William Lesane (Tupac's Cousin) details how he took Tupac to commit crimes as a kid. SUBSCRIBE to Delray Richardson's RU-vid channel. / @straightgametv SUBSCRIBE to Rap Sheet Hollywood's RU-vid channel. / @rapsheethollywood1839
@@bigprob8744He went to a specialized high school but went back home to the same hoods of Baltimore everyone in the hood lived and came home to a broken home where his mother was addicted to drugs. Pac second step father hustler. And still got sent to Miran City when his mother couldn't take care of him anymore. Miran city was no walk in the park for no one.
One of my favorite lines by PAC. Something I can relate to also. That’s why lots of people love this man PAC. Because his stories and life is relatable
@@kimb6900 Yep. Pac was writing scripture in his music. These stories that coming out make some of these lines he spit make more sense or have more context 🙂
Very nice observation. Blasphemy is just a work of art, probably his best song ever. There is all kinds of entendres and hidden meanings in that song that are STILL being discovered today LOL. Easily one of the deepest and most quotable hip hop songs ever recorded.
This is the closest thing we have to accurately getting a full spectrum of 2pac b4 the fame and money. I love these type of ppl who have nothing to gain or lose from true events in time
@@bigprob8744Why are people obsessed with this? So what he took a Dance or Ballet course in High School? He had too, it was a Performing Arts School, you have to take required classes in order to graduate 🙄. PAC didn’t hide it at all. I can link you 2-3 interviews of him taking about it and when he had to dance with Blow up dolls wearing a G-string as a Roadie with Digital Underground. He didn’t hide anything and no one cared about these things when he was Alive!
They have interviewed Tupac's performing arts teacher in Baltimore. He was interviewed on the 25th anniversary of Pac's death by the Baltimore News outlets
He seems genuine in his sharing. He admits his flaws and openly acknowledges his history of substance abuse. Also, when he’s uncertain about facts he makes that clear rather than offers lies of convenience. This interview is better than all of the Vlad interviews about Pac. He’s giving up some gems.
“What more can I say, I wouldn’t be here today, if the old school didn’t pave the way!” 2 Pac immortalized that experience in a song called “Old School” where he talked about all of that in this video. I’m surprised they didn’t make the explicit connection!
@@ijumpjudy PLEASE DON’T SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE ON PLANET EARTH LEAVING SILLY TROLL COMMENTS ABOUT A DECEASED RAPPER FROM THE 90’s USING HUNDREDS OF PHONY ACCOUNTS ON RU-vid …. GOD BLESS 🙏🏾
~LOL...But thinking about the circumstance in which he saw Disco King Mario is hilarious......it's like his Destiny was set to be a Rapper from that moment.....Cool Story....it's interesting to hear the stories of Pac from his close family & friends that most of us Music fans never recognized were close to him throughout his Life till now, RU-vid & the internet is definitely a Catalyst for that...1LOVE
@@ijumpjudy we black folks enjoy your diehard fandom of us! as the Original humans, we expect our offspring to obsess over us. thats our experience. the celebrities of humanity. we created you all. you’re doin exactly what you were born to do. obsess over your creators. like Religious folk obsess over God. we are your God. so we expect your obsession. keep goin. we need that! 💪🏾
You nailed this interview Delray! You allowed Billy to tell his stories without cutting him off and we learned something about little 6yr old Lesane Crooks aka Tupac…🙏🏽🔥
Facts! Pac was MC York. I'm from down South. But back then we loved New York rappers. I use to love me some songs from Rakim, Dana Dane, Doug E Fresh, Slick Rick etc.
hes bein honest. i dont see why yall upset. he was Pac’s wild big cousin. is what it is. it was over 40yrs ago. harmless memories now. this just shows that Pac was in the streets since a lil kid, whether by choice or forced
@@jeffreyarcher4352on God 💯 majority of my big cousins are locked as we speak. they never made me do no crazy sht, but they also didnt teach me better. i had to use my own mind. thats why this video didnt offend me. i lived it
@@bigprob8744you never knew the man first of all. And he actually hustle crack on the corner til he realized it was badly effecting his community. Y’all stay talking about things y’all don’t know of
I love hearing from his family. His cousin is a good story teller. Between Pac's father and his cousin it makes me look forward to see the next clip from the full interviews.
This was a really great one right here. I don’t think ppl realize the jewels he was dropping about the foundation of Hiphop. The fact that he name dropped Disco King Mario shows how authentic this story is. Also it’s amazing to hear stories like this from his family. You think you heard em all then they give you some more in depth insight to who Pac truly was.
