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- Sales Rank: #704529 in Books
- Published on: 2011-04-22
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .55" w x 5.50" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 242 pages
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25 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Poorly ghost-written recollections.
By J.G.
Although at times an interesting look into the decadence and fast living that is offered to those with fame and fortune, it amounts to nothing more than a poorly ghost-written book of recollections by a first-hand witness (bodyguard) of Tupacs last year of life. Like so many other projects that make an attempt to capitalize on the late Rap Stars life, it never gets below the surface of Tupac the celebrity, and leaves the reader without any insights as to how and why, Tupac had, and continues to have, such an enormous impact on Rap/Hip-Hop music and culture. Instead we get insights like the one on page 84 in the book "Do you know why woman loved Tupac? The obvious reasons are his talent, his looks, and his charisma..but also Tupac had a f**kin' horse c**k". From the way it was written and presented, it doesnt seem like Mr.Frank Alexander had any strong motive or desire to bring this book to the public, otherthan reasons that start with dollar signs $$$. But I have to say that in the final chapters the book finally comes alive with Mr.Alexanders powerful, poignant, honest memories of the events that took place when, and after Tupac was shot, and eventually died in Las Vegas. In these chapters he reflects on his confrontation with Suge Knight, and the confusion, guilt, sorrow and fear he was feeling as Tupac struggled for his life in the hospital, and the aftermath that followed Tupacs death, it ends with an intimate phone conversation between Alexander and Tupacs Mother. Its worth reading the book just for these last chapters alone, its very, very moving. Unfortunately, its too little, too late in the book to make its entirety a good read. I was 25 when Tupac died, and I was into Heavy Metal more than Rap/Hip-Hop, but always being a big Tupac fan, upon hearing of his death that day, besides feeling sorrow, I also remember feeling it was the end of an era, I knew Rap would never be the same and there would never be another one like him. It was the same feeling I had when Kurt Cobain died. And ten years later, looking at all the Rap/Hip-Hop that has come after Tupacs death, I realized my feeling that day was right, Pac was truly one of a kind, and something special died with him that night in Vegas, and Raps never been the same since. This books OK, but I expected more.
RIP Tupac. We all miss you.. and we're still down for you.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Tupac Shakur, The Person
By Bryan Moscoso
I've always been a Tupac fan. I've always enjoyed listening to his music. I always related to his lyrics, coming from the projects of NYC. I basicly liked anything that had to do with him. Befor reading this book I only knew the media Tupac, this Bad Boy Tupac. But after reading this book i've come to learn tupac was a real down to earth dude who loved his fans and had nothing but a loving heart. I came close to tears when i finished this book. If your a true Tupac fan, this is the right book for you. And to Frank Alexander where ever you are, I undertsand. It wasn't your fault. In Memory Of Tupac, Only God Can Judge You, Revelation 20:12.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A true story from a man who knew the real Tupac.
By Alfred P. Lobaito
First let me say this book and very real and has no real bulls***. What I love about this book is that Frank Alexander tells a detailed story of his encounter with not only death row records but also with his experience with Tupac and how they bonded like brothers and really close friends which being a body guard to him was like chillen with one of of his homies. Now Frank who was assisted by a follow author has his the book in six parts.
part I is his life story in Chicago telling his experience growing up in a rough neighborhood and being tough and strong was the only way to survive physically or mentally. Frank talks about growing up with his homies whom some have died due to the lifestyle "they" choose, his mother being tough on him to make sure he doesn't go down the path of destruction as other have and how his only escape from the south side of Chicago was to join the United States Marine Corps which was during the 80's of his life. During the late 80's and early 90's after his honorable discharged from the USMC he bodyguards because he is into weight lifting and has a big frame and bodyguards for a rich Arab named Kash and works as a correction officer.
Than in part II he discusses how he got into death row by reuniting with guys that used to grow up in Chicago with him and during the mid 90's not satisfied with the correction work he decides to work for death row and submits his resume and gets a recommendation of an old friend back in the day. Than he works for snoop dogg and dogg pound and has a cool story of how he was the hero. Now death row views him as a action hero the man who saves the day and he gets widely known.
