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na 2pac Pages Newzletter Edition 2 Volume 1 Page | of 3 Fresh Out Of Jail Street Heat representatives met up with Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas during November 1995. Pac and tha Dogg Pound performed after the Holyfield-Bowe fight at Club 662. Everybody was there...including ,Rappin' 4-Tay, Tha Alkaholiks, Pepa, and the posse down with Pac and tha Dogg Pound. On the day of the show we caught up with Pac and kicked it for awhile. We were in the back of the club in owner Suge Knight's office. Suge, you may know, is the owner of Death Row Records. Suge and Death Row now handle Pac's career and Pac spent the month of November in the studio runnin’ through the final touches of his double album. So, Pac, a lot of people want to know, since Death Row Records put up your bail money, is that why you left Interscope? "It didn't have nothing to do with the money," said Pac. "It had nothing to do with the bail. I was already, um, I hollered at Suge before the bail situation when I was still an inmate in the correctional facility and I was looking at like serving three years, I called Suge and said, yo, I want to be with the Row. I want you to manage me because I'm in jail--and no one is handling my bizniz while I'm in jail, nobody's putting it down like I want to put it down.' I knew he's a man that would put things down. I trust him, his word, you know, um. I really couldn't trust nobody in bizniz no morg, RY ea him you know?" ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED Booed, HEREIN 19 UNCLASS ~ Abuse ic a Pag DATE\O LOB ° AISZU | C Wasn't it during the time that Interscope was rumored to be leaving Warners and all that? "Yeah, that was another factor," replied Tupac. "Because I was like, "Dang, they don't care about us.' I mean, it's not Interscope's fault, but they really don't owe us anything and at any minute we could be you know, alone without a contract after you put all your heart on the line, your music on the line, you went out there and gave all your talent up and all of a sudden, it's not good enough any more and they'll kick you off. So I was like, by going to Death Row, it's like two superpowers joining up. You know, it would be similar to the US and England teamin' up against anybody, youknow what I mean? So I felt it was like joining two super powers. And if rap music was going to have to fight for its right to be uncensored, then this was the team for me to get on, to wage that battle.” Did jail change your perspective on the world? "“Yeah...Doing eleven months of maximum security penitentiary time for a crime you didn't Oct 18 1996 08:49 AM