2Pac
Tupac & Monster Kody Phone Conversation October 18, 1995
Tupac: Sanyika, what's up?
Sanyika: Tupac, true playa. I got the message you was trying to send. But, you know, they had me on the Hannibal Lecter trip.
Tupac: Yeah. I was wondering what happened because they did that to me too when I was up in there.
Sanyika: Yeah, I heard.
Tupac: Certain people I couldn't write to like Mutulu. They opened my whole letter to him.
Sanyika: Oh, yeah, well, you know, I would get at Mutulu, but I go ride long way, right?
Tupac: Uh-huh.
Sanyika: Through this cat named Robin—
Tupac: Uh-huh.
Sanyika: —or I get at Watani I go another way too, right?
Tupac: But I'm scared to do that shit, I ain't wanna everybody else to get the letter 'cause if this other cat wrote me and said that you talked to him and it was cool and send it through him but I was like, "Shit."
Sanyika: Yeah, yeah.
Tupac: How I know he said that?
Sanyika: Right, right.
Tupac: Everybody know I'm trying to get at you.
Sanyika: And that was good shout-out you gave me, man in The Vibe, man.
Tupac: Oh, you know, it's all good. I'm trying to tell it to your face for the longest time.
Sanyika: I'm telling you. Ayy, ayy, you don't remember where we met at, huh?
Tupac: Nah, Watani said it was up in L.A., right?
Sanyika: Straight it up, man.
Tupac: I don't remember that shit.
Sanyika: It was me, you, it was [?] Dara we was kicking it in Mkumbu's pad.
Tupac: I still don't remember that shit, you know I budded out though.
Sanyika: I know, homie.
Tupac: [?]
Sanyika: Hey, you got my number here though?
Tupac: Nah.
Sanyika: You called me, remember?
Tupac: But I got the number from Mo, he was with me, he dialed the number for me.
Sanyika: Okay, take this number down.
Tupac: Okay.
Sanyika: 9-0-9.
Tupac: Mhm.
Sanyika: 2-4-3.
Tupac: Mhm.
Sanyika: 2-8-8-9.
Tupac: 2-8-8-9.
Sanyika: Ayy, you know we started shooting the movie next month, right?
Tupac: You do?
Sanyika: I'm telling you, man, I want you to play me, man.
Tupac: I wanna play you. They can't have nobody play you.
Sanyika: Okay, dig this. Check this out.
the producer— I mean, director, right— is Antoine Fuqua, a young brother. 28 years old from Baltimore, right. But he straight, straight up cat like us, right.
Tupac: Mhm.
Sanyika: And he's a good cat. We got hella pull with him, right.
Tupac: Mhm.
Sanyika: We didn't even did casting yet, man.
Tupac: Mhm.
Sanyika: You know?
Tupac: You gotta put me down.
Sanyika: I'm telling you, I had seen your shit, I just seen Juice.
Tupac: Oh, you did? [Pac laughs]
Sanyika: 'Cause I was all locked up all them years.
Tupac: Oh shit.
Sanyika: I just seen your shit, man.
Tupac: Word!
Sanyika: Yep, Above the Rim who that last night
Tupac: Yeah, when I was up in that jailhouse, I wrote one too, I suppose to be getting that shit together. What else you doing, man?
Sanyika: Ayy, man you won't believe I got some dope ass lyrics.
Tupac: Word?
Sanyika: I'm serious! I got this shit called "Level 5" that's bomb shit.
Tupac: Word! [laughs] You got to come to the studio then.
Sanyika: I'm telling you, I got some shit.
Tupac: So, when are you going to come through?
Sanyika: When can I come through?
Tupac: Anytime you want. I'm in the studio every day. I'm finishing my album. I'm doing a double album this Christmas called All Eyez On Me. I got the song with Dre, I got the song with Roger, I got a song with George Clinton.
Sanyika: That shit is fat.
Tupac: Faith, I got Sister Souljah coming, if you're coming then we can do the bomb shit. (I'm telling you)
Sanyika: Hey, check this out, check this out. I'm telling you that shit you shout, man "So Many Tearz"
Tupac: Yeah.
Sanyika: Man, I burst out in tears when I heard that shit.
Tupac: You liked that shit?
Sanyika: Man you shot that shit, I'm telling you, yesterday I was cleaning up the pad.
Tupac: Uh-huh.
Sanyika: And I was me and my wife, right.
Tupac: Mhm.
Sanyika: And I'm cleaning up the pad, and Um "Lord Knows" was on, right.
Tupac: Uh-huh.
Sanyika: And at the last verse—
Tupac: Yeah.
Sanyika: —that shit hit me and froze me, man.
Tupac: [?] man?
Sanyika: Man, hey, hey, homie, I love that shit outta you man, you shot that shit
Tupac: [2Pac laughs] [?] partner
Sanyika: I'm telling you.
Tupac: You're my player. I was telling you, it was this letter I was trying to send to you, man, when them dudes started diss this to me.
Sanyika: Man! Who was that man?
Tupac: it was these fools from New York, this gang out there called "A Team". Dee fools was mad 'cause I told 'em I won't fuck with 'em no more.
Sanyika: You motherfuckers, I was mad as hell about that.
Tupac: So when they put the pistols out, I swear on everything I love. first thing I thought about was reading your book when you told 'em about how you felt when them n***as drew down.
