30 Years of Silence Until Now ( Angie Martinez Reveals Her Tupac Tapes)

Loren LoRosa (0:00)

Let's get, let's get, let's get to it. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody.

Angie Martinez (0:05)

You hear that exclusive? You know she don't lie about that, right?

Loren LoRosa (0:07)

Lauren came in hot. Hey, y'all, what's up? It's Loren LoRosa. And this is another episode of The Latest with Loren LoRosa. This is your daily dig at all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, y'all know we always check in behind the scenes of the grind. But today's conversation literally is, I want to give it the time. We'll get back to behind the scenes of the grind in the next episode, because Angie Martinez, the icon, the legend, the goat, one of the people that is on my list of people that I look up to. Even prior to me getting in radio, I've read her book several times. She's just, she's that girl. She really is that girl. She announced, her and Netflix announced that she is going to be releasing the never before heard full interview with Tupac. Now, Netflix and Angie Martinez say that this is a four part video podcast. It will drop on November 27th. And if y'all remember, back in the 90s, Angie Martinez, New York Radio, literally the go-to girl for all the news and the latest, literally. Still is, but at that time, it was like, she was working toward the height, she was there. The East Coast, West Coast, back and forth between Tupac and Biggie, all that stuff is going on. And Angie Martinez really, in her book, she talks about trying so hard in her position to not be in the middle of it, to not make things worse. Tupac had become a fan of hers. He had listened to her a lot when he was locked up. And he invited her to come out and be in one of his music videos, and she declined.

And following that, he had invited her to come to LA to his home and sit down and do an interview with him. And she agreed. She felt like there was so much going on at the time with the whole East Coast, West Coast beef. And he had said that there was a lot of the narrative that people were getting wrong. And she thought that it was worth hearing him out. They sat down and they did an interview. I believe the interview lasted anywhere from two to four hours long. We have never heard this interview in full context. Tupac has been dead now for 30 years. Keefe D. Keefe D was just, Keefe Dwayne Davis was just convicted and is now serving decades behind bars in Vegas for orchestrating the killing of Tupac Shakur.

30 years from his passing, we will now, in a short period of time from now, you guys are listening to this, in a few weeks, we will now be able to hear where Tupac's mind state was literally like three, I think it was like three months prior to his death. There was about 12 minutes of this interview that Angie Martinez did release.

Then she made the decision as a journalist, but more so as a person, as a human, she made the decision to not release the full interview. She also talks a little bit about what that time was like, what being with him in his home in LA was like as well.

I'm going to be honest with you all, I don't know anybody, journalist, interviewer, columnist, DJ, call yourself whatever you want, personality who at that time, in the midst of one of the biggest rap beefs in the world would have decided not to post that interview. I'm going to be completely honest with you guys and held on it to it for this long and made sure that it didn't leak out anywhere, that it didn't make it anywhere. I don't know anybody who would have done that.

Literally, my background is from a newsroom and that was the first thing I thought. Every single time I hear about this story and it's iconic, a historical story, literally, this is hip hop history, this is culture entertainment history. Every time I hear this, I'm like, yo, I don't know nobody that would have done that. And there are a lot of people who are responding to this announcement because the announcement went live. Yesterday, Angie Martinez was also on her radio show talking about the announcement. And just a little plug here, I felt like I was the young girl listening to Angie Martinez on the radio because I literally was waiting for her show to come on because I just wanted to hear from her what she was feeling in the moment prior to this announcement being talked about all over the world. Let's take a listen to Angie Martinez.