Tupac: Resurrection Page #10

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N*ggers was the ones on the rope,

hanging off the thing.

Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,

hanging out at clubs.

I learned things there. In jail, it's like

how we should be in life, humble.

I was talking to skinheads

because if you don't like black people,

all right, that's fine.

That's your opinion.

I want people to respect my opinion

when I'm rapping, so I'll respect yours.

You treat me with respect, I'll treat you

with respect, and we'll get along.

This skinhead, "hate black people" all

over, getting autographs for cousins.

I accomplished something.

I know, by him getting my autograph,

that meant something to me.

He couldn't hate black people

and get my autograph.

- The food was terrible, I guess.

- Oh, my goodness.

They've got this liver surprise thing.

The liver surprise. They're trying

to pump that jail on the menu.

They're trying to get it to go prime-time,

get it in the rotation.

I was like, "We had this yesterday.

I liked it already, goddamn."

- No Tater Tots?

- No. Are you crazy? Tater Tots?

I used to get baked potatoes

with a huge finger imprint on it.

- All right.

- It was bad.

No, you don't wanna get me started.

Jell-O with hair all in the mold.

I'd be like, "Damn, man,

how are you gonna mess up Jell-O?"

Jell-O is so wholesome and family-like.

It just ruins it for me.

To have a hair in there, yeah.

I mean, I'm like, "Come on,

Bill Cosby pumps this, man!"

Put the hair in my Jell-O.

And you can't go, "There's a hair in

my Jell-O. I'd like to send this back.

"Can I see the cook, please?"

The cook is a big dude

named Bubba Joe.

The first eight months I spent in

solitude 23 hours a day, reading.

I wrote a script called Live 2 Tell.

I got How to Write a Screenplay,

that big famous book by Syd Field.

I got that, and I remembered all of the

scripts I ever read, and I wrote one.

I read a lot of good books.

I read a lot of Maya Angelou's books.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

But in terms of writing music

and lyrics, I couldn't do it.

Everybody's like, "He's in jail now.

He's gonna have the bomb album."

But it's the opposite.

Prison kills your spirit, straight up.

It kills your spirit.

I couldn't write. My inspiration was

gone because I was a caged animal.

But when I was in jail,

a lot of people supported me.

Jasmine Guy, Jada Pinkett,

Mickey Rourke,

he just wrote me funny stories.

The name that sticks out the most,

I'll keep saying this, is Tony Danza.

To me, he is the bomb forever.

I will be his number one fan forever,

because when I got his letter,

I was like, "Whoa!"

I was screaming out to everybody,

"Guess who wrote me!"

They had a story on the local news

that Madonna was coming to visit me.

Madonna has so much power that

the guards gave me an extra shower

because they thought

she was coming to visit me.

I had guards walking me downstairs,

everything, trying to peep a look.

- Did she come?

- No. No, I'm glad.

- But you got the extra shower?

- Hey, I got the shower.

The person that supported me

the most was my mother.

When my mother got clean,

we got real close again.

And even as a crack fiend, Mama

You always was a black queen, Mama

I finally understand, for a woman

It ain't easy, trying to raise a man

I don't blame her for anything.

My mom's the bomb, you know.

The world's best mom.

- You are appreciated

- Lady

Don't you know we love you

Sweet lady

"Dear Mama" is the song

I wrote for my mother.

But it's also for all the mothers.

I'm proud of that.

It affected a lot of people.

It was from Me Against the World,

which was completed

before I went to jail.

It's just me against the world

Me against the world, baby

It was the number one record.

Me Against the World was

one of those... My career highs.

It was a trip in jail.

They'd say stuff like, "You're in jail.

Won't be any rapping for a long time."

I'd be like, "My album is

number one in the country.

"It just beat Bruce Springsteen."

And they'd be like,

"Go back to your cell."

I used to get Entertainment Weekly

and see where my record was

and just trip out and be like,

"Number one in the whole country."

To me, it will always be my favorite,

and jail made me wanna dig deeper.

It took five bullets for me to see

what was really going on.

In jail, you get perspective, and you

start looking at things differently,

like everything is not so important.

You know, you try not

to take it personal.

Because you're talking to killers.

They say something you don't like,

you can't say, "What?"

You gotta be like, "OK, look man,

would you mind not calling me...?"

Anger management like

a mother.

In jail, I tried not to have

negative feelings towards nobody.

It's not like I wanted to get out

and go shoot somebody up.

People said, "You softened up."

Ain't nothing soft. Nothing changed.

If anything, my mentality was like,

"Trust nobody.

"Trust nobody."

It's not like I'm untouchable.

I could be killed as soon as I get out.

I just thought,

"I already took five bullets,

"and if I can help it,

I don't plan on taking more."

Rapper, actor and convict, Tupac

Shakur, walked out of jail last week,

bailed out to the tune of $1.4 million by

Suge Knight of Death Row Records,

which signed Shakur to a deal.

My closest friends did me in.

My closest friends, my homeys.

I took care of their whole family,

took care of everything,

Iooked out for them, put them

in the game, turned on me.

So I just thought, "How could I make

them sorry they ever did this to me?

"How can I come back, like,

50 times stronger and better?"

Fear is stronger than love. Remember

that. Fear is stronger than love.

The love I gave meant nothing

when it came to fear.

No question, sign with Death Row.

Suddenly, I was out on bail,

pending appeal.

If I win my appeal, which,

if God wills, I will,

I would've done 11 months

for nothing.

You see that, judge? I didn't curse.

Probation people, I didn't curse.

Give me my props. Let me stay free.

I was relieved, happy to be home.

I wanted to drive up

and down Sunset

because I love L.A. with a passion.

I love Sunset, everything about L.A.

Can I get tatted up real quick?

I want a crown here.

You know, the energy, that's L.A.

- Hello?

- I'm saying,

we on Venice Beach. It's what you do.

I've been in jail 11 months, Tabitha.

You're supposed to put "I love you".

You got to let me get a look

at something.

It's a trip when last week

you were in a cell,

and then, next week, I'm up at Monty's

with Cristal champagne

and filet mignon and lobster

and shrimps.

Everybody went, "Let me take you out.

You're home? Let me take you to this!"

We was all up in Roscoe's.

I even celebrated at El Pollo Loco

because I was dreaming about

El Pollo Loco the whole time.

Then I went straight to the studio.

And I did 24 tracks in

less than two weeks.

You can mix it later and have niggas

that love being in the studio

just add the drumbeat and sh*t. You

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