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Tupac Shakur — Part 1
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commit would definitely make you a little bitter," said Tupac. "But I'm trying not to be bitter.
I'm trying to let that be my ambition. Now I'm very ambitious. This year will mark a new
ground for Tupac where I'm relentless. There's no boundaries. ['m not looking at no stop
signs. I'm going full speed ahead. I'm planning on touching everything with my name on it,
and there's a lot of stuff with my name on it, so I'm out there. So J got with the Row, that's
move number one, I wrote a movie, that’s move number two. Did the double album -- that's
never been done before -- that’s move number three. Got the divorce, that's move number
four. And now it's just about standing by my grind, stay up on my music, stay out of trouble."
Tupac has often said that the media have misrepresented him. What is the real Tupac
Shakur like?
"He's a human being with all sides," replied Pac. "Multi-faceted, ups and downs. Goods and
bads. Mistakes. Everything, you know. All they want to show is one side, which is distorted.
That's a distorted view. So what I said was true. If they would show the good things and the
bad things, [ would have no complaints, and it would even make them look better. When you
" just show me doing all this bad stuff, then people gonna just start thinking like 'wait a minute,
this dude can't be doing all this bad stuff.’ I mean, come on. They don't show nothing else. So
it's really helpin'’ me, cause it's making it look one-sided and untrue. But the thing that bothers
me is that it's just not across the board. They do this to rappers or young black males -- inner
city people. You know, they do that to us but they don't do that for everybody else. But that
bothers me, but I'm not gonna harp on everything that’s unfair, ‘cause life is unfair. Nobody
said it's gonna be easy or fair. I'm not even gonna trip off it. I'm just gonna push forward.
When I stop, I stop. When the wheels fall off, the wheels fall off. But until then I'm gonna put
the foot to the metal.”
Tupac has already starred in a number of movies including "Above the Rim" and
"Poetic Justice." So we asked what his future acting projects are.
"J just wrote a movie called "Live To Tell." We talking about doing a movie now, me and
Snoop, that Pooh is working on, and everything else is before me. I haven't even started
looking into that, but it's going down."
Tupac talked about his upcoming double album, the first by a hip-hop star.
"The last album was one side of Tupac,” he said. "And it's the other side, you know what I
mean? I did what I had to do with "Me Against the World" as far as lettin' people know that
rappers think and we feel and we care. I did that. Now it's time for me to just get into the
music. This album is more like about unrestricted. I'm not rying to tell a message. I'm just
getting a lot of frustrations out from being in jail for eleven months. And just speaking my
mind, talking about things that I see and just groovin’, having fun. They like more upbeat
tracks than this. My last album was kinda sad and down. This one is like way high. There's
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