Tupac: Resurrection Page #8

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Come on, Mr. Cameraman.

This is some real private sh*t that's

about to happen, Mr. Cameraman.

Bye.

Anyway, I'll let you hear the sounds.

Is there a double standard

for men being promiscuous?

Yeah, but we didn't start

that double standard.

- I'm not saying you did.

- And I'm not saying it's fair.

I'm saying this is how it is. How can we

rap about a world that is not like that?

- This is how it is.

- Do you look down on males

if they're as promiscuous as women?

I don't look down on anybody

that's promiscuous.

I only look down on people

who don't control the situation.

If a girl sleeps with a lot of guys,

she's still my homegirl.

You're only a b*tch, not if you

sleep with a lot of guys,

but if you're sleeping

with them for money.

- So you put a price on yourself.

- Because they have a nice car.

Guys, when they sleep around,

they do it for free.

At that time, a lot of girls, they'd seen

my face on TV so many times,

they wanna be associated

with that person.

It's the fame that gets these people.

It's not me. It's the fame.

I've seen females look at

me when they didn't know me,

and I can see it, nothing.

Then someone whisper who I was,

it's this glare in the eye.

- You make yourself want them.

- How do you feel about that?

I don't understand how people can

stand next to you one year,

and next year, they cannot.

They're going crazy, screaming.

They can't take it that you're there.

But last year I was in the same club,

walking around,

lonely like a motherf***er.

Couldn't get a date or a dance.

I was too skinny, too something,

and now, "He's just adorable.

He's just, oh!"

But I still enjoyed sex without

the emotional connection.

And it was always a fantasy

for me to have sex

with a lot of people in the room.

But I didn't play

one situation correctly.

Rap singer Tupac Shakur was

released on $50,000 bail today,

accused of a sexual attack

in a New York hotel.

The singer was arrested Thursday

night after a woman claimed

he and three other men

overpowered her in a hotel suite.

- Are you disappointing your fans?

- Very, but they're gonna support me.

With bodyguards and attorneys, he

went into Manhattan Criminal Court.

There, the rapper and two friends were

charged with first-degree sodomy.

The allegations stem

from an incident last Thursday

in which a woman claims

she was held down

as he and two others

allegedly sodomized her.

The allegations by this

young lady are without merit.

Defense attorneys say the woman

went there consensually,

and answering machine tapes

that indicate

her interest in Shakur

were erased by police.

OK, so you tell me when your

lawyers have asked you to stop.

The girl who claims that...

What does she claim?

- I can't even say it, man.

- OK.

But technically, it's a rape case.

I wasn't convicted of no rape charge.

My charge was sexual abuse,

forcibly touching the buttocks.

I have a female saying that...

I can't say it, but...

It just bothers me so much,

you know?

To go through my life

and everything I did, coming out

of a family and household

with just women,

to get to this point to have a woman

say that I took something from her.

It was hard.

It was an emotional day

for a 20-year-old female fan,

who admitted that she had consensual

sex with Shakur on Sunday night,

four days before her alleged rape

in the hotel room.

During her cross-examination,

defense attorney Michael Warren

painted a picture of a starstruck, naive

girl anxious to have sex with Shakur.

Word is, you had a relationship with

this woman prior to all this friction.

If you can say that's a relationship.

I bumped in a club. I seen her.

Let's use a clinical term.

There was oral copulation?

Yeah, she performed oral sex

on the dance floor.

A lot of guys could say

what they wouldn't do

and what they would do,

but when it happens, you know...?

- Yeah.

- It just goes down. And it's... Really.

She did some things there at the club,

and we got together later that night.

I saw her again another time with

these guys that introduced me to her.

Everybody was having a good time,

nothing sexual, just a good time.

Me and her went in, she gave me

a massage, went to sleep, woke up,

she's screaming,

"Rape, rape." I raped her.

And she's yelling at me, "This is not

the last you're gonna see of me."

I'm cursing her out because I'm not

thinking she's really gonna do that.

And the next thing I know,

I'm going to jail.

In your opinion there was no truth

to the sexual abuse charges?

Not on my part at all.

The defense pounded away at her,

asking her why she didn't scream for

help at the time of the alleged attack.

The woman testified

that Shakur's friends said:

"Tupac needs his fans.

Don't go to the White Man with this.

"Millions of girls would love

to be in your shoes right now."

What about your cronies?

That was a big misconception.

The people with me weren't friends.

- Why were they in your room?

- I hang with lots of people.

And that's how I am.

It's similar to like you said,

about Led Zeppelin. They don't

know all of the people with them.

This guy got the weed?

OK, you can kick it.

Got the money?

You can kick it.

This guy has connections to the clubs?

OK, you can kick it. I don't know him.

But that was my fault, I had that

kind of environment around me.

I didn't do nothing. I'm charged with

being in concert with some guys.

Well, where are they at?

Why me? Because I'm Tupac...

I'm not mad at them.

I'm mad at the system.

I don't want nobody to go to jail,

but I don't wanna go

for something I didn't do.

I just don't wanna be the scapegoat.

I just couldn't believe

this was going on in my life.

See the cameras. It wasn't like I had a

chance for justice like a normal citizen.

Hi, Tupac. Can you tell me

how you're doing today?

Well, I just had to listen to the

prosecution's closing argument,

and it was so far from the truth that it

has me drained at the end of the day.

But I'm leaving it in

the hands of the jury.

I'm learning a lot about people's

innermost fears in this trial.

It's not even about my trial no more.

It's just about

Ioud rap music, tattoo-having thugs.

It's about some nightmare

that these people are having.

I can't understand why it's so close.

There's no evidence I sodomized her,

even though you put that in the paper.

Print the facts so everybody

can sort it out.

My life is ruined because nobody

has a chance to get the facts.

Fact is, there was no semen found.

No semen found, no forcible entry,

no entry into the anal, no nothing.

I wanted to explain it.

If you could go back to the night

when the abuse occurred,

- Is there anything you'd do differently?

- Yeah.

I would not have closed my eyes

until she was out of the room,

until everybody was out of the room.

So when you left the room

and left her with those people...

I didn't leave her with those people

or bring her to them.

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