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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,812 --> 00:00:03,915 [emcee] As author of a new book, we today are honored that 2 00:00:03,915 --> 00:00:06,118 Ms. Shakur chose Clark Atlanta University 3 00:00:06,118 --> 00:00:08,020 to share her spirit. 4 00:00:08,020 --> 00:00:10,022 If you will, please join me in welcoming 5 00:00:10,022 --> 00:00:13,291 one affectionately known as "Dear Mama," Afeni Shakur. 6 00:00:13,291 --> 00:00:17,262 [cheering and applause] 7 00:00:17,262 --> 00:00:21,867 [Afeni] A book, any book, is a sacred item. 8 00:00:23,035 --> 00:00:27,806 So me, I worship the written word. 9 00:00:27,806 --> 00:00:30,976 - You know? But... - [loud applause] 10 00:00:30,976 --> 00:00:33,578 First, let me tell you that I am not 11 00:00:33,578 --> 00:00:34,980 the author of this book. 12 00:00:34,980 --> 00:00:36,615 Very important to note, 13 00:00:38,283 --> 00:00:39,951 Jasmine Guy wrote this book. 14 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:44,289 [Jasmine] She was a brilliant woman. 15 00:00:44,289 --> 00:00:46,191 I love this woman. 16 00:00:46,191 --> 00:00:48,060 I love her son. 17 00:00:48,660 --> 00:00:52,764 There was an intellectual curiosity that they shared. 18 00:00:52,764 --> 00:00:55,667 And a sense of how to tell a story. 19 00:00:56,868 --> 00:00:59,171 [Afeni] In 1995, 20 00:00:59,171 --> 00:01:04,843 Jasmine Guy intended to write a book about my life. 21 00:01:04,843 --> 00:01:07,245 [Jasmine] And this is all the stuff, you know, 22 00:01:07,245 --> 00:01:09,181 the ugly kind of truth. 23 00:01:11,550 --> 00:01:14,219 All the ups, downs, abandonment, 24 00:01:14,219 --> 00:01:17,656 abuse, drugs, the trauma. 25 00:01:17,656 --> 00:01:19,558 [Afeni] I didn't want to talk about nothing. 26 00:01:19,558 --> 00:01:21,159 It's just the way I was. 27 00:01:21,159 --> 00:01:22,928 [Jasmine] Just because you adapt 28 00:01:22,928 --> 00:01:24,629 and push through something, 29 00:01:24,629 --> 00:01:25,931 doesn't mean your body did. 30 00:01:25,931 --> 00:01:27,833 Doesn't mean your spirit did. 31 00:01:27,833 --> 00:01:29,301 [Afeni] It didn't come willingly. 32 00:01:29,301 --> 00:01:31,236 If I don't like the way things are going, 33 00:01:31,236 --> 00:01:33,572 I will run away and leave. 34 00:01:33,572 --> 00:01:35,240 And Tupac confronted me on that. 35 00:01:35,874 --> 00:01:38,677 He taught me to not run away anymore. 36 00:01:39,311 --> 00:01:41,113 And-- and that's him. 37 00:01:41,113 --> 00:01:44,750 He never, ever, ever was going to bend his knee 38 00:01:44,750 --> 00:01:46,251 for five seconds. 39 00:01:54,192 --> 00:01:56,094 [Allen] So at the time that Pac was 25, 40 00:01:56,094 --> 00:01:57,629 and he's scared of Suge, 41 00:01:57,629 --> 00:01:59,698 he's trying to get off the label, 42 00:01:59,698 --> 00:02:01,233 But he's not saying anything, he's not vocal-- 43 00:02:01,233 --> 00:02:03,068 No, no, no, no. Scared... 44 00:02:03,068 --> 00:02:04,903 - to get off what label? Death Row? - [Allen] Yeah. 45 00:02:04,903 --> 00:02:07,072 No, no, no, no, no, no. Let me say this. 46 00:02:07,072 --> 00:02:11,076 Two weeks before we went to Vegas, 47 00:02:11,076 --> 00:02:12,911 Pac was on the phone, 48 00:02:12,911 --> 00:02:14,780 foaming out of his mouth, 49 00:02:14,780 --> 00:02:17,849 veins were busting out his neck, his head-- 50 00:02:17,849 --> 00:02:20,619 Threatened to blow up Death Row studio. 51 00:02:20,619 --> 00:02:23,255 And he was fussing about his music. 52 00:02:23,255 --> 00:02:24,990 He wanted his masters. 53 00:02:24,990 --> 00:02:27,592 [Jamal] Tupac was done with Death Row. 54 00:02:27,592 --> 00:02:29,261 You know, he had fired Kenner, the lawyer. 55 00:02:29,261 --> 00:02:30,929 He was really on his way out. 56 00:02:30,929 --> 00:02:32,831 [Jamala] He had fulfilled his obligation. 57 00:02:32,831 --> 00:02:35,267 And that wasn't his plan to be there that long. 58 00:02:35,267 --> 00:02:37,669 [Tupac] No doubt. 59 00:02:37,669 --> 00:02:39,504 [Jamala] He had a plan. 60 00:02:39,504 --> 00:02:41,139 [Tupac] ♪ To live and die in L. A. ♪ 61 00:02:41,506 --> 00:02:43,909 [Jamala] Tupac had a whole life mapped out. 62 00:02:44,409 --> 00:02:46,578 And he was very happy. 63 00:02:46,578 --> 00:02:48,280 ♪ To live and die in L. A. ♪ 64 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,048 ♪ Where everyday we Try to fatten our pockets ♪ 65 00:02:50,048 --> 00:02:51,583 ♪ Us niggas Hustle for the cash ♪ 66 00:02:51,583 --> 00:02:53,585 ♪ So it's hard to knock it ♪ 67 00:02:53,585 --> 00:02:56,021 ♪ Everybody got they own thing Currency chasin' ♪ 68 00:02:56,021 --> 00:02:58,824 ♪ Worldwide through the Hard times, worrying faces ♪ 69 00:02:58,824 --> 00:03:01,226 ♪ Shed tears as we bury Niggas close to heart ♪ 70 00:03:01,226 --> 00:03:03,695 ♪ Who was a friend Now a ghost in the dark ♪ 71 00:03:03,695 --> 00:03:06,264 ♪ Cold-hearted 'bout it Nigga got smoked by a fiend ♪ 72 00:03:06,264 --> 00:03:09,167 ♪ Tryin' to floss on him, blind To a broken man's dream ♪ 73 00:03:09,167 --> 00:03:11,970 ♪ A hard lesson, court cases Keep me guessin' ♪ 74 00:03:11,970 --> 00:03:14,573 ♪ Plea bargain ain't an Option now, so I'm stressin' ♪ 75 00:03:14,573 --> 00:03:17,142 ♪ Cost me more to be free Than a life in the pen ♪ 76 00:03:17,142 --> 00:03:20,178 ♪ Makin' money off of Cuss words, writin' again ♪ 77 00:03:20,178 --> 00:03:22,948 ♪ Learn how to think ahead So I fight with my pen ♪ 78 00:03:22,948 --> 00:03:25,650 ♪ Late night down sunset Likin' the scene ♪ 79 00:03:25,650 --> 00:03:27,786 ♪ What's the worst they Can do to a nigga? ♪ 80 00:03:27,786 --> 00:03:30,856 ♪ Got me lost in Hell, to live And die in L. A. on bail ♪ 81 00:03:31,990 --> 00:03:33,892 [Glo] Tupac asked me to move 82 00:03:33,892 --> 00:03:36,661 from Decatur, Georgia, to California. 83 00:03:36,661 --> 00:03:39,297 He wouldn't eat nobody else's fried chicken. 84 00:03:39,297 --> 00:03:41,166 He say, I'll get you a house. 85 00:03:41,166 --> 00:03:43,001 Hell, yeah. 86 00:03:43,001 --> 00:03:44,703 [Tupac] ♪ To live and die in L. A. ♪ 87 00:03:44,703 --> 00:03:45,971 [Glo] He was our hope for a better life, 88 00:03:45,971 --> 00:03:47,806 a different life. 89 00:03:47,806 --> 00:03:48,740 [Tupac] ♪ To live and die in L. A. ♪ 90 00:03:48,740 --> 00:03:50,208 He told us to bring his guns. 91 00:03:50,208 --> 00:03:53,245 We packed up every pistol, every rifle, 92 00:03:53,245 --> 00:03:56,081 and we now set off to L. A. 93 00:03:58,550 --> 00:03:59,651 [Tupac] ♪ To live and die in L. A. ♪ 94 00:03:59,651 --> 00:04:01,653 [Jamal] During that same period, 95 00:04:01,653 --> 00:04:04,856 Suge was doing what he could do to lure Tupac back in. 96 00:04:04,856 --> 00:04:06,858 [chorus] ♪ To live and die in L. A. ♪ 97 00:04:06,858 --> 00:04:08,794 Even up to that last day of the ride up to Las Vegas, 98 00:04:08,794 --> 00:04:10,629 where Pac didn't really want to go. 99 00:04:10,629 --> 00:04:13,165 And he's just guilt-tripping him. 100 00:04:13,165 --> 00:04:14,166 - [Suge] "Mike's playing your song." - [announcer] Mike Tyson! 101 00:04:14,166 --> 00:04:15,834 [Jamala] It was the fight night. 102 00:04:15,834 --> 00:04:18,203 So Pac is-- "Aight, fuck him." 103 00:04:18,203 --> 00:04:19,938 On our way to Vegas, 104 00:04:21,206 --> 00:04:25,043 Sunflower seeds, magazines, 105 00:04:25,043 --> 00:04:28,647 cigarettes, blunts, Sunkist. You know? 106 00:04:30,816 --> 00:04:33,585 Checked in at the Luxor hotel. 107 00:04:33,585 --> 00:04:35,954 That's when Pac decided that he didn't want me 108 00:04:35,954 --> 00:04:37,789 and Kidada to hang out. 109 00:04:37,789 --> 00:04:40,225 We kept saying, "This is like Robberween." 110 00:04:40,225 --> 00:04:41,893 You don't want to be out here. 111 00:04:41,893 --> 00:04:44,796 At this point, Pac was always like, 112 00:04:44,796 --> 00:04:47,699 everywhere he goes, he need to put his bulletproof vest on. 113 00:04:47,699 --> 00:04:49,801 Pac had just bought all his jewelry, 114 00:04:49,801 --> 00:04:53,038 his dope Makavelli ring, and the necklace. 115 00:04:53,805 --> 00:04:56,241 But Suge was like, "No, you don't need all that. 116 00:04:56,241 --> 00:04:57,976 You don't need all that. 117 00:04:57,976 --> 00:04:59,711 Come on, we're just gonna go to the fight." 118 00:04:59,711 --> 00:05:01,213 Suge would keep saying, 119 00:05:01,213 --> 00:05:02,814 "Pac, are you behind me?" 120 00:05:02,814 --> 00:05:04,249 and Pac would be like, 121 00:05:04,249 --> 00:05:05,817 "Motherfucker, yeah, I'm behind you." 122 00:05:05,817 --> 00:05:08,687 [chuckles] Yeah. 123 00:05:08,687 --> 00:05:10,255 [Glo] The next morning, my husband and I, 124 00:05:10,255 --> 00:05:12,657 we're driving through Texas. 125 00:05:13,258 --> 00:05:15,260 The ra dio come on, and it say, 126 00:05:15,260 --> 00:05:18,930 "Rapper Tupac Shakur shot in Vegas." 127 00:05:18,930 --> 00:05:20,966 [reporter] While riding along the Strip in Las Vegas. 128 00:05:20,966 --> 00:05:23,668 Shakur is reported in critical condition this morning, 129 00:05:23,668 --> 00:05:24,936 in a Las Vegas hospital. 130 00:05:24,936 --> 00:05:26,471 Oh, God. 131 00:05:30,275 --> 00:05:32,044 [Allen] You guys good? e] I want you to make me look what I am. 132 00:05:32,044 --> 00:05:34,506 Don't make me look right. 133 00:05:34,506 --> 00:05:36,241 Make me look what I am. 134 00:05:36,241 --> 00:05:37,209 [Allen] Um, but I'm first gonna ask you, like, 135 00:05:37,209 --> 00:05:38,877 like, whatever the fuck I ask, 136 00:05:38,877 --> 00:05:40,112 I'm a little goofy, Mike, so bear with me. 137 00:05:40,112 --> 00:05:41,880 Go for it. Join the club. 138 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:43,515 [Allen] I'm into the parallels between you and Tupac. 139 00:05:43,515 --> 00:05:45,384 He's referred to you as his older brother, 140 00:05:45,384 --> 00:05:47,987 and I feel like you're the only one that can speak. 141 00:05:47,987 --> 00:05:50,389 to someone being from where he's from, coming from 142 00:05:50,389 --> 00:05:53,158 the bottom, fame, fortune-- 143 00:05:53,158 --> 00:05:56,228 going through all that stuff you had to go through. 