Tupac always rapped with an ominous fixation on death. He looked at life with a tragically ironic sense of paranoia that something bad would happen to him. Even with all of his success, Pac knew how ugly and dour everything around him could be. That’s why songs like “Death Around The Corner” feel so fatalistic or why “Hail Mary” sounds like a graveyard.

It expanded past the music, too. His interviews would often challenge the world’s notions and seemed to prophesy his death. Take his interview with Benjamin Svetkey for Entertainment Weekly, for example. As Tupac ordered a vegetable spring roll and a Dungeness crab cake, the journalist inquired about the future. Given the booming success in hip-hop and the blossoming acting career, what does he see for himself in 10-15 years?

Ultimately,

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