Before an unexpected tragedy hit the life of the legendary rapper, Tupac Shakur a documented film was made in 1995, entitled, ‘TUPAC UNCENSORED AND UNCUT – The Lost Prison Tapes’. Today, January 26, 2011 the movie launches on DVD and digital.
A moving portrait of one of the most influential hip hop artists of all time, ‘TUPAC UNCENSORED AND UNCUT – The Lost Prison Tapes’ features a never-before-seen interview with the rapper while he was serving inside the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York. Unedited and never before released in its entirety, this extended interview presents a raw look into Tupac’s world, as the music legend riffs on topics ranging from his involvement with gang life to prisons in America to his relationship with his mother. What emerges is a moving self-portrait of an artist who sees himself as fundamentally misunderstood: He may have diagnosed thug life, but he didn’t invent it, and he is determined to uplift – not destroy – the black community. Capturing the intensity and passion of a fierce talent, TUPAC UNCENSORED AND UNCUT offers a glimpse inside the mind of the enigmatic artist whose music is, in his own words, “all about life.”
Tupac Shakur is a top-selling rap artist, a promising actor, and a social activist. Most of his songs are about growing up amid violence and hardship in ghettos, racism, other social problems, and conflicts with other rappers. Unfortunately, in September 1996, Tupac Shakur was shot four times in the Las Vegas metropolitan area and was taken to the University Medical Center where he died of respiratory failure and cardiac arrest.