144 00:05:56,228 --> 00:05:58,430 Am I sweatin' like a pimp with one hoe over here? 145 00:05:58,430 --> 00:05:59,965 - [Allen] I'm gonna say to Boot to pat down. - [laughter] 146 00:05:59,965 --> 00:06:00,899 Can I get a pat-down? 147 00:06:02,568 --> 00:06:04,970 You know, when it gets closer to the fight, 148 00:06:04,970 --> 00:06:07,373 if the energy is still humming, I'mma start perspiring, 149 00:06:07,373 --> 00:06:10,376 I start losing weight, I start-- I don't know. 150 00:06:10,376 --> 00:06:12,244 - It just happened. - [Allen] Just off the mindset. 151 00:06:12,244 --> 00:06:13,979 Yeah, it happens naturally. 152 00:06:13,979 --> 00:06:15,414 Like I could be-- I could be like having a bad day... 153 00:06:15,414 --> 00:06:17,850 having bad days. And it just start-- boom! 154 00:06:17,850 --> 00:06:19,151 Everything's coming to set. Boom! 155 00:06:19,151 --> 00:06:20,552 You know what you have to do. 156 00:06:20,552 --> 00:06:22,388 My mind is working, the elements are working. 157 00:06:22,388 --> 00:06:23,922 Everything is right. 158 00:06:24,990 --> 00:06:26,225 You know, I'm a gutter kid. 159 00:06:27,226 --> 00:06:30,562 I was ju st a chubby fat kid, that was-- got disrespected. 160 00:06:30,562 --> 00:06:32,998 I had pigeons. I was raising pigeons. 161 00:06:32,998 --> 00:06:36,502 One day, um, these bullies came to take my pigeons. 162 00:06:36,502 --> 00:06:38,370 I said, "Please, can I have my birds back?" 163 00:06:38,370 --> 00:06:41,373 And this one guy, was like, "No, you fat bitch." 164 00:06:41,373 --> 00:06:43,242 And he popped the neck off, 165 00:06:43,242 --> 00:06:44,376 hit me with the head, poured the blood on me, 166 00:06:44,376 --> 00:06:46,011 hit me with the bird, 167 00:06:46,011 --> 00:06:47,513 then someone said, "Fight him back." 168 00:06:47,513 --> 00:06:49,248 So, I beat the shit out of him. 169 00:06:49,248 --> 00:06:50,949 And when I hit the guy and I dropped him, 170 00:06:50,949 --> 00:06:52,985 I started skipping. Everybody started clapping. 171 00:06:52,985 --> 00:06:54,219 And I got-- Oh! 172 00:06:54,219 --> 00:06:55,387 I got addicted to fighting. 173 00:06:55,387 --> 00:06:57,423 [laughs] 174 00:06:57,423 --> 00:06:59,258 Everybody started clapping. I got addicted to fighting. 175 00:06:59,258 --> 00:07:01,093 I fought every day. 176 00:07:01,093 --> 00:07:03,395 Fighting, biting ears, and fighting in the... 177 00:07:03,395 --> 00:07:06,031 the legs on-- That was-- that was-- 178 00:07:06,031 --> 00:07:07,232 Ah, I loved it. It got me high. 179 00:07:07,232 --> 00:07:08,334 It got my... 180 00:07:08,334 --> 00:07:09,935 I was, um... 181 00:07:10,436 --> 00:07:12,204 It got me erected. 182 00:07:12,204 --> 00:07:14,106 My dick got hard. 183 00:07:14,106 --> 00:07:16,108 Violence got my dick hard. Yeah. 184 00:07:16,108 --> 00:07:17,476 [Allen] You got off on it. 185 00:07:17,476 --> 00:07:18,877 I didn't get off. I didn't come. 186 00:07:18,877 --> 00:07:20,813 But it got my dick hard. 187 00:07:20,813 --> 00:07:22,982 [ L'estasi dell'oro by Ennio Morricone plays] 188 00:07:22,982 --> 00:07:24,283 [Allen] Wow. 189 00:07:24,283 --> 00:07:26,018 [Mike] That's how much violence 190 00:07:26,018 --> 00:07:27,086 was a part of my life. 191 00:07:29,054 --> 00:07:30,389 You know, um... 192 00:07:32,992 --> 00:07:35,094 I'm a different kind of guy maybe, than Tupac, 193 00:07:35,094 --> 00:07:36,528 you know, because I-- [stammers] 194 00:07:37,162 --> 00:07:39,098 I don't feel good saying this. 195 00:07:39,632 --> 00:07:41,834 You know, um, that place, the prison-- 196 00:07:41,834 --> 00:07:43,135 I--I-- for some reason, 197 00:07:43,135 --> 00:07:44,470 I thrive in places like that. 198 00:07:46,505 --> 00:07:48,207 I was dark. 199 00:07:48,207 --> 00:07:50,843 Tupac was really a good kid. 200 00:07:50,843 --> 00:07:53,112 He had cause and reasons to fight. 201 00:07:53,112 --> 00:07:54,847 He was just a beautiful person. 202 00:07:54,847 --> 00:07:56,081 I'm just-- I'm just selfish. 203 00:07:56,081 --> 00:07:57,883 We just wanna get a lot of money. 204 00:07:57,883 --> 00:07:59,251 The only thing we want, we only want jewelry, 205 00:07:59,251 --> 00:08:01,854 we want nice clothes, and want to get high. 206 00:08:01,854 --> 00:08:03,555 If browns is in the house, we sticking up everything. 207 00:08:03,555 --> 00:08:04,957 We're taking everything. 208 00:08:04,957 --> 00:08:06,392 We might even kill you. 209 00:08:06,392 --> 00:08:07,826 Isn't that true, George? 210 00:08:08,394 --> 00:08:10,362 [ann ouncer] It's showtime! 211 00:08:10,729 --> 00:08:13,132 [Jamal] The atmosphere is charged up. 212 00:08:13,132 --> 00:08:15,367 [Mike] It's chaos like you can never believe. 213 00:08:15,734 --> 00:08:18,504 And... How do I say this? 214 00:08:18,504 --> 00:08:19,838 [bell dings] 215 00:08:19,838 --> 00:08:21,006 I'm the baddest motherfucker 216 00:08:21,006 --> 00:08:22,374 in that element. 217 00:08:23,008 --> 00:08:25,377 [commentator] That's it! It's over in the first round. 218 00:08:25,377 --> 00:08:29,415 [triumphant music playing] 219 00:08:29,415 --> 00:08:33,085 [Jamal] Mike Tyson destroyed his opponent in less than a round. 220 00:08:33,519 --> 00:08:35,220 [Mike] I stopped the gu y in one minute. 221 00:08:35,621 --> 00:08:37,823 Right after I get out the ri ng, I hug Tupac. 222 00:08:39,191 --> 00:08:41,860 I tell him, "I'm gonna see you tonight, nigga." 223 00:08:41,860 --> 00:08:44,229 I'm gonna be at 662, I tell him. Boom! 224 00:08:46,031 --> 00:08:47,967 [screams] 225 00:08:47,967 --> 00:08:49,034 Give me some! 226 00:08:50,235 --> 00:08:51,937 I told you all we back! 227 00:08:52,705 --> 00:08:55,207 [Mike] After the fight, Tupac is still in that mode. 228 00:08:55,574 --> 00:08:57,109 Hey, hey, hey! 229 00:08:57,109 --> 00:08:58,510 ♪ When Tyson get in the ring ♪ 230 00:08:58,510 --> 00:09:00,412 ♪ He knock motherfuckers out! ♪ 231 00:09:00,412 --> 00:09:01,547 ♪ Well, that's what 2pac gon' do ♪ 232 00:09:01,547 --> 00:09:03,248 [Jamal] He was still charged up. 233 00:09:03,248 --> 00:09:05,150 Because the fight didn't satisfy that 234 00:09:05,150 --> 00:09:07,119 gladiator-spectator spirit. 235 00:09:07,119 --> 00:09:08,487 I told you, everybody that go to jail come out, 236 00:09:08,487 --> 00:09:10,022 they got good luck! 237 00:09:10,022 --> 00:09:12,024 [Mike] That's very addictive. 238 00:09:12,024 --> 00:09:13,525 [Tupac] ♪ When niggas come Against me ♪ 239 00:09:13,525 --> 00:09:15,027 ♪ I'ma knock They punk ass out! ♪ 240 00:09:15,027 --> 00:09:16,562 [Mike] If he didn't have anybody to fight, 241 00:09:16,562 --> 00:09:18,130 he'll find somebody to fight. 242 00:09:18,130 --> 00:09:19,999 [Jamal] And then, Pac sees this guy 243 00:09:19,999 --> 00:09:21,233 and someone says, 244 00:09:21,233 --> 00:09:23,235 "Isn't that Orlando Anderson? 245 00:09:23,235 --> 00:09:24,870 The Crip that stole our boy's 246 00:09:24,870 --> 00:09:26,505 Death Row medallion the other day?" 247 00:09:26,505 --> 00:09:28,374 Pac says, "He did what? 248 00:09:28,374 --> 00:09:30,309 I'm gonna go jump on this dude." 249 00:09:37,416 --> 00:09:39,985 [Jamala] Every time I saw it, I cringed. 250 00:09:39,985 --> 00:09:43,055 Every time I saw that video, I cringed. 251 00:09:48,293 --> 00:09:52,231 I was looking at something that was not real. 252 00:09:53,899 --> 00:09:55,367 You are not a gang member. 253 00:09:56,368 --> 00:09:58,103 How did you get here? 254 00:10:03,175 --> 00:10:04,476 How did you get here? 255 00:10:07,546 --> 00:10:10,382 What was you trying to prove to who? 256 00:10:13,852 --> 00:10:16,021 How did you go from believing this thing 257 00:10:16,021 --> 00:10:17,356 to believing that? 258 00:10:20,292 --> 00:10:22,828 How did you get the fuck there? 259 00:10:27,533 --> 00:10:28,534 Got caught up. 260 00:10:28,534 --> 00:10:31,470 [gunshots] 261 00:10:36,875 --> 00:10:38,944 [glass clattering] 262 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,215 [sirens blare] 263 00:10:51,798 --> 00:10:53,533 [Jamala] Aw, man. 264 00:10:53,533 --> 00:10:58,671 I remember when we got the call that Pac got shot. 265 00:10:58,671 --> 00:11:01,574 And-- and I froze. I stuck. Like, what? 266 00:11:01,574 --> 00:11:04,811 Like, because we had just went through this in New York. 267 00:11:05,896 --> 00:11:08,029 [reporter] For the second time in two years, 268 00:11:08,029 --> 00:11:10,083 a prominent rap artist has been shot and badly wounded. 269 00:11:12,652 --> 00:11:14,220 Tupac Shakur is in critical condition 270 00:11:14,220 --> 00:11:16,122 in a Las Vegas hospital tonight, 271 00:11:16,756 --> 00:11:18,725 Shakur was s hot four times in the chest. 272 00:11:18,725 --> 00:11:20,560 [Jamala] I don't know the details 273 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:21,594 of how the incident went, 274 00:11:21,594 --> 00:11:23,730 but I remember after the fight, 275 00:11:23,730 --> 00:11:25,631 Pac come in the room. 276 00:11:25,631 --> 00:11:27,734 He like, "I just knocked this nigga out," 277 00:11:27,734 --> 00:11:30,036 and he took off the buttoned-up orange shirt 278 00:11:30,036 --> 00:11:32,038 and threw on a jersey 279 00:11:32,038 --> 00:11:34,240 and then went back downstairs, 280 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:36,242 telling me and Kidada, "Y'all stay in the room." 281 00:11:36,242 --> 00:11:38,211 So we really pissed off about it 282 00:11:38,211 --> 00:11:40,079 because we didn't understand that 283 00:11:40,079 --> 00:11:41,848 these West Coast people 284 00:11:41,848 --> 00:11:43,850 take this gang shit real serious. 285 00:11:43,850 --> 00:11:46,085 I don't even think Pac understood it. 286 00:11:46,085 --> 00:11:47,687 [Jamal] You know, one of the worst things that you could do 287 00:11:47,687 --> 00:11:48,855 on the street is slap somebody 288 00:11:48,855 --> 00:11:49,989 or stomp somebody. 289 00:11:49,989 --> 00:11:51,057 That's a act 290 00:11:51,057 --> 00:11:52,225 of pure humiliation. 