Episode #70 | 2.2.21
Tupac Shakur (Pt. 2): Life Behind Bars, Suge Knight Saves the Day, East Coast West Coast Beef, and What Could Have Been
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In this episode
In part two of the Tupac Shakur story we see the young star trying to deal with life behind bars and giving in to the patronage of the notorious Suge Knight of Death Row Records while getting into the mud with the Notorious B.I.G. in a deadly game of beef. We also get a glimpse of what Tupac Shakur might have achieved had he not gone to Las Vegas on that fateful night back in 1996.
Sources
To Die Like a Gangsta, by Robert Sam Anson
Quail Calls For Pulling Rap Album Tied to Murder Case, by John Broder
Suge Knight takes gangsta rap literally and founds Death Row Records, by Gareth Grundy
Tupac interview with Kevin Powell for VIBE Magazine 1/15/1995
Rap Artist Tupac Shakur Shot in Robbery, by New York Times
The Reason Why Tupac Shot 2 Police Officers and Wasn’t Charged, by Matt Agorist
Unfortunate Son: the roots of Tupac Shakur’s rebellion, by Travis Kitchens
Tupac Shoots Two Cops in Atlanta, E.D.I. Retells the Story, He Was There, by Vegas
Read a 17-year old Rashida Jones’ Fiery Letter to Tupac in 1993, by Greg Whitt
Marin City Haunted by Boy’s Shooting, by Torri Minton
Shakur has to take the rap for not stepping up, by Craig Marine
This is Why Spike Lee Would Never Make a Tupac Bio-Pic!! SMH, by Gab N Sam
L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later - Keeping Tupac from the Riots, by A&E
Tupac Talks on LA Riots RARE, by World News
Madonna’s Relationship with Tupac: Rosie Perez Dishes, by The View
Snoop Dogg on Tupac Dating Madonna, by The Howard Stern Show
Tupac Broke Up With Madonna Over Race, by TMZLive
2Pac & Madonna - I’d Rather Be Your Lover (Unreleased), by Unreleased Muuzik
Flashback: Mopreme Shakur Details Tupac’s Secret Relationship with Madonna, by djvlad
Complex: How the 1995 Source Awards Changed Rap Forever
Washington Post: Gangsta Life And Death
Chicago Tribune: A Made-By-Media Hip-Hop Rivalry
Complex: The Real Story Behind 'VIBE''s East Coast West Coast Cover
VIBE: Tupac Shakur Jailhouse Interview
VIBE: Biggie And Puff Break Their Silence
XXL: Tupac's Quad Studios Shooting
VIBE: Somehow Hip-Hop Always Finds A Way
Washington Post: Rapper Tupac Shakur Robbed, Shot in N.Y.
Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.
Music
Score by Jake Brennan.
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