3:10PM EST - 3:32PM EST
8.27.2017
SUNDAY
CHAPTER ONE:
1. WHAT HOSPITAL WERE YOU BORN IN?
I WAS BORN AT BAPTIST HOSPITAL IN MIAMI, FLORIDA. I CAN PROVIDE AS MANY COPIES OF MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE AS YOU WANT TO SEE. I HAVE TWO ON ME NOW.
2. HOW WAS YOUR CHILDHOOD?
HA. MY CHILDHOOD WAS MARRED BY GREAT DESTINY.
3. AS IN?
AS IN I HAD TO DEAL WITH CERTAIN EXPERIENCES THAT TURNED OUT TO BE CATALYSTS IN ACTION.
4. AT WHAT AGE DO YOUR MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD REALLY START AND CONTINUE?
I REMEMBER EVERYTHING AFTER 6. I DO NOT REMEMBER THE FIRST FIVE YEARS. I DO NOT REMEMBER BEING TWO, IN THE CLOSET, DURING HURRICANE ANDREW IN 1992. I HEARD I WAS THE ONLY ONE SMALL ENOUGH TO SLEEP.
5. WHEN DO YOU RMEMBER FIRST LISTENING TO MUSIC ON YOUR OWN?
I REMEMBER VIBING TO MUSIC SINCE 6 YEARS OLD WHILE ALONE.
6. AND WHO WAS IT?
TUPAC SHAKUR. I REMEMBER GOING TO DISNEY WORLD WITH AUNT MARY AND THE VAN FULL OF COUSINS. MY BROTHER HAD JUST BOUGHT "ALL EYEZ ON ME". I TOOK DISC TWO WITH ME. SINCE THEN IT WAS ALWAYS MY FAVORITE DISC OF THE TWO.
7. IF YOU WERE 6 YEARS OLD IN 1996, THEN DO YOU REMEMBER THE DAY TUPAC WAS FATALLY WOUNDED?
DOES A BEAR IN THE WOODS WITH A FLUFFY WHITE RABBIT?
8. WHERE WERE YOU?
ACTUALLY AT MY AUNT MARY'S HOUSE AROUND THE CORNER FROM MY CHILDHOOD HOME. I REMEMBER THE DARKNESS OF THE MOMENT. THE FEELING LINGERED AS I WENT HOME. EVEN HOW MY STREET APPEARED TO ME LOOKED DIFFERENT AFTERWARDS.
9. YOU WROTE BOOKS ABOUT HIM?
OF COURSE I DID. HE CATALYZED THE U.C.A AND P.A.A.C. CORPORATIONS.
10. WHAT ARE THE TITLES YOU HAVE MADE WITH HIM AS SUBJECT?
THE BOOKS I CREATED ABOUT TUPAC SHAKUR ARE OF COURSE, CFK HE HAS HIS OWN VOLUME. DEAR GREATNESS I BELIEVE HE HAS A VOLUME AS WELL AS CREEPY PASTA VOLUME THREE. PRINCESS DIANA IS VOLUME TWO. I WAS RECORDING SOMETHING ABOUT TUPAC SHORTLY BEFORE MY ROOMMATE WAS MURDERED DURING THE 2016 CHRISTMAS SEASON.
11. AND HOW DID THAT AFFECT YOU?
IT CRUSHED ME. IT WAS THE MOST TRAGIC THING I HAD YET TO EXPERIENCE. AT THAT MOMENT MY CAPACITY FOR COMPASSION BEGAN TO REACH PRESIDENTIAL LEVELS OF INTENSITY. THAT IS WHEN I KNEW, I HAD A CHANCE. THEN I REALIZED I HAD ONE DECADE LEFT TO DO IT AND I WOULD HAVE TO COMMIT TO IT.
12. AND DID YOU?
I THOUGHT OF LITTLE ELSE SINCE CHRISTMAS 2016 MS. KATIE TUR. SHE'S BACK THERE, SHE'S BACK THERE. LOOK BACK THERE.