Disgrace Land is a production of Double Elvis.

The stories about Tupac Shakur are insane.

He shot two police officers and got away with it.

Settled out of court after a six-year-old boy died from a bullet shot from his gun. He himself survived two bullets to the head. He famously

brawled with the notorious B.I.G. and partnered with the notorious blood street gang record

label boss Shug Night. Tupac Shakur repped a new hybrid style of

rap that was at once socially conscious and at the same time violent and representative of the

streets he came up on, raised by his mother, the former Black Panther in 60s radical. As a boy, he

showed natural talent as an actor,

attended the Baltimore School for the Arts,

and later went on to display his immense acting talent and charisma

and two critically acclaimed performances in his first two films.

And in addition to making great movies,

Tupac Amaru Shakor also made great music.

That music you heard at the top of the show, that wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Mellow Street Charisma, MK1.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to want ads by Honeycomb.

And why would I play you that specific slice of deliciously soulful lipstick on the collar

cheese could I afford it? Because that was the number one song in America on June 16, 1971.

And that was the day Tupac Shakur came into this life,

a life he would spend the rest of his short years trying to survive.

On this episode, Lipstick cheese, radical street charisma,

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