All eyes continue to be on Tupac Shakur

Brut America

The murder of Tupac Shakur stunned the music world in 1996 — now there may finally be a breakthrough in the unsolved case.

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00:00Was it your intention to try to get young black people to be violent to police?

00:07No.

00:07Were you trying to provoke anybody to do anything particular?

00:11Yes.

00:11Tell us what?

00:13Think.

00:13Use your head.

00:26It was pretty much common knowledge who did it.

00:30You want to be successful?

00:36You want to be like Trump?

00:38Gimme, gimme, gimme.

00:39Push, push, push, push.

00:40Step, step, step.

00:41Crush, crush, crush.

00:41They don't care if we stop the violence or not.

00:44They don't care about gang violence.

00:45We asked 10 years ago.

00:47We was asking with the Panthers.

00:48We was asking with them.

00:50You know, with civil rights movement.

00:51We was asking.

00:52Those people that were asking, they're all dead and in jail.

00:54So now what do you think we're going to do?

01:00How do you define rap?

01:07It's poetry.

01:09To me, it's storytelling, poetry.

01:11Have you ever performed gangster rap?

01:14No.

01:14Okay, and why would you say that?

01:16I don't know, number one, what gangster rap is.

01:19Number two, I don't classify what my music is as gangster rap.

01:23Have you heard the term?

01:25A lot.

01:26Are you aware of any others who had shot a policeman?

01:31They said they listened to your music.

01:33No.

01:33And that's what caused them to do it.

01:35But none of them ever said this until you guys started saying this.

01:47I'm a victim for real.

01:48Everything I talk is for real.

01:50I really got my ass beat.

01:51I really don't like them.

01:53The interviewer wrote police.

01:55Did you mean police?

01:56No.

01:57What did you mean?

01:59I really don't like crooked police.

02:01If I meet someone that's kind hearted and that's true,

02:04in a position where they have to put their life on the line,

02:05and they can still be fair to everybody they meet,

02:08I definitely like them.

02:09I admire that.

02:18Were you trying to provoke anybody to do anything particular?

02:22Yes.

02:22Tell us what?

02:24Think.

02:24Use your head.

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