291 00:11:52,225 --> 00:11:54,027 You don't do it. And I think that 292 00:11:54,027 --> 00:11:55,561 Orlando Anderson is mobbed up 293 00:11:55,561 --> 00:11:57,597 and they went on the hunt. 294 00:11:57,597 --> 00:11:59,599 And there was enough Crips there and enough eyes 295 00:11:59,599 --> 00:12:01,667 where they were able to get lucky 296 00:12:01,667 --> 00:12:03,169 and see Tupac at that light. 297 00:12:03,169 --> 00:12:04,937 That last photo... 298 00:12:06,105 --> 00:12:07,640 of him in that car... 299 00:12:09,108 --> 00:12:11,177 That just breaks my heart. 300 00:12:11,177 --> 00:12:13,012 Because I wonder if he knew. 301 00:12:13,012 --> 00:12:14,847 [reporter] The rap star came to Las Vegas 302 00:12:14,847 --> 00:12:17,550 to see a Tyson-Seldon fight on Saturday. 303 00:12:17,550 --> 00:12:20,753 Afterwards, he was going out to the 662 club with some friends, 304 00:12:20,753 --> 00:12:22,822 when a gunman pulled up alongside in a Cadillac 305 00:12:22,822 --> 00:12:24,223 and opened fire. 306 00:12:24,223 --> 00:12:25,858 Shakur took four bullets... 307 00:12:25,858 --> 00:12:27,593 And that was that. 308 00:12:27,593 --> 00:12:28,828 And then let's say, an hour later, 309 00:12:28,828 --> 00:12:30,596 me and Kidada, we in the cab 310 00:12:30,596 --> 00:12:32,565 going to the hospital. 311 00:12:32,565 --> 00:12:35,034 I'm hoping that when I see Pac, 312 00:12:35,034 --> 00:12:37,203 that this is like a New York shooting. 313 00:12:37,203 --> 00:12:38,938 that he's coherent, 314 00:12:38,938 --> 00:12:41,507 that he's walking around the room, right? 315 00:12:41,507 --> 00:12:43,843 He's-- he's Pac, you know? 316 00:12:44,944 --> 00:12:46,913 But when we got to the room, 317 00:12:46,913 --> 00:12:49,749 this is when I knew that this was serious. 318 00:12:50,116 --> 00:12:52,952 [machines be eping, hissing] 319 00:12:54,687 --> 00:12:56,155 It was totally different. 320 00:12:57,890 --> 00:13:00,860 He was connected to all these tubes up his nose 321 00:13:00,860 --> 00:13:02,995 and his mouth, arms, everything. 322 00:13:02,995 --> 00:13:04,764 The machine is going off. 323 00:13:04,764 --> 00:13:07,233 [machines beeping] 324 00:13:07,233 --> 00:13:09,902 He is severely injured internally. 325 00:13:09,902 --> 00:13:12,271 He has multiple gunshot wounds to the chest. 326 00:13:12,939 --> 00:13:15,274 He is not sitt ing up and he is not talking. 327 00:13:15,274 --> 00:13:17,577 [Jamala] At that point, I wanted to make sure 328 00:13:17,577 --> 00:13:20,046 that Kidada was all right 329 00:13:20,046 --> 00:13:22,048 'cause it was just me and her there. 330 00:13:22,048 --> 00:13:23,649 She's fucked up. 331 00:13:23,649 --> 00:13:24,851 Me, I'm fucked up. 332 00:13:24,851 --> 00:13:26,853 But I'm like the next of kin. 333 00:13:26,853 --> 00:13:28,021 At the hospital. 334 00:13:28,521 --> 00:13:30,923 So we called my Aunt Feni. 335 00:13:31,324 --> 00:13:33,860 [voice breaks] And I'm like, "Pac's gonna have a hard time. 336 00:13:33,860 --> 00:13:35,695 If he's gonna make it, 337 00:13:35,695 --> 00:13:36,929 he's gonna have to fight real, real hard. 338 00:13:36,929 --> 00:13:38,097 [phone line rings] 339 00:13:38,097 --> 00:13:39,565 [Afeni] I found out about it 340 00:13:39,565 --> 00:13:40,566 when I was in Atlanta. 341 00:13:40,566 --> 00:13:42,101 I took the first plane 342 00:13:42,101 --> 00:13:43,603 that I could get. 343 00:13:44,437 --> 00:13:47,707 But that p eriod, from the time you get the news, 344 00:13:47,707 --> 00:13:50,877 when you're trying to get to your loved one, 345 00:13:50,877 --> 00:13:54,847 is an incredibly long, horrible period of time. 346 00:13:55,982 --> 00:14:00,186 And I think my mind wanted to just go into shutdown. 347 00:14:00,186 --> 00:14:02,021 And not accept it. 348 00:14:03,589 --> 00:14:04,724 I was in a fog... 349 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:08,661 that I didn't understand. 350 00:14:08,661 --> 00:14:09,862 I understood nothing. 351 00:14:19,906 --> 00:14:23,009 [Jamala] The next day, once everyone came to the hospital, 352 00:14:23,009 --> 00:14:26,646 it became a whole new hysteria. 353 00:14:27,313 --> 00:14:30,216 My mom came and I was relieved. 354 00:14:30,883 --> 00:14:32,919 [Glo] I didn't thi nk it would be so many people, 355 00:14:32,919 --> 00:14:35,488 so that was disconcerting for me. 356 00:14:36,122 --> 00:14:38,591 He was in a medically-induced coma. 357 00:14:38,591 --> 00:14:42,095 He lost a lung and his ring finger was shot off. 358 00:14:42,929 --> 00:14:45,765 The first th ing that goes through me when I see him, 359 00:14:45,765 --> 00:14:47,533 I can remember this, 360 00:14:47,533 --> 00:14:49,602 is that I thought of my mother 361 00:14:49,602 --> 00:14:51,738 when she was on life support. 362 00:14:52,538 --> 00:14:56,075 I had to give the consent, take her off life support. 363 00:14:57,043 --> 00:14:59,779 But then I'm listening to what people are saying, 364 00:14:59,779 --> 00:15:01,581 that he'll be-- You know, people have done this before, 365 00:15:01,581 --> 00:15:02,982 he'll be fine. 366 00:15:03,683 --> 00:15:05,618 We 're in a constant prayer vigil. 367 00:15:05,618 --> 00:15:06,919 - We are... - [man speaks indistinctly] 368 00:15:06,919 --> 00:15:08,755 praying that God will spare his life. 369 00:15:10,289 --> 00:15:11,958 [Snoop] Yup, Jesse Jackson 370 00:15:11,958 --> 00:15:13,259 and his mama was in the hallway. 371 00:15:13,259 --> 00:15:15,028 His mama let me in there. 372 00:15:15,561 --> 00:15:18,064 We didn't talk the last day and a half 373 00:15:18,064 --> 00:15:20,066 before he got shot. 374 00:15:20,066 --> 00:15:22,168 So imagine how I felt when I go to the hospital 375 00:15:22,168 --> 00:15:24,804 and we ain't right. 376 00:15:25,204 --> 00:15:27,040 Afeni pull ed me to the side 377 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,142 and said some encouraging words for us. 378 00:15:29,142 --> 00:15:32,078 "Get your spirit right, nigga. He used to seeing you up." 379 00:15:32,078 --> 00:15:34,747 Don't go in there like a puppy dog go in there like Snoop Dogg. 380 00:15:34,747 --> 00:15:36,849 And I went there like, "What's up, nigga?" 381 00:15:36,849 --> 00:15:38,885 And I know he couldn't hear me, but my spirit was talking to him... 382 00:15:38,885 --> 00:15:40,019 "Wassup, my nigga? What's happening?" 383 00:15:40,019 --> 00:15:41,254 I was talking to his spirit. 384 00:15:41,254 --> 00:15:42,555 "I want to apologize, nigga, 385 00:15:42,555 --> 00:15:43,222 for making you mad 386 00:15:43,222 --> 00:15:44,557 the other day." 387 00:15:44,957 --> 00:15:46,859 That's a different kind of feeling, man, 388 00:15:46,859 --> 00:15:48,494 when it's one of your friends... 389 00:16:01,307 --> 00:16:03,876 [reporter] We are here at the University Medical Center 390 00:16:03,876 --> 00:16:05,778 in Las Vegas, where Tupac Shakur 391 00:16:05,778 --> 00:16:07,213 has remained in critical condition 392 00:16:07,213 --> 00:16:08,614 for over a week. 393 00:16:10,116 --> 00:16:12,018 Doctors felt this is a crucial weekend, 394 00:16:12,018 --> 00:16:13,953 determining whether he would survive. 395 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:16,155 [Dale] He remai ns in critical condition. 396 00:16:16,155 --> 00:16:18,858 I've been told this evening that he is scheduled 397 00:16:18,858 --> 00:16:21,194 for some additional surgery, which is not unusual 398 00:16:21,194 --> 00:16:23,496 when you have injuries that are this severe. 399 00:16:24,130 --> 00:16:26,265 [Afeni] The doctor put him on dialysis 400 00:16:26,265 --> 00:16:28,668 just in case his kidney failed. 401 00:16:28,668 --> 00:16:30,703 [machines beeping] 402 00:16:30,703 --> 00:16:32,905 But every time they put him on the machine, 403 00:16:33,906 --> 00:16:35,608 his heart would stop. 404 00:16:37,310 --> 00:16:39,712 [Glo] And they said, "We resuscitated him three times," 405 00:16:39,712 --> 00:16:42,181 and she heard that finally. "What did you say?" 406 00:16:43,750 --> 00:16:45,618 [Afeni] Tupac had stopped breathing. 407 00:16:46,419 --> 00:16:48,087 And every time they revived him, 408 00:16:49,722 --> 00:16:51,524 he just went back. 409 00:16:51,524 --> 00:16:54,594 And I really felt it was important 410 00:16:54,594 --> 00:16:57,196 for Tupac, who fought so hard 411 00:16:57,196 --> 00:16:59,532 to have a free spirit, 412 00:16:59,532 --> 00:17:01,968 to be allowed to be free. 413 00:17:02,602 --> 00:17:05,171 Yo u know? And so I rejoiced. 414 00:17:05,171 --> 00:17:06,572 With him. 415 00:17:07,306 --> 00:17:09,709 And with the release of his spirit, 416 00:17:09,709 --> 00:17:12,512 I rejoiced then and I rejoice now. 417 00:17:12,512 --> 00:17:13,913 When I'm not crying. 418 00:17:20,987 --> 00:17:22,555 [Tupac] Mama, I really do love you. 419 00:17:22,555 --> 00:17:24,490 I appreciate everything you've done for me. 420 00:17:26,759 --> 00:17:28,494 I've done a lot of the things that I wanted to do. 421 00:17:32,265 --> 00:17:33,599 I've led a good life. 422 00:17:35,802 --> 00:17:36,969 I'm not happy here. 423 00:17:39,739 --> 00:17:42,709 If I die tonight, I'm happy. 424 00:17:45,178 --> 00:17:47,647 [Afeni] I asked him to let him go. 425 00:17:50,683 --> 00:17:52,018 [Tupac] World's best mom. 426 00:18:05,685 --> 00:18:08,521 [Afeni] Well, now, here we are. 427 00:18:08,521 --> 00:18:10,089 The light of our life. 428 00:18:11,490 --> 00:18:14,627 The star in our galaxy... 429 00:18:14,627 --> 00:18:15,995 is now dead. 430 00:18:18,331 --> 00:18:21,434 I said, "Um, could I go see him?" 431 00:18:21,434 --> 00:18:25,304 And Feni said, "Go ahead." 432 00:18:25,304 --> 00:18:28,641 I go in and they got a big boom box in the room 433 00:18:28,641 --> 00:18:30,510 playing his music. 434 00:18:30,510 --> 00:18:32,612 [ Vincent by Don McLean plays] 435 00:18:32,612 --> 00:18:34,680 I saw my nephew laying on the table 436 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,316 with the sheet up to his neck. 437 00:18:39,085 --> 00:18:41,354 And the machines are all off. 438 00:18:42,255 --> 00:18:43,656 I know he's dead. 439 00:18:45,658 --> 00:18:48,394 And I was looking at him and I'm touching him 440 00:18:48,394 --> 00:18:50,196 and I'm kissing him. 441 00:18:50,196 --> 00:18:51,264 I kissed him at his head. 442 00:18:51,264 --> 00:18:53,132 I kissed his hands. 