? 662 00:25:27,732 --> 00:25:30,507 - Are you bitter? - Yeah. I am. 663 00:25:30,608 --> 00:25:32,747 I am angry because-- I'm angry for my mother 664 00:25:32,847 --> 00:25:35,355 because she gave up a lot of her life for this. 665 00:25:35,455 --> 00:25:37,495 I'm angry for Fred Hampton's family 666 00:25:37,595 --> 00:25:39,433 because they lost a straight-up soulja. 667 00:25:39,534 --> 00:25:42,376 [Afeni] Fred Hampton was killed while I was in prison. 668 00:25:42,476 --> 00:25:44,816 And what touched Tupac about Fred Hampton 669 00:25:44,916 --> 00:25:46,522 is his words: 670 00:25:46,622 --> 00:25:48,528 "You can jail a revolutionary, 671 00:25:48,628 --> 00:25:50,668 but you can't jail the revolution." 672 00:25:50,768 --> 00:25:52,607 "You can kill a revolutionary, 673 00:25:52,707 --> 00:25:54,546 but you cannot kill the revolution." 674 00:25:54,646 --> 00:25:56,686 My mother knew that freedom wouldn't come in her lifetime. 675 00:25:56,786 --> 00:25:59,226 Just like I know, that it won't come in mines. 676 00:25:59,327 --> 00:26:01,567 But it's a matter of either we stay like this, 677 00:26:01,667 --> 00:26:03,272 or somebody sacrifices. 678 00:26:03,372 --> 00:26:05,445 Somebody lay a track so we don't stay 679 00:26:05,546 --> 00:26:08,621 in a 360-degree, deadly circle. 680 00:26:08,722 --> 00:26:10,694 So, that's how I gotta live, and that's how I have to die. 681 00:26:10,794 --> 00:26:12,432 And that's how my music has to be, 682 00:26:12,533 --> 00:26:16,177 and my acting, and my producing, and my interviews. 683 00:26:16,277 --> 00:26:18,317 Everything has to be for the love of Black people. 684 00:26:18,417 --> 00:26:20,758 God bless you. You're a very special young man. 685 00:26:20,858 --> 00:26:22,329 - [Tupac] I appreciate that. - [Tanya Hart] Okay. 686 00:26:34,900 --> 00:26:35,459 Yeah. 687 00:26:35,826 --> 00:26:37,565 He enjoyed that film. 688 00:26:37,665 --> 00:26:39,504 He liked working with Janet Jackson. 689 00:26:39,604 --> 00:26:42,413 Because he was like, "Wow, look at her celebrity," 690 00:26:42,513 --> 00:26:44,184 and he just couldn't believe 691 00:26:44,284 --> 00:26:45,856 she would even act with somebody like him. 692 00:26:46,725 --> 00:26:48,564 [Allen] "Somebody like him"? 693 00:26:48,665 --> 00:26:51,406 [Karen] Not a big movie star. You know, a rapper. 694 00:26:51,507 --> 00:26:53,311 [interviewer] I really enjoyed this picture. 695 00:26:53,413 --> 00:26:55,552 Uh, you play a guy named Lucky. Tell me about him. 696 00:26:55,652 --> 00:26:58,795 Lucky is a responsible father 697 00:26:58,895 --> 00:27:00,801 trying to deal with some pain from the past, 698 00:27:00,901 --> 00:27:02,640 and trying to get through daily survival 699 00:27:02,740 --> 00:27:03,910 in South Central Los Angeles. 700 00:27:04,010 --> 00:27:05,949 [gunshot] 701 00:27:06,050 --> 00:27:08,223 [interviewer] Now, he grows up in a tough neighborhood 702 00:27:08,323 --> 00:27:11,366 with a lot of temptations to move away from his ambitions. 703 00:27:11,467 --> 00:27:13,238 You had the same kind of experience. 704 00:27:13,338 --> 00:27:15,378 So is this a role that you feel very much at home with? 705 00:27:15,479 --> 00:27:16,849 [Tupac] Yes, anytime it's a role 706 00:27:16,949 --> 00:27:18,788 for a young Black male that deals with pain, 707 00:27:18,888 --> 00:27:20,961 that's my role, I'm made for that role. 708 00:27:21,061 --> 00:27:22,800 Leave them crayons there, I'll get 'em later. 709 00:27:22,900 --> 00:27:24,806 [Tupac] What we don't see a lot of in films 710 00:27:24,906 --> 00:27:27,548 is a Black man and a Black woman together. 711 00:27:27,648 --> 00:27:29,353 You know, that's the happy ending. 712 00:27:29,454 --> 00:27:31,527 So, that's what is I think is gonna be new 713 00:27:31,627 --> 00:27:32,963 and hopeful about this film. 714 00:27:33,063 --> 00:27:34,702 [Karen] He enjoyed making that film, 715 00:27:34,803 --> 00:27:37,343 and Afeni came out to Los Angeles. 716 00:27:37,445 --> 00:27:39,951 [man] So, Tupac's like, "I want my mother to be my PR person." 717 00:27:40,051 --> 00:27:41,957 And I'm like, "What does she know about PR?" 718 00:27:42,057 --> 00:27:43,896 "It doesn't matter, I want her to be my PR person." 719 00:27:43,996 --> 00:27:47,273 [Karen] Afeni was an extremely intelligent woman. 720 00:27:47,373 --> 00:27:49,279 I had a lot of respect for her 721 00:27:49,379 --> 00:27:51,385 because I knew the history of the fact 722 00:27:51,487 --> 00:27:54,261 that she acted as her own attorney, 723 00:27:54,361 --> 00:27:56,969 and had all these charges against her. 724 00:27:57,069 --> 00:27:59,444 She had never been to law school, 725 00:27:59,544 --> 00:28:01,783 and she never, ever got the credit 726 00:28:01,884 --> 00:28:03,956 that she deserved for that trial. 727 00:28:04,056 --> 00:28:06,765 In New York today, pretrial hearings opened 728 00:28:06,865 --> 00:28:09,507 for 13 of 22 Black Panthers 729 00:28:09,607 --> 00:28:11,413 indicted on charges of conspiracy 730 00:28:11,513 --> 00:28:13,753 to bomb police stations, department stores, 731 00:28:13,853 --> 00:28:16,327 subway stations, a commuter railway, 732 00:28:16,428 --> 00:28:18,434 and a city botanical garden. 733 00:28:18,534 --> 00:28:20,774 [Gloria] The Panther 21 trial was the longest trial 734 00:28:20,874 --> 00:28:23,649 in the state of New York, and the most expensive trial. 735 00:28:23,749 --> 00:28:25,589 [anchor] The tone of the pretrial hearing 736 00:28:25,689 --> 00:28:28,396 was established early by the demonstrators outside 737 00:28:28,497 --> 00:28:30,336 circling the criminal court building 738 00:28:30,437 --> 00:28:32,107 which houses the state's Supreme Court chambers. 739 00:28:32,208 --> 00:28:33,880 Ironically, the crowd... 740 00:28:33,980 --> 00:28:35,585 [Jamal] So, the beginning months of the trial 741 00:28:35,685 --> 00:28:37,390 were pretrial hearings, 742 00:28:37,491 --> 00:28:39,731 which started ten months after the arrests. 743 00:28:39,831 --> 00:28:41,470 We were all in prison, 744 00:28:41,570 --> 00:28:43,442 and we were separated. 745 00:28:43,542 --> 00:28:44,746 I was on Rikers Island, 746 00:28:45,715 --> 00:28:47,755 Lumumba and the others were in the Tombs. 747 00:28:47,855 --> 00:28:50,430 Afeni and Joan were at the Women's House of Detention. 748 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,639 [Afeni] I hate prison. 749 00:28:53,739 --> 00:28:55,579 I hate going to prison. 750 00:28:55,679 --> 00:28:58,988 I hate the sound of the first door when it closes. 751 00:28:59,088 --> 00:29:00,860 [Gloria] The first time I went to see Afeni 752 00:29:00,961 --> 00:29:03,469 was the first time I had ever been in a jail. 753 00:29:03,970 --> 00:29:05,942 She was defiant. 754 00:29:06,042 --> 00:29:09,151 [Afeni] When all these bars that intrude within my sight, 755 00:29:09,252 --> 00:29:12,696 these shivering lines that test my physical might. 756 00:29:12,796 --> 00:29:15,772 She did not cry because she was in jail. 757 00:29:15,872 --> 00:29:17,945 She fought because she was in jail. 758 00:29:18,045 --> 00:29:21,657 [Afeni] Do they not know who I am, or from where I came? 759 00:29:21,757 --> 00:29:23,663 [Gloria] She didn't consider herself a victim. 760 00:29:23,763 --> 00:29:26,203 [Afeni] I'm not to be burdened by such barbaric games. 761 00:29:26,304 --> 00:29:28,878 [Gloria] Because she was in jail because of her belief. 762 00:29:28,978 --> 00:29:32,154 [Afeni] My soul is not mine. I cannot give it away. 763 00:29:32,255 --> 00:29:34,929 My ears will never wash away what I will say. 764 00:29:35,029 --> 00:29:37,771 [Gloria] Lumumba Shakur was the lead defendant. 765 00:29:37,871 --> 00:29:39,644 [Shaba] Yeah, they were in love. 766 00:29:39,744 --> 00:29:42,853 But Lumumba was the chief architect of the 21, 767 00:29:42,953 --> 00:29:44,257 according to an indictment, 768 00:29:44,358 --> 00:29:46,698 so he had a lot of shit on his plate. 