Sanyika: Ain't that cold?
Tupac: That's exactly how I felt, the set up, the shit you was talking about, how you just look up and n***a be like, "boom".
Sanyika: Like that.
Tupac: Everything was just like that
Sanyika: And when I was reading about the shit happened to you I was like many shit stayed like parallel to me
Tupac: It's exactly, man.
Sanyika: I'm telling you.
Tupac: Bug me out.
Sanyika: Man, I'm telling you we started shooting in December, man, and no later than January and propaganda is doing it, right.
Tupac: Uh-huh, that's good.
Sanyika: Propaganda doing it polygram. And when the shit is all ready, man, I'm telling you, I'ma plug you in. Can't nobody do that shit but you might as well [?] Shakur thing.
Tupac: Alright I'ma blow it up.
Sanyika: Shakur thang.
Tupac: Hey, I represent it for you, all the New York, I got all those New York dudes who hate the West Coast.
Sanyika: Yeah.
Tupac: Screamin' out yo' name
Sanyika: Hell with that shit.
Tupac: I was passin' your autobiography for n***as 'cause they didn't understand the West Side.
Sanyika: I'm telling ya, I seen you on BET one time. It was you and John Singleton, right?
Tupac: Yeah.
Sanyika: You ask John Singleton, you had the book "Do or Die", you be ready, eat to live and Watani was there too.
Tupac: Uh-huh, Yeah.
Sanyika: I been following you, bruh.
Tupac: Yeah, man. N***a John Singleton is a coward though.
Sanyika: I also heard what you did to the Hughes Brothers.
Tupac: Yeah.
Sanyika: I read that article-- that interview Dream did with you.
Tupac: Yeah, Hughes Brothers is cowards too.
Sanyika: Yeah.
Tupac: Man I've just been struggling out here looking for you man I need some help, man.
Sanyika: I'm telling you I'm here, brother. Whatever I can do, I'm telling you straight up. I'ma plug you in.
Tupac: Got to, man.
Sanyika: I'm telling you, man, I'm telling you 'Pac.
Tupac: And I want to get this organization started wit' you. Only we can do it, let me tell you the idea.
Sanyika: Alright.
Tupac: It's like, we're like, we start, like, this youth league, right.
Sanyika: Right.
Tupac: Football league, basketball, football-- I mean basketball, football, softball for girls and boys.
Sanyika: Yeah.
Tupac: I'ma get all the rappers to adopt a team.
Sanyika: Right.
Tupac: Each rapper have his own team; Coolio have his team, Treach have his team, I have my team and we play, and the rappers the ones that put the money up. We get to field, we play, we have, like, the churches come out and sell food.
Sanyika: That's real.
Tupac: We have the fathers and the uncles and all them and the community, they do security.
Sanyika: Right.
Tupac: To get they respect back for the kids and everything then. We have the Afroman come out, we have the Deckens from the church, they do the security. And we just play football, baseball you know get back community spirit going again. Then on the weekend we have back parties.
Sanyika: Alright.
Tupac: Every rapper gotta get up, every rapper, n***a if you gotta recognize you gotta get up for us, you gotta come to a free show for the hood.
Sanyika: That's real.
Tupac: And it's like a little tour so we do that, then we get all the communities back together. And I'm talking to Al Sharpton about this, some other motherfuckers with some power. And then when we do that, we register to the voters, and if we can register for Democrats, Republican or independent. Once we register to the voters, we have power. Then we start going up to the mayors of these cities and telling them, "Look, we got this many voters in this city; we want you to do this, we want a community center." We start hittin' up Nike for the free clothes and [?] stores for the free computers in each community center. And if they don't then, shit, that's how many people will have in those cities, we can regulate. Y'knaw mean?
Sanyika: Yah!
Tupac: If we tellin' the mayor n***a if you don't do this then we ain't gon' do this.
Sanyika: Yeah.
Tupac: We tellin' him we can clean up the streets, I'ma have all these tough-ass supposed to be gangsta rappers.
Sanyika: Straight up.
Tupac: We gon' all get in the van, we gon' travel, L.A. gotta be the last place 'cause it gon' be the hardest but we can do the Jersey and all of that, we gon' drive to all these drug areas, right?
Sanyika: Yeah.
Tupac: Imagine me, Redman, Treach, Ice Cube [?] havin' n***a for gettin' out, goin' out to whoever the main drug dealer on that block, who run shit, you know, we get out of our man being "What's up, n***a, hey y'all doing, what's up, ayy yo, who the n***a that run shit" they gon' take us to that n***a. We invite those n***as to dinner, invite them n***as to some Dom Pérignon.