443 00:18:53,132 --> 00:18:55,067 I kissed his feet. 444 00:18:55,067 --> 00:18:57,003 And I'm saying to him, "You just fly." 445 00:18:57,637 --> 00:19:00,206 ♪ Starry starry night ♪ 446 00:19:02,508 --> 00:19:07,213 ♪ Paint your palette Blue and gray ♪ 447 00:19:07,213 --> 00:19:09,348 ♪ Look out on a summer's day ♪ 448 00:19:09,348 --> 00:19:10,616 [Glo] Just fly. 449 00:19:10,616 --> 00:19:12,118 ♪ With eyes that know ♪ 450 00:19:12,118 --> 00:19:14,620 ♪ The darkness in my soul ♪ 451 00:19:14,620 --> 00:19:16,622 ♪ Shadows on the hills ♪ 452 00:19:19,358 --> 00:19:22,695 ♪ Sketch the trees And the daffodils ♪ 453 00:19:24,330 --> 00:19:28,034 ♪ Catch the breeze And the winter chills ♪ 454 00:19:28,034 --> 00:19:31,504 ♪ In colors on The snowy, linen land ♪ 455 00:19:32,205 --> 00:19:34,607 [reporter] It's happeni ng. The coroner's truck drove up. 456 00:19:34,607 --> 00:19:37,076 ♪ Now I understand ♪ 457 00:19:39,212 --> 00:19:42,682 ♪ What you tried To say to me ♪ 458 00:19:43,349 --> 00:19:47,253 ♪ And how you suffered For your sanity ♪ 459 00:19:49,055 --> 00:19:51,457 ♪ And how you tried To set them free ♪ 460 00:19:51,991 --> 00:19:55,394 ♪ They would not listen They did not know how ♪ 461 00:19:57,697 --> 00:20:00,666 ♪ Perhaps they'll listen now ♪ 462 00:20:00,666 --> 00:20:04,337 [Glo] My nephew. My sister's only son. 463 00:20:05,471 --> 00:20:07,473 With all of the controversy, 464 00:20:07,473 --> 00:20:11,477 Tupac was our family's shining star. 465 00:20:14,347 --> 00:20:17,617 It was difficult for us to leave that place that day 466 00:20:17,617 --> 00:20:19,652 with Feni pulling us and saying, 467 00:20:19,652 --> 00:20:22,355 "We're not crying here with all these people, 468 00:20:22,355 --> 00:20:24,090 and we're not making no announcements." 469 00:20:24,657 --> 00:20:27,693 ♪ But I could have to ld you Vincent ♪ 470 00:20:28,194 --> 00:20:30,496 ♪ This world was never meant ♪ 471 00:20:30,496 --> 00:20:34,300 ♪ For one as beautiful as you ♪ 472 00:20:39,405 --> 00:20:42,575 [Glo] We were uprooted completely. 473 00:20:45,211 --> 00:20:48,147 And Feni is now out of the public eye. 474 00:20:48,147 --> 00:20:50,616 She's now the mother grieving over her son-- 475 00:20:50,616 --> 00:20:53,352 imagine-- who has been murdered. 476 00:20:53,853 --> 00:20:55,655 Every day of her life, 477 00:20:55,655 --> 00:20:57,490 she has to live with that. 478 00:20:57,490 --> 00:20:59,392 And now that he's murdered, he's just not-- 479 00:20:59,392 --> 00:21:00,793 because it's a lot-- 480 00:21:00,793 --> 00:21:03,029 My sister spoke a lot about this. 481 00:21:03,029 --> 00:21:04,664 A lot of Black women. 482 00:21:04,664 --> 00:21:06,666 A lot of women lost their children 483 00:21:06,666 --> 00:21:08,134 to gun violence. 484 00:21:08,134 --> 00:21:10,169 She's not the only one. 485 00:21:10,169 --> 00:21:13,339 You know? But her son was famous. 486 00:21:13,339 --> 00:21:14,674 And it was all public. 487 00:21:14,674 --> 00:21:18,311 [intro stinger playing] 488 00:21:18,311 --> 00:21:20,446 Hi, I'm Tabitha Soren with an MTV news brief. 489 00:21:20,446 --> 00:21:23,549 Thursday morning's Tupac Shakur Memorial Service in Los Angeles 490 00:21:23,549 --> 00:21:26,719 has been canceled by the murdered rapper's label, Death Row Records, 491 00:21:26,719 --> 00:21:28,688 which says it could not find a venue big enough 492 00:21:28,688 --> 00:21:30,556 to hold all the fans and well-wishers 493 00:21:30,556 --> 00:21:31,524 who wanted to attend. 494 00:21:31,524 --> 00:21:33,192 [reporter] His devoted fans, 495 00:21:33,192 --> 00:21:34,794 who believed his rap litany 496 00:21:34,794 --> 00:21:36,562 mirrored their lives, are mourning. 497 00:21:37,230 --> 00:21:40,166 [Allen] Where were you i n your 498 00:21:40,166 --> 00:21:45,605 - Nowhere, absolutely nowhere. - [Allen laughs] 499 00:21:45,605 --> 00:21:50,476 When I heard that Tupac died, I was cooking in a restaurant, 500 00:21:50,476 --> 00:21:52,111 and tickets were piling up 501 00:21:52,111 --> 00:21:54,280 and shit, "I'm like, I don't care. Fire me." 502 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,148 Like, you know, I'm saying, like, that, 503 00:21:56,148 --> 00:21:58,150 man, that was devastating. 504 00:21:58,150 --> 00:21:59,552 It's just like, oh, my God. 505 00:22:01,053 --> 00:22:02,755 Tupac was the first rapper to me 506 00:22:02,755 --> 00:22:04,223 that could make you cry. 507 00:22:04,957 --> 00:22:08,327 Like, like, I felt him that much. 508 00:22:08,327 --> 00:22:10,296 And you know me not knowing my dad 509 00:22:10,296 --> 00:22:12,298 and shit was going on with my mom and the whole shit, 510 00:22:12,298 --> 00:22:14,200 like, it was just like, "Oh, my God, that's me." 511 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:15,635 You know? 512 00:22:15,635 --> 00:22:18,037 He was like, one year older than me. 513 00:22:18,037 --> 00:22:20,439 You know, he was only 25 years old. 514 00:22:20,439 --> 00:22:22,208 And we was like, "What the fuck?" 515 00:22:24,043 --> 00:22:25,711 Manhood. 516 00:22:25,711 --> 00:22:28,147 They say a man ain't a man till he 27. 517 00:22:29,482 --> 00:22:31,350 You still a baby at 25. 518 00:22:33,052 --> 00:22:35,688 Knowing him through growth and time and healing, 519 00:22:35,688 --> 00:22:37,723 and becoming a grown and a wiser man, 520 00:22:38,291 --> 00:22:40,193 all these re lationships that he had 521 00:22:40,193 --> 00:22:42,028 with people that wasn't right was going to get right 522 00:22:42,028 --> 00:22:44,630 because his spirit was always right. 523 00:22:44,630 --> 00:22:47,533 And now here's a war that nobody can stop. 524 00:22:47,533 --> 00:22:50,169 [Jamala] People started calling my aunt's house, 525 00:22:50,169 --> 00:22:52,038 - all through the day, through the night. - [phone rings] 526 00:22:52,038 --> 00:22:53,439 Calls from all the East Coast callers. 527 00:22:53,439 --> 00:22:55,441 "Is Tupac really dead?" 528 00:22:55,441 --> 00:22:57,310 Calls from the West Coast. 529 00:22:57,310 --> 00:22:58,578 "We're going to get the motherfuckers 530 00:22:58,578 --> 00:23:00,680 that killed your son, yo." 531 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,982 And what happened with Biggie is just like, "Oh, my God." 532 00:23:03,783 --> 00:23:05,484 [reporter 1] In Los Angeles, 533 00:23:05,484 --> 00:23:06,485 police tonight are investigating 534 00:23:06,485 --> 00:23:08,020 the gangland-style murder 535 00:23:08,020 --> 00:23:09,188 of gangster rap music star 536 00:23:09,188 --> 00:23:10,356 Biggie Smalls. 537 00:23:10,356 --> 00:23:11,524 [reporter 2] B. I. G.'s West Coast 538 00:23:11,524 --> 00:23:13,359 rival Tupac Shakur was killed 539 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:14,660 in a similar hail of bullets 540 00:23:14,660 --> 00:23:16,529 six months ago in Las Vegas. 541 00:23:16,529 --> 00:23:18,331 [reporter 3] Police are investigating rumors 542 00:23:18,331 --> 00:23:21,000 that a feud between rappers on the East Coast 543 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,070 and West Coast led to these shootings. 544 00:23:24,070 --> 00:23:27,473 [Snoop] So that was all the misunderstanding that never had understanding. 545 00:23:27,473 --> 00:23:31,177 The company's going down the hill. Everybody's in disarray. 546 00:23:31,177 --> 00:23:35,014 We gotta be strong enough for each other to know that that's what they really want. 547 00:23:35,014 --> 00:23:36,782 They don't want us together. When we were structuring together, 548 00:23:36,782 --> 00:23:38,784 they tore down the Panther Party, 549 00:23:38,784 --> 00:23:40,686 then they brainwashed us to not love each other. 550 00:23:40,686 --> 00:23:42,355 Then we create the Crips and the Bloods 551 00:23:42,355 --> 00:23:43,589 and then they got us fighting each other 552 00:23:43,589 --> 00:23:44,790 and break us down. 553 00:23:44,790 --> 00:23:46,058 When we're fighting each other, 554 00:23:46,058 --> 00:23:47,560 they let it live. 555 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,061 [reporter] Rap artists and producers 556 00:23:49,061 --> 00:23:50,630 called for an end to the rivalry 557 00:23:50,630 --> 00:23:52,431 and the violence. 558 00:23:52,431 --> 00:23:54,167 [Snoop] A lot of people like to say that rap, 559 00:23:54,167 --> 00:23:55,334 you know, is a-- is a negative. 560 00:23:55,334 --> 00:23:56,302 It's this and that. 561 00:23:56,302 --> 00:23:57,603 But from me to you, 562 00:23:57,603 --> 00:23:59,038 rap saves lives. 563 00:23:59,038 --> 00:24:00,606 So we had to understand that 564 00:24:00,606 --> 00:24:02,575 we only better when we move as one, 565 00:24:03,109 --> 00:24:05,344 and we learn to un derstand each other. 566 00:24:05,878 --> 00:24:07,680 And there ain't nothin g you could really do 567 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,682 but just try to keep doing what we doing. 568 00:24:10,449 --> 00:24:14,320 Everyone else was also calling my aunt 569 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,389 to appear on a talk show. 570 00:24:16,389 --> 00:24:19,058 What I would like to share with your viewers 571 00:24:19,058 --> 00:24:22,495 is that I am very, very upset that we are dying 572 00:24:22,495 --> 00:24:25,064 at the rate that we're dying at 573 00:24:25,064 --> 00:24:28,467 because we can't handle our anger towards each other. 574 00:24:28,467 --> 00:24:29,769 [Jamala] They want to do an interview. 575 00:24:29,769 --> 00:24:32,338 Whatever it is that makes us buy things, 576 00:24:32,338 --> 00:24:36,309 you know, has created a false illusion 577 00:24:36,309 --> 00:24:38,344 of-- of a rift between artists 578 00:24:38,344 --> 00:24:40,379 and between human beings. 579 00:24:40,379 --> 00:24:41,614 I don't want people to think that there isn't reality. 