![]() Fortunately for his career (and his attorneys’ coffers), Tupac’s relentless work ethic was undisturbed by the chaos rife during the years prior to his conviction. In 19, he starred in two major motion pictures ( Poetic Justice and Above the Rim), released two albums ( Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z… and Thug Life’s Volume 1), and recorded Me Against the World, one of the genre’s bona fide masterpieces. On March 14, 1995, Tupac, who was just 23 years old at the time, was confined to a cell at the Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum security penitentiary in Dannemora, New York. ![]() Though some hoped that the isolation might fuel his creativity, Tupac was rarely inspired to write songs in prison. ![]() “And because I already laid it down, I can be free.” He told Kevin Powell, a journalist and author who is currently writing a Tupac biography, that in prison “I don’t even got the thrill to rap no more… In here I don’t even remember my lyrics.” In fact, until Tupac was provoked by disparaging comments made by Bad Boy Records CEO Sean Combs ( Puff Daddy) in an August 1995 Vibe magazine interview, he seriously considered making Me Against the World his last album. Thankfully, Tupac did not hang up his microphone, although his incarceration did make it extremely difficult for him to promote Me Against the World.
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