769 00:29:46,798 --> 00:29:49,071 And I'm not gonna say she overwhelmed him, 770 00:29:49,171 --> 00:29:51,111 but she kept his ass on his toes. 771 00:29:51,211 --> 00:29:53,519 - [Jamal] It was an explosive relationship. - Yeah. 772 00:29:53,619 --> 00:29:55,692 Loving, and tense 773 00:29:55,792 --> 00:29:57,664 all at the same time. 774 00:29:57,765 --> 00:30:00,840 And during that time, we come back and forth to court 775 00:30:00,940 --> 00:30:03,113 so that we could prepare for trial. 776 00:30:03,213 --> 00:30:06,658 We knew that we were not going to receive justice, 777 00:30:06,758 --> 00:30:10,737 but we also understood that we weren't special. 778 00:30:10,837 --> 00:30:14,146 Because of that big loophole in the 13th Amendment 779 00:30:14,247 --> 00:30:15,985 that slavery would be abolished everywhere 780 00:30:16,086 --> 00:30:17,256 except in prison. 781 00:30:17,356 --> 00:30:19,061 Prisons make money. 782 00:30:19,161 --> 00:30:21,670 So men and women all across this country, 783 00:30:21,770 --> 00:30:23,609 the Black community, the Brown, 784 00:30:23,709 --> 00:30:26,551 White, the Yellow, queer community 785 00:30:26,651 --> 00:30:29,191 were arrested under false pretenses 786 00:30:29,292 --> 00:30:31,030 with bails that were not bails at all. 787 00:30:31,131 --> 00:30:33,070 That they were ransoms. 788 00:30:33,170 --> 00:30:36,146 So, whatever happened to us was part of a bigger fight, 789 00:30:36,246 --> 00:30:39,121 and we wanted to educate the masses. 790 00:30:39,221 --> 00:30:41,663 Now, Afeni, would phrase things in a way 791 00:30:41,763 --> 00:30:43,602 that you hadn't heard before. 792 00:30:43,702 --> 00:30:46,343 So, she thought the best way to do that for herself 793 00:30:46,444 --> 00:30:48,182 was to speak for herself. 794 00:30:49,018 --> 00:30:51,124 [Afeni] I already know that I'm going to jail forever 795 00:30:51,292 --> 00:30:54,200 and the only thing I have is that I have to speak my piece. 796 00:30:55,304 --> 00:30:57,678 Carol Lefcourt, she's a wonderful person. 797 00:30:58,245 --> 00:31:02,693 But this is my life. She can't speak my piece. 798 00:31:02,793 --> 00:31:04,163 We were petrified, 799 00:31:04,263 --> 00:31:06,169 because we knew that she weren't a lawyer. 800 00:31:06,269 --> 00:31:07,875 And it was Lumumba who said, 801 00:31:07,975 --> 00:31:09,647 "I don't know if that's a good idea, 802 00:31:09,747 --> 00:31:12,187 because, Afeni, you can get emotional." 803 00:31:12,287 --> 00:31:15,296 [Shaba] So, it was a spirited conversation to say the least. 804 00:31:15,397 --> 00:31:17,269 [Jamal] And then, Charles McKinney, 805 00:31:17,370 --> 00:31:18,941 our most respected attorney, 806 00:31:19,041 --> 00:31:20,947 said this might not be a bad idea. 807 00:31:21,047 --> 00:31:23,120 Because a defendant didn't have the freedom 808 00:31:23,220 --> 00:31:25,026 to address the jury directly. 809 00:31:25,126 --> 00:31:29,473 But Afeni, representing herself, could talk directly to the judge 810 00:31:29,574 --> 00:31:33,384 and most importantly, talk directly to the jury. 811 00:31:33,485 --> 00:31:37,095 And we then saw this trial as... 812 00:31:37,195 --> 00:31:39,336 a political education class. 813 00:31:39,437 --> 00:31:42,077 [Afeni] I have a revolutionary story that I must tell, 814 00:31:42,177 --> 00:31:46,089 and my hands refuse to be beaten by this tormented cell. 815 00:31:46,189 --> 00:31:49,834 And when she got up there, bro, everybody was like, "Oh, shit." 816 00:31:49,934 --> 00:31:51,170 [Afeni] There's a force in here... 817 00:31:51,271 --> 00:31:52,776 "I'm on Afeni's team." 818 00:31:52,876 --> 00:31:54,482 [Afeni] A whole new Black colony. 819 00:31:54,582 --> 00:31:55,952 [Jamal] Whenever she spoke, it was like poetry. 820 00:31:56,052 --> 00:31:57,491 [Afeni] A motivated force, 821 00:31:57,591 --> 00:31:59,897 ready to make liberation a living reality. 822 00:31:59,997 --> 00:32:01,402 [Jamal] And then after 11 months, 823 00:32:01,503 --> 00:32:04,276 we raised the first $100,000 824 00:32:04,377 --> 00:32:06,316 and voted that Afeni should be the first person out. 825 00:32:06,418 --> 00:32:07,921 [Afeni] I can hear their voices 826 00:32:08,021 --> 00:32:09,760 clamoring through these forgotten wrongs. 827 00:32:09,860 --> 00:32:11,365 [Jamal] Afeni could dispel this myth 828 00:32:11,466 --> 00:32:14,006 that we were just angry, murderous Black men. 829 00:32:14,106 --> 00:32:16,079 [Afeni] Freedom now, right here on Earth. 830 00:32:16,179 --> 00:32:17,985 To hell with laws. 831 00:32:18,085 --> 00:32:20,091 [anchor] We've just heard a poem written by Afeni Shakur 832 00:32:20,191 --> 00:32:22,230 - after her release from jail. - [Gloria] She was the star, 833 00:32:22,330 --> 00:32:24,505 and everybody trying to get to her. 834 00:32:24,605 --> 00:32:26,377 Her son, same thing. 835 00:32:28,215 --> 00:32:30,054 ♪ Back to get wreck ♪ 836 00:32:30,154 --> 00:32:32,193 ♪ All respect to those Who break their neck ♪ 837 00:32:32,293 --> 00:32:34,133 ♪ To keep their hoes in check ♪ 838 00:32:34,233 --> 00:32:36,172 ♪ 'Cause, oh, they sweat A brother majorly ♪ 839 00:32:36,272 --> 00:32:38,245 ♪ And I don't know why Your girl keeps paging me ♪ 840 00:32:38,345 --> 00:32:40,317 - ♪ I get around ♪ - [Shock G] "I Get Around" 841 00:32:40,420 --> 00:32:42,993 was Tupac's first solo, bona fide hit record. 842 00:32:43,093 --> 00:32:44,932 The funnest day of my life. 843 00:32:45,032 --> 00:32:47,841 It was this mansion in Malibu with a lot of women. 844 00:32:47,941 --> 00:32:49,413 It was like we had a party, 845 00:32:49,513 --> 00:32:53,356 and we shot the video during our breaks. 846 00:32:53,459 --> 00:32:56,099 ♪ She tells me she needs me Cries when she leaves me ♪ 847 00:32:56,199 --> 00:32:57,971 ♪ And every time she sees me She squeeze me ♪ 848 00:32:58,071 --> 00:32:59,643 ♪ Lady, take it easy ♪ 849 00:32:59,744 --> 00:33:01,916 ♪ Hate to say I'm sleazy But tease me ♪ 850 00:33:02,016 --> 00:33:03,956 ♪ I don't want it If it's that easy ♪ 851 00:33:04,056 --> 00:33:07,132 [Money-B] Pac had his own room, so every time we had a break, 852 00:33:07,232 --> 00:33:08,470 he had a different woman going up with him. 853 00:33:08,570 --> 00:33:09,673 ♪ I get around ♪ 854 00:33:09,774 --> 00:33:11,144 [Shock G] His natural magnetism 855 00:33:11,244 --> 00:33:13,619 was beyond celebrity status. 856 00:33:13,719 --> 00:33:16,025 Girls loved Pac from day one. 857 00:33:16,125 --> 00:33:18,031 I'm talking about even before he was famous. 858 00:33:18,131 --> 00:33:21,040 Just carrying equipment, Pac was pulling 'em. 859 00:33:21,140 --> 00:33:24,552 So, now you got girls throwing themselves at you. 860 00:33:24,652 --> 00:33:26,491 Forget about it. 861 00:33:26,591 --> 00:33:29,131 Come on, we're only human. We're only human. 862 00:33:29,231 --> 00:33:30,367 ♪ Fingertips on their hips As I dip ♪ 863 00:33:30,470 --> 00:33:32,040 ♪ Gotta get a tight grip ♪ 864 00:33:32,140 --> 00:33:34,112 ♪ Don't slip, loose lips sink ships ♪ 865 00:33:34,213 --> 00:33:35,952 - ♪ It's a trip ♪ - [Gloria] He wanted to be liked. 866 00:33:36,052 --> 00:33:39,228 He would call me up, "Guess who I did it to?" Who? 867 00:33:39,328 --> 00:33:41,603 ♪ Conversations on the phone Till the break of dawn ♪ 868 00:33:41,703 --> 00:33:44,409 [Gloria] Afeni didn't want to hear that. You know? It's her son. 869 00:33:44,512 --> 00:33:47,454 Now he's not the son so much, he's the man. 870 00:33:47,554 --> 00:33:49,527 ♪ But when you learn You can't tie me down ♪ 871 00:33:49,627 --> 00:33:53,505 ♪ Baby doll, check it out I get around ♪ 872 00:33:53,605 --> 00:33:56,748 [Shock G] From my personal point of view, 873 00:33:56,848 --> 00:33:59,690 I saw Tupac adapting to fame well. 874 00:33:59,790 --> 00:34:03,066 But what none of us paid attention to 875 00:34:03,166 --> 00:34:05,272 was when someone gets success like that, 876 00:34:05,372 --> 00:34:07,413 there's a certain level of jealousy. 877 00:34:07,514 --> 00:34:09,318 [man] We had no concept 878 00:34:09,419 --> 00:34:12,393 of understanding the problems of success, 879 00:34:12,495 --> 00:34:15,437 or what people perceive as success. 880 00:34:15,538 --> 00:34:18,278 [Leila] Tupac had been gone touring. 881 00:34:18,378 --> 00:34:20,653 We were having Marin City Festival. 882 00:34:20,753 --> 00:34:23,795 He was so excited. "I'm coming home." 883 00:34:23,896 --> 00:34:26,168 But there were people in the crowd. 