A rare 2Pac interview from 1996 has been unearthed, and it finds the late rap legend detailing his career plans and ambitions — including wanting to “move away from music.”
Entertainment Tonight shared the interview clip on Sunday (April 23) to coincide with the recent premiere of FX’s Dear Mama docuseries, which explores ‘Pac’s relationship with his mother, Afeni Shakur.
Chatting with the outlet prior to the release of his final movie Gridlock’d, which came out just months after his September 1996 murder, 2Pac spoke about wanting to put music on the back burner and focus on his acting career, partly in an attempt to rehabilitate his image.
“To have change in my image, really, number one,” he said when asked what attracted him to Gridlock’d. “This movie is really about friendship and what unconditional friendship means. I did it basically because it was funny and I’ve never really got to be funny.”
Looking to further make his mark in Hollywood, the “California Love” hitmaker also hinted at starring in a rom-com and expressed his excitement at launching his own movie production company.
“We got a lot of good things happening,” he said. “If I say it right now, the way my luck has been going, it’ll all fall through … Just give me a month so I can lock it down before I tell everybody.
“I just want to push the envelope and work, work, work. I want to move further away from the music and start wading myself into the acting more.”
Still, music wasn’t completely out of 2Pac’s plans as he also spoke about wanting to develop himself as an artist and make more “thought-provoking” music, admitting that All Eyez On Me — his scorching debut on Suge Knight’s Death Row Records and the final album released in his lifetime — was fueled by “emotions.”
“The album that’s out now is just my emotions, it’s emotional, but it’s not thought-provoking,” he added. “So…
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