Tupac Shakur Letter From Jail Denouncing Thug Life Selling For $225,000
black men in American is for sale.
In 1995, while locked up at New York’s Clinton
Correctional Facility on rape charges, Tupac
Shakur wrote a letter to Nina Bhadreshwar,
editor at Death Row Uncut magazine, on the
plight of the young black man in America.
“Thug Life to me is dead. If it’s real, then let
somebody else represent it, because I’m tired
of it.”
The letter and accompanying note are now for
sale on memorabilia website Moments in
Time for $225,000, reports Page Six . His
"Ambitionz Az A Ridah" lyric sheets,
handwritten in jail, were auctioned off last
week at Sotheby's in London.
His letter to Bhadreshwar was a passionate,
rambling 5-page manifesto that he instructed
for her to use at her own discretion. “[Many]
never survive the next level of Thug Life," he
wrote. "They become addicted to death. A
True Boss Playa knows when to advance... U
must play the game, not let the game play u...
A regular Playa plays women... a Boss Playa
plays life. A Boss Playa is a thinker, a leader,
a builder, a moneymaker, a souljah, a teacher
and most of all, a Man! I want all my homiez
to know there is another level.”
Read the whole handwritten letter in the
gallery.
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