[Sanyika laughs]
Tupac: And lobster, anjd be like look player we askin' you not tellin' you, we askin' you as a player to a player, can you please give us a path to have these street clean, from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Sanyika: Right.
Tupac: Let that be for the kids, let them n***as be safe, doing no time, no gun shots, no drug dealings. From 11 p.m. till 6 a.m., y'all can have the streets back, but let us get the streets from these times. Then, we can get these [?] he said he can get to the the police to, like, chill out, um— No, those nights times patrol, if n***as can get the streets clean from 6 to 11.
Sanyika: Hey, but you know what else too though? Why talk to them face to face, pin out some shit on you, right? Some other stuff too, right?
Tupac: Mhm.
Sanyika: But yeah, that's bad, man, and we all that, right? And, um, you know, that's my top of work.
Tupac: Yeah, we need power, man.
Sanyika: I'm telling you, ayy. Dig it, man. Hey, I'm telling you, we got power now.
Tupac: Yeah, we need power. Power is numbers. It's like, these rappers, man, while we don't have it, we got the juice, we just say doing nuttin' wit' it.
Sanyika: Because it ain't collectivized. Say what, did you see the cats in Chicago? I think they was GDs.
Tupac: Yeah.
Sanyika: 'Cause they havin' it put people in the streets.
Tupac: I know they be lookin' out for me when I come out there.
Sanyika: And they be runnin' people on the picky like the council.
Tupac: I know they got them— This dude, what's his name? Um, some n***a they just had out there but he lost.
Sanyika: Gatory club gator
Tupac: Yeah, he came close though.
Sanyika: Yeah, him and some good cats too man.
Tupac: I went out there they be lookin' out for me, but they be gang like within one set. They want me to be down with them and Black Stones want me to be with them, GDs be with them, but, yeah, I had a run-in with them in Milwaukee, 'cause when that little kid died. Yummy Sandifer.
Sanyika: Yeah, I heard you sent a shout-out to him.
Tupac: Yeah, I had to do a show that next day after they just killed that kid.
Sanyika: Yeah.
Tupac: 'Cause you knew what happened right?
Sanyika: Yeah, they executed him.
Tupac: Right, they executed him and I was out there when I did the show. The gang was in the fuckin' audience, the whole gang had like bought out the stadium.
Sanyika: Damn!
Tupac: So I'm rappin' to the n***as that just killed this little kid.
Sanyika: Oh!
Tupac: And they all screamin' out "Thug Life". I felt bad. Like, what it is, this, they got it twisted.
Sanyika: Yeah.
Tupac: So I started cursin' them n***as out like "Y'all n***as is cowards. Y'all n***as cowards. Y'all killed that kid. Y'all n***as is punks, man. I hate all of you."
[?]
[Sanyika laughs]
Tupac: Them n***as started throwin' shit [?] in the stadium (Word!, Damn!)
Tupac: It was tough, man. The whole gang toured the whole neighborhood but then I started gettin' letters from that area where all, like, the mothers, the girls was writin' me like "Thank you for doing that 'cause everybody scared of these n***as". See, that's what I want to do.
Sanyika: That's right.
Tupac: If these gang n***as ain't gon' get straight, then I wanna take 'em out the game.
Sanyika: That's real.
Tupac: 'Cause if they don't, it's making trouble on us, you kna'mean?
Sanyika: 'Cause if you ain't part of the solution, then you part of the problem.
Tupac: No doubt.
Sanyika: Where you gon' be when you tryna whack us anyway?
Tupac: No doubt! [Pac laughs]
Sanyika: Man, so shit, business as usual.
Tupac: That's how I feel.
Sanyika: But just pull up force is good, man. You know I want all that, Pac, you know. Any time, anything I can do, brother, you know, that's what I'm about, man. I've always been less the talker, more the doer and, um, you know, I mean, that's just my style, man.
Tupac: Yeah, no doubt, you talked to Bone?
Sanyika: Yeah, in fact, me and Bone--
Tupac: He finna do something too.
Sanyika: Yeah, Bone is doing when they shoot the movie, Bone doing the documentary called "The Making of the Monster", right?
Tupac: Oh, yeah.
Sanyika: And he's also doing another documentary, man.
Tupac: About gangbanging.
Sanyika: Yeah, about street organizations that's all footages from the Panthers.
Tupac: Man!
Sanyika: And, um, you know shit is fat, man. How's moms doing?
Tupac: She's doing good. We had a big-ass show in Vegas
Sanyika: Did she?
Tupac: We had a big-ass show. Me and the Dogg 'cause I'm on Death Row now.
Sanyika: Yeah, next reservations.
Tupac: Thanks.
Sanyika: You happy over there?
Tupac: Yes, aight so far, let me tell you, hold on a second.
Sanyika: Aight.
...

