For two years he attended Dunbar High School on the Eastside but transferred to the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he found Shakespeare, dramatic arts, and friendships. He lived at 3955 Greenmount Avenue (Pen Lucy) with his mother, Afeni Shakur, and his younger sister, Sekyiwa. He grew up in Baltimore, went to school here and captured the hearts of many in this town and eventually around the world.Īnd so, Baltimore will honor him with Tupac Shakur Commemoration Week from September 11 to 17 on this 25 th anniversary of his death (September 13, 1996) at 25 years of age.
And Tupac Shakur stepped out from the crowd and spoke his words of wisdom, of freedom, of truth and life and love. He was educated in Baltimore at the Writing Seminars Program at Johns Hopkins University in the early 1970s. And that too was good and his name was Gil Scott Heron. Then along came a poet-jazz musician (magician) who informed us “the revolution will not be televised,” and also, he sang truths to power (Say, what’s the word? Johannesburg!) during the anti-apartheid protests. It came forth from a group known as the Last Poets and they blended and recorded 60s music and poetry from the movement and it was good. “A man like that would never just be able to be silent for this amount of time.In the beginning was the spoken word. That’s real and you can’t fake that, and they’re not going to.”īut what about that long-held conspiracy theory that the rapper faked his own death and is living la vida loca in Cuba? “If they are telling me that I’m delivering and capturing the essence of him, that’s what means the most to me. While Shipp is very much aware that fans of the rapper have very high expectations of his performance, he says he cares more about the responses of “the people who put this together and knew him and lived with him and walked with him,” he said.
“I was like, ‘Dude, how many different angles are we going to shoot this from?’ because it was an emotional thing more than anything.” That’s a great texture in the movie that people I think will enjoy.”Īs for the toughest scene, perhaps predictably that would be the fatal Las Vegas drive-by shooting. “You can’t see what it was like for him to be romantic with a woman. “Because it shows a Pac that you can’t see anywhere else. Shipp’s favorite scenes were with Annie Ilonzeh, who plays Kidada, the daughter of Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton, who was engaged to Tupac at the time of his death. It shows a Pac that you can’t see anywhere else.
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