Tupac Resurrection Full Documentary
"I didn't have a criminal record until I had a record," Tupac Shakur declares in this revealing documentary, ingeniously narrated by the rapper himself using interviews recorded shortly before his death in 1996. Made in collaboration with Shakur's mother, Afeni, Tupac: Resurrection is an inevitably one-sided affair that slavishly celebrates its subject with a fervor that borders on idolatry. Yet even when viewed through rose-tinted specs, Tupac emerges as a brilliant and insightful individual whose murder has robbed us all of a bold and uncompromising talent.
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"NO STRANGER TO HARDSHIP AND POVERTY"
"This is my story: a story of ambition, violence, redemption and love," declares a disembodied Shakur at the beginning of Lauren Lazin's film, which uses concert footage, home movies and talking heads to trace his rise from ghetto kid to global icon. Growing up with a crack-addicted mother and a street hustler stepfather, Tupac was no stranger to hardship and poverty. And it was this experience of deprivation and injustice that fueled his angry, confrontational music and his "thug life" credo.
Tupac Resurrection Full Documentary
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"I didn't create the thug life, I diagnosed it," Shakur says. But his support for gang culture and gangsta codes was at odds with the sensitive artist who wrote poetry, kept a journal and loved his mother. Indeed, watching him spit on news crews or taunt his rival Biggie Smalls, you can't help but think that the role of a woman-hating, gun-carrying gangster was just a role he was playing - a role that would eventually cost him. his life.
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The irony is that his untimely demise turned him into one of the best-selling artists of all time, with over 30 million records sold since his fatal shooting in Las Vegas. If there's a villain in Lazin's play, it's Marion 'Suge' Knight, the Death Row Records impresario who cynically exploited the Biggie-Tupac feud and then reaped the rewards by pushing the daisies.
