There are fever dreams of the golden age in New York City he mulls suicide and perches by windows with AKs. It’s a remarkable record, at turns tender and fatalistic. In March of ’95, Interscope released Pac’s third album, Me Against the World. I’ve been having nightmares, thinking they’re still shooting me.”īut outside of prison, he was becoming a superstar. “I have headaches,” he’d later tell Vibe. In November of the previous year-the night before a jury convicted him-he was shot in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio. On top of normal psychological torture that comes with imprisonment, Pac was also having trouble sleeping. He had been sentenced to one and a half to four and a half years in a sexual assault trial the previous fall. About 300 miles north of Manhattan sits the Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison that, in 1995, housed its most famous inmate: Tupac Amaru Shakur.
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