PUDGEE THA PHAT BASTARD (RAPPER) He stayed loyal as fuck.
They were there for him in the beginning when he had nothing, so even though he knew they were stealing from him, he wasn’t going to do anything because he felt a sense of loyalty. There were people in his life that were taking advantage of him, and he knew that. So when the money started to come, he assumed that it would continue to come, and he spent accordingly. WENDY DAY (RAP COALITION FOUNDER) He came from a very poor background and never had money. Suge said, “I need to ask you, because this could hurt us: Do you really think Pac is innocent?” I said, “From my lips to God’s ears, yes.” “Why?” “My experience with him. It’s when he’d gone into Rikers on that bullshit charge. I know what to do with it.” So he then went and got Tupac out of jail and turned him into a Death Row artist.ĪLEX ROBERTS (FORMER HEAD OF BUSINESS AFFAIRS, DEATH ROW RECORDS) It was Snoop who brought up the idea of Pac on Death Row. He basically went to Jimmy and said, “Give me Tupac-sign his contract over to me. Suge was really good at recognizing talent, and he recognized the talent in Tupac. Interscope didn’t know what to do with him. VIRGIL ROBERTS (FORMER PRESIDENT, SOLAR RECORDS) Tupac had been signed to Interscope. It was a $3 million bond and Suge Knight paid for it, and he said, “If I pay for this, I want you on my label.” At that point, Tupac was on the up. LESLIE GERARD (FORMER A&R, INTERSCOPE RECORDS) When Tupac was in prison, he couldn’t get bailed out. The fraught relationship between the rising superstar and his ruthless would-be mentor is captured in this excerpt from Changes: An Oral History of Tupac Shakur.
A year later, Shakur was dead, assassinated in a drive-by shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
rap entrepreneur Suge Knight offered to pay his $3 million bail on the condition he sign with Knight’s Death Row Records. In 1995, Tupac Shakur was in Rikers Island on sexual assault charges when L.A.
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