I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable –– that weren't to defend myself. My intentions was always in the right place. " … This Thug Life stuff, it was just ignorance. "If you see everybody dying because of what you saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them," Pac said in the VIBE interview. He sounded reformed, denouncing the thug life persona he had adopted and assuming responsibility for his music's impact. He also gave his side of the sexual abuse case, stating he didn't rape the woman in question, but admitting he didn't do much to protect her from his cohorts' sexual assault, either. I've been having nightmares, thinking they're still shooting me." But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me," Pac said. "I was so scared of this responsibility that I was running away from it. In a nervous, harrowing interview at Rikers Island with VIBE's Kevin Powell in 1995 as the rapper awaited sentencing for the sexual abuse case, Pac recounted the Quad Studios shooting and gave insight into his trauma.
And he felt that despite creating art that advocated for others, he didn't have much help when he needed it.ĢPac's 'All Eyez On Me' Turns 25 | For The Record But the three-year span before All Eyez On Me, his fourth studio album and his final to drop while he was still alive, was tumultuous, a taxing era on his spirit. Me Against The World had become the first album to top the Billboard charts by an artist in prison.
In February 1995, 2Pac, born Tupac Shakur, was convicted of sexual abuse and faced a potential sentence of nearly five years. In 1994 alone, he pled guilty to a misdemeanor after being charged with assaulting an artist at a concert at Michigan State University he was found guilty of assaulting the directors of the film Menace II Society and he was the victim of an armed robbery at New York City's Quad Studios that left him shot five times, leaving him paranoid that his former-friend-turned-rival Notorious B.I.G.set up the shooting and jumpstarting a musical and violent beef between the East Coast and West Coast rap scenes. He had titled his album from March of that year Me Against The World, and that was exactly how he felt. But as 2Pac sat in a prison cell in fall 1995, he just needed an ally. There are plenty of idioms about the importance of perseverance through hard times.
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