So I’m looking at Tupac, and he’s trying to yell back at Suge, and I’m asking him, ‘Who shot you? What happened? Who did it?’ And he was just kind of ignoring me. He was making eye contact with me here and there, but he’s trying to yell at Suge. And I kept asking over and over, ‘Who did this? Who shot you?’ And he basically kept ignoring me. And then I saw in his face, in his movements, all of a sudden in the snap of a finger, he changed. And he went from struggling to speak, being noncooperative, to an “I’m at peace” type of thing. Just like that. He went from fighting to “I can’t do it.” And when he made that transition, he looked at me, and he’s looking right in my eyes. And that’s when I looked at him and said one more time, ‘Who shot you?’ He looked at me and he took a breath to get the words out, and he opened his mouth, and I thought I was actually going to get some cooperation. And then the words came out: ‘F*ck you.’
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In the 18 years since the shooting of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas, Nevada, numerous stories have been told about the rapper’s life and death, with an array of theories also claiming that the shooting never occurred and that rapper is still alive and hiding. One person who was yet to speak up, however, is the first police officer on the scene - the individual who was there to hear the legendary rapper’s last words and be present for his last conscious moments. This police officer is Chris Carroll, a 23-year metro veteran who retired in December of 2010, and has kept mum on his experiences on that night - until now. Revealing a detailed account to Vegas Seven, Carroll speaks on everything from his experiences in the early hours of the night to Tupac’s last words:
Tupac providing guidance to a young Kendrick Lamar
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Matthew Taylor Wilson
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PBS’s Blank on Blank Brings Lost Tupac Interview from 1994 to Life
PBS’s Blank on Blank recently aired a previously unseen 1994 interview between Tupac and Benjamin Svetkey of Entertainment Weekly. To bring the interview to life, animator Patrick Smith has added a black-and-white animation depicting the late rapper as the complex and introspective person he was. The interview occurred at a time when Tupac had recently been accused of raping a woman, and while he was acquitted on most of the charges, he would spend 11 months in jail as a result. The interview is also notable for the answers he gives, some of which are very foretelling.
EMBROIDERY BY MANA MORIMOTO
Tokyo-based textile artist Mana Morimoto creates these amazing compositions by carefully arranging embroidery threads on pictures. The resulting images find their place outside of traditional notions of arts and crafts. Thereby her artistic work has a simple origin: ‘I started working with threads because I wasn’t happy with my life. I was at a point where I felt like I needed to start creating something with my hands. I find stitching and weaving therapeutic and I feel like I have finally found something I’m good at doing and want to continue doing.’ It began with an old tin box full of beads and embroidery treads collected when she was a child. Later she embellished a friend’s painting with her needle works, embroidered some friends’ photos, magazine pages, record covers, gratings, tickets stub and concert tickets. Today she is weaving on a loom, creating terrific and magical works.
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