Don’t tell the Trolls that…his 1 ballet class at 15 negates everything he did afterwards 🙄…small minded people on the internet 😂 have ZERO LIFE EXPERIENCES or Insight.
@@MrTee12so true man 😂 that’s literally the only thing the haters can throw at pac . A school lesson at 15 years old . All these stories , we could make a timeline of pac really from the gutter , struggling , real “gangster’ shit BEFORE and after juice or death row . There’s at least 15 events of him being solid and 0 of him being fake .
@@ijumpjudy we black folks enjoy your diehard fandom of us! as the Original humans, we expect our offspring to obsess over us. thats our experience. the celebrities of humanity. we created you all. you’re doin exactly what you were born to do. obsess over your creators. like Religious folk obsess over God. we are your God. so we expect your obsession. keep goin. we need that! 💪🏾
@@MikeJones-pf4wd Oh yeah, why didn't he claim y'all? Out his own mouth he said I'm East Coast born, west coast raised. Ludacris's from Illinois, but reps Atlanta. Waka Flocka Flame is from New York, but reps Atlanta. After years of not claiming Tupac, now that he's legendary status New York wants to claim him? No you don't have that right. He didn't start rapping until he got the Baltimore and it was Oakland California they gave him the game.
@@C-Lyfe85 DJ Premier has always claimed Houston, he was born & raised in Screwston & graduated college there, just like the D.O.C. is from Dallas, an architect of West Coast Hip Hop since he did pivotal work with Dr Dre, NWA, & the NWA Family Tree. Two Texas neegas key components of East & West Coast Hip Hop 😉 Don't get Andre 3000 told the world "Souf got something to say" how prophetic three stacks statement was #MICDROP
One thing about this William dude is that he is believable. You could tell he doesn't remember everything clearly, which is understandable after so many years, but I believe everything he says.
There was nothin like the 70's n 80's in NY. Summer block parties, break dance battles, double dutch, Olde English, Sixty Niners. Square Biz n It Must Be Magic were my jams as a kid.
Delray and Art are great interviewers. I like how they let the people that they interview talk without steadily interrupting them with information that isn’t relevant to the interview. Great job on these interviews.
There actually was nothing upsetting about his story, it made me think of my child hood and things I did wit my family older family members, those are things that shape You...
I don’t think you can say that no one can overplay or downplay situations someone else lived or living through everyone has they own experiences that shape who they are and who they become bro , pac dealt with a lot of trauma I wouldn’t say it was an easy childhood at all homie there will of been a lot of shit going on with afeni and mutulu and the black panthers etc also the poverty and drug addiction he had to watch his mother go through, and there’s the thing with his biological father Billy garland believing that he was dead because of the lies afeni told him …a son , brother , friend , nephew , poet, rap phenomenon R.I.P Tupac Amaru Shakur 🙏💙
Pac is hip hop in its truest form! This is deep. Now I know why ppl say his biopic seemed rushed bc this should’ve been in the beginning of the movie fasho! Look how the universe molds and goes full circle! 💯
It's facts. He made the famous record CHANGES at 17 where everyone across the world plays that track during protests of Police brutality on black men. I heard it just last year on social of people playing that in Asia. All those people in Asia was playing that track during a protest. It resonate with today almost 30 years later. I dare anyone listen to it. He was a Genius and powerful. His mind was on another level. No one can make a track like that at that age. He was powerful.🐐
@@IAMICONIC_83 🧐......i see you ain't that bright 🤔. I didn't say you were a rapper bruh, that was an ANALOGY smart guy lol. But I digress bruh, you got it 🤦🏿♂️😏
'HOW DO U SURVIVE .. WEIGHING 165 .. IN DA CITY .. WHERE DA SKINNY NAGAS DIE .. TELL MAMA DON'T CRY .. CUZ EVEN IF THEY KILL ME .. THEY COULD NEVER TAKE DA GAME .. FROM A YOUNG G' ..
Out of all of the great artists that have came and gone in hip hop history Tupac is the only one where you have multiple RU-vid platforms just telling stories and shit about this brother and all of them are doing well RIP Makeveli the don 👍🏽
2pac became something else because an algorithm, business model, commodity. Have an African tribe called thug life playing his music going into battle, countless museum throughout the world songs in the library of congress. The most talked about not just black figure but an American figure and I just hope in 1000 years they don't make him white because he belongs to us. Elvis, MJ,Prince don't get this type of love.
