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A recently unearthed letter from prison penned by Tupac Shakur shows the legendary gangster rapper was ready to change his tune before his violent death.

In the five-page message to Nina Bhadresher, who worked for Death Row Records, a year before he was shot dead in Las Vegas in 1996 at the age of 25, is now up for sale, the “Me Against the World” rapper lays out a plan for African-American men to navigate out of the same cycle of violence and drugs that he lived through even after he achieved stardom.

At the time, the ex-boyfriend of Madonna and Jada Pinkett Smith was in jail on sexual assault charges. He had expressed an intent to start a ‘new chapter’ of his life.

The letter is being sold through Moments In Time, which specializes in selling autographs, letters and signed photos.

In the note to Nina, who edited Death Row Uncut magazine and her own publication The Real State, he wrote: ‘I am not granting this information to any other publication, not even Time & Rolling Stone so please represent it as it is layed. I trust u.(sic).’

Under Shakur’s manifesto, there were three stages of gangsta – a “lowly dustkicker,” a “thug,” and the ultimate pinnacle, a “bossplaya.”

“I want all my homies 2 realize there is another level it takes heart and courage to stand alone face the demons and make change!,” preached Shakur, who by then had survived an attack in which he was shot five times.

In the letter, Shakur also opened up his own internal struggles: “I got distracted by my depression and I stayed drunk & weeded to kill the pain,” he wrote.

The hand-written message to Death Row’s Nina Bhadreshwar, dates back to Shakur’s stint at New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility over a 1995 conviction for rape.

He didn’t have much time, however, to practice what he preached. Shortly after his release from prison, Shakur succumbed to gunshot wounds on Sept. 13, 1996, six days after being attacked in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.

“I Did not begin thug life I just personified it,” he wrote in the 1995 letter.

http://onlineleaks247.com/index.php/2015/10/07/photos-handwritten-letter-by-tupac-shakur-about-quitting-thug-life-to-sell-for-225k/

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AishyWemsy:
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