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Titled after Shakur's 1996 fourth studio album as well as the song of the same name, the film stars Demetrius Shipp Jr. It’s all likely an artistic choice out of respect for the beef’s tragic outcome or as not to overshadow the significance of Tupac’s life, but the direction reeks of Hollywood shellac.All Eyez on Me is a 2017 American biographical drama film about rapper Tupac Shakur, directed by Benny Boom and written by Jeremy Haft, Eddie Gonzalez and Steven Bagatourian. And there’s no reproduction of the “Hit Em Up” music video (casting a phony version of Gravy, who is already a phony version of Big, to mock Big, would be way too meta). You don’t see Tupac trading shots with Mobb Deep or Jay Z (“Chino XL, fuck you too!”), or eventually squashing his beef with Nas in Central Park after the 1996 MTV VMAs. While Biggie and ‘Pac-and to a broader extent Death Row and Bad Boy Records-are clearly pitted against each other, the film doesn’t depict the totality of the media-fueled East Coast-West Coast rivalry.
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The Full Scope of the East Coast/West Coast Beef But it’s not surprising that the marriage is altogether overlooked in All Eyez On Me, as Morris has rarely done press after being unhappy with her depiction in the 2003 documentary Tupac: Resurrection. While the union was brief-they divorced the following year-it was eventful (their hotel room once caught fire). In 1995, Pac married his girlfriend Keisha Morris at New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility Morris told The Source in 2000 that it was a loving, but partially strategic move intended to better allow her to handle the rapper’s business matters. The man who made “I Get Around” tried to settle down while he was locked up. When Pac finally laid his rhyme, which would later grace the posthumous Big L collaboration “Deadly Combination,” his verse suggested paranoia: “I think niggas is tryin' to kill me/Picturin' pistols, spittin' hollow points 'til they drill me.” It’d be the perfect prelude to a pivotal scene that changed everything, but the session didn’t make it into the script. Ron remembers that Pac seemed stressed as he was fielding phone calls about his whereabouts.
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The cash-strapped MC dropped a free verse for DJ Ron G in Harlem hours before he was shot, but the session was cinematic in its own right. Prior to the infamous Quad Studios shooting, Tupac laid one of his most clairvoyant 16s-and it’s completely omitted from All Eyez On Me.
The Uncanny Rhyme He Recorded Before Being Shot at Quad Studios “I was dating Tupac Shakur at the time and the thing is he got me all riled up on life in general.” Pac’s friend and actress Rosie Perez later admitted to hooking the two celebrities up at the 1993 Soul Train Music Awards. “One time, I was mad at when I said the f-word a lot-I was in a weird mood that day,” Madonna said. The megastar singer/actress opened up about their relationship during a 2015 interview with Howard Stern. Now the stuff of hip-hop mythology, Tupac Shakur and Madonna were once romantically involved, a point that is overlooked in the biopic.
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(Director John Singleton told Vibe in 2011 that it was a contrived publicity stunt.) Elsewhere on set, an extra reportedly trolled the movie star by calling him “Four Pac” afterward, Maya Angelou lectured Tupac to tears. As reports tell it, co-star Janet Jackson asked that the actor/rapper take an HIV test before they filmed a kissing scene, a request that Pac vehemently denied. While Juice, Above the Rim and Gridlock’d are all accounted for in All Eyez On Me, Tupac’s principled loverboy role in 1993’s Poetic Justice-and all of its off-camera drama-is conspicuously absent. With All Eyez On Me in theaters today, Complex sifted through the film to find the most glaring exclusions. spitting at news reporters) are curiously left out. It’s ambitious in scope, but still, several of the moments that added to 'Pac’s legend (i.e. The Benny Boom-directed movie packs 25 years of pain, triumph, poetry, thug life, controversy, and cultural domination into two hours and 20 minutes of cinema. It’s a geotag that adds some realism to a mostly true-to-life biopic that features a convincing performance of the fabled rapper via newcomer actor Demetrius Shipp Jr., and an outstanding portrayal of Afeni Shakur by Danai Gurira (best known for playing Michonne on The Walking Dead).Īll Eyez On Me is a thorough look at the life of hip-hop’s most iconic figure. This viewing for media and tastemakers is taking place at Magno Screening Room, a facility located just three doors down from Quad Recording Studios, where Tupac Shakur famously survived five bullet wounds in 1994. The Manhattan screening of All Eyez On Me, one week before the film’s debut, has an eerie tinge.