Part III is Tupac hiring him as a bodyguard. He talks how Tupac heard about him saving the day at NYC with Snoop and he rest of the crew and than one day Tupac test Frank and see how good he can keep up with him. Tupac always tested his bodyguards just to see if they can keep at his level. Now Tupac liked to drive fast, real fast so he driving a hot sports car and is blowing every Red stop sign you can think of but in a safe manner and frank is still behind him and eventually ends up in the hotel he was driving too and he looks behind and sees frank right behind him and he just had a good feeling. So him and tupac got it off right from the start. And what made them work so good together was frank knew that tupac had a hot tempter but a heart of a lion and a wouldn't hurt those or anyone unless he felt threaten and frank knew that Pac was raised in a harsh environment and that he knew when to intervern and not and that he let pac muscle his ways in life or just whatever it was and than frank knew when to grab him and hold him in a corner to just ease him down like a dog. Tupac liked that frank gave him space and than advice at the same time he would have pac let loose and not always contain him even though he was not easy to bodyguard and most bodyguards who work for wrightway security that was employed by death row records was not an easy task. You got to remember death row lived by its music at some points and was associated to some gang members. But tupac knew about thug life and only just preached it in his music and wanted to tella story of how it is living in the ghetto and not many young black males make it to 30 because the harsh lifestyle. Tupac didn't word his music peaches and rose and just gave you the reality through awesome lyrics and beats, melody's. now frank only known tupac for about 11 months from oct 1995 till sept 1996. After tupac made a deal with death for 4.5 million to get him out of prison he made a legal contract deal t make 3 albums to fulfill his contract. Well he did and he would have most likely went to his own record label which was very early start called euphanasia.
So part IV discusses his most fruitful experiences with tupac and getting out of fights at LA house of blues and Suge club 662 in Las Vegas and how tupac had restless energy from getting out of jail and just worked non stop and was literally a working machine never taking breaks and just made a s***load of music and movies and music videos going to interviews trip in Italy which he was loved by versachi and banged so many Italian women and how he loved weed which gave him his creative energy and constantly going to the store getting notebooks and pens and writing lyrics and just making one song after another and would complete 3 or 4 songs a day and d mixing later. he literally made makivilli the 7 day theory don kulliminati album in 7 days because of the title 7 day theory. he wouldn't make the song and than move to the next not even hearing it to just review it. He worked hard and he knew that his life was going ti be cut short cause of the oath he was living. So I feel as me the reviewer of this book that tupac wanted to get as much done as possible and just get as much time to complete as much projects as possible because he humbly knew had a great talent of being an artist on film and music. ill give an outline of his career after jail, the outline before jail would be too much cause he done so much. after his 11 months released jail nov 1994 until oct 1995, he literally the enxt day goes to the studio and writes lyrics and within a span of two weeks makes all eyez on me from oct 13th to oct 27th collaborating with many artists. He could not surprisingly write in prison which as he said shut his mind down cause its horrible experience. Than he would take vacations in Mexico and traveled with Suge knight to refresh his mind. than in January he meets with producers of gridlock and he would set to be cast in april until last week of june and he made gridlock with fellow cast member tim roth who he liked very much to work with. Than he went to Italy for a week with quincy jones daughter kadida jones and how qunicy one of the biggest Motown record producers out there sponsoring the trip and felt tupac as the man for the job and cause his daughter loved fashion and was a model, tupac added a lot of spice on that trip. than he returns the day literally from Italy not sleeping much and performs at house of blues on july 4th that night, than that month he makes gang related a movie starring him and jim belushi from July until the last day of august. than he makes the last album 7 day theory the first week of aug and would literally work on set and make music afterwards. than he went to MTV awards. so as you can imagine this man never stopped working. making 6 studio albums and 6 motion pictures and almost being in 50 music videos in a span of 5 years from 1991-1996 to me is a milestone and amazing and literally coming from the gutter and all his court aprearances took a toll on him financially.