580 00:24:41,614 --> 00:24:43,382 People are running around, 581 00:24:43,382 --> 00:24:44,750 "We don't like people from the East Coast, 582 00:24:44,750 --> 00:24:46,118 and we don't like people from West Coast." 583 00:24:46,118 --> 00:24:47,353 I don't think that's true. 584 00:24:47,887 --> 00:24:49,522 [Jamala] And it's a ll up in the magazines, 585 00:24:49,522 --> 00:24:51,624 so we didn't have time to grieve. 586 00:24:51,624 --> 00:24:53,492 We didn't have time to mourn. 587 00:24:54,327 --> 00:24:56,429 It really became work. 588 00:24:56,429 --> 00:24:59,098 I am hustling every day 589 00:24:59,098 --> 00:25:01,601 with someone or with some entity. 590 00:25:01,601 --> 00:25:05,204 And then there's money. 591 00:25:05,204 --> 00:25:07,573 We thought we were gonna stay in Tupac's home... 592 00:25:08,307 --> 00:25:09,509 in L. A. 593 00:25:10,343 --> 00:25:12,378 until Afeni Shakur 594 00:25:12,378 --> 00:25:16,015 found out that he didn't own that house. 595 00:25:16,015 --> 00:25:17,617 And he didn't own any of the things 596 00:25:17,617 --> 00:25:18,684 that he thought he owned. 597 00:25:18,684 --> 00:25:20,486 And she immediately said, 598 00:25:20,486 --> 00:25:22,555 "We're getting out of here." 599 00:25:22,555 --> 00:25:24,690 And that's when the packing began 600 00:25:24,690 --> 00:25:28,327 and she got a houseboat in Sausalito. 601 00:25:28,327 --> 00:25:30,229 She needed that for herself, 602 00:25:30,229 --> 00:25:33,399 you know, 'cause everything takes time. 603 00:25:41,821 --> 00:25:44,256 [Afeni] So here's a really good thing about this place 604 00:25:44,256 --> 00:25:47,226 is right over there in one of those houseboats, 605 00:25:47,226 --> 00:25:49,328 That's where Otis Redding wrote 606 00:25:49,328 --> 00:25:51,263 [singing] ♪ Sitting on the Dock of the Bay ♪ 607 00:25:51,263 --> 00:25:52,998 [laughs] 608 00:25:52,998 --> 00:25:55,835 I like to think it was actually this pier 609 00:25:55,835 --> 00:25:58,637 that he was sitting on and-- and, um, writing it. 610 00:26:01,140 --> 00:26:03,075 I stayed here for, like, three months, 611 00:26:03,075 --> 00:26:04,710 and then I came back and I stayed for 612 00:26:04,710 --> 00:26:06,111 another three months. 613 00:26:06,111 --> 00:26:07,913 And then one of the times I was here, 614 00:26:07,913 --> 00:26:09,248 that houseboat was for sale. 615 00:26:09,248 --> 00:26:12,785 I was like, "I need this." [laughs] 616 00:26:13,819 --> 00:26:16,322 I am in a healing process. And guess what? 617 00:26:16,322 --> 00:26:18,657 That's what this place is for me. 618 00:26:18,657 --> 00:26:21,093 That's what the people are around me 619 00:26:21,093 --> 00:26:23,796 is like, part of my healing, and I'm also now-- 620 00:26:23,796 --> 00:26:25,798 I've begun therapy. 621 00:26:25,798 --> 00:26:29,068 You know, which is really a huge step for me, you know? 622 00:26:29,068 --> 00:26:33,205 But, um... I wish that my son was here 623 00:26:33,205 --> 00:26:36,408 and that he could go and lie down in my bed, 624 00:26:36,408 --> 00:26:38,077 and come out of my room, 625 00:26:39,011 --> 00:26:40,779 and say, "Ma, what'd you cook?" 626 00:26:40,779 --> 00:26:42,948 I miss his being. He was my son. 627 00:26:42,948 --> 00:26:45,251 And I miss him as my baby. 628 00:26:45,251 --> 00:26:49,355 My boy, who I loved, respected, appreciated. 629 00:26:49,355 --> 00:26:50,956 He was my friend. He called me up 630 00:26:50,956 --> 00:26:52,324 in the middle of the night 631 00:26:52,324 --> 00:26:54,093 after he done had a hot date 632 00:26:54,093 --> 00:26:56,262 and tell me who he had a hot date with, 633 00:26:56,262 --> 00:26:58,397 what he did, and how excited. 634 00:26:58,397 --> 00:27:00,399 And I said Tupac, "Why do you think--" 635 00:27:00,399 --> 00:27:02,334 I miss that. I miss my son. 636 00:27:03,736 --> 00:27:05,104 [Shock G] Wow. 637 00:27:05,104 --> 00:27:06,338 Tupac Shakur. 638 00:27:07,907 --> 00:27:09,808 We all miss Pac. 639 00:27:09,808 --> 00:27:11,977 Jesus Christ, I miss him. 640 00:27:11,977 --> 00:27:14,213 I'm so... spoiled by Pac 641 00:27:14,213 --> 00:27:16,081 that I stopped making music. 642 00:27:16,081 --> 00:27:17,817 Who could-- Who do you put beats under now? 643 00:27:19,251 --> 00:27:22,087 After Pac died, there was pain and sorrow, 644 00:27:22,087 --> 00:27:25,691 but there was also-- [exhales] 645 00:27:25,691 --> 00:27:27,092 There was a relief. 646 00:27:27,092 --> 00:27:29,261 There was an exhale that happened. 647 00:27:29,261 --> 00:27:31,931 And there was a calm that came. 648 00:27:31,931 --> 00:27:34,099 All of his pain, 649 00:27:34,099 --> 00:27:36,969 all the voices in his head, finally silenced. 650 00:27:37,970 --> 00:27:39,371 There was a small funeral 651 00:27:39,371 --> 00:27:42,308 that Afeni had on Malibu Beach. 652 00:27:42,808 --> 00:27:46,979 30 t o 50 friends and family. 653 00:27:46,979 --> 00:27:49,081 We brought drums and we had fires burning. 654 00:27:50,082 --> 00:27:52,685 But we threw all the gifts in the ocean. 655 00:27:52,685 --> 00:27:55,087 Chicken wings and the Hennessy and his favorite pictures. 656 00:27:55,087 --> 00:27:56,121 Jewelry, books. 657 00:27:56,121 --> 00:27:58,190 The water was freezing. 658 00:27:58,924 --> 00:28:01,961 But Afeni walked in, deep out there, 659 00:28:01,961 --> 00:28:03,329 to dump the urn. 660 00:28:05,698 --> 00:28:07,733 Afeni said it best. 661 00:28:07,733 --> 00:28:08,868 "Don't cry for my baby. 662 00:28:08,868 --> 00:28:10,636 He was a strong fighter. 663 00:28:11,704 --> 00:28:13,739 And he burned a white flag. 664 00:28:13,739 --> 00:28:15,674 It burned all night." 665 00:28:15,674 --> 00:28:18,711 And Pac lived an intense, potent, 666 00:28:18,711 --> 00:28:20,646 deadly 25 years. 667 00:28:22,114 --> 00:28:23,649 When something burns really hot... 668 00:28:24,950 --> 00:28:25,918 [imitates sizzling] 669 00:28:27,386 --> 00:28:28,320 It's gone. 670 00:28:31,857 --> 00:28:34,693 Tupac died to get his message across. 671 00:28:34,693 --> 00:28:35,961 I believe that. 672 00:28:37,363 --> 00:28:38,931 He was a pre-thinker. 673 00:28:40,833 --> 00:28:43,802 He had a Plan E, much less a Plan B. 674 00:28:44,737 --> 00:28:48,240 He was always plotting, "If I died this way, 675 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,142 put this out." 676 00:28:50,142 --> 00:28:51,944 ♪ Father Forgive us for livin' ♪ 677 00:28:51,944 --> 00:28:53,078 ♪ While all my homies Stuck in prison ♪ 678 00:28:53,078 --> 00:28:54,647 ♪ Barely breathin', believin' ♪ 679 00:28:54,647 --> 00:28:55,815 ♪ That the world is a prison ♪ 680 00:28:55,815 --> 00:28:56,816 ♪ It's like a ghetto ♪ 681 00:28:56,816 --> 00:28:58,217 ♪ We can never leave ♪ 682 00:28:58,217 --> 00:28:59,351 ♪ A broken rose givin' bloom ♪ 683 00:28:59,351 --> 00:29:00,719 ♪ Through the cracks ♪ 684 00:29:00,719 --> 00:29:01,821 ♪ Of the concrete ♪ 685 00:29:01,821 --> 00:29:02,788 ♪ So many other things ♪ 686 00:29:02,788 --> 00:29:04,657 ♪ For us to see ♪ 687 00:29:04,657 --> 00:29:06,325 ♪ Things to be Our history ♪ 688 00:29:06,325 --> 00:29:08,194 ♪ So full of tragedy And misery ♪ 689 00:29:08,194 --> 00:29:10,129 ♪ To all my homies Never made it home ♪ 690 00:29:10,129 --> 00:29:11,330 ♪ The dead peers I shed tattooed tears for ♪ 691 00:29:11,330 --> 00:29:13,265 ♪ When I'm alone ♪ 692 00:29:13,265 --> 00:29:15,000 ♪ Picture us inside A ghetto heaven ♪ 693 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:16,402 ♪ A place to rest Findin' peace ♪ 694 00:29:16,402 --> 00:29:18,704 ♪ Through this land of stress ♪ 695 00:29:18,704 --> 00:29:20,973 ♪ In my chest I feel Pain come in sudden storms ♪ 696 00:29:20,973 --> 00:29:23,375 ♪ Life full of rain in this Game, watch for lead thorns ♪ 697 00:29:23,375 --> 00:29:26,812 ♪ Our unborn never got to grow Never got to see what's next ♪ 698 00:29:26,812 --> 00:29:29,114 ♪ In this world full of Countless threats ♪ 699 00:29:29,114 --> 00:29:32,718 ♪ I beg God, to make a way for Our ghetto kids to breathe ♪ 700 00:29:32,718 --> 00:29:34,787 ♪ Show us sign Make us all believe ♪ 701 00:29:34,787 --> 00:29:37,089 ♪ 'Cause I ain't mad at cha ♪ 702 00:29:37,089 --> 00:29:39,825 For the homeboys that passed away, I ain't mad. 703 00:29:39,825 --> 00:29:41,327 All the homeboys locked in jail, 704 00:29:41,327 --> 00:29:43,829 all the people that lost a loved one this year. 705 00:29:43,829 --> 00:29:46,932 Man, you know, Pac was so on another level, 706 00:29:46,932 --> 00:29:49,969 like he was always somebody that had a plan, had a idea. 707 00:29:49,969 --> 00:29:52,738 Had a mission, had a goal. And so he kind of, 708 00:29:52,738 --> 00:29:55,140 in his own weird way, prepared us for. 709 00:29:55,140 --> 00:29:57,343 [Tupac] We look at death from the selfish side, 710 00:29:57,343 --> 00:29:59,712 like, you know, that guy died. Oh, it's so sad. 711 00:29:59,712 --> 00:30:01,947 Why is it sad? He's away from all of this bad stuff 712 00:30:01,947 --> 00:30:03,816 that's here on Earth. 713 00:30:03,816 --> 00:30:05,117 He's, I mean, at the worst, 714 00:30:05,117 --> 00:30:07,820 he's just somewhere quiet and no, nothing. 715 00:30:07,820 --> 00:30:11,090 At best, he's an angel or he's at the next existence, 716 00:30:11,090 --> 00:30:13,225 or he's a spirit somewhere, you know. 717 00:30:13,225 --> 00:30:15,094 What is so bad about that? 718 00:30:15,094 --> 00:30:17,062 It's only bad for the people who he left 719 00:30:17,062 --> 00:30:18,831 because you guys are mad. 720 00:30:18,831 --> 00:30:20,099 That's like some crab- in-the-bucket type stuff. 721 00:30:20,099 --> 00:30:21,934 - [interviewer chuckles] - I mean, 722 00:30:21,934 --> 00:30:23,969 [chuckles] it's this harsh-- harsh analogy, 723 00:30:23,969 --> 00:30:25,838 - but that's what it's like, though. - [interviewer] Mm-hmm. 724 00:30:25,838 --> 00:30:28,374 [Afeni] Tupac did talk about himself not being here. 725 00:30:28,374 --> 00:30:31,343 You know, he really did look at life and death. 726 00:30:31,343 --> 00:30:34,980 And that is a very odd thing for a young person. 