884 00:34:26,269 --> 00:34:28,241 They were jealous. A fight broke out. 885 00:34:28,341 --> 00:34:30,314 A whole mob of people started chasing Pac 886 00:34:30,415 --> 00:34:32,053 and the people he came with. 887 00:34:32,153 --> 00:34:34,561 [Watani] There was a shot fired in the air, 888 00:34:34,662 --> 00:34:37,235 and the kid by the name of Qa'id 889 00:34:37,335 --> 00:34:40,846 got killed across the street from the park. 890 00:34:40,947 --> 00:34:43,353 That changed Tupac. 891 00:34:49,371 --> 00:34:51,143 [Leila] I don't know what exactly happened. 892 00:34:51,243 --> 00:34:55,089 I just know no one's ever the same after that. 893 00:34:56,561 --> 00:34:59,637 It severed relationships in the community. 894 00:34:59,737 --> 00:35:01,407 It was heartbreaking for all of us. 895 00:35:01,508 --> 00:35:03,113 We're all responsible. 896 00:35:11,370 --> 00:35:12,676 [man] I don't know who had the gun, 897 00:35:12,776 --> 00:35:14,581 but I know Tupac didn't. 898 00:35:14,682 --> 00:35:17,221 But everyone was saying because he was the name, 899 00:35:17,321 --> 00:35:19,863 it was his fault this kid died. 900 00:35:22,872 --> 00:35:25,648 [Leila] It was really hard on Pac, 901 00:35:25,748 --> 00:35:31,230 right when he was just trying to get positioned. 902 00:35:31,330 --> 00:35:32,836 [Tupac] Young Qa'id. 903 00:35:32,936 --> 00:35:34,842 [Leila] That's one of the hardest points 904 00:35:34,942 --> 00:35:37,617 in Pac's journey that never went away. 905 00:35:37,717 --> 00:35:39,489 [Tupac] Remember that name. 906 00:35:39,590 --> 00:35:42,397 [man] That changed how he dealt with people. 907 00:35:42,498 --> 00:35:45,406 [Tupac] 'Cause you motherfuckers will go to your grave 908 00:35:45,507 --> 00:35:48,583 with that name on your brain. 909 00:35:48,683 --> 00:35:51,793 'Cause jealousy and recklessness 910 00:35:51,893 --> 00:35:53,698 is not... 911 00:35:53,799 --> 00:35:55,905 something to die for. 912 00:36:05,882 --> 00:36:08,388 [Watani] The '90s was incredibly dangerous... 913 00:36:13,470 --> 00:36:16,112 [Tupac] Too many families affected by a wrongful death. 914 00:36:16,212 --> 00:36:18,151 [Watani] ...especially for Black males, 915 00:36:18,252 --> 00:36:20,860 [Tupac] This system and this country has tore apart 916 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,733 my family and our families. 917 00:36:22,833 --> 00:36:24,704 You can't have a Black family and be together. 918 00:36:24,805 --> 00:36:27,045 [Watani] It's not even that you in a gang or not in a gang. 919 00:36:27,145 --> 00:36:30,589 There was drug addiction, alcoholism, violence. 920 00:36:30,689 --> 00:36:32,963 [Tupac] How many more funerals do we gotta go to? 921 00:36:33,063 --> 00:36:35,002 And how many more scenes of the crime 922 00:36:35,102 --> 00:36:36,908 do we gotta watch them chalk out 923 00:36:37,008 --> 00:36:39,850 Black figures on the concrete before we realize 924 00:36:39,951 --> 00:36:42,759 the only way for us to ever get out of this predicament 925 00:36:42,859 --> 00:36:44,463 is to struggle to survive? 926 00:36:44,564 --> 00:36:47,038 [Watani] And a lot of our people died. 927 00:36:47,138 --> 00:36:49,612 [Tupac] It' ain't nothing but killing happening right now. 928 00:36:49,713 --> 00:36:51,217 I think the Black-on-Black violence, 929 00:36:51,317 --> 00:36:53,023 when we kill each other, it make us 930 00:36:53,123 --> 00:36:54,929 not really give a fuck about Blackness, you know? 931 00:36:55,029 --> 00:36:57,168 And also, the police violence against us, 932 00:36:57,268 --> 00:36:58,807 that's making us crazy. 933 00:36:58,907 --> 00:37:00,645 That's what's making us kill each other, 934 00:37:00,746 --> 00:37:02,217 'cause we scared to shoot the motherfuckers 935 00:37:02,317 --> 00:37:04,056 that's doing it to us. 936 00:37:04,156 --> 00:37:06,496 Gangs ain't nothing but tribes, you know? 937 00:37:06,597 --> 00:37:08,201 And the police ain't nothing but a gang. 938 00:37:08,301 --> 00:37:10,542 The National Guard is a gang. The Army is a gang. 939 00:37:10,642 --> 00:37:13,050 We learned all this gun shit from the government, you know? 940 00:37:13,150 --> 00:37:15,222 How are they gonna show us that and think we can't pick up? 941 00:37:15,322 --> 00:37:17,530 So, I'm picking up. Feel me? 942 00:37:19,904 --> 00:37:22,243 [Jamal] The difference between the Bay Area and L. A. 943 00:37:22,343 --> 00:37:24,016 is night and day. 944 00:37:24,116 --> 00:37:26,991 There's a huge criminal element throughout L. A. County. 945 00:37:27,092 --> 00:37:28,831 [Tupac] I was scared of L. A. to whereas 946 00:37:28,931 --> 00:37:30,702 I didn't know nothing about the gang thing. 947 00:37:30,803 --> 00:37:32,843 This ignorance, not knowing where not to go. 948 00:37:32,943 --> 00:37:34,849 But the ghetto is the ghetto, you know? 949 00:37:34,949 --> 00:37:37,858 [Snoop Dogg] He was solo. Renegade. He made hit records. 950 00:37:37,958 --> 00:37:39,094 And he was out there on his own. 951 00:37:39,194 --> 00:37:41,602 [Tupac] ...Mutulu, Geronimo. 952 00:37:41,702 --> 00:37:43,106 All the political prisoners. 953 00:37:43,206 --> 00:37:44,778 His mentors were in jail. 954 00:37:44,879 --> 00:37:46,149 My folks in penitentiaries 955 00:37:46,249 --> 00:37:47,988 for screaming "African liberation". 956 00:37:48,088 --> 00:37:50,127 I'm talking about straight motherfucking G's, 957 00:37:50,227 --> 00:37:51,900 but they in jail now. 958 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,006 [reporter] A march to free the Panther 21 959 00:37:54,106 --> 00:37:56,012 and all political prisoners will be held on Central Park 960 00:37:56,112 --> 00:37:57,616 and have its speakers, Afeni Shakur... 961 00:37:57,716 --> 00:37:59,622 [Gloria] When Afeni came out on bail, 962 00:37:59,722 --> 00:38:01,628 she believed in freeing her comrades, 963 00:38:01,728 --> 00:38:04,236 but it wasn't like she was jubilant. 964 00:38:04,336 --> 00:38:06,777 [Mike Wallace] New York's Harlem is the biggest Black ghetto 965 00:38:06,878 --> 00:38:08,315 in the country, 966 00:38:08,415 --> 00:38:10,054 but the Panther chapter here is so weak 967 00:38:10,154 --> 00:38:12,093 that it's an embarrassment to the party. 968 00:38:12,193 --> 00:38:14,299 The Panthers have been, essentially, leaderless here. 969 00:38:14,399 --> 00:38:17,308 There were day-to-day struggles to keep a Panther office open. 970 00:38:17,408 --> 00:38:19,314 [Mike Wallace] Their programs are at a standstill. 971 00:38:19,414 --> 00:38:20,920 No free medical program, 972 00:38:21,020 --> 00:38:22,357 no free clothing program. 973 00:38:22,457 --> 00:38:24,096 [Jamal] And with very little sleep, 974 00:38:24,196 --> 00:38:26,102 Afeni would do all of those jobs. 975 00:38:26,202 --> 00:38:28,074 ♪ I wake up Early in the morning ♪ 976 00:38:28,175 --> 00:38:29,980 ♪ My state so military Suckas fantasizing ♪ 977 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,086 ♪ Pictures of a young brother Buried ♪ 978 00:38:32,187 --> 00:38:34,226 [reporter] Afeni Shakur is one of the two Panther 21 members 979 00:38:34,326 --> 00:38:36,098 now out on bail. 980 00:38:36,199 --> 00:38:38,104 [Jamal] The next person out was Cetewayo Tabor, 981 00:38:38,205 --> 00:38:40,044 and then it was Dhoruba Bin Wahad. 982 00:38:40,144 --> 00:38:42,116 Both of them brilliant speakers and organizers. 983 00:38:42,217 --> 00:38:43,788 And then Joan Bird. 984 00:38:43,889 --> 00:38:45,827 She was the other woman in the Panther 21. 985 00:38:45,928 --> 00:38:48,235 And I had been adjudicated youthful offender 986 00:38:48,335 --> 00:38:50,407 I was severed from the case, and released. 987 00:38:50,507 --> 00:38:52,113 We started traveling, 988 00:38:52,213 --> 00:38:53,416 getting more support for the case. 989 00:38:53,516 --> 00:38:55,122 Huey Newton and Bobby Seale 990 00:38:55,222 --> 00:38:57,195 called it creating a colossal event. 991 00:38:57,998 --> 00:38:59,937 [Gloria] She drew a crowd. 