5 Things We Never Knew About Tupac Revealed In This Unreleased Phone Conversation with Sanyika Shakur

Last week an unreleased Tupac conversation between Sanyika Shakur and himself surfaced on the internet. The call took place on October 18th, 1995 and was accidentally recorded by Sanyika Shakur’s wife on their answering machine.

During the call  Tupac reveals many ideas he had, unknown to the public. Based on this conversation we created a Top 5 List of things you probably didn’t know about Tupac, but would absolutely love to. Check it out.

5#Revolutionary plans to take back the community.

Pac talks about using rappers such as Coolio, Ice Cube, Redman and more to make a positive change in the community. He talks about starting a sports youth league with each rapper in the community having his own team. The church would come out and serve food. All the men in the community would srve as security, as so to get respect from the kids around the neighborhood. On the weekends, he planned on lightening the mood through block parties.

Pac had a vision; a plan where him and “all these tough ass suppose to be gansta rappers” would approach every drug dealer and gang banger on the block, take them out to dinner—Dom Pérignon, lobster, all that. They’d ask—from brother to brother—to help keep the streets safe from 6am-11pm. Pac wanted the streets absolutely clean for the kids; no weed, no gunshots, just peace.

4#Pac names a couple of cowards.

During one of his shows, Pac stopped and put the spotlight on a slew of slew of gang members yelling “thug life.” He referred to them as a bunch of cowards, but with plenty of reason. He names a few others, but we’re not totally spoiling this one. Pac was a man of moral.

3#Pac had a positive attitude fresh out of jail.

When Tupac was incarcerated he had everyone in there taking care of him. He came out with an even more positive attitude. Pac admits one of his problems was trying to take care of everyone. If someone was in trouble, he’d stay to help. Things weren’t always reciprocated though. Sanyika drops knowledge on distinguishing the real from the fake. There are a couple of things we could all learn from this conversation.

2#Tupac asks Maya Angelou for help.

Tupac reveals he wanted Maya Angelou to help him write his autobiography. He’d already asked and her response: “ok.” What an epic book that would have been…R.I.P. Ms. Angelou.

1#Tupac knew who shot him (the first time) and why.

Pac reveals he’s not surprised at a white man pulling a gun on him. A black man, however, is a different story. Behold…