Tupac: Hello?
Sanyika: Yeah.
Tupac: That was my lawyer and shit.
Sanyika: What's up with the case though?
Tupac: Shit, it's gone crazy. I just—damn, hold on one second, please.
Sanyika: Alright, alright.
....

Tupac: Hello, yup. You know I had the police case.
Sanyika: Yeah. I heard they wanted you to compensate them.
Tupac: They trying to sue me!
Sanyika: Word!
Tupac: These fools shot at me!
Sanyika: And you defended yourself.
Tupac: And they trying to sue me.
[2Pac laughing]. And white people is crazy, 'cause if it was anybody else, they get that n***a a ticket to their parade.
Sanyika: Straight up.
Tupac: Unarmed man, two motherfuckers. I was fucked up. So they suing me, I got this girl who lied about the rape shit.
Sanyika: You smoking weed right now?
Tupac: Huh?
Sanyika: You smoking weed right now.
Tupac: Nah, cigarette, I will be smoking some weed. My homeboy is in Colombia right now.
Sanyika: Yeah.
Tupac: But, um, the girl. See, the girl that did this rape shit? She hooked up with the n***as that shot me.
Sanyika: Oh, is that right?
Tupac: They all connected. It was a big plan, I just caught it like at the end. And that's why they shot me.
Sanyika: Man! Hey, man, you gotta stay up, man. When you step through that, that way you gotta be on point.
Tupac: I ain't goin' through there no more, if I do, I'm going with hundred motherfuckers.
Sanyika: And I'll be one of them.
Tupac: Yup, no doubt.
Sanyika: No dizoubt. We can't be having you not here, you know what I'm saying?
Tupac: I know, that's what they told me. But you know what, you know what it was? Here's my problem. Just like I'm telling you what she saying, I always, 'cause I'm— Where my mom raised me the way I'm moving in, they fucked my head up in a way. See, like you, you could be movement-oriented but you got the gangbang shit first in your mind.
Sanyika: Right, right
Tupac: My shit, the gangbang shit come second to me.
Sanyika: Right, right.
Tupac: And now I'm trying to make it come first 'cause that movement shit will fuck you up. Movement shit got me loving every brother.
Sanyika: Yeah!
Tupac: You know what I mean?
Sanyika: At that point you know I gotta get next to you [?]
Tupac: Right, to me I'm there for you, n***a need money and job, I'm wit' you. N***as come to me with guns on, n***as hugging me with TECs on, you know what I mean?
Sanyika: It just though. You know what the thing is, man? We gotta be individuals too inside the movement and wherever we involved in right? We gotta be able to differentiate between cats that are firm and cats that's ain't firm, sometimes it take sometimes but test. We talk about friends that's mean, you know. I am who I am, I survived through what I survived through by being intelligent, by not allowing cats to outsmart me and putting me in precarious positions where I can get whacked, right?
Trying to choose my friends very very carefully and I over said there's layers and layers of friends, you see. Some I hold close to the body, man, like a vest and others hold at arm's distance, some just look at, some I don't even fuck with, but the circles is small but the ones that are in there I believe are trustworthy right. For instance, you and I. You and I have been probably through the same shit in our lives
Tupac: No doubt.

