All Eyez On Me: The Writings of Tupac Shakur

James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Tupac Shakur– there’s something tragically romantic about living fast and dying young.
After they’re gone, we dig and we delve. We put their lives on re-​run hoping we’d find more this time around.
All Eyez On Me: The Writings of Tupac Shakur features his hand-​written poetry and lyrics, music listening stations, and some memorabilia.
In a small room is a looping video of his first interview at age 17. It features a positive, hopeful Tupac talking about young people like him changing the world.
This image stands in stark contrast with the persona we see in his final days. In his writings, we see his message change as he did, becoming angrier, more frustrated.
A single paragraph in the exhibit stands out as most poignant to me. It said that he had planned to open a restaurant and run for local politics. He had planned life beyond a rap career.
Instead, he died at 25 an angry young man, thinking that it was him against the world. Maybe the world just wasn’t ready for him.
«We ain’t ready to see a black president.» Well, now we have one.
«Will there ever be peace? Or are we all just headed for doom.» Well, still a good question.
Seeing a contemporary of his like Nas (who I consider to match his depth and skill) grow over the years to produce more retrospective and optimistic work, I wonder if Tupac’s music would have gone down a similar path.
But all we’re left with is what-​ifs and what-​may-​have-​beens. So we dig and we delve. We put his tracks on replay hoping to find something we’d missed the first time around.
19 years after death, still living on. All Eyez on Pac.
**Exhibit ends 4.22.15.

The exhibit is located on the 4^th floor of the Grammy Museum. It’s running from Feb 2^nd to April 22^nd and the cost of admission is $ 13 for adults. It’s a very small exhibit compared to the Taylor Swift Exhibit on the 2^nd floor, which takes up the whole floor. How hypocritical is Liberty? That blind b*tch ain’t never did sh*t for me. Therefore, top floor on Thugz Mansion and I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto.
There are pillars that breaks out the many sides of 2pac and his influences. 2pac’s influences range from Van Gogh to Malcolm X. There are video footage along the walls and there’s one with him free styling with Biggie. There’s a glass case with some of his outfits and I didn’t realize that he was actually pretty tall. In addition, there’s a huge mural of his back with the lyrics of Dear Mama. Ain’t a woman alive that could take my mama’s place.
However, I’m a big fanboy of Pac and his work, so it’s nothing I haven’t seen before. If you’re a big Pac fan, it’s totally worth checking out. I really enjoyed my experience and the couple dancing to California Love at the exhibit. Lastly, I give a holla to my sisters on welfare. 2Pac cares if don’t nobody else cares.
WESTSIDE! OUTLAWZ! DEATH ROW RECORDS! CALIFORNIA LOVE!