727 00:30:34,980 --> 00:30:37,316 But for some reason, people believe 728 00:30:37,316 --> 00:30:40,719 that we are not born to die. We actually are. 729 00:30:40,719 --> 00:30:43,989 Every one of us gets here with two dates, 730 00:30:43,989 --> 00:30:47,226 the entry date and the exit date. 731 00:30:47,226 --> 00:30:49,328 And every human being 732 00:30:49,328 --> 00:30:52,364 has to make peace with that truth. 733 00:30:52,364 --> 00:30:56,268 Tupac made peace with it earlier than I would have liked. 734 00:30:56,268 --> 00:30:59,738 But he, as it turns out, did the right thing. 735 00:30:59,738 --> 00:31:02,341 You know? Because he did make peace with it. 736 00:31:02,341 --> 00:31:05,244 And an artist is, generally speaking, 737 00:31:05,244 --> 00:31:08,948 a long time ahead of the audience, 738 00:31:08,948 --> 00:31:11,083 you know. So... 739 00:31:11,083 --> 00:31:13,185 ♪ I kiss my mama goodbye ♪ 740 00:31:13,185 --> 00:31:15,354 ♪ Wipe the tears From her lonely eyes ♪ 741 00:31:15,354 --> 00:31:17,723 ♪ Said I'll return but I gotta Fight the fate's arrived ♪ 742 00:31:17,723 --> 00:31:20,259 ♪ Don't shed a tear 'cause mama I ain't happy here ♪ 743 00:31:20,259 --> 00:31:21,961 ♪ I'm through trial, No more smiles ♪ 744 00:31:21,961 --> 00:31:23,062 ♪ For a couple years ♪ 745 00:31:23,062 --> 00:31:24,997 ♪ They got me goin' mad ♪ 746 00:31:24,997 --> 00:31:26,332 ♪ I'm knockin' busters On they backs ♪ 747 00:31:26,332 --> 00:31:28,133 ♪ In my cell, thinkin', "Hell ♪ 748 00:31:28,133 --> 00:31:29,735 ♪ I know one day I'll be back" ♪ 749 00:31:29,735 --> 00:31:32,338 ♪ I ain't mad at cha ♪ 750 00:31:32,938 --> 00:31:35,674 [Snoop] Well, he just was like a special motherfucker. 751 00:31:35,674 --> 00:31:37,743 I remember before he passed away, 752 00:31:37,743 --> 00:31:39,712 '96. 753 00:31:39,712 --> 00:31:41,347 I had gotten into an argument with my wife. 754 00:31:41,347 --> 00:31:44,083 She was my girlfriend at the time. 755 00:31:44,083 --> 00:31:45,951 We-- we was on a plane again. 756 00:31:47,353 --> 00:31:50,222 And it was me and all the Death Row niggas and Tupac. 757 00:31:50,222 --> 00:31:53,058 Everybody was like, "Man, fuck that bitch. 758 00:31:53,058 --> 00:31:55,828 Nigga, you Snoop Doggy Dogg. Nigga, you can get any bitch you want, man." 759 00:31:55,828 --> 00:31:58,397 Tupac was like, "Man, fuck what they talking about, nigga. 760 00:31:58,397 --> 00:32:01,000 She love you, nigga. And you love her, nigga. 761 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,235 You need to make her your wife." 762 00:32:03,235 --> 00:32:05,237 [Tupac rapping] ♪ Congratulations On the weddin' ♪ 763 00:32:05,237 --> 00:32:07,006 ♪ I hope your wife know She got a playa for life ♪ 764 00:32:07,006 --> 00:32:08,841 ♪ And that's no bullshittin' ♪ 765 00:32:08,841 --> 00:32:10,709 Now that I'm thinking about all the shit that I've done 766 00:32:10,709 --> 00:32:11,977 since he's been gone, 767 00:32:11,977 --> 00:32:13,379 he puts it in the air, 768 00:32:13,379 --> 00:32:14,947 then it becomes a reality. 769 00:32:14,947 --> 00:32:16,916 [E.D.I. Mean] Nice life, kids. 770 00:32:16,916 --> 00:32:18,317 He might have saw that for us. 771 00:32:18,317 --> 00:32:20,352 I don't think he saw himself growing old 772 00:32:20,352 --> 00:32:22,321 and being a grandfather. 773 00:32:22,321 --> 00:32:25,324 And all the shit that I am now. He wasn't gonna bend. 774 00:32:25,324 --> 00:32:28,260 ♪ And I can't even trip 'cause I'm just laughin' at cha ♪ 775 00:32:28,260 --> 00:32:30,329 ♪ You tryin' hard to maintain Then go 'head ♪ 776 00:32:30,329 --> 00:32:32,832 ♪ 'Cause I ain't mad at cha ♪ 777 00:32:32,832 --> 00:32:36,101 [Leila] He never saw himself living to enjoy his work, 778 00:32:36,101 --> 00:32:37,736 and he always said, "My work will happen 779 00:32:37,736 --> 00:32:39,705 when I'm not here anymore. 780 00:32:39,705 --> 00:32:42,107 I am leaving a body of work." 781 00:32:42,107 --> 00:32:43,709 I always wanted to make a book out of my life, 782 00:32:43,709 --> 00:32:45,277 like a fairy tale. 783 00:32:45,277 --> 00:32:48,013 Raised by the Black Panthers and struck out. 784 00:32:48,614 --> 00:32:50,950 [Leila] Tupac saw hims elf delivering his script, 785 00:32:50,950 --> 00:32:52,818 and he lived that script, 786 00:32:52,818 --> 00:32:54,720 leaving it for us. 787 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,822 [Afeni] Tupac left about 400 songs. 788 00:32:56,822 --> 00:32:59,658 We spent the first five years in court 789 00:32:59,658 --> 00:33:01,227 fighting for the rights, 790 00:33:01,227 --> 00:33:03,829 and what we've been able to do with that 791 00:33:03,829 --> 00:33:06,198 is purchase a 56-acre farm. 792 00:33:06,198 --> 00:33:07,366 [Dante] That's sweet Feni farm, baby. 793 00:33:07,366 --> 00:33:09,101 We on Fe farm. 794 00:33:09,101 --> 00:33:11,370 She always wanted land. 795 00:33:11,370 --> 00:33:13,239 [Tupac] ♪ Niggas need a spot Where we can kick it ♪ 796 00:33:13,239 --> 00:33:14,807 ♪ A spot where we belong That's just for us ♪ 797 00:33:14,807 --> 00:33:16,108 [Afeni] God made humans 798 00:33:16,108 --> 00:33:18,143 so that we would never be perfect. 799 00:33:18,143 --> 00:33:21,080 Tupac was an intelligent human being, 800 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,683 but one of Tupac's problems in the beginning 801 00:33:24,683 --> 00:33:27,186 was that he didn't have a place to scream and holler. 802 00:33:27,186 --> 00:33:30,856 [Tupac rapping] ♪ A place To spend my quiet nights Time to unwind ♪ 803 00:33:30,856 --> 00:33:33,092 ♪ So much pressure In this life of mine I cry at times ♪ 804 00:33:33,092 --> 00:33:36,095 ♪ I once contemplated suicide And would've tried ♪ 805 00:33:36,095 --> 00:33:39,098 ♪ But when I held that .9 All I could see was My mama's eyes ♪ 806 00:33:39,098 --> 00:33:40,399 [Afeni] And I wish he could stand 807 00:33:40,399 --> 00:33:42,334 in the middle of the farm 808 00:33:42,334 --> 00:33:44,403 and throw things. And it would be okay. 809 00:33:44,403 --> 00:33:47,273 But if you don't have acres to throw it at, it's not okay. 810 00:33:47,273 --> 00:33:49,842 [Tupac rapping] ♪ Picture me inside The misery of poverty ♪ 811 00:33:49,842 --> 00:33:52,678 ♪ No man alive has ever Witnessed struggles I survived ♪ 812 00:33:52,678 --> 00:33:55,247 ♪ Praying hard for Better Dayz Promise to hold on ♪ 813 00:33:55,247 --> 00:33:58,083 ♪ Me and my dogs ain't have A choice but to roll on ♪ 814 00:33:58,083 --> 00:34:00,085 ♪ We finally found A spot to kick it ♪ 815 00:34:00,085 --> 00:34:01,687 ♪ Where we can drink liquor And no one bickers ♪ 816 00:34:01,687 --> 00:34:03,222 ♪ Over trick shit ♪ 817 00:34:03,222 --> 00:34:04,957 [Afeni] So we're now preparing to open 818 00:34:04,957 --> 00:34:07,726 the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center 819 00:34:07,726 --> 00:34:09,395 in Stone Mountain, Georgia, 820 00:34:09,395 --> 00:34:12,064 because one of the things that he planned to do 821 00:34:12,064 --> 00:34:14,967 all over the country was to build 822 00:34:14,967 --> 00:34:17,970 what he called at the time "thug mansions." 823 00:34:17,970 --> 00:34:19,271 [Tupac rapping] ♪ And in my mind's eye I see this place ♪ 824 00:34:19,271 --> 00:34:21,407 ♪ The players go in fast ♪ 825 00:34:21,407 --> 00:34:22,741 ♪ I got a spot for us all So we can ball ♪ 826 00:34:22,741 --> 00:34:24,276 ♪ At Thugz Mansion ♪ 827 00:34:24,276 --> 00:34:26,378 [Afeni] Thug Mansion was all about space, 828 00:34:26,378 --> 00:34:29,315 opportunity and resources 829 00:34:29,315 --> 00:34:31,650 geared to young people who were trapped 830 00:34:31,650 --> 00:34:34,987 in a violent environment that they did not invent. 831 00:34:34,987 --> 00:34:36,989 [Tupac rapping] ♪ I need a house That's full of love ♪ 832 00:34:36,989 --> 00:34:38,958 ♪ When I need to escape The deadly places ♪ 833 00:34:38,958 --> 00:34:40,259 ♪ Slingin' drugs In Thugz Mansion ♪ 834 00:34:40,259 --> 00:34:43,229 [Afeni] We are hoping that our next Tupac 835 00:34:43,229 --> 00:34:46,832 who's gonna take their family out of economic oblivion, 836 00:34:46,832 --> 00:34:48,267 is in this audience. 837 00:34:48,267 --> 00:34:50,269 And that we will be able to help you do that. 838 00:34:50,269 --> 00:34:52,338 [applause] 839 00:34:52,338 --> 00:34:57,009 [Jasmine] This was the Afeni of the movement. 840 00:34:57,009 --> 00:35:00,246 She really rose to the occasion 841 00:35:00,246 --> 00:35:03,182 of taking care of the business of her son. 842 00:35:03,182 --> 00:35:06,719 [Mos Def singing] ♪ The seed that must grow Regardless ♪ 843 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,355 [Glo] She worked from the moment he died 844 00:35:09,355 --> 00:35:12,391 to elevate him in a way that wasn't able to be done 845 00:35:12,391 --> 00:35:13,692 when he was alive. 846 00:35:13,692 --> 00:35:15,094 She was war ready. 847 00:35:15,094 --> 00:35:16,795 [Snoop] Everybody said, "She crazy. 848 00:35:16,795 --> 00:35:18,130 She hard to work with." 849 00:35:18,130 --> 00:35:19,832 No, she ain't, she a smart Black woman 850 00:35:19,832 --> 00:35:21,100 that know that her son shit need 851 00:35:21,100 --> 00:35:22,835 to be in her possession. 852 00:35:22,835 --> 00:35:25,137 I'll just fight till there's no more breath. 853 00:35:25,137 --> 00:35:27,706 And I feel like the spirit of Tupac has only grown 854 00:35:27,706 --> 00:35:29,375 because people got a chance to study him 855 00:35:29,375 --> 00:35:30,843 through his mother. 856 00:35:30,843 --> 00:35:33,078 [man] Tupac left you a message. 857 00:35:33,078 --> 00:35:36,649 And the message was to keep your head up. 858 00:35:36,649 --> 00:35:40,719 [Mos Def singing] ♪ Can you see the pride Of the Panther? ♪ 859 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:42,655 [Eminem] After he passed, man, 860 00:35:43,756 --> 00:35:45,024 he had 10 more albums. 861 00:35:46,759 --> 00:35:49,094 I wrote Afeni a note and drew a picture. 