Discussion on Tupac's Early Career

All you gotta do, please, please play the 17-year-old

Tupac, uh, the, the little, the, the interview.

That, that, that's who he was.

Yeah.

He was this innocent, almost, dare I say, somewhat

effeminate type of dude, right? Like, when you really look at that, that

interview, he was a very soft

person. That's who he was. Two years later,

he plays Bishop, and that character that he created with Bishop

influenced millions of people, and he stayed in that character.

'Cause-

Yeah

... I literally would see him flip-flop from

one

character to the other, 'cause we would hang out, we'd play pool,

and famously

people would say, "Your friend looks like Tupac."

And they didn't think that could

be him, because he was more like that

17-year-old guy. And a lot of people

that really knew him was like, "Yo, he's..." Because, because I

always speak the way I speak now, and so he felt very comfortable being

that other

side around me. That really playful,

you know, clowny, kind of like silly type of

guy who knows all the Schoolhouse Rock jingles, you know?

And then

would flip into a different mode

around... It's kind of like, like once he did that Bishop role,

that became

a much more interesting character for him to play.