992 00:39:00,037 --> 00:39:01,910 It was the people doing "Free the Panther 21" 993 00:39:02,010 --> 00:39:04,316 and "Fuck the Pigs." Oh, God, I like that. 994 00:39:04,416 --> 00:39:06,422 [Jamal] Centre Street, it would be shut down. 995 00:39:06,523 --> 00:39:08,931 Black folks, White folks, students, tourists, 996 00:39:09,031 --> 00:39:10,434 'cause they knew sparks were gonna fly. 997 00:39:10,535 --> 00:39:11,838 [Chet Huntley] The Panthers started shouting 998 00:39:11,940 --> 00:39:13,476 and the judge called a recess. 999 00:39:13,577 --> 00:39:15,316 [Jamal] Judge Murtagh was all about decorum. 1000 00:39:15,416 --> 00:39:18,091 We booed, cheered, jeered and screamed, 1001 00:39:18,191 --> 00:39:21,903 "You're a lying, racist, fascist pig," every day. 1002 00:39:22,003 --> 00:39:23,774 This afternoon there was more disorder 1003 00:39:23,874 --> 00:39:24,912 and another early recess. 1004 00:39:25,012 --> 00:39:26,449 Power to the people! 1005 00:39:26,550 --> 00:39:28,488 [Jamal] We weren't gonna politely be lynched. 1006 00:39:28,589 --> 00:39:30,997 However, there was starting to be tension between 1007 00:39:31,097 --> 00:39:32,801 national leadership and local leadership. 1008 00:39:32,901 --> 00:39:34,473 [reporter] Founder Huey Newton 1009 00:39:34,574 --> 00:39:36,145 is in a California prison for manslaughter. 1010 00:39:36,245 --> 00:39:38,819 Chairman Bobby Seale faces trial for murder. 1011 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,093 Eldridge Cleaver has fled into exile. 1012 00:39:41,193 --> 00:39:43,500 Basically, there was conflict going back and forth 1013 00:39:43,601 --> 00:39:46,275 with the West Coast and the East Coast about money. 1014 00:39:46,375 --> 00:39:49,852 [Afeni] What happened is that, we had raised a bunch of million dollars. Big bucks. 1015 00:39:49,953 --> 00:39:53,296 What the party did is take that money and use it for cases every place else. 1016 00:39:53,396 --> 00:39:56,505 They did not use it for the bail, for the New York Panther 21, 1017 00:39:56,606 --> 00:39:58,311 when we had given our words. 1018 00:39:58,411 --> 00:39:59,983 And Huey was out and insane. 1019 00:40:00,084 --> 00:40:01,855 [reporter] Newton's last trial 1020 00:40:01,956 --> 00:40:03,527 and manslaughter conviction were overturned. 1021 00:40:03,627 --> 00:40:05,299 He is back on the street. 1022 00:40:05,399 --> 00:40:07,405 [Jamal] So, as the trial day nears closer, 1023 00:40:07,505 --> 00:40:11,551 Afeni and I found ourselves in the middle of that tension. 1024 00:40:13,223 --> 00:40:15,028 And the members of the Panther 21 1025 00:40:15,129 --> 00:40:17,569 who were still inside, led by Lumumba, 1026 00:40:17,669 --> 00:40:19,441 did not feel we were doing enough 1027 00:40:19,542 --> 00:40:20,912 to get other people out. 1028 00:40:21,013 --> 00:40:23,587 What we didn't know was that 1029 00:40:23,687 --> 00:40:27,566 this was exactly the strategy of the government. 1030 00:40:27,666 --> 00:40:30,174 In any war, the way you weaken an opponent 1031 00:40:30,274 --> 00:40:32,915 is to make the enemy fight a war in many different fronts. 1032 00:40:33,016 --> 00:40:36,058 And Pac and I used to have this conversation about COINTELPRO 1033 00:40:36,158 --> 00:40:37,395 as a reminder for him, 1034 00:40:37,495 --> 00:40:39,468 because hip-hop was becoming 1035 00:40:39,569 --> 00:40:42,343 such a powerful economic, and political force. 1036 00:40:42,443 --> 00:40:44,216 [Tupac] But in Black communities especially, 1037 00:40:44,316 --> 00:40:47,225 we have, like, broken families, with no father, no big brothers. 1038 00:40:47,325 --> 00:40:49,364 And so the music becomes the father. 1039 00:40:49,464 --> 00:40:51,170 You-- you grow up and you get the lesson 1040 00:40:51,270 --> 00:40:53,143 that you would've got from your daddy, 1041 00:40:53,243 --> 00:40:55,182 and it's like you're paying $10 for a whole lifestyle of game. 1042 00:40:55,282 --> 00:40:57,689 That's why these White kids can dress and act like niggas, 1043 00:40:57,789 --> 00:41:01,300 'cause all they got to do is go get ten tapes, Hood 101. 1044 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,409 [reporter] Rap is essentially a Black art form, 1045 00:41:04,509 --> 00:41:06,983 and surprisingly, 70% of rap music 1046 00:41:07,084 --> 00:41:09,291 is bought by White young people. 1047 00:41:09,391 --> 00:41:11,263 [man] For the government, there is nothing worse 1048 00:41:11,363 --> 00:41:13,069 than a revolutionary having a voice like 1049 00:41:13,169 --> 00:41:15,175 cinema and records. Can you imagine, 1050 00:41:15,275 --> 00:41:17,481 your mom is the DA or the judge, 1051 00:41:17,583 --> 00:41:20,290 and they're sending cats that look like Tupac to jail all day. 1052 00:41:20,390 --> 00:41:23,433 And then their kid has his poster on their wall? 1053 00:41:23,534 --> 00:41:26,610 "Like, take that down and put Bruce Springsteen back up." 1054 00:41:29,517 --> 00:41:33,196 [Karen] I saw people had no clue 1055 00:41:33,296 --> 00:41:35,435 what "thug" meant across his stomach. 1056 00:41:35,537 --> 00:41:37,174 It started with "50 niggaz." 1057 00:41:37,275 --> 00:41:38,712 [man] Fifty niggaz: "Never Ignorant, 1058 00:41:38,812 --> 00:41:40,217 Getting Goals Accomplished." 1059 00:41:40,317 --> 00:41:42,456 Fifty thousand. Fifty million. 1060 00:41:42,558 --> 00:41:44,095 And it was a movement that was gonna bring 1061 00:41:44,195 --> 00:41:45,733 everybody all over the ghettos, together. 1062 00:41:45,833 --> 00:41:48,074 [Tupac] We're gonna send this one out to the old school. 1063 00:41:48,174 --> 00:41:50,147 All these motherfuckers in the Bronx 1064 00:41:50,247 --> 00:41:52,086 and Brooklyn, and Staten Island, Queens, 1065 00:41:52,186 --> 00:41:53,691 and all the motherfuckers that laid it down. 1066 00:41:53,791 --> 00:41:55,530 [EDI] It was just about unity. 1067 00:41:55,630 --> 00:41:57,501 He just wanted to broaden the horizon of all of hip-hop. 1068 00:41:57,603 --> 00:42:01,113 ♪ I remember Mr. Magic Flash, Grandmaster Caz ♪ 1069 00:42:01,213 --> 00:42:03,787 ♪ LL, Raising Hell But that didn't last ♪ 1070 00:42:03,887 --> 00:42:06,128 ♪ Eric B & Rakim was... ♪ 1071 00:42:06,228 --> 00:42:07,699 [EDI] At the time, the East Coast 1072 00:42:07,799 --> 00:42:09,504 was established as far as hip-hop. 1073 00:42:09,605 --> 00:42:11,310 They wrote the rules. 1074 00:42:11,410 --> 00:42:13,149 What you could say, how you could say it. 1075 00:42:13,249 --> 00:42:14,820 That shit drove Pac crazy. Like, "Fuck that! 1076 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:16,826 This is real hip-hop, too, on the West Coast." 1077 00:42:16,926 --> 00:42:20,404 That's why he was so on us in the early stages of our career 1078 00:42:20,504 --> 00:42:23,179 of embracing other hip-hop and other types of music. 1079 00:42:23,279 --> 00:42:26,589 So it started with "50 Niggaz," then it went on to "Thug Life." 1080 00:42:26,690 --> 00:42:28,494 And Mutulu was in prison, 1081 00:42:28,595 --> 00:42:31,236 but he would call, making sure it had structure to it, a goal. 1082 00:42:31,337 --> 00:42:32,708 [Shaba] Mutulu called all the time. 1083 00:42:32,808 --> 00:42:34,479 Mutulu is who put Watani with us. 1084 00:42:34,580 --> 00:42:36,586 [Karen] Watani was a gift from God. 1085 00:42:36,686 --> 00:42:39,562 In addition to being elder, he was a security specialist. 1086 00:42:39,662 --> 00:42:44,476 He understood what was going on beyond what any of us saw. 1087 00:42:44,577 --> 00:42:46,649 And he was a connection to Mutulu. 1088 00:42:46,750 --> 00:42:49,725 [Watani] Mutulu was a person Tupac knew as a father. 1089 00:42:49,825 --> 00:42:52,768 But the feds actually tried to not allow that relationship. 1090 00:42:52,868 --> 00:42:55,242 When I say the feds, I'm talking about the Bureau of Prisons, 1091 00:42:55,342 --> 00:42:57,515 to try to stop communication between Tupac and Mutulu. 1092 00:42:57,616 --> 00:42:59,354 You know, 'cause behind the walls 1093 00:42:59,555 --> 00:43:02,664 he's looked up on the way Tupac was on the street: leaders. 1094 00:43:02,764 --> 00:43:04,837 Even inside of prison, he stopped gang violence, 1095 00:43:04,937 --> 00:43:06,709 racial violence, he was their peacemaker. 