862 00:35:49,094 --> 00:35:52,731 She understood I was such a huge Tupac fan. 863 00:35:52,731 --> 00:35:54,333 And she's like, the sweetest lady ever, man. 864 00:35:54,333 --> 00:35:55,968 She was just like, "Do what you feel." 865 00:35:55,968 --> 00:35:57,970 And gave me all his acapellas. 866 00:35:57,970 --> 00:35:59,972 That was one of the funnest times of my life. 867 00:35:59,972 --> 00:36:04,143 [Afeni] As long as you keep Tupac's vision, his music, 868 00:36:04,143 --> 00:36:07,913 and his memory alive, his spirit will not die. 869 00:36:07,913 --> 00:36:09,081 [cheering] 870 00:36:09,081 --> 00:36:10,783 [Dre] 2012, Coachella. 871 00:36:11,650 --> 00:36:14,820 The wind stopped, the audience got quiet-- 872 00:36:14,820 --> 00:36:16,956 and we're talking about 90,000 motherfuckers. 873 00:36:16,956 --> 00:36:19,925 And when Tupac came up out of the ground, 874 00:36:19,925 --> 00:36:21,961 "What the fuck is up, Coachella?" 875 00:36:21,961 --> 00:36:23,229 [cheering] 876 00:36:24,864 --> 00:36:27,099 And the crowd went crazy. 877 00:36:27,099 --> 00:36:29,101 90,000 motherfuckers. 878 00:36:29,101 --> 00:36:30,836 Oh, man. The soldiers, 879 00:36:30,836 --> 00:36:33,272 - the children soldiers. - [Allen] In Africa? 880 00:36:33,272 --> 00:36:35,808 [Mike] When they're goin' to war, they listen to Tupac's music. 881 00:36:35,808 --> 00:36:38,244 Blows my mind. And I just think, he probably is 882 00:36:38,244 --> 00:36:40,913 the most famous rapper in the world, I don't care how much money you got. 883 00:36:40,913 --> 00:36:42,948 Fuck your billion dollars. 884 00:36:42,948 --> 00:36:44,817 At the end of the day, it's immortality. 885 00:36:44,817 --> 00:36:46,819 [E.D.I. Mean] Tupac left an indelible print 886 00:36:46,819 --> 00:36:49,088 where people from all over the world 887 00:36:49,088 --> 00:36:51,257 that are oppressed, beaten, terrorized, 888 00:36:51,257 --> 00:36:53,125 see him as their patron saint. 889 00:36:53,125 --> 00:36:54,827 [Snoop] And while many remember him 890 00:36:54,827 --> 00:36:56,929 as some thugged-out superhero, 891 00:36:56,929 --> 00:36:59,098 Tupac knew he was only human. 892 00:36:59,098 --> 00:37:02,134 To be human is to be many things at once, 893 00:37:02,134 --> 00:37:04,236 strong and vulnerable, 894 00:37:04,236 --> 00:37:06,372 hardheaded and intellectual, 895 00:37:06,372 --> 00:37:08,841 courageous and afraid, 896 00:37:08,841 --> 00:37:12,244 loving, and vengeful, revolutionary. 897 00:37:12,244 --> 00:37:16,182 And, oh, yeah, don't get it fucked up. Gangster. 898 00:37:16,182 --> 00:37:17,950 Welcome to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 899 00:37:17,950 --> 00:37:19,318 - Thug life! - [cheering] 900 00:37:19,885 --> 00:37:21,787 You know you gonna live forever. 901 00:37:21,787 --> 00:37:23,956 'Cause legends always do. 902 00:37:23,956 --> 00:37:26,692 They can't take this away from you, homie. 903 00:37:26,692 --> 00:37:28,794 [Mos Def] ♪ Can you see the pride in the Panther ♪ 904 00:37:30,029 --> 00:37:31,897 ♪ As he glows In splendor and grace? ♪ 905 00:37:33,132 --> 00:37:35,668 ♪ Toppling the obstacles Placed ♪ 906 00:37:35,668 --> 00:37:38,337 ♪ In the way of The progression of his race ♪ 907 00:37:38,337 --> 00:37:41,740 [Afeni] I believe still, in the depths of my heart, 908 00:37:41,740 --> 00:37:44,743 you can kill a revolutionary, 909 00:37:44,743 --> 00:37:47,213 - but you cannot kill a revolution. - [crowd cheering] 910 00:37:47,213 --> 00:37:50,082 Keep loving, keep creating. 911 00:37:50,082 --> 00:37:52,084 Keeping making music. 912 00:37:52,084 --> 00:37:53,352 Keep dancing! 913 00:37:53,352 --> 00:37:56,322 Keep living! Loud! 914 00:37:56,322 --> 00:37:58,924 Peace! We outta here! 915 00:37:58,924 --> 00:38:01,227 [Mos Def singing] ♪ Can you see the pride in the Panther ♪ 916 00:38:01,227 --> 00:38:04,129 ♪ As she nurtures her young All alone? ♪ 917 00:38:04,129 --> 00:38:06,999 ♪ The seed must grow Regardless ♪ 918 00:38:06,999 --> 00:38:08,400 ♪ Of the fact that it's been Planted in stone ♪ 919 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,669 [Glo] Awesome. 920 00:38:10,669 --> 00:38:11,370 ♪ Can't you see the pride n the panthers ♪ 921 00:38:11,370 --> 00:38:12,972 [Glo] Awesome. 922 00:38:12,972 --> 00:38:14,240 ♪ As they unify, as one? ♪ 923 00:38:14,240 --> 00:38:16,108 [Glo] Awesome. 924 00:38:16,108 --> 00:38:17,977 ♪ The flower blooms With brilliance ♪ 925 00:38:17,977 --> 00:38:19,378 ♪ And outshines all The rays of the sun ♪ 926 00:38:19,378 --> 00:38:21,313 [Glo] Awesome. 927 00:38:21,313 --> 00:38:23,349 ♪ Shines bright Like rays of the sun ♪ 928 00:38:23,349 --> 00:38:25,351 [Glo] That's how I feel talking about my sister, 929 00:38:25,351 --> 00:38:27,253 and my nephew. 930 00:38:27,253 --> 00:38:31,323 Yes, I only had one. One sister and one nephew. 931 00:38:31,323 --> 00:38:34,927 But, boy, did I hit the jackpot. 932 00:38:34,927 --> 00:38:37,263 You know what I mean? 'Cause look at me. 933 00:38:37,263 --> 00:38:38,731 They couldn't be here. 934 00:38:38,731 --> 00:38:39,932 They had to go, 935 00:38:39,932 --> 00:38:41,700 so we can tell the story. 936 00:38:43,235 --> 00:38:46,105 Ain't that something? So we can tell the story. 937 00:38:46,105 --> 00:38:48,707 'Cause Afeni wanted the story told. 938 00:38:48,707 --> 00:38:50,809 Everybody knew that. 939 00:38:55,381 --> 00:38:57,316 and she covered her people. 940 00:39:00,591 --> 00:39:04,027 I remember a t ime that we went and did a benefit in Richmond, 941 00:39:04,027 --> 00:39:07,998 and my whole job was to protect Afeni. 942 00:39:07,998 --> 00:39:11,001 And she's-- takes off soon as she gets out the car. 943 00:39:11,001 --> 00:39:14,004 She walks right past me, security, the police. 944 00:39:14,004 --> 00:39:16,306 She's just freely walking, and I'm like, 945 00:39:16,306 --> 00:39:18,008 "I'm trying to protect you." 946 00:39:18,008 --> 00:39:20,544 And she laughed. She said, "You can't protect me. 947 00:39:21,445 --> 00:39:23,247 I'm protecting you." 948 00:39:24,148 --> 00:39:26,416 They said that Tupac in the car with Suge 949 00:39:26,416 --> 00:39:27,985 when they was getting shot at, 950 00:39:27,985 --> 00:39:31,255 Tupac dove over Suge and covered him. 951 00:39:32,689 --> 00:39:35,726 There's a story about Mutulu when he was 13. 952 00:39:35,726 --> 00:39:37,728 Somebody shot up a church and he dove 953 00:39:37,728 --> 00:39:40,998 on top of old ladies and covered them. 954 00:39:40,998 --> 00:39:42,666 This is who these people are. 955 00:39:44,034 --> 00:39:46,170 They-- they don't know anything else. 956 00:39:46,170 --> 00:39:48,105 They don't do anything else but that. 957 00:39:51,041 --> 00:39:54,011 The last year of Afeni's life, 958 00:39:54,011 --> 00:39:56,580 I got to spend a lot of time with her. 959 00:39:56,580 --> 00:39:59,416 We were on the houseboat in Sausalito, 960 00:39:59,416 --> 00:40:02,519 hanging out, having a good day. 961 00:40:02,519 --> 00:40:03,987 Fe wasn't feeling well. 962 00:40:06,223 --> 00:40:09,393 Then I went to go get medicine for her. 963 00:40:09,393 --> 00:40:12,029 And when I got back to the house, 964 00:40:13,564 --> 00:40:16,233 she, um, was unconscious. 965 00:40:17,601 --> 00:40:22,406 And so I put her on the floor and began CPR... 966 00:40:22,406 --> 00:40:24,541 while we waited for the ambulance to come. 967 00:40:26,043 --> 00:40:26,677 Um... 968 00:40:36,687 --> 00:40:40,991 [softly] Yeah, I think that's about all I can do right now. 969 00:40:43,193 --> 00:40:46,029 [Glo] She passed away May 2nd. 970 00:40:46,029 --> 00:40:49,433 She had a heart attack at 69 years old. 971 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,669 I had no sign. None of us did. 972 00:40:52,669 --> 00:40:55,706 [Allen] Did she find a peace of mind in that 20 years? 973 00:40:55,706 --> 00:40:58,675 My sister never had peace of mind. 974 00:40:58,675 --> 00:41:02,079 My sister never felt that she had done it right. 975 00:41:02,079 --> 00:41:05,015 My sister was in pain till the day she died. 976 00:41:05,015 --> 00:41:06,683 Now, you're going to get a tear or two, 977 00:41:06,683 --> 00:41:08,685 but you asked me, and here it go. 978 00:41:08,685 --> 00:41:11,255 My sister never had peace of mind. 979 00:41:11,255 --> 00:41:15,058 My sister never felt like she had done the best she could. 980 00:41:15,058 --> 00:41:17,427 My sister had tremendous guilt 981 00:41:17,427 --> 00:41:20,664 about some of the decisions that she had made in her life. 982 00:41:20,664 --> 00:41:24,535 But that's just human, and the fact that she existed 983 00:41:24,535 --> 00:41:27,037 and that she lived and she did what she did 984 00:41:27,037 --> 00:41:29,006 and she had that boy. 985 00:41:29,006 --> 00:41:32,042 And she did what she had to do for him. 986 00:41:32,042 --> 00:41:35,679 She tried to do it for us, too, just like he did. 987 00:41:35,679 --> 00:41:38,348 The smartest woman that I knew, 988 00:41:38,348 --> 00:41:41,185 the most compassionate and all of that... 989 00:41:41,185 --> 00:41:43,053 For that. 990 00:41:43,053 --> 00:41:46,657 I want my sister recognized for the most powerful, 991 00:41:46,657 --> 00:41:49,693 beautiful person that she was. 992 00:41:49,693 --> 00:41:52,029 I want this to be her gift. 993 00:41:53,230 --> 00:41:55,365 - From me sitting here... - [tapping chest] 994 00:41:57,434 --> 00:42:00,671 that she left her sister to tell her story. 995 00:42:01,705 --> 00:42:05,676 And that her sister-- I pray, did a hell of a job 996 00:42:07,711 --> 00:42:10,147 talking about my baby sister. 997 00:42:10,147 --> 00:42:12,749 My one and only. Okay, cut. 998 00:42:12,749 --> 00:42:15,185 I can't take no more 'cause I'll start crying for real 999 00:42:15,185 --> 00:42:16,386 - and I'm choking up. - [Allen] You got me crying. 1000 00:42:16,386 --> 00:42:18,288 Yeah, I don't like that. 1001 00:42:18,288 --> 00:42:20,424 I don't like-- I don't like crying in the public. 