Part V frank talks about the fateful night that took away the best artist and his best friend and that suge practically forced tupac to come to Vegas even though tupac was tired, just finished gang related and attending mtv music awards and getting intoa falling out with snoop cause snoop mentions his love for east coast and biggie saying that hes his homeboy as well and tupac on flight back ignoring him even though he still had love and respect and would have forgave back. than him finishing toss it up music video day before sept 7th. So his heart wasn't set on it but he liked Tyson and he liked to party. so suge practically pays for the whole trip and that's how he set it up with tupac, he bailed him out and produced 3 albums and he would give tupac treats like cars houses but tupac knew that he owed him a lot more cause he was selling million dollar records and was going to eventually legally audit death row and supposedly Suge owed him from a range of 50 to 100 million just by an educated guess but when tupac died he only surprisingly had 100,000 in the bank. So afeni his mother knew that her son had more money and did sue death row and was awarded rights ti his music till this day and set up TASF which is a school for those that express talent in Atlanta.
Part VI he talks about how Suge and the rest of death row and wrightway security didn't have his back and the demons he battled in his head against that night, suge and death row and later apologized and those blaming him and than the last pages was really touching with his phone conversation with tupac mother and how they understood about tupac who as a fun loving complicated guy and just understanding each other. Frank sadly took his own life on April 28th, 2013 after 15 years writing this book and almost 17 years from tupac death. Frank also did a candid good interview that can be found in youtube called thisis50 which was 2 weeks before he died and he was the only vocal person to talk about tupac from his security team. Frank doesn't mention it in his book but I felt he wanted to discuss his time with tupac and his side of the story so history doesn't put the words in his or tupac mouth and that he wanted to explain what really happened and yeah make money off the book which I think we all want to read because tupac was so cool and chill and was just about to explode his career cause he was just starting t get things together.
Okay my conclusion of the book and tupac. Here is my take on tupac and being the biggest fan. I felt tupac was a living caring creative talent individual who open the gate for rap and hip hop and I considered and others the king of rap/hip-hop and that he had a lot of anger inside and brought it out to the open mic and record studio and films. He used his creative talent in the right places and took care of those around him and loved his mama dearly and bought her house and had a lot of enemies and jealous people too who were jealous that he escaped the ghetto and preached how bad it is. I think he wasn't really into thug life and did anything what true gangsters do. I think he lived it before he was famous and saw the violence and horror of ghetto lifestyle but he put it out there on his first two albums talking about politics and even in his collaborative album tgh life with group thug life with his half brother mopreme and others which he later dismantled because lack of loyalty he felt disrespected. me against the world was his emotions out there and was a sad emotional album and all eyez on me is a revengeful album after all he been through with quad studio shooting nov 29th 1994 and prison sentence and those that behind it and betrayed him. I think he knew who did it and just carried that I ain't telling the police but im gonna take of it myself. 7 day theory is a dark metaphysical album talking about life and death so his albums has many depths and really was different from each other. I think he reached how he felt. Suge I think was good and bad for him, yes it got him out of jail and made him give us so much but at the same time he had gangsta mentality cause suge was from the hood himself and that tupac needed to realistically lay low make music and mvies but no ut himself out there like suge did with death row and tupac got himself in a lot of heat. But I think tupac had the image and he loved the color of green and his image sold the color of green and he was really a nice sweet gentle guy that just needed some guidance cause he was really only 24, 25 at the time, still growing as a matured man. But he was a really nice guy and he didn't do bad things and he was wrongfully accused by that girl in 1994 and had a rough jury, yeah he got into scuffles and was arrested a few times on assault ad battery but you got to remember he was a tough complicated guy and he had a lot to say. it was just all a image and so was east and west coast rivalry and it boast sales. Will we ever know the real truth, probably not, yeah you cathy scott investigative journalist and Greg Kading retired LAPD detective but these are all theories still and perhaps we will never know the truth because those around him do it thug life style and wont tell the police or cooperate with LVPD OR LAPD. But I think Afeni kniws that and she just wants us t appreciate the legacy in tupac honor. I feel tupac did so much and died wayyyyyyy too young and would have given us much more ad would eventually matured out and I think he needed better guidance around him. As I said before his career was just taking off and he was ready to give us a lot even though he already did I just imagine he would have gave more. Now big frank said he always urged a vest for him t wear even though 1 out of 10 he didn't and than after hit em up video he had done in june 1996 he urged suge and wrightway to put more bodyguard details on tupac. The thing about hit em up counting east coast and was coast rap rivalry was that Tupac felt what he preