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A handwritten note from the late Tupac Shakur has surfaced, and is on sale for $225,000. The note, which Tupac wrote while in prison in 1995 for sexual assault charges, was written to Nina Bhadreshwar, who worked at Death Row Records. In the letter, Tupac wrote that “Thug Life to me is dead. If it’s real, then let somebody else represent it, because I’m tired of it… Here is what my heart says at this time. It’s long but it’s true.”
The note was written around a year before he was shot in a drive-by shooting in September 1996, and includes a road map for his entourage. “[Many] never survive the next level of Thug Life… They become addicted to death. A True Boss Playa knows when to advance… U must play the game, not let the game play u,” Tupac wrote on the sixth page of the note. “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.”
The emotional note is six pages long, and is currently for sale on the memorabilia site Moments in Time. Just last month, the handwritten note with the lyrics for “Ambitionz as a Ridah” was auctioned off.
Read the full letter below.
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