My Adventures with Tupac...Brainchild gone ROGUE - Part V

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRWUs0KtB-I (Brenda's got a Baby by Tupac)

and choices that were made. Originally, the song was a diss song against his mom; Pac was very angry about her throwing him out at seventeen. I was also estranged from my mom and we had not spoken for a few years. I reminded him, had she not put him out, he wouldn't have linked up with Digital Underground, got to be on tour & on an adventure of a lifetime. We exchanged childhood stories of growing up in NYC & Tupac was very determined to make this a diss record. I put my foot down & reminded him, "he's a grown ass man & don't need a mother anymore!" I went on to remind him, "a woman's responsibility was over when he reached a certain age, which was the day you decided to no longer listen to her rules & take control over your own life." I wasn't agreeing to a diss song about moms & so I told him about my very horrid childhood (mental, physical, sexual & physiological abuse) & as we compared notes, I could tell he was giving in. I asked, had he ever gone hungry & he said "no." I asked did he ever have to go to the hospital & again, he said he said, "no." I spent so much time at Kings Country Hospital that they threatened to call child services & so instead, I would just be left on the stoop to bleed. I asked "did your Mother ever neglect him & yet again, he said "no" & so I couldn’t image why would he want to talk about his Mom’s crack habit. Pac felt betrayed by his mom’s drug use and its effect on their relationship. I saw no reason to make such a song that would be insulting to Moms.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V0cfqqRYSs (Keep ya Head Up by Tupac)

Pac was sure this was a good idea & so I insisted that he show the good & bad times equally! He should big his Mom’s up because after all. .......she took care of him. I had to show him how to flip it tastefully & with respect. We discussed for the better part of the day, song structure and the effects ‘Crack’ had on his childhood. When he misbehaved as a child, Afeni Shakur would make her son read the New York Times as punishment. Similar to Pac, I also had to read the Sunday NY Times paper every week & do the Jumbo every week, sometimes-daily. Finally, as we were getting on separate tour buses, he brought up the subject again asking me how should he start the song. Pac seemed stuck & so off the top of my head, I suggested that he write a letter to his Moms and make it into a song. This was the last day on the tour in DC, I left it there & we didn't see each other for a while. I stayed behind in DC for a few days with Big Daddy Kane's   Pops house for a mean BBQ party. Pac kept the song in his head until he felt it was the right time to record it. Two years later Dear Mama was released after he left prison, his biggest selling song ever.



JUICE 

Shakur's professional entertainment career began in the early 1990s when he debuted his rapping skills in a vocal turn in Digital Underground's "Same Song" from the soundtrack to the 1991 film, Nothing but Trouble. He also appeared with the group in the film of the same name. The song was later released as the lead song of the Digital Underground's EP, This is an EP Release, the follow-up to their debut hit album, Sex Packets. Shakur appeared in the accompanying music video. After his rap debut, he performed with Digital Underground again on the album, Sons of the P. Shakur appeared on two of the group's recordings -1990's This Is an EP and Sons of the P before going solo. I first got a copy of the Juice script while I was choreographing New Jack City. I discussed the script with Preston Holmes, one of the film producers. Without much of a budget for a Choreographer, I was offered a part or a cameo appearance. During the filming of Juice, I was invited to do a scene but I told Flex Alexander to go instead as he wanted to pursue acting. Flex of course got to do the scene with Queen Latifah, his first major film role. A few days later, a friend from the label (that was doing the soundtrack), invited me to do a cameo in another scene with Queen Latifah and Sons of Bazerk, doing choreography. This time, I went. First I needed a new Mafioso boss blazer and a nose ring for a different look. I got a black & white striped blazer for 500 dollars with black slacks. When Pac saw me sporting the nose ring, he tried to leave the set immediately to get his nose pierced but I told him that wasn't a good idea. He insists saying, "he was done for the day and could do as he pleased!" I told him to make sure to let the producer know he was leaving as he was being arrogant. A few minutes later, he came back to tell me the producer said, "no way, that would mess up the film which still had another week to shoot." Of course I knew she wouldn’t allow it but Pac had to hear it for his self. The day after the last scene shot of Juice, Pac got his nose ring then did the pictures for Movie poster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izCSC1Vtui4 (Juice by Eric B & Rakim)

About a week later, we linked up and I didn't have my nose ring in. Pac was in shock! He asked" how you do that?" I explained to him that it was just a loop I clipped on for a different look. We laughed about it but at that time, I had no piercings. Months after Juice was released in theaters November 12, 1991, Tupac's debut album, 2Pacalypse Now revealed the socially conscious side of Shakur. On this album, Shakur attacked social injustice, poverty and police brutality on songs, "Brenda's Got a Baby", "Trapped" and “Part Time Mutha". His style on this album was highly influenced by the social consciousness and Afrocentrism pervading hip-hop in the late 1980's and early 90's. Upon  its initial release, Shakur helped extend the success of such rap groups as Boogie Down Productions, Public Enemy, X-Clan, and Grand Master Flash as he became one of the first major socially conscious rappers from the West Coast. That is what the media critics stated about Tupac. In October 1991, Tupac filed a $10 Million civil suit against the Oakland Police Department alleging they brutally beat him for jaywalking. On August 22, 1992, in Marin City, Shakur performed at an outdoor festival, and stayed for an hour afterwards signing autographs and pictures. His second album, Strictly 4 My N. I. G. G. A. Z., crossed over to the pop charts, with singles “I Get Around" and "Keep Ya Head Up." The album went platinum selling more than a million copies. He showed his softer side in Poetic Justice (1993), which was billed as "A Street Romance." Shakur starred opposite Janet Jackson in the film. The following year, he played a drug dealer in the basketball drama Above the Rim.




 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqjHA5OtDls (2 of ameriKKKaz most wanted by 2Pac feat Snoop)


2Pac: Well when I said that, it made me think. It brought me to myself. Now I have a different philosophy. Hip Hop when it started, it was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. Now it seems like I was starting to get caught up in the mode of what made hip hop come about. As long as the music has the true to the heart soul it can be hip hop. As long it has soul to it, hip-hop can live on. Dogg Food was not produced by Dr. Dre but was mixed by Dre, a further testament to Young's dwindling involvement with his own label. Though he contributed two tracks to 2Pac's All Eyez on Me, it was mostly produced by Daz and Johnny J despite Dre being nominally titled as Executive Producer. Shakur's behavior reportedly became erratic as he continued verbal wars with Mobb Deep, Nas, Biggie, the Fugees and Jay-Z. Shakur also turned on the label's co-founder and former head producer, Dr. Dre. Shakur was incensed that Dre was getting credit for producing recordings that he had little or no involvement in. In 1996, due to the infighting, Dre left Death Row to form Aftermath Entertai

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