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Mýa says “Fair Xchange (Mýa Remix),” the song she did with 2Pac after his death, always bothered her, calling it strange as Mýa recalls always seeing 2Pac’s car in the parking garage when she was signed to Interscope Records, revealing that they kept it there for years after 2Pac’s death.
Also, Mýa reflects on meeting Biggie for the first time the night he died.
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Busta Rhymes says he saw Tupac write seven songs with seven different concepts to the same Isley Brothers sample and reveals he knew his friendship with Tupac was solid when Tupac asked for his help to squash the beef between him and Q-Tip.
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On Monday, July 19, 1993, four days before John Singleton’s “Poetic Justice” opened in theaters across America, a 22-year-old @2PAC appeared on “The @ArsenioHall Show.”
Shakur was promoting his performance as “Lucky” opposite Janet Jackson in Singleton’s second feature film, but the conversation quickly moved beyond Hollywood publicity. He addressed the widely reported claim that he had been asked to undergo an HIV test before filming an on-screen kiss with Jackson. Shakur understood the alleged request as unequal and degrading treatment rooted in assumptions surrounding his public image. Accounts of the incident remain conflicting: members of the production later said the request occurred, while Singleton subsequently maintained that the controversy had been manufactured for publicity.
The appearance also captured Shakur during a period of intense political and media hostility toward Rap music. His 1991 debut album, “2Pacalypse Now,” had drawn condemnation for its accounts of police brutality, poverty, teenage pregnancy, and institutional neglect. Shakur rejected the argument that Hip-Hop caused the violence it described. Rap, in his view, reflected conditions already operating within Black American society and gave language to realities that political and media institutions preferred not to confront.
Shakur also revisited his legal conflicts and the October 17, 1991, Oakland incident in which he alleged that police officers stopped, choked, beat, and arrested him after he challenged their treatment of another Black man. He subsequently filed a civil-rights lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department. During the interview, Tupac connected marijuana’s renewed visibility in Hip-Hop to the ways people attempted to manage pressure, trauma, and instability within neglected communities.
This July 1993 appearance preserves Shakur before mythology fully overtook the man: articulate, humorous, defensive, politically alert, and already fighting to control how America interpreted his art, identity, and refusal to perform respectability for public approval.
More than three decades later, his central argument remains unsettled: Hip-Hop did not invent the conditions it described, it made those conditions impossible to ignore.
“A role model got to play a role, and a real model got to be real. And if I’m a real model, all I got to do every day is wake up and be myself.” —Tupac Amaru Shakur, offering a distinction between performing respectability and living authentically
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Above the Rim was a moment in time. 🔥 @WoodHarris reflects back on working with Tupac, the friendship they built, and the memories that stayed with him. Don’t miss this moment and more from #UncensoredTVOne Thursday at 8p/7c only on @tvonetv. 🍿🎥
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