You just kinda wish they would release the whole damn thing without all the frickin’ desire to keep people in suspense.

If it’s a great interview, it’s because of what he said… not because of who was conducting it.

You can barely hear the questions being asked and again, it’s basically consistent with everything he said at that time.

Shame they had to fold before releasing this video. There’s no telling how viable they would have become had someone had the cajones to drop it when it mattered.

For the record, there’s more talk in this particular clip about how rappers and execs from the East Coast threw darts at him. Pac offers that he was willing to walk away from the drama and said as much in the VIBE cover he was featured in, but was ignited to attack with full force when another issue came out four months later. It was predominantly filled with interviews and opinions from many of the people he claimed had wronged him in the first place.

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In this, the second part of VIBE.com’s so called “Lost interview” (guess they just stumbled upon it on the 13th year anniversary of his death right? fuck outta here), 2pac speaks on the shooting that made his and the Biggie’s beef, well, notorious.

He basically refers to Biggie as his little brother and asks any intelligent student of hip hop to study the game and the culture within.

He then challenges us (them) to determine why he reacted the way he did to the vicious shooting where he was damn near left him for dead.

Ironically, whenever I’ve explained my position as to why Pac was angry about being shot five times, Biggie fans insist he was paranoid or whatever. My retort has always been that one, he wasn’t and two, as a BOSS, Biggie had no answers. Neither did Puff or anybody else in the building. Bosses know.

Pac puts those thoughts in his own words, with the violent eloquence he’s known for and accentuates his point by insisting he’d pulled off similar feats for others, including Wu Tang Clan members.

This interview is pretty consistent with any other one he did during that era… Not so sure what makes it so special because someone lost it for thirteen years.

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Thirteen years after his untimely death, Tupac Shakur remains one of the industry’s hardest working emcees. To boot, another album of his - One Nation - will be available for download via iTunes on March 20th.

Prior to his demise, Pac talked about uniting both the West and East Coasts and made it known that he intended on doing so with One Nation.

The compilation features The Outlawz, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Greg Nice, Big Daddy Kane and a never before heard track featuring Pac and Notorious B.I.G.

Here’s Diddy “The Opportunist” Combs speaking on the Biggie/Pac relationship. At point he talks about how their relationship came to be, seemingly wanting to draw a picture of inseparability, but then refers to them together as a real life version of Tom & Jerry… who were immortal enemies. Maybe he meant it. Go figure.