Lost Tupac Shakur Interview from 1994 Gets Animated

Lost Tupac Shakur Interview from 1994 Gets Animated

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A conversation with Tupac Shakur has received the animation treatment as part of PBS’s Blank On Blank web series creatively reinterprets journalists’ unheard interviews with cultural icons. The conversation took place in March 1994 with Benjamin Svetkey at a restaurant in Hollywood for an Entertainment Weekly profile. The late icon delves on how his public perception affected the people around him, his personal future, life and death, religion, fame, the media, prison and thug life, and more.

“I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play.”

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