A handwritten five-page letter by the late Tupac Shakur, which he wrote while in prison, is currently for sale with an asking price of $225,000. Said letter is penned for Nina Bhadresher, a former Death Row employee who edited the Uncut.
The item is sold by Moments in Time, which was written by the late rapper while serving nine months in jail at the Clinton Correctional Facility (commonly referred to as Dannemora) due to sexual assault charges in 1995, Complex reported.
He expressed his intention for a "new chapter" of his life in the said letter where he wrote, "I am not granting this information to any other publication, not even Time & Rolling Stone so please represent it as it is layed. I trust u.(sic)"
"When a normal man questions his existence, it begins with childhood, teenager, adult," Shakur said in the letter where he also talks about following up his 1995 LP Me Against the World, and leaving the "Thug Life," Rolling Stone wrote. "However, when most black males examine their lives, especially those of us from the ghetto upbringing, realize this is not our development stages. Ours begins with a young dustkicker, a thug nigga and finally a boss playa. Each stage has many obstacles and pleasure, but they are all lethal if not played properly."
He explained that he intends to withdraw from drugs and alcohol, saying, "the seeds planted . . . before me showed me the path to the next level."
"[Many] never survive the next level of Thug Life . . . They become addicted to death. A True Boss Playa knows when to advance . . . U must play the game, not let the game play u," he added. "A regular Playa plays women . . . a Boss Playa plays life. A Boss Playa is a thinker, a leader, a builder, a moneymaker, a souljah, a teacher and most of all, a Man! I want all my homiez to know there is another level. (sic)"
According to Nina, the letter of Tupac was the beginning of their "real" correspondence saying: "He enclosed a five-page essay on his view of the rite of passage of a young black male in America. And that was the beginning of our real correspondence."
Aside from this letter, another handwritten note from Tupac was also discovered in February 2015, which was unveiled at a Grammy Museum, that talks about Shakur's plan for an all-star ONE NATION album featuring artists like Outkast, E-40, Scarface, Smif-n-Wessum and others. Meanwhile, a photo of the rapper riding a rollercoaster at the Six Flags Magic Mountain was also auctioned.