Sanyika: You know what I'm saying? and we're like 10 years apart, almost. So it's like almost a common destiny. What you grew up then is where I came around too. You see what I'm saying? The banging shit was first with me and then the movement. Wit' you the movement was first and then the banging was came second.

Tupac: Yes that's the ill shit.
Sanyika: I'm getting around to where you grew up at
Tupac: And I'm getting around the way you grew up at.
Sanyika: You see so, so who else better, you see, who can get along like you and I?

Tupac: No doubt.

Sanyika: Watching else's back.
Tupac: No doubt

Sanyika: 'Cause you want it, I want it, but together you know I mean. Man you got the courage of the godfather
when the shit-- what happened when [?] wrote that piece [?] dealing with the pigs right? I was like, 'That was my boy, man."

Tupac: No doubt! You see, that's another problem. I'm helping another n***a, n***a I don't even know, n***a in the middle of the streets. He run off and don't even help me.

Sanyika: Yeah, that fucked up, man!

Tupac: These n***as that shot me, like, wanna see that when a white trash put a gun on me I can prepared. You know what I mean? I can react. When a n***a pull a gun on me, I'm like "froze up" I'm like "Oh shit, a n***a gon' kill me?"

Sanyika: You know what we should do, Pac? I'm telling you, me and you should sit down, right, and we should do a book on you, man.

Tupac: Yeah? How you gon' do that?
Sanyika: You know what I'm talking about? I'm talking about, a straight up autobiography or something like that based on your life like Malcolm X [?] out with Alex Haley. I'm telling you, man. 'Cause the shit that you been through and I been through, just like my book man, I had to document that shit

Tupac: Hey, your book is I swear on everything. homie. I'm not just saying this shit. Your shit is a classic, yo. When I was up in that jailhouse, n***a who hated West Side they don't like nothing, they loving you. I had those motherfuckers speechless, they was reading, n***as that can't read was reading your shit in one day, nobody can put that shit down.

Sanyika: But yours just as explosive and I'm telling you, brother, I guarantee you before even get through it as a book Hollywood will be on our jock.

Tupac: They already want me to be something, poppin' hoes in the back 'cause I can't get the right one, I asked like Maya Angelou to help me write autobiography, she was like, "Okay".

Sanyika: You know what you need? Somebody to write it from our level to kick the slang and the shit right. Maya Angelou might put some perfect English in that motherfucker.

Tupac: And then it ain't come out right.
Sanyika: You and I, we gon' kick the language we kick.
Tupac: Figures like I be your shit.
Sanyika: I'm telling you.
Tupac: But you know where you gotta pull me into?
Sanyika: What?
Tupac: Overstand.
Sanyika: I'm telling you.
Tupac: Pull me here into overstand man
Sanyika: Dig it, this is the thing.

Tupac: I'll do it one time and I ain't [?]

Sanyika: Okay, dig it. The word "understand" is to play on one's person, right for instance, understand, to stand under, to be below, to be demeaned. And, so, when you're under anything, it's hard for you to get a whole view of what's going on above ground. So, when you're under, you have a disadvantage. So, especially when you're standing on someone or under anything, you can't comprehend it, you can't feel it, you can't vibe wit' it. So I created the word "over-stand" to get up over that shit, to get a vantage point, even looking down on some shit. You see what I'm sayin'? Like, a helicopter got a vantage point over us when we have to get in the streets and break. They can see us better than a pig at our level.

Tupac: So like that!

Sanyika: The helicopter has an overstanding on us to a great degree, you see what I'm saying? We have to do—Words control people, man, I'm telling you. When you think—when you speak positive, you think positive. So, all the time, I be trying to overstand shit, get a full comprehension.

Tupac: That's right!

Sanyika: You feel me? Yeah, that's where I came from, that concept came.

Tupac: That's right. Had you on that shit, man.

Sanyika: They made me like pops, they made me like pops.

[Tupac's laughs]

Sanyika: I'm telling you, me and pops was like, 'cause when I had Mutulu million, right? We were getting our court spot on, and he sending me the thugs' code. Of course I endorsed it, right? Then, next thing I know, I got a clipping [prisoners of war] so we had to do whole another trip with the mayor, alright. And then I heard [?] has drowned.

Tupac: Yeah, he aight now.

Sanyika: [?] He's respiratory.

Tupac: I'm in jail too. They telling me that shit. But shit that's fucked up was like me and him used to talk all the time. When I first came to L.A., he was like my eyes and ears. I told him everything. [?] that they he was, like, we was talking every day and they just killed that shit. I haven't talked to him in, like, a year. More than that.

