If 2pac isn’t one of your favorite rappers, we can’t fuck with you.
Without even knowing it, Sanyika “Monster Kody” Shakur recorded a conversation with 2pac back in 1995 on accident thanks to his wife. Apparently the conversation happened after Monster got out of Pelican Bay State Prison in California, coinciding with Tupac’s release from Clinton Correctional Facility in New York.
For those that weren’t aware, Monster Kody is a OG from the L.A. streets that wrote a book you have to read, Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member. The two showed great admiration for each other during their talk, as Pac revealed he had most of the Clinton population reading the book inside the pen and even showing praise to the West Coast – a rarity at that time in New York.
The real shit ‘Pac and Kody talked about, though. You can tell they wanted to actually help the communities and uplift the kids, because they didn’t have a clue this conversation was being recorded at the time and candidly mentioned trying to put together an organization with other rappers.
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Some of the more interesting things that the two talked about include:
1. Getting famous rappers to all connect and bring together neighborhoods across the U.S. together through an organization, with the help of Al Sharpton, to create a youth league and have block parties with no gangbanging or violence involved.
2. 2pac touched on the 1994 case against the police.
3. The Gangsta Disciples holding ‘Pac down when he’s in Chicago.
4. Being in Milwaukee for a concert and shouting out a kid that was shot in senseless violence, and getting things thrown at him for it.
5. Being on Death Row Records, recording All Eyez On Me and the features on the album.
6. Life inside Clinton Max and how they put him in 23-hour lockdown, and getting anything he wanted from the people in prison
7. Wanting Maya Angelou to write an autobiography on him.
8. His battle between the Black Panther movement teachings he was raised on and gangbanging mentality he was trying adapt to survive in the streets.
9. Shooting the video for “California Love” with Dr. Dre.
10. Wanting 2pac to play Monster Kody in his movie and how John Singleton and the Hughes Brothers were “cowards.”
Every single Tupac Shakur fan should find this clip interesting, just for the simple fact he was dropping jewels in a random conversation. This was ‘Pac at his rawest.
R.I.P.