1096 00:43:06,810 --> 00:43:08,949 It was from that that Mutulu began to organize 1097 00:43:09,049 --> 00:43:12,561 with other shot callers and wrote the "Thug Life" code. 1098 00:43:12,661 --> 00:43:14,834 [Tupac] This Thug Life code, we have a code put in order 1099 00:43:14,934 --> 00:43:16,706 to the violence on the streets. 1100 00:43:16,806 --> 00:43:18,645 The OG's in the East Coast and the West Coast 1101 00:43:18,746 --> 00:43:20,383 and the penitentiaries. Like, we're gonna be against 1102 00:43:20,484 --> 00:43:22,323 drive-bys, kidnappings, 1103 00:43:22,423 --> 00:43:24,530 attacks on people that are not involved. 1104 00:43:24,630 --> 00:43:26,268 And people who perpetrate that, 1105 00:43:26,368 --> 00:43:27,939 they have to deal with the consequences and go to jail, 1106 00:43:28,039 --> 00:43:29,545 'cause that's who's gonna enforce this code 1107 00:43:29,645 --> 00:43:31,283 and the Thug Life that's on the street. 1108 00:43:31,383 --> 00:43:32,821 It's like we cleaning up the dirt. 1109 00:43:32,921 --> 00:43:34,960 I can't change what-- the dirt that's here, 1110 00:43:35,060 --> 00:43:36,833 but I can put all this dirt in one corner. 1111 00:43:36,933 --> 00:43:38,705 And I will give my whole life to this plan 1112 00:43:38,806 --> 00:43:40,611 I have for Thug Life. 1113 00:43:40,711 --> 00:43:42,449 [Watani] Tupac was our spokesperson for the code, 1114 00:43:42,551 --> 00:43:44,021 but at times he would struggle with that. 1115 00:43:44,121 --> 00:43:46,361 And so that was a balancing act he was dealing with. 1116 00:43:46,462 --> 00:43:48,367 He feels like he has to perform 1117 00:43:48,468 --> 00:43:51,376 to be this image that everybody want him to be. 1118 00:43:51,477 --> 00:43:55,322 [Tupac] You have all over the country, big-time OG criminals 1119 00:43:55,422 --> 00:43:57,929 telling me they want me to lead their movement. 1120 00:43:58,029 --> 00:44:00,938 I mean, I'm gonna have a small identity crisis here. 1121 00:44:01,038 --> 00:44:03,479 [lawyer] Okay, so let's go back to the questions. 1122 00:44:03,580 --> 00:44:06,053 Have you been in any other jails or prisons, 1123 00:44:06,153 --> 00:44:07,759 other than the present? 1124 00:44:08,629 --> 00:44:10,635 [Tupac] Yes. I'm not sure of the word, 1125 00:44:10,735 --> 00:44:12,841 but it was for a fist fight with another individual. 1126 00:44:12,941 --> 00:44:15,550 - [lawyer] Okay, so assault and battery? - No. 1127 00:44:15,650 --> 00:44:17,388 [man] You were convicted of civil assault 1128 00:44:17,488 --> 00:44:19,628 for engaging in a fight with some entertainers: 1129 00:44:19,728 --> 00:44:20,898 the Hughes twins. 1130 00:44:20,998 --> 00:44:24,777 How did you not get hurt more seriously? 1131 00:44:24,877 --> 00:44:27,050 I was wondering if you guys were gonna interview you... 1132 00:44:27,150 --> 00:44:28,822 - [Allen] Yeah, here we go again. - [Karen] Yup. 1133 00:44:28,922 --> 00:44:30,795 Oh, I'm not the first person to ask that question? 1134 00:44:30,895 --> 00:44:32,466 [Allen] Don't you think that's like breaking the line? 1135 00:44:32,567 --> 00:44:33,937 - [man 2] You broke the line. - [Allen] Okay. 1136 00:44:34,037 --> 00:44:35,610 You're not uncomfortable with me doing the story? 1137 00:44:35,710 --> 00:44:37,080 Why would I be? 1138 00:44:37,180 --> 00:44:38,952 [Allen] Just don't think I don't hear this shit. 1139 00:44:39,052 --> 00:44:42,161 That nigga Tupac beat up is telling the story. 1140 00:44:42,263 --> 00:44:44,101 For the record, Tupac didn't beat me up. 1141 00:44:44,201 --> 00:44:46,173 - Ten other motherfuckers-- - [laughs] 1142 00:44:47,779 --> 00:44:49,517 He had ten motherfuckers-- 1143 00:44:51,188 --> 00:44:54,432 Nigga Allen, you as crazy as a motherfucker! 1144 00:44:54,533 --> 00:44:56,137 That nigga said, "For the record, 1145 00:44:56,238 --> 00:44:57,876 that nigga didn't beat me up. 1146 00:44:57,976 --> 00:45:00,450 He had ten other motherfuckers beat me up." 1147 00:45:00,551 --> 00:45:02,121 That's when niggas had posses. 1148 00:45:06,769 --> 00:45:11,015 [Allen] Go ahead. Let me take the hot seat r 1149 00:45:11,115 --> 00:45:12,887 [man 1] Go ahead, watch it. Go ahead. 1150 00:45:14,024 --> 00:45:15,696 This is easy being on this side. 1151 00:45:15,796 --> 00:45:17,033 [laughs] 1152 00:45:17,133 --> 00:45:18,638 [man 2] Allen Hughes, take one. 1153 00:45:19,675 --> 00:45:21,112 [producer] So, what I wanna know is... 1154 00:45:21,212 --> 00:45:24,790 He's got a pen. He's got the pen out already. 1155 00:45:24,890 --> 00:45:27,732 [producer] So, how does all of that feel for you, 1156 00:45:27,832 --> 00:45:29,571 coming around, 1157 00:45:29,672 --> 00:45:33,148 knowing that 30 years ago, you met all these people. 1158 00:45:33,248 --> 00:45:35,187 Now, here everyone is, back again? 1159 00:45:35,288 --> 00:45:36,926 - How does that feel? - That's pretty surreal. 1160 00:45:37,026 --> 00:45:40,638 It's surreal to go and do a journey, 1161 00:45:40,738 --> 00:45:42,544 a narrative that you were a part of, 1162 00:45:42,644 --> 00:45:44,750 and then to have it be so personal, you know, 1163 00:45:44,850 --> 00:45:48,294 when I was deciding to do this thing... 1164 00:45:48,394 --> 00:45:50,701 I didn't want to do it at first. 1165 00:45:50,801 --> 00:45:52,574 Uh, and-- 'Cause I think 1166 00:45:52,674 --> 00:45:54,947 I was fearful of what we're doing right now. 1167 00:45:55,047 --> 00:45:58,692 [producer] So, tell me, you did which videos? 1168 00:45:58,792 --> 00:46:00,931 We did-- The first video we did was "Trapped." 1169 00:46:01,031 --> 00:46:02,570 Then we did "Brenda's Got a Baby." 1170 00:46:02,670 --> 00:46:04,576 And there's this moment in the video 1171 00:46:04,676 --> 00:46:06,549 where there's a long lens camera, like this camera, 1172 00:46:06,649 --> 00:46:08,822 and it's swimming over his features. 1173 00:46:08,922 --> 00:46:10,728 And I'm looking through the lens, 1174 00:46:10,828 --> 00:46:13,737 and I saw that structure and that energy. 1175 00:46:14,673 --> 00:46:16,879 And I go, "God, this dude's a rock star." 1176 00:46:16,979 --> 00:46:18,149 I mean, it was right then. 1177 00:46:18,249 --> 00:46:20,155 And you can just catch the aura, 1178 00:46:20,255 --> 00:46:22,697 and it's telling multitudes of stories. 1179 00:46:22,797 --> 00:46:25,003 And the problem I think we have is people go, 1180 00:46:25,103 --> 00:46:26,876 "Well, what's the theme of this?" 1181 00:46:28,849 --> 00:46:30,386 Sometimes those sub-themes 1182 00:46:30,487 --> 00:46:32,927 are more important than "the" theme. 1183 00:46:37,173 --> 00:46:40,249 Harry Connick ain't got nothing on me. Check it. 1184 00:46:40,350 --> 00:46:43,793 ♪ Oh, stay with me ♪ 1185 00:46:43,894 --> 00:46:47,203 - [Allen] We were close friends. - ♪ How could I be sure? ♪ 1186 00:46:47,303 --> 00:46:49,042 [Allen] But me and my brother, 1187 00:46:49,142 --> 00:46:50,279 we didn't really want to shoot a third video, 1188 00:46:50,380 --> 00:46:52,084 "When my Homies Call." 1189 00:46:52,185 --> 00:46:54,693 [reporter] Gentlemen, you're working with Tupac now, 1190 00:46:54,793 --> 00:46:56,832 - for the third time? - Third time. 1191 00:46:56,933 --> 00:47:00,242 [Allen] At that point, we were having some difficulties. 1192 00:47:00,342 --> 00:47:01,847 Heard that. I gotta pay attention. 1193 00:47:01,948 --> 00:47:03,452 They told me, like, four fucking times. 1194 00:47:03,553 --> 00:47:05,458 Look this way. Look this way. I don't pay attention 1195 00:47:05,559 --> 00:47:07,196 That's my problem now. 1196 00:47:07,296 --> 00:47:08,668 That's why my mother threw me out when I was 13. 1197 00:47:08,768 --> 00:47:09,972 - [Albert] Okay, Tupac? - Yeah? 1198 00:47:10,305 --> 00:47:11,376 [Allen] At that point, he was becoming 1199 00:47:11,476 --> 00:47:13,214 more erratic for some reason. 1200 00:47:13,449 --> 00:47:15,856 - I couldn't figure it out. - [Albert] Let's do it again. 1201 00:47:15,956 --> 00:47:18,062 [Tupac] Right now, I'm doing these videos. 1202 00:47:18,162 --> 00:47:20,269 I'm doing these movies. I'm making a gang of money. 1203 00:47:20,369 --> 00:47:22,476 I'm helping my people. But everybody wants to know, 1204 00:47:22,577 --> 00:47:24,482 "Well, why do you got an attitude?" 1205 00:47:24,583 --> 00:47:27,424 "What's wrong?" "What's the matter?" 