Beginning at 11am EST today, FUSE will unveil their "Tupac Takeover."
The New York-based network will honor the iconic emcee, actor and
humanitarian who has been dead almost 15 years.
The television
lineup will begin with music video compilations such as The 2Pac
Chronicles and Loaded: 2Pac. The afternoon will follow
with 2004's Tupac Vs., which features commentary by Tupac's
former manager Leila Steinberg and author/scholar Michael Eric Dyson.
That will be followed by Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake, the film
adaptation executive produced by Frank Alexander, Shakur's bodyguard in
the last year of his life. The film pulls extensively from Alexander's
book Got Your Back, and controversially makes allegations about
the lack of security and likely motives in Tupac's murder.
The
programming will conclude Ernest R. Dickerson's 1992 film Juice. The
movie features Tupac playing the role of "Bishop," the brazen villain.
The film, in addition to its Hip Hop soundtrack, features cameo
appearances from EPMD, Queen Latifah, Treach, Special Ed and Ed Lover.