With his new five-part Tupac docuseries, Allen Hughes weighs in on making the definitive look at a legend — and separating the man from the myth.
That idea came late, actually. People know what happened — it was in the news — but as a story, told from someone who was in the car with him, there were things about that had never been told before, that I never knew. I found myself going, “Wait a minute, he knelt down like a marksman? And then he played the song he played, which is the demo for ‘Dear Mama?’ Oh, that’s got to go up front…”It’s the poet and the “Thug Life” guy, in one story.
I don’t think I’ve ever said this before publicly, but: I didn’t know Tupac was also making a documentary on his life about him and his mother with a friend of his, a filmmaker that was doing music videos at the time. This was in the last year of his life.Yeah. I didn’t know that when I started this process, to be honest. So I got to pick up stuff that he himself shot for a movie on himself and his mother. This was all during the last year of his life.
There was an interview you did a few years back where someone asked you about Tupac and you talked about this thing he kept bringing up: “Well, I got to do this music as hard as possible so then I can bring all these people that I’ve brought over to where they need to go. I’m bringing everybody in — and then I’m going to blow some minds. This is where I tell people this is what we need to do. This is where we need to be taking things.” And he just never got that chance.
I always say Tupac signed his record deal three years too late. It’s ’91. It’s the epicenter of gangster rap. And it ain’t just
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