In Tupac Vs., director Ken Peters has assembled a compelling portrait of controversial hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur, featur | dG1fUHRSeUEyb29NM1U
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00:00I really did believe, up until I got shot, that no black person would ever shoot me.
00:05I was their representative.
00:06They would never harm me.
00:22This game of life is a game, and you have to play it to the fullest.
00:26I have graduated to the next level, and now I want you to know what it was like.
00:30I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.
00:35I reveal myself.
00:37My mother was pregnant with me while she was in prison, so I was cultivated in prison.
00:41Curse me, do anything that they can, to try and hurt me.
00:45Good Lord, whatever happened to me.
00:47Even though I was surviving in a thug life, everybody that was trying to be like me was going to jail.
00:51It took five bullets for me to stop and see what was really going on.
00:55Maybe it's the strategy I'm using.
00:57My music is spiritual if you listen to it.
01:00It's all about emotion.
01:01It's all about life.
01:02I believe that his lyrics and his art and everything he left us will do the work.
01:08The reality is that Tupac had thug in him and he had revolutionary in him.
01:12Both of them were equally vital.
01:14He began to believe that the greatest revolutionary was the thug.
01:17But I'm a soldier.
01:18I always survive.
01:19And the only thing that can kill me is death.
01:21That's the only thing that'll ever stop me.
01:23And even then, my music will live forever, ever.
01:25Ever, ever, ever, ever.