1206 00:47:27,525 --> 00:47:30,299 And it's like, if somebody put their foot on your neck 1207 00:47:31,904 --> 00:47:34,010 for so many years-- for me, it's been 20 years. 1208 00:47:34,110 --> 00:47:35,916 I can't take the 400-year struggle. 1209 00:47:36,016 --> 00:47:38,792 I can identify, but I can only take up the 20 years. 1210 00:47:38,892 --> 00:47:40,162 That's how long I've been here, struggling. 1211 00:47:40,262 --> 00:47:42,034 Twenty years. 1212 00:47:42,134 --> 00:47:44,040 And if somebody put their foot on your neck for 20 years, 1213 00:47:44,140 --> 00:47:46,180 when you finally do get from under that foot-- 1214 00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,319 'cause they like-- they let-- they like-- Now, they like, 1215 00:47:48,420 --> 00:47:49,925 "Well, we gave you some money. 1216 00:47:50,025 --> 00:47:51,797 I mean, you did a movie. Will you calm down?" 1217 00:47:51,897 --> 00:47:53,770 I still got the scars, you know? 1218 00:47:53,870 --> 00:47:55,542 I mean, I still feel it. When I go to sleep, 1219 00:47:55,643 --> 00:47:58,450 I still feel them cops on me. You know what I'm saying? 1220 00:47:58,551 --> 00:48:00,355 The cops who beat me, I still feel that. 1221 00:48:00,456 --> 00:48:03,331 If I hear helicopters and sirens, 1222 00:48:03,432 --> 00:48:06,073 I still panic, you know? And that's not cool. 1223 00:48:06,173 --> 00:48:08,948 You know what I'm saying? That's real. 1224 00:48:09,049 --> 00:48:11,055 [EDI] I understood that he was going through things. 1225 00:48:11,155 --> 00:48:13,394 Everything that happened changed him a little bit. 1226 00:48:13,495 --> 00:48:15,367 Starting with being inside his mom's stomach in jail. 1227 00:48:15,468 --> 00:48:18,076 From all of that to the time he fucking got his ass whipped 1228 00:48:18,176 --> 00:48:19,179 by the Oakland PD. 1229 00:48:19,279 --> 00:48:20,349 And he sued them. 1230 00:48:20,450 --> 00:48:22,355 It was always something. 1231 00:48:22,456 --> 00:48:24,394 Dan Quayle, in national TV, 1232 00:48:24,495 --> 00:48:27,471 the Vice President of the United States, 1233 00:48:28,439 --> 00:48:31,382 saying "Your music doesn't have a place in society." 1234 00:48:31,483 --> 00:48:34,391 Very little gaps of serenity for that guy. 1235 00:48:35,060 --> 00:48:36,632 [Watani] At the same time, 1236 00:48:36,732 --> 00:48:38,369 I had people looking out for him, you know. 1237 00:48:38,470 --> 00:48:40,008 We put Lil' Monster and Bone, 1238 00:48:40,108 --> 00:48:42,047 both representing the Crips and Bloods, 1239 00:48:42,148 --> 00:48:43,384 on his security detail. 1240 00:48:45,357 --> 00:48:47,163 [Shock G] For those of us who loved Pac 1241 00:48:47,263 --> 00:48:50,405 before he was a celebrity, there was a lot of stress 1242 00:48:50,506 --> 00:48:52,914 that went with trying to protect him, 1243 00:48:53,014 --> 00:48:54,986 'cause it was hard. 1244 00:48:55,087 --> 00:48:57,126 We didn't know what was going on and what his plans were. 1245 00:48:57,226 --> 00:49:01,574 We see now, but at that time, we're all trying to protect him. 1246 00:49:01,674 --> 00:49:04,347 Their relationship with that nigga was-- was complicated. 1247 00:49:06,019 --> 00:49:07,592 Ask me some deep shit. 1248 00:49:07,692 --> 00:49:09,598 [Snoop Dogg] If he loved you, he loved you hard. 1249 00:49:10,701 --> 00:49:12,371 If he was mad at you, he was mad at you 1250 00:49:12,471 --> 00:49:13,610 like a motherfucker. 1251 00:49:14,310 --> 00:49:16,383 Ask me about the Hughes Brothers. 1252 00:49:18,525 --> 00:49:21,064 [Allen] What happened was New Line Cinema said, 1253 00:49:21,165 --> 00:49:22,970 "You have to get a platinum recording artist 1254 00:49:23,070 --> 00:49:24,643 in order for us to green-light my movie." 1255 00:49:26,180 --> 00:49:28,721 Tupac's like, "I'll do a supporting role, but..." 1256 00:49:28,822 --> 00:49:31,530 I was supposed to be in Menace II Society, right? 1257 00:49:31,630 --> 00:49:33,201 I went and everything. 1258 00:49:33,301 --> 00:49:34,404 They got the deal because of your boy. 1259 00:49:34,504 --> 00:49:36,009 You know, they was my niggas. 1260 00:49:36,109 --> 00:49:37,413 They used to do all these videos for me. 1261 00:49:37,514 --> 00:49:38,517 [Allen] He was gonna play Sharif, 1262 00:49:38,618 --> 00:49:39,554 the Muslim character. 1263 00:49:39,654 --> 00:49:41,358 And he basically said, 1264 00:49:41,458 --> 00:49:43,497 "In order for me to be a non-violent Muslim 1265 00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:46,039 at this point in my career, we had to rewrite the role 1266 00:49:46,139 --> 00:49:47,443 and show how I got there." 1267 00:49:47,545 --> 00:49:50,018 I refuse to play parts that don't exist. 1268 00:49:50,118 --> 00:49:52,727 I will be a young nigga, but I'll be a real young nigga. 1269 00:49:52,827 --> 00:49:54,699 You know what I'm saying? That's gonna make me 1270 00:49:54,799 --> 00:49:57,006 different than all of these niggas that's taken parts. 1271 00:49:57,106 --> 00:49:59,445 [Allen] In hindsight, Tupac had a valid point. 1272 00:49:59,548 --> 00:50:01,318 But our relationship was so decayed, 1273 00:50:01,418 --> 00:50:03,124 I was like, "We're not doing that." 1274 00:50:03,224 --> 00:50:04,663 [Tupac] I said, "You acting like a bitch." 1275 00:50:04,763 --> 00:50:06,802 He said, "You acting like a bitch." 1276 00:50:06,902 --> 00:50:09,342 I said, "Well, Goddamn. If I'm a bitch, smack a bitch." 1277 00:50:09,442 --> 00:50:10,478 [Allen] Long story short... 1278 00:50:10,581 --> 00:50:12,151 What's that say? "Heartless." 1279 00:50:12,251 --> 00:50:14,090 And I beat his punk ass up. 1280 00:50:14,190 --> 00:50:16,096 Now I can't help it if some niggas on the scene 1281 00:50:16,196 --> 00:50:17,702 beat his ass for running. 1282 00:50:17,802 --> 00:50:19,105 And I can't help it if they were screaming 1283 00:50:19,205 --> 00:50:21,111 "Thug Life" as they did it. 1284 00:50:21,211 --> 00:50:22,381 [Allen] If it was me and Tupac, it would've been different. 1285 00:50:22,481 --> 00:50:24,520 It was a danger in ten guys... 1286 00:50:24,623 --> 00:50:26,326 [Snoop Dogg] That's the Thug Life niggas. 1287 00:50:26,426 --> 00:50:27,832 Them niggas was real Crip gang members. 1288 00:50:28,299 --> 00:50:29,435 But they spared y'all, though. They didn't do the finish-off. 1289 00:50:29,536 --> 00:50:31,208 You talk about Raging Bull. 1290 00:50:31,308 --> 00:50:32,378 I looked like Jake LaMotta by the end of that. 1291 00:50:32,478 --> 00:50:33,783 I remember the headlines. 1292 00:50:33,883 --> 00:50:36,223 And I remember him talking trash about him. 1293 00:50:36,323 --> 00:50:37,662 When I catch the Hughes Brothers, 1294 00:50:37,762 --> 00:50:39,132 I'm gonna bust you in your mouth for good. 1295 00:50:39,232 --> 00:50:42,374 [Karen] But it bothered him. 1296 00:50:42,474 --> 00:50:44,247 [Allen] I was pissed for a long time. 1297 00:50:44,883 --> 00:50:47,256 Even though out of all the meaningful times 1298 00:50:47,356 --> 00:50:48,895 that we spent together, 1299 00:50:48,995 --> 00:50:50,901 that altercation was probably like five minutes. 1300 00:50:51,001 --> 00:50:52,504 [reporter] How do you feel coming to court today? 1301 00:50:52,606 --> 00:50:54,377 Don't block my way and don't hit my lawyer. 1302 00:50:58,356 --> 00:50:59,728 [reporter] Tupac, do you think this is a bum rap? 1303 00:51:00,831 --> 00:51:03,137 [Allen] And I feel unlocking going on, 1304 00:51:03,237 --> 00:51:05,310 'cause I'm just starting to recollect. 1305 00:51:05,779 --> 00:51:07,449 No, actually... 1306 00:51:07,550 --> 00:51:09,288 Damn. 1307 00:51:09,389 --> 00:51:11,562 I should've understood what he was saying. 1308 00:51:12,532 --> 00:51:14,939 [Watani] But he wasn't really listening to people. 1309 00:51:16,510 --> 00:51:19,854 So I decided to move him here 1310 00:51:19,954 --> 00:51:22,562 to Atlanta, Georgia. 1311 00:51:34,397 --> 00:51:35,736 [Watani] Atlanta, Georgia. 1312 00:51:36,805 --> 00:51:38,978 This became the hub. This became our base. 1313 00:51:40,014 --> 00:51:42,656 So, Afeni moved here then Glo moved here after that. 1314 00:51:42,757 --> 00:51:44,628 And Tupac took well to it. 1315 00:51:44,729 --> 00:51:46,634 It was a little slow for him, but he embraced Atlanta. 