This resonates with me growing up in NYC. I remember hip hop before records from about 74-75. In Brooklyn we had Grandmaster Flowers playing the jams at parks like Lincoln Terrace in Crown Heights and my uncles and aunts used to call them “get offs”
When you find out Disco King Mario gave PAC the feelin 🤦🏾♂️, for anyone that doesn’t know, Mario was the DJ that really put this thing in motion. Kool Herc and Bam learned for Mario and it was the strength he displayed within the black spades that let dj’s preform with out there sht getting tooken.
I felt the way you felt when i first heard tupac. "BRENDA'S GOT A BABY" IM 1 YR OLDER THAN TUPAC ,AND WHEN I FIRST SEEN THAT VIDEO, I SAID THIS GUY IS SOMEONE SPIRITUALLY SPECIAL ❤❤❤!!!!
It's great to hear his visual interpretation of the vibe of the culture at that show! There's nothing like your first experiences at a live hip-hop show and Pac broke it down so eloquently on the song "Old School" on the "Me Against the World" album and probably pulled from that experience with his cousin. I remember one of my first experiences at a live show and it's priceless. Damn, I wish I woulda been able to experience a 2pac show!!! I was able to catch Bone Thugs, Mobb Deep, Wutang, and especially Nas in my lifetime thankfully!!!
Man i love it he was in the presense of the 5 borough's when it was getting laid down just like when he was around when the west coast was being laid down TUPAC IS MUTHAFUCKIN HIP HOP.
Damn when he said Korvette’s. It took me to memory lane. I am from Jersey we had Korvette’s, caldor’s, bradlee’s, service merchandise the good ole days.
THIS... definitely influenced Pac to write songs like On My Block and Old School and the catalyst that sparked his interest into the world of Hip Hop. The Hip Hop history lesson this man just delivered is what truly needs to be seen by everyone, though.
Now you see in Juice how the crew went in the record store to steal albums for Q's party set. Pac's character told Steele to be quiet and put certain records back. They say Juice was written almost ten years earlier which would of had it in the early 80s instead of 91. So if you even go back to the time Billy Garland said he done that with Pac, it'll make sense now. That culture was in New York at that time. Pac has always said he's had a family full of hustlers, criminals and Revolutionaries. Now My Block and definitely Old School tracks come to mind.
Dang i didn't know Pac lived in my hometown of Soundview, birth place of B boying! Pac's cousin ain't lying! I had seen Dj Hollywood ( who's from Harlem) back in '76 the first hip hop show i had ever seen playing in Seward Park in the Soundview area BX!!
He was one of the contributors. There were many. Didn't you hear him name several names? Not just Disco King Mario RIP 🙏🏾 shout out to Kool Herc as well. There was a confluence of ideas and events that lead to what we call Hip Hop
I would love to see a story on pac early years from his birth up until he's 17 and it has to be a series, this story definitely would be apart of season one of 2pac's life..and if it was up to me the show would be call "The Rose that grew from the concrete".
Del great interview I like the way you are introducing and getting information about Tupac the man not just Tupac the star.. keep up the great work bro!!!
Yea but some people love to follow the narrative that pac didn’t grow up poor or in the hood as society would say ..nah they just took the parts of his life of him trying to find himself for being positive such as going to school of the arts ..learning a little ballerina ..acting etc ..dumb suckers take that and run with it and spin that into a whole new life to make the man seem fake ..unauthentic etc ..see real people understand and know what real struggle is but the fake will never understand it.
Wow now that I just head about the incipient point of Pac's involvement in Hip Hop then maybe a whole new movie about Tupac and Hip Hop needs to be made. I am not taking anything from Dear Mama movie it was dope but I thing we need one strictly about Tupac.
That's so interesting. He did a song dedicated to HipHop, that song was called - "Old School" there was a lot of songs.. but I feel that that Old School song describes what William L saying in this interview. Tupac was gone too soon. :(
@MrTee12 Yes, you're right. Delray definitely met Pac at some point. I want to say Pac and Delray both met in Baltimore at the School of Arts, but I could be wrong.
When you from that environment and in the 70’s 80’s that was what was happening I know people that did the exact same thing putting stolen merch on a kid
I truly do believe what he said. Sometimes in life something inpacts us as a child and without knowing or knowing your destiny is sparked. Sometimes is something positive or negative. U see pac and u want to be a rapper. Or u see a adult magazine and u become ted bundy.