Sanyika: But still they know you got legacy movement problems with the pigs. They stand to see you brother 'cause end up in the bloodline.

Tupac: You ain't lying. [?] calling me. Hold up one more time.
...

Tupac: Hello?

Sanyika: Yeah.

Tupac: But, man [?] shit that I couldn't even read your shit like how you been saying when hit the n***a in nuts and all that shit

Sanyika: Yeah.

Tupac: you ain't lying, I get up these motherfuckers calling me nigger, and I'm buggin out, I never had white people calling me nigger and nothing happened. And [?] you get 7 years if you touched the police no matter what, 7 years no matter what, 'cause I was in maximum security in Dannemora then they had me in a special program like a federal program they got called APPU - Advance Placement something something something - where all like notorious motherfuckers. I'm hopping in there n***as with 80­. Damn, one more time...

Sanyika: Alright.

Tupac: Hello. I'm up in there with n***as with 80 years and 60 years and I'm doing one and a half to four and a half. And I'm knowing my life in danger. These n***as ain't never getting out.

Sanyika: Yeah. I've seen moms on [?] she was [?] that, right? That she had you in a maximum security prison.

Tupac: Yup! Locked down 23 hours a day.

Sanyika: That's how you had me.

Tupac: Before I even broke the rules.

Sanyika: And that's heavy. And you didn't even get an opportunity to break one.

Tupac: And he was like for my own protection 'cause I wouldn't find it [?] but they got mad right, cause they was telling me that you goin to die in here and you gon die in here, I said why am just have to die here, I'm not starting no PC. He like they put you in IPC-- that's Involuntary Protective Custody.

Sanyika: Right, right

Tupac: So, I'm fighting, I'm getting lawyers to fight me to get out of there to get me in population 'cause they put me in population the first day I got there, right?

Sanyika: Was it true?

Tupac: Hell yeah! Even though I'm on the other side, I'm with all enemies. These n***as hating 'cause I'm banging on East Coast, screaming, "West side, west side" any team everything. So, when I get there,
the pigs, they ain't get me no toilet sheets. You know, you come there you get that cock shit, it was bloody cot, no nothing.
He left me in population for, like, two hours. In two hours, I had everything I needed. N***as gave me two stakes, two
n***as bringing knives, weed, heroin, cocaine everything I wanted. I was like "Nah, I'm cool, homie I don't need that." I gave the n***as their bangers back, I didn't want no bangers. They want to stab me up for nothing. It was three murders while I was there.

Sanyika: Damn [?]

Tupac: They got the highest level of murders in New York State. You can get murdered, man, n***as with the same pow line know what's happen.

Sanyika: Dannemora, huh?
Tupac: Yep, they crazy up there.
Sanyika: It was proper.
Tupac: They crazy up there, riot.
Sanyika: They been hooking you up on the video.
Tupac: Yeah, no doubt. I wanted to keep my face out there.
Sanyika: You shot that shit.

Tupac: We finna gon' shoot another video. Me and Dre finna do the shit called "California Love" with Roger.

Sanyika: Oh, okay.
Tupac: it's gon' be the bomb, mayne, peep it up for California, mayne.
Sanyika: I be glad to see you back out there.

Tupac: I got to take it all back. I won't be happy 'til I do it. They gotta be sorry for what they did.

Sanyika: I'm telling you, hey, I'm wit' you, man.

Tupac: Got to.

Sanyika: Check this out. I wanna come down and chill wit' you.

Tupac: Come on, man, what's up? I be having Operations From the Bottom.

Sanyika: Yup

Tupac: They be in there with me kicking it.

Sanyika: Yeah, I like them. I give shout-out for them. But I'm telling you, some lyrics man—

Tupac: Come on, you come with some lyrics, you can spit on any song I got.

Sanyika: I got some shit, I'm telling you.

Tupac: I'm in the studio today. I'm in the studio every day.
Sanyika: Okay, what about Friday?
Tupac: Friday? I be there, that's when Sista Soulja coming through.
Sanyika: Okay, I'ma call you. What time you free to be going?
Tupac: One o'clock.
Sanyika: I'ma call you, man.
Tupac: Alright, I be there, man.
Sanyika: I love you, man.
Tupac: One love.
Sanyika: Watch yourself, brother.
Tupac: No doubt.
Sanyika: I hate to come [?] and tear shit for you.
Tupac: Nah, nah.
Sanyika: I'm telling [?]
Tupac: Aight, man [Laughs] contact me man
Sanyika: I will.
Tupac: Alright.