1316 00:51:46,735 --> 00:51:48,674 [reporter] I caught up with the popular rapper 1317 00:51:48,775 --> 00:51:50,512 in his friend's bookstore. 1318 00:51:50,613 --> 00:51:52,484 We started our conversation by talking about 1319 00:51:52,585 --> 00:51:55,996 why he feels he can impact today's youth with his work. 1320 00:51:56,096 --> 00:51:58,435 [Tupac] I have something to offer the business 1321 00:51:58,537 --> 00:52:00,041 that hasn't been shown before. 1322 00:52:00,141 --> 00:52:02,047 You know, I have a whole energy 1323 00:52:02,147 --> 00:52:04,320 that represents not just Black youth, 1324 00:52:04,420 --> 00:52:06,426 but White youth, Mexican youth. Youth. 1325 00:52:06,527 --> 00:52:09,268 [Afeni] After I started working with my son, 1326 00:52:09,368 --> 00:52:12,680 that was the first relationship we had since I was using. 1327 00:52:12,780 --> 00:52:15,286 Watching my mother just go through changes and everything, 1328 00:52:15,386 --> 00:52:17,059 it's like, my mother's my partner, she a soulja. 1329 00:52:17,159 --> 00:52:19,065 You know, she a soulja like I'm a soulja. 1330 00:52:19,165 --> 00:52:22,007 You know, and I watched to peep the game that she went through. 1331 00:52:22,107 --> 00:52:24,447 [Gloria] When he bought that house for Afeni, 1332 00:52:24,548 --> 00:52:26,319 we thought it was a mansion. 1333 00:52:26,419 --> 00:52:28,459 Because that was the first time 1334 00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,770 anybody in me and Afeni's family 1335 00:52:31,870 --> 00:52:34,779 had a home and owned it outright. 1336 00:52:34,879 --> 00:52:38,858 And anytime Tupac sent 'Feni shopping with a budget, 1337 00:52:38,958 --> 00:52:40,461 we were happy. 1338 00:52:40,563 --> 00:52:42,669 We didn't never have that freedom to do that. 1339 00:52:42,770 --> 00:52:44,507 So, she bought everything. 1340 00:52:44,608 --> 00:52:47,082 We was rich. We thought we were. 1341 00:52:47,182 --> 00:52:49,623 And he would say dumb stuff to us like, 1342 00:52:49,724 --> 00:52:52,064 "Don't act like you ain't never had nothing." 1343 00:52:52,164 --> 00:52:53,903 Well, we hadn't. 1344 00:52:59,787 --> 00:53:03,097 Tupac introduced us to a lifestyle 1345 00:53:03,197 --> 00:53:05,103 that we would've never known. 1346 00:53:06,506 --> 00:53:08,713 [man] Afeni always wanted land. 1347 00:53:08,814 --> 00:53:10,451 And this was hers. 1348 00:53:10,552 --> 00:53:12,760 And she was real proud about it. 1349 00:53:12,860 --> 00:53:14,999 She had a shooting range outside. 1350 00:53:15,099 --> 00:53:17,472 So, we used to play with guns out here. 1351 00:53:17,573 --> 00:53:20,014 And she had a lot of guns. 1352 00:53:20,114 --> 00:53:21,451 Pac did, too. 1353 00:53:24,528 --> 00:53:28,005 ♪ Early one Sunday morning ♪ 1354 00:53:30,511 --> 00:53:33,621 ♪ Breakfast was on the table ♪ 1355 00:53:33,722 --> 00:53:35,193 [man] I'm a felon. 1356 00:53:35,293 --> 00:53:38,135 I don't have nothing to do with no pistols. 1357 00:53:38,235 --> 00:53:41,645 But, mmm, the sound, 1358 00:53:41,746 --> 00:53:43,986 the numbness of the hand 1359 00:53:44,086 --> 00:53:45,624 when it shoot right through your arms 1360 00:53:45,724 --> 00:53:47,162 when you just lettin' it out. 1361 00:53:47,262 --> 00:53:52,144 ♪ Filled with the Long of glory ♪ 1362 00:53:53,213 --> 00:53:56,122 ♪ We learned the Holy story ♪ 1363 00:53:56,222 --> 00:53:59,065 [Afeni] Tupac had told me in the beginning of my recovery 1364 00:53:59,165 --> 00:54:00,804 how much I hurt him, 1365 00:54:00,904 --> 00:54:02,608 and he had not talked about it anymore 1366 00:54:02,709 --> 00:54:04,648 because he still had anger about it. 1367 00:54:04,748 --> 00:54:07,623 And he worked that anger through his system. 1368 00:54:07,724 --> 00:54:10,867 She saw her son shoot up a Mercedes-Benz. 1369 00:54:10,967 --> 00:54:14,745 [man] Some people like sex, some like shootin' pistols. 1370 00:54:14,846 --> 00:54:16,316 Some people like doing both 1371 00:54:16,416 --> 00:54:19,191 because we release all the inside anger. 1372 00:54:19,291 --> 00:54:21,732 Tupac would go in the backyard and shoot the grass. 1373 00:54:21,833 --> 00:54:23,538 [man] Tupac Shakur! 1374 00:54:23,638 --> 00:54:25,778 Give him your hands, brothers and sisters! 1375 00:54:25,879 --> 00:54:27,249 [Tupac] First of all, 1376 00:54:27,349 --> 00:54:28,988 y'all gonna think something wrong with me 1377 00:54:29,088 --> 00:54:30,827 'cause I'm losing it. If I curse, forgive me. 1378 00:54:30,927 --> 00:54:33,568 But we curse. So, they told me to watch my language. Fuck that. 1379 00:54:33,768 --> 00:54:36,744 He did tell y'all about my mama and the Panthers, 1380 00:54:36,845 --> 00:54:38,348 but let me tell you where I ended up. 1381 00:54:38,449 --> 00:54:39,887 My mama was a crack addict. 1382 00:54:39,987 --> 00:54:41,725 I ended up in Baltimore welfare 1383 00:54:41,827 --> 00:54:43,731 with no lights on in high school. 1384 00:54:43,833 --> 00:54:46,005 [woman] He started to talk about his anger publicly. 1385 00:54:46,105 --> 00:54:47,978 [Tupac] I got disdain for a lot of motherfuckers 1386 00:54:48,078 --> 00:54:49,816 'cause I'm gonna tell you, 1387 00:54:49,917 --> 00:54:51,923 when my mama started cracking and I was by myself, 1388 00:54:52,023 --> 00:54:54,330 this brother right here, Watani Stiner, 1389 00:54:54,430 --> 00:54:56,069 was the only person in this movement 1390 00:54:56,169 --> 00:54:57,875 that took care of me. 1391 00:54:57,975 --> 00:54:59,947 [man] Gary, Indiana. Black Expo. He was hyped. 1392 00:55:00,047 --> 00:55:01,887 So, it ain't no motherfucking struggle 1393 00:55:01,987 --> 00:55:03,825 if you don't take care of your babies. 1394 00:55:03,926 --> 00:55:06,299 Not just yours, but the other souljas', you know? 1395 00:55:06,399 --> 00:55:09,341 What about these souljas in jail? Where their kids at? 1396 00:55:09,441 --> 00:55:11,715 Don't none of you motherfuckers give a fuck about them! 1397 00:55:11,815 --> 00:55:14,023 Little Latasha got a bullet in her motherfucking back, 1398 00:55:14,123 --> 00:55:17,032 and ain't any one of y'all do a motherfucking thing! 1399 00:55:17,132 --> 00:55:18,803 [Watani] Indiana was where Mike Tyson 1400 00:55:18,904 --> 00:55:20,241 caught his rape case. 1401 00:55:20,341 --> 00:55:22,214 [Tyson] Life beat me into submission. 1402 00:55:22,314 --> 00:55:24,320 [Watani] So, I took Pac to go visit Mike. 1403 00:55:24,420 --> 00:55:26,995 [Tyson] And when he came in that prison, everybody, 1404 00:55:27,095 --> 00:55:29,736 Black, White, gangster, "Yo, what's up!" 1405 00:55:29,836 --> 00:55:32,010 [Tupac] And when I saw "Thug Life," I mean that shit. 1406 00:55:32,110 --> 00:55:33,748 'Cause these White folks see us as thugs. 1407 00:55:33,848 --> 00:55:35,286 I don't care what y'all think. 1408 00:55:35,386 --> 00:55:37,058 And he stood on the table. I said, "Get down." 1409 00:55:37,158 --> 00:55:38,998 Everybody just looking at what's going on. He's-- 1410 00:55:39,098 --> 00:55:40,434 Please, come down now. 1411 00:55:40,535 --> 00:55:42,040 I don't care if you think you a lawyer, 1412 00:55:42,140 --> 00:55:44,079 if you a man, if you a African-American. 1413 00:55:44,179 --> 00:55:46,185 We thugs and niggas to these motherfuckers. 1414 00:55:46,286 --> 00:55:47,723 He was really special. 1415 00:55:47,823 --> 00:55:49,395 I walk around with Latasha in me. 1416 00:55:49,495 --> 00:55:52,237 I walk around with Fred Hampton and Bobby Hutton in me. 1417 00:55:52,337 --> 00:55:54,310 And when these motherfuckers press my button 1418 00:55:54,410 --> 00:55:56,282 and I blow up, it ain't me. 1419 00:55:56,382 --> 00:55:58,924 He was too intelligent to act the way he conducted himself. 1420 00:55:59,024 --> 00:56:04,173 How the fuck can a nigga put on a police uniform in 1993? 1421 00:56:05,979 --> 00:56:07,482 Fuck that! When the shit jump off, 1422 00:56:07,583 --> 00:56:09,823 if you still got that on, your ass is out! 1423 00:56:09,924 --> 00:56:12,030 'Cause niggas is armed in 1993. 