1002 00:42:20,424 --> 00:42:22,559 [laughter] 1003 00:42:22,559 --> 00:42:24,728 [Afeni] I thank y'all for being patient with me here. 1004 00:42:24,728 --> 00:42:27,397 I'm gonna read a little bit from the book. 1005 00:42:27,397 --> 00:42:30,300 My favorite chapter, which is the end. 1006 00:42:30,300 --> 00:42:33,003 "The five women of Sweet Honey in the Rock 1007 00:42:33,003 --> 00:42:34,738 were alive with fire. 1008 00:42:34,738 --> 00:42:37,674 An explosion of beauty and soul. 1009 00:42:37,674 --> 00:42:40,144 Each woman is so different, 1010 00:42:40,144 --> 00:42:43,413 but their power transcends the Atlantic." 1011 00:42:43,947 --> 00:42:47,684 Afeni knows every wo rd, every inflection. 1012 00:42:47,684 --> 00:42:49,520 Bernice Johnson-Reagon delivers. 1013 00:42:54,291 --> 00:42:59,696 [singing] ♪ We who believe in freedom Cannot rest ♪ 1014 00:43:00,731 --> 00:43:02,666 [Glo] Afeni sings right along. 1015 00:43:02,666 --> 00:43:06,670 ♪ We who believe in freedom ♪ 1016 00:43:06,670 --> 00:43:11,275 ♪ Cannot rest until it comes ♪ 1017 00:43:11,275 --> 00:43:16,046 "In my ear to my left, I hear Afeni sing. 1018 00:43:16,046 --> 00:43:20,617 She raises her hands towards Sweet Honey and sings 1019 00:43:20,617 --> 00:43:23,387 through her pain and her trials." 1020 00:43:23,387 --> 00:43:25,155 ♪ Cannot rest ♪ 1021 00:43:25,155 --> 00:43:27,391 [Glo] She sings through the death of her son 1022 00:43:29,092 --> 00:43:32,496 ♪ Until the killing of Black men ♪ 1023 00:43:33,730 --> 00:43:37,301 ♪ Black mothers' son ♪ 1024 00:43:37,301 --> 00:43:42,973 ♪ Is as important As the killing of white men ♪ 1025 00:43:43,707 --> 00:43:47,411 ♪ White mothers' son ♪ 1026 00:43:47,411 --> 00:43:53,116 ♪ We who believe in freedom Cannot rest ♪ 1027 00:43:54,151 --> 00:43:56,687 [Glo] She sings through her Panther years. 1028 00:43:59,556 --> 00:44:05,028 [Afeni singing] ♪ That which touches me most Is that I had a chance ♪ 1029 00:44:05,028 --> 00:44:07,431 ♪ To work with people ♪ 1030 00:44:08,565 --> 00:44:12,469 ♪ Passing on to others ♪ 1031 00:44:12,469 --> 00:44:17,274 ♪ That which Was passed on to me ♪ 1032 00:44:17,274 --> 00:44:21,011 [Glo] Through the healing of her daughter's spirit. 1033 00:44:21,011 --> 00:44:25,149 [Afeni singing] ♪ To me, young people Come first ♪ 1034 00:44:25,149 --> 00:44:29,253 ♪ They have the courage Where we fail ♪ 1035 00:44:29,253 --> 00:44:32,422 [Glo] Through realizing the dream of Tupac Amaru Shakur 1036 00:44:32,422 --> 00:44:35,025 Performing Arts Center, 1037 00:44:35,025 --> 00:44:37,194 where little children like young Tupac 1038 00:44:37,194 --> 00:44:39,696 can go for artistic nourishment. 1039 00:44:40,397 --> 00:44:44,468 [Afeni singing] ♪ Is when the rei ns Are in the hands of the young ♪ 1040 00:44:44,468 --> 00:44:49,706 ♪ Who dare to run Against the storm ♪ 1041 00:44:50,741 --> 00:44:54,278 ♪ We who believe in freedom ♪ 1042 00:44:54,278 --> 00:44:58,282 [Glo] The chorus swells and I close my eyes. 1043 00:44:58,282 --> 00:45:01,552 Afeni's voice is the only voice I hear. 1044 00:45:01,552 --> 00:45:05,522 [Afeni singing] ♪ We who believe in freedom ♪ 1045 00:45:05,522 --> 00:45:07,658 ♪ Cannot rest ♪ 1046 00:45:07,658 --> 00:45:09,693 ♪ Until it comes ♪ 1047 00:45:09,693 --> 00:45:12,162 "She possesses the next verse 1048 00:45:12,162 --> 00:45:14,665 as if it were written just for her. 1049 00:45:16,500 --> 00:45:19,203 It is her testimony." 1050 00:45:19,203 --> 00:45:23,240 [singing] ♪ I am a woman Who speaks in a voice ♪ 1051 00:45:23,874 --> 00:45:27,544 ♪ And I must be heard ♪ 1052 00:45:28,312 --> 00:45:33,417 ♪ A t times I can be Quite difficult ♪ 1053 00:45:33,417 --> 00:45:36,553 ♪ I bow to no man's word ♪ 1054 00:45:37,554 --> 00:45:39,523 "This is Afeni. 1055 00:45:39,523 --> 00:45:41,558 This song is written for her." 1056 00:45:41,558 --> 00:45:45,395 [singing] ♪ We who believe in freedom ♪ 1057 00:45:45,395 --> 00:45:47,264 ♪ Cannot rest ♪ 1058 00:45:47,264 --> 00:45:48,665 [Glo] As Afeni's story is written for me. 1059 00:45:48,665 --> 00:45:52,703 ♪ We who believe in freedom ♪ 1060 00:45:52,703 --> 00:45:56,974 ♪ Cannot rest Until it comes ♪ 1061 00:45:58,375 --> 00:45:59,443 You're welcome. 1062 00:46:00,477 --> 00:46:03,247 - [cheering and applaud ing] - [ Until the End of Time 1063 00:46:07,351 --> 00:46:10,654 ♪ Hey, hmm, better days ♪ 1064 00:46:13,490 --> 00:46:19,129 ♪ Hmm, hmm, hmm, yeah ♪ 1065 00:46:19,129 --> 00:46:21,265 ♪ Perhaps I was addicted To the dark side ♪ 1066 00:46:21,265 --> 00:46:23,600 ♪ Somewhere inside my childhood Witnessed my heart die ♪ 1067 00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,036 ♪ And even though we both came From the same places ♪ 1068 00:46:26,036 --> 00:46:28,405 ♪ The money and the fame made Us all change places ♪ 1069 00:46:28,405 --> 00:46:30,307 ♪ How could it be? Through the Misery that came to pass ♪ 1070 00:46:30,307 --> 00:46:32,075 ♪ The hard times Make a true friend ♪ 1071 00:46:32,075 --> 00:46:34,278 ♪ Afraid to ask for currency ♪ 1072 00:46:34,278 --> 00:46:36,413 ♪ But you could run to me when You need and I'll never leave ♪ 1073 00:46:36,413 --> 00:46:38,415 ♪ Honestly, someone to believe In, as you can see ♪ 1074 00:46:38,415 --> 00:46:40,551 ♪ It's a small thing to a true What could I do? ♪ 1075 00:46:40,551 --> 00:46:42,653 ♪ Real homies Help you get through ♪ 1076 00:46:42,653 --> 00:46:44,988 ♪ And come to knew he'd do The same thang if he could ♪ 1077 00:46:44,988 --> 00:46:46,990 ♪ 'Cause in the hood, true Homies make you feel good ♪ 1078 00:46:46,990 --> 00:46:49,293 ♪ And half the times We be actin' up call the cops ♪ 1079 00:46:49,293 --> 00:46:51,528 ♪ Bringin' a cease to the peace That was on my block ♪ 1080 00:46:51,528 --> 00:46:54,131 ♪ It never stops, when my mama Ask me will I change? ♪ 1081 00:46:54,131 --> 00:46:56,166 ♪ I tell her, "Yeah, but it's Clear I'll always be the same ♪ 1082 00:46:56,166 --> 00:46:57,668 ♪ 'Til the end of time ♪ 1083 00:46:57,668 --> 00:47:00,404 ♪ Take these broken wings ♪ 1084 00:47:00,404 --> 00:47:04,541 ♪ I need your hands to come And heal me once again ♪ 1085 00:47:05,008 --> 00:47:07,444 - ♪ So I can fly ♪ - ♪ Unt il the end of time ♪ 1086 00:47:09,613 --> 00:47:13,183 ♪ 'Til the end of time ♪ 1087 00:47:14,318 --> 00:47:16,620 ♪ Take these broken wings ♪ 1088 00:47:17,020 --> 00:47:19,022 The firs t one I'm gonna do 1089 00:47:19,022 --> 00:47:21,125 is called, Us Killing Us Equals Genocide. 1090 00:47:21,125 --> 00:47:23,026 It's about youth killing youth. 1091 00:47:23,026 --> 00:47:25,129 [singer] ♪ Yeah, hmm Better days ♪ 1092 00:47:25,129 --> 00:47:27,431 ♪ Listen, everybody 'Cause you're all involved ♪ 1093 00:47:27,431 --> 00:47:29,533 ♪ There's a problem In the nation That must be solved ♪ 1094 00:47:29,533 --> 00:47:31,535 ♪ What's my attitude With that ♪ 1095 00:47:31,535 --> 00:47:34,004 ♪ To this I swear As long as I didn't get shot ♪ 1096 00:47:34,004 --> 00:47:35,405 ♪ I just didn't care Let me tell you About Roger ♪ 1097 00:47:35,405 --> 00:47:37,207 ♪ 'Cause he was smart ♪ 1098 00:47:37,207 --> 00:47:39,276 ♪ Wanted to be a doctor An operator on hearts ♪ 1099 00:47:39,276 --> 00:47:41,545 ♪ Got, gots to go To a real good college ♪ 1100 00:47:41,545 --> 00:47:43,714 ♪ He didn't want to get high He wanted to get knowledge ♪ 1101 00:47:43,714 --> 00:47:46,183 ♪ Now Roger was at home One fateful night ♪ 1102 00:47:46,183 --> 00:47:48,552 ♪ Cause right next door To Roger was a gang On violence ♪ 1103 00:47:48,552 --> 00:47:51,021 ♪ Knew the girl That lived there So he was concerned ♪ 1104 00:47:51,021 --> 00:47:53,123 ♪ Stepped out to see What happened But never returned ♪ 1105 00:47:53,123 --> 00:47:56,160 ♪ Why he was shot six times He never revealed ♪ 1106 00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,195 ♪ That poor Black man His hopes and his dreams ♪ 1107 00:47:58,195 --> 00:48:00,397 ♪ Let me tell you about Romy He was mad as bad ♪ 1108 00:48:00,397 --> 00:48:02,399 ♪ He got strength with Rocky With Philly effect ♪ 1109 00:48:02,399 --> 00:48:04,735 ♪ Knew what, begin to rock that He does with the what ♪ 1110 00:48:04,735 --> 00:48:07,271 ♪ Like I said he was affected Now he wanted to fight ♪ 1111 00:48:07,271 --> 00:48:09,406 ♪ I done told him to calm down And play it cool ♪ 1112 00:48:09,406 --> 00:48:11,708 ♪ Romy paid no mind Wanted to act a fool ♪ 1113 00:48:11,708 --> 00:48:14,144 ♪ Reinventing of the word That's like of what I said ♪ 1114 00:48:14,144 --> 00:48:16,547 ♪ First Roger was killed Now Romy is dead ♪ 1115 00:48:16,547 --> 00:48:19,016 ♪ Stop the killing, start Telling better things to do ♪ 1116 00:48:19,016 --> 00:48:21,351 ♪ Listen close to the message I'm beating for you ♪ 1117 00:48:21,351 --> 00:48:23,520 ♪ Because the Black population Is becoming endangered ♪ 1118 00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:26,256 ♪ So before you Pull the trigger Stop and think ♪ 1119 00:48:26,256 --> 00:48:28,525 ♪ Because you could Kill from acting With the dark of the night ♪ 1120 00:48:28,525 --> 00:48:31,195 ♪ But you can never forget the Day you thought it was right ♪ 1121 00:48:31,195 --> 00:48:33,330 ♪ Now we mourn this stuff Together, we must unite ♪ 1122 00:48:33,330 --> 00:48:35,532 ♪ 'Cause that's the deadly Enemy that we must fight ♪ 1123 00:48:35,532 --> 00:48:38,001 ♪ We gotta deal With the problem Without a bust ♪ 1124 00:48:38,001 --> 00:48:40,270 ♪ Please stop the killing Now support, now stop now ♪ 1125 00:48:40,270 --> 00:48:42,539 ♪ Fellas stay in school And cop the gold ♪ 1126 00:48:42,539 --> 00:48:44,708 ♪ Get the ruckus of hands And the know after know ♪ 1127 00:48:44,708 --> 00:48:47,277 ♪ Young lady you a repping And that you know ♪ 1128 00:48:47,277 --> 00:48:49,480 ♪ But when your man wants to Make love, you birth control ♪ 1129 00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,149 ♪ But you people get The message in my rhyme ♪ 1130 00:48:52,149 --> 00:48:54,351 ♪ Remember us killing us Equals genocide ♪ 1131 00:48:54,351 --> 00:48:56,520 [cheering, applauding] 1132 00:48:56,570 --> 00:49:01,120 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 87395

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