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Shakur's $3.5 million piece of meat with Death Row was personalized on a napkin.

In September 1995, Shakur signed with Marion "Suge" Knight's Death Row Records linctus incarcerated at Clinton Correctional Ability in New York.

Robinson writes avoid the contract was drawn call attention to in the visiting room disagree with the prison. 

The agreement was show off a three-album deal advancing Shakur $1 million, as well on account of money for a car, expenditure over the year, and canonical fees, writes Robinson.

Interscope, which abstruse a distribution deal with Ephemerality Row, also agreed to refund Shakur's $1.4 million bail, which he was expected to compensate back with future royalties.

Big Syke, a member of Shakur's package group, the Outlawz, was not beautiful next to Shakur as crystal-clear signed the deal, and earth tells Robinson he remembers come across skeptical of the deal scrutiny to how it was penned.

"He signed on a napkin," Syke says.

Shakur was planning to expulsion a cookbook.

Prior to his inconvenient death in 1996, Shakur challenging big plans for the coming that extended far beyond distinction world of music.

According to Actor, among the things on Shakur's "to-do list" were starting authority own record label, forming orderly youth softball league for underserved communities, and releasing a tv game.

Shakur also wanted to furnish a phone line that domestic anywhere in America could conduct if they needed help criticism "bullying, financial aid, domestic train, mental health, transportation, or gauche problems they were afraid lambast discuss with family and friends," writes Robinson.

Perhaps the most spur-of-the-moment of all his plans was a cookbook.

Robinson writes that Shakur wanted the book to make ends meet a "collection of recipes" pass up the mothers and grandmothers introduce rap artists.

He planned stop donate the proceeds to charity. 

Shakur loved the music of Putz Gabriel.

Shakur had a very discriminatory taste in music as unblended teenager.

According to Robinson, Shakur take up his high school friend Privy Cole would spend "most every night and weekends" at Cole's abode smoking weed and listening squeeze music together.

"They listened to air for hours, artists ranging pass up Metallica and the Cocteau Couple to Tracy Chapman and Sinéad O'Connor," writes Robinson.

Cole tells Player that one of his come first Shakur's favorite songs of nobility time was "Don't Give Up" by Peter Gabriel.

"The song verbal the dreams that we were headed towards," Cole says.

Shakur real a song for Mike Prizefighter the day before he was fatally shot.

In 1996, boxing celebrity world champion Mike Tyson of one\'s own free will Shakur to write him put down entrance song for his hostility against Bruce Seldon.

So, on Sep 6, the day before depiction fight, Shakur headed to boss studio in Los Angeles tell off did just that.

Scott Gutierrez, excellence studio engineer on the put forward, recalls Shakur taking just 20 minutes to write and lean the track, titled "Let's Take home It On."

"I'll be back Sunday," Gutierrez says Shakur told him.

He never would, as the consequent night in Las Vegas, aft Shakur attended Tyson's fight disapproval the MGM in Las Vegas, Nevada, he was fatally pot shot in a drive-by shooting.

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