John Singleton leaves Tupac movie project.

[drtydane]

http://www.hiphopdx.com/m/index.php?s=news&id=33326

Sorry to hear that. Still hoping it comes out half way decent..

[SunnyDRE]

He is a terrible director anyway. Nothing good after Boyz N The Hood.

[J Dog]

I kind of wanted John to do it since he actually knew and worked with Pac. But honestly I don't care who the director is I don't think they can find anyone to do the role of Pac justice. I might be wrong and hope it all turns out good.

[J Dog]

Damn, sounds like a lot of stuff has been going on. Things must have gotten ugly.

This is his Instagram that was in that article

Real talk! The reason I am not making this picture is because the people involved aren't really respectful of the legacy of Tupac Amaru Shakur. I won't say much if you want you can read my articles in Hollywood Reporter on authenticity in Black Storytelling ... To Pac's real fans just know I am still planning a movie on Tupac ... It doesn't matter what they do mines will be better... Tupac was much more than a hip hop artist ... He was a black man guided by his passions ... Of most importance was his love of black people and culture ... Something the people involved in this movie know nothing about... Real talk! How you gonna make a movie about a man when you suing his mother to get the rights to tell his story?! They have no true love 4 Pac so this movie will not be made with love! And that's why my ass isn't involved ! If Tupac knew what was going on he'd ride on all these fools and take it to the streets... But I won't do that ... I'll just make my own project. What Yall think about that?!!

[Johnny Drama]

Tupac's pimp Afeni strikes again just as I thought after reading the first few lines of that.

[Len Cnut]

Tupac could not have possibly had a better guardian for his legacy than Afeni. That woman deserves serious love, she's as much if not a bigger hero than Pac in my eyes, God love her, she's a fuckin' champion. Tupac weren't bad in the league of Afeni, Afeni and the people Afeni came from and moved with are serious fuckin' dudes. Huey Newton? Pssh, Bobby Seale? Pssh, i rate those characters higher than I would rate Pac. And thats no disrespect to Pac, part of the reason why i rate Pac like i do because he is of that cloth. But y'know what, for all the things Pac did, for as much of a rudie as he was, showing up to court in fuckin' wheelchairs, frontin' up to coppers, there weren't no fuckin' cameras out for Afeni when she was doing what she did. It's easy to be a rebel (or easier) in an envoirnment that encourages it but to be among the first that stood up? In THOSE days when the opposition was like it was? That takes serious fuckin' stones.

One of the enduring messages of my fuckin' life, and i have nothing to do with the reality of this shit either, is the Panthers lookin' at their society, where they were in life and just walking the streets of Oakland with black leather jackets and berets and shotguns and looking after their people, standing in formation and fronting off coppers, in a society where people of their colour tended to get shagged even if they WEREN'T doing nothing wrong, sticking up for their people, lining up and reading to coppers from the constitution, CHRIST the fuckin' nerve of that. I imagine myself doing some hairy shit if i was ever put to the test but that is just mental. And they stuck to it and kept to it and kept righteous and kept it correct, even when they carried their own children on their backs to their graves. The sheer fuckin' bravery of it all, i have nothing but the highest respect for those people.

The message is that if there's something wrong with your situation then it's on you to fix it no matter how big the problem because no fuckers gonna do it for you. And y'know, a lot of this shit is very anti- the American establishment but in another way, the act itself, it's the most American thing they could've done, stand up and be counted in a calm, confident and righteous declarations of your rights on this planet. Can't do nothing but applaud that.

Tupac, for all the good he did (and i like to think that was a fair bit) was more or less a minstrel, you can't really put him on the level of those people, in fact a lot of his value is to do with his association of blood to those people and how that made him who he is.

Edited April 10, 2015 by Len B'stard

[Nosaj Thing]

He is a terrible director anyway. Nothing good after Boyz N The Hood.

This.

[J Dog]

Tupac's pimp Afeni strikes again just as I thought after reading the first few lines of that.

What part did you read? Sounds like the producers and movie company are the ones John is talking about. Afeni got sued by the movie company to sign over full rights to Pac's story and she wouldn't do it. If anything she is standing up for his legacy and wants to make sure it's done right, rather than just getting paid and signing all control over.

Edited April 11, 2015 by J Dog

[Damn_Smooth]

They should really wait until Pac really dies anyway. His return to the public eye is going to be a major part of his story.

[J Dog]

Tupac could not have possibly had a better guardian for his legacy than Afeni. That woman deserves serious love, she's as much if not a bigger hero than Pac in my eyes, God love her, she's a fuckin' champion. Tupac weren't bad in the league of Afeni, Afeni and the people Afeni came from and moved with are serious fuckin' dudes. Huey Newton? Pssh, Bobby Seale? Pssh, i rate those characters higher than I would rate Pac. And thats no disrespect to Pac, part of the reason why i rate Pac like i do because he is of that cloth. But y'know what, for all the things Pac did, for as much of a rudie as he was, showing up to court in fuckin' wheelchairs, frontin' up to coppers, there weren't no fuckin' cameras out for Afeni when she was doing what she did. It's easy to be a rebel (or easier) in an envoirnment that encourages it but to be among the first that stood up? In THOSE days when the opposition was like it was? That takes serious fuckin' stones.

One of the enduring messages of my fuckin' life, and i have nothing to do with the reality of this shit either, is the Panthers lookin' at their society, where they were in life and just walking the streets of Oakland with black leather jackets and berets and shotguns and looking after their people, standing in formation and fronting off coppers, in a society where people of their colour tended to get shagged even if they WEREN'T doing nothing wrong, sticking up for their people, lining up and reading to coppers from the constitution, CHRIST the fuckin' nerve of that. I imagine myself doing some hairy shit if i was ever put to the test but that is just mental. And they stuck to it and kept to it and kept righteous and kept it correct, even when they carried their own children on their backs to their graves. The sheer fuckin' bravery of it all, i have nothing but the highest respect for those people.

The message is that if there's something wrong with your situation then it's on you to fix it no matter how big the problem because no fuckers gonna do it for you. And y'know, a lot of this shit is very anti- the American establishment but in another way, the act itself, it's the most American thing they could've done, stand up and be counted in a calm, confident and righteous declarations of your rights on this planet. Can't do nothing but applaud that.

Tupac, for all the good he did (and i like to think that was a fair bit) was more or less a minstrel, you can't really put him on the level of those people, in fact a lot of his value is to do with his association of blood to those people and how that made him who he is.

You should read the story about her and some other Panthers going to trial. Right before Pac was born I think. Back then, a group of Black Panthers, on trial for a bombing or attempted boming or something, they shouldn't have stood a chance in court. But she turned down an attorney and represented herself. Not guilty. For a black woman to do that back then, that is some gangsta shit.