1424 00:56:12,130 --> 00:56:15,239 Did you see what happened on April 29th, on the news? 1425 00:56:15,339 --> 00:56:17,278 'Cause they was fucking shit up in L. A. 1426 00:56:17,379 --> 00:56:20,154 [anchor] Four current and former Los Angeles police officers 1427 00:56:20,254 --> 00:56:22,360 were acquitted today of all but one criminal charge 1428 00:56:22,460 --> 00:56:24,400 in the beating of motorist Rodney King. 1429 00:56:24,500 --> 00:56:26,339 [Tupac] All my life, I never thought it could happen, 1430 00:56:26,439 --> 00:56:30,017 but I've seen it for myself. I was there. 1431 00:56:30,117 --> 00:56:32,825 Niggas had their motherfucking dawgs up, and it was all good. 1432 00:56:32,925 --> 00:56:34,898 [anchor] Two thousand National Guard troops 1433 00:56:34,999 --> 00:56:37,138 have been deployed following violent outbursts 1434 00:56:37,238 --> 00:56:38,576 in parts of Los Angeles 1435 00:56:38,676 --> 00:56:40,381 following acquittals for four... 1436 00:56:40,481 --> 00:56:42,220 [Tupac] We are marching on the anniversaries 1437 00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:44,594 of when we marched 25 years ago. 1438 00:56:44,694 --> 00:56:46,199 What are you meant to do? 1439 00:56:46,299 --> 00:56:48,171 Now, I swear to God, you gonna find me 1440 00:56:48,271 --> 00:56:50,111 strapped like a motherfucker getting ready to shoot. 1441 00:56:50,211 --> 00:56:51,849 [Billy] Pac always talked about 1442 00:56:51,950 --> 00:56:55,292 how he was gonna protect us any way he could. 1443 00:56:55,393 --> 00:56:57,065 [Tupac] All that shit that went on in the '60s 1444 00:56:57,165 --> 00:57:00,040 ain't gonna happen in this motherfucker. 1445 00:57:00,141 --> 00:57:02,113 But if I go by myself and I die 1446 00:57:02,213 --> 00:57:04,888 and you motherfuckers bury me, I swear before God, 1447 00:57:04,989 --> 00:57:09,368 I will haunt every single one of you punk-ass motherfuckers. 1448 00:57:09,468 --> 00:57:11,240 Do you feel me? 1449 00:57:11,340 --> 00:57:13,380 [Billy] But there was this doubt in my head. 1450 00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:15,419 Are you gonna do something if something happens? 1451 00:57:15,519 --> 00:57:17,225 - [Tupac] Fuck the police! - Guys like us, 1452 00:57:17,325 --> 00:57:19,465 we turn our delusions into reality. 1453 00:57:21,672 --> 00:57:24,681 [Billy] So, Halloween night 1993... 1454 00:57:24,781 --> 00:57:25,985 Bang! Bang! 1455 00:57:26,085 --> 00:57:28,125 ♪ Oh, Sadie... ♪ 1456 00:57:28,225 --> 00:57:30,030 [Billy] Three shots. 1457 00:57:30,131 --> 00:57:32,938 ♪ Don't you know we love you Sweet Sadie ♪ 1458 00:57:33,039 --> 00:57:34,944 [Billy] ...just like a marksman, trained. 1459 00:57:35,045 --> 00:57:39,024 ♪ Place no one above you Sweet Sadie ♪ 1460 00:57:39,124 --> 00:57:42,133 [Billy] The mythology is one thing, 1461 00:57:42,233 --> 00:57:44,039 but what I saw was the truth. 1462 00:57:44,139 --> 00:57:45,677 ♪ Seems so funny ♪ 1463 00:57:45,777 --> 00:57:47,583 ♪ No money will turn Your life... ♪ 1464 00:57:47,683 --> 00:57:48,986 Tupac... 1465 00:57:49,622 --> 00:57:51,528 shot some police in the ass. 1466 00:57:51,628 --> 00:57:55,339 ♪ Oh, it's what she wanted From me ♪ 1467 00:57:55,439 --> 00:57:57,212 [reporter] The rap star, Tupac Shakur, 1468 00:57:57,312 --> 00:57:58,716 is free on bond tonight 1469 00:57:58,816 --> 00:58:00,421 after his arrest this weekend in Atlanta. 1470 00:58:00,522 --> 00:58:02,460 The 22-year-old singer and actor 1471 00:58:02,561 --> 00:58:05,336 was charged with shooting two off-duty police officers. 1472 00:58:05,436 --> 00:58:07,643 The wounds were not serious. 1473 00:58:07,743 --> 00:58:10,685 [Blood] When Tupac got arrested, Afeni came to pick him up on bail. 1474 00:58:10,785 --> 00:58:12,257 He pushed tape in. 1475 00:58:12,423 --> 00:58:14,096 And he told her, "This is for you. 1476 00:58:14,196 --> 00:58:16,369 ♪ Pour out some liquor And I reminisce ♪ 1477 00:58:16,570 --> 00:58:19,044 ♪ 'Cause through the drama I can always depend On my mama ♪ 1478 00:58:19,144 --> 00:58:20,682 [Blood] "Dear Mama". 1479 00:58:20,782 --> 00:58:22,420 ♪ And when it seems That I'm hopeless ♪ 1480 00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:25,429 ♪ You say the words That can get me back in focus ♪ 1481 00:58:25,530 --> 00:58:27,536 ♪ When I was sick As a little kid ♪ 1482 00:58:27,636 --> 00:58:29,374 ♪ To keep me happy There's no limit ♪ 1483 00:58:29,474 --> 00:58:30,511 ♪ To the things you did ♪ 1484 00:58:30,612 --> 00:58:32,216 Fucked her up. 1485 00:58:32,317 --> 00:58:33,821 ♪ And all my Childhood memories ♪ 1486 00:58:33,921 --> 00:58:35,192 ♪ Are full of all The sweet things ♪ 1487 00:58:35,292 --> 00:58:36,228 ♪ You did for me ♪ 1488 00:58:36,329 --> 00:58:37,432 She was emotional. 1489 00:58:37,533 --> 00:58:39,338 ♪ And even though I act crazy ♪ 1490 00:58:39,438 --> 00:58:42,280 ♪ I gotta thank the Lord That you made me ♪ 1491 00:58:42,380 --> 00:58:47,495 'Cause you know, "Dear Mama" is a take from The Spinners, "Sadie". 1492 00:58:47,596 --> 00:58:48,699 Right? 1493 00:58:49,869 --> 00:58:51,808 I mean, Goddamn. 1494 00:58:53,714 --> 00:58:55,754 [Afeni] When Tupac first played "Dear Mama" for me, 1495 00:58:55,854 --> 00:58:58,128 it made me cry because I realized 1496 00:58:58,228 --> 00:59:00,200 that my son had forgiven me. 1497 00:59:00,301 --> 00:59:02,173 ♪ Everything will be All right if you hold on ♪ 1498 00:59:02,273 --> 00:59:04,580 ♪ It's a struggle every day Gotta roll on ♪ 1499 00:59:04,681 --> 00:59:06,419 [Afeni] It means a lot to me 1500 00:59:06,519 --> 00:59:08,893 that my son wrote a song to us. 1501 00:59:08,993 --> 00:59:12,203 ♪ ...that I understand You are appreciated ♪ 1502 00:59:12,303 --> 00:59:13,406 [Afeni] 'Cause it's not just to me. 1503 00:59:13,506 --> 00:59:15,814 And I cried because I realized 1504 00:59:15,914 --> 00:59:17,786 it was him saying to me, 1505 00:59:17,886 --> 00:59:19,424 "I got the whole thing." 1506 00:59:19,525 --> 00:59:21,297 [laughs] 1507 00:59:21,832 --> 00:59:23,738 ♪ You are appreciated ♪ 1508 00:59:28,586 --> 00:59:30,558 ♪ Ain't nobody tell us It was fair ♪ 1509 00:59:30,658 --> 00:59:32,330 ♪ No love for my daddy ♪ 1510 00:59:32,430 --> 00:59:33,934 ♪ Because the coward Wasn't there ♪ 1511 00:59:34,035 --> 00:59:36,242 ♪ He passed away And I didn't cry ♪ 1512 00:59:36,342 --> 00:59:39,284 ♪ 'Cause my anger wouldn't Let me feel for a stranger ♪ 1513 00:59:39,384 --> 00:59:41,357 ♪ They say I'm wrong And I'm heartless ♪ 1514 00:59:41,457 --> 00:59:43,731 ♪ But all along I was lookin' For a father ♪ 1515 00:59:43,831 --> 00:59:45,502 ♪ He was gone ♪ 1516 00:59:45,603 --> 00:59:47,341 ♪ I hung around With the thugs ♪ 1517 00:59:47,442 --> 00:59:48,946 ♪ And even though They sold drugs ♪ 1518 00:59:49,046 --> 00:59:50,852 ♪ They showed A young brother love ♪ 1519 00:59:50,952 --> 00:59:52,858 ♪ I moved out And started really hangin' ♪ 1520 00:59:52,958 --> 00:59:55,432 ♪ I needed money on my own So I started slangin' ♪ 1521 00:59:55,533 --> 00:59:57,238 ♪ I ain't guilty ♪ 1522 00:59:57,338 --> 00:59:58,876 ♪ 'Cause even though I sell rocks ♪ 1523 00:59:58,976 --> 01:00:01,551 ♪ It feels good Puttin' money in your mailbox ♪ 1524 01:00:01,651 --> 01:00:04,292 ♪ And I love paying rent When the rent's due ♪ 1525 01:00:04,392 --> 01:00:07,235 ♪ I hope 'ya got the diamond Bracelets that I sent to you ♪ 1526 01:00:07,335 --> 01:00:09,609 ♪ 'Cause when I was low You was there for me ♪ 1527 01:00:09,709 --> 01:00:12,517 ♪ You never left me alone Because you cared for me ♪ 1528 01:00:12,618 --> 01:00:15,392 ♪ I could see you comin' home After work late ♪ 1529 01:00:15,492 --> 01:00:18,769 ♪ You're in the kitchen Tryin' to fix us a hot plate ♪ 1530 01:00:18,869 --> 01:00:21,277 ♪ Just workin' with the scraps You was given ♪ 1531 01:00:21,377 --> 01:00:24,486 ♪ And Mama made miracles Every Thanksgivin' ♪ 1532 01:00:24,587 --> 01:00:26,893 ♪ But the road got rough You're alone ♪ 1533 01:00:26,993 --> 01:00:29,836 ♪ Tryin' to raise two bad kids On your own ♪ 1534 01:00:29,936 --> 01:00:32,376 ♪ And there's no way I can pay you back ♪ 1535 01:00:32,477 --> 01:00:35,285 ♪ But my plan is to show you That I understand ♪