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It\u2019s impossible<\/span> to overstate rapper Tupac Shakur\u2019s influence on music and culture in the 1990s. One of the era\u2019s bestselling musical artists, Tupac helped define West Coast hip-hop through vulnerable, introspective lyrics and Black power politics. His death in 1996 at just 25 years old sparked conspiracy theories for decades and left his fans wondering what might\u2019ve been.<\/p>

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By his own admission, sports writer Jeff Pearlman is not the rapper\u2019s likeliest biographer. Pearlman typically profiles athletes like Barry Bonds or Brett Favre. But as he waited for what he called \u201cthe big, fat biography\u201d of Tupac, his impatience and long-standing fascination with the rapper got the best of him. So he set out to write it himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cTupac Shakur\u2026was profoundly smart and in many ways incredibly enlightened, and there\u2019s no reason he shouldn\u2019t have his 12th Academy Award now,\u201d Pearlman tells More To The Story<\/em> host Al Letson, adding that both Tupac\u2019s music and movies still resonate because they were a compelling combination of hip-hop and Black Panther.<\/p>

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On this week\u2019s episode, Pearlman talks about his book Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur<\/em>; discusses how Tupac\u2019s Black Panther mother, Afeni Shakur, shaped her son; and examines the nuance and mystery surrounding Tupac\u2019s life and death almost 30 years later.<\/p>\n

Find More To The Story<\/em> on <\/strong>Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Pandora, or your favorite podcast app, and don\u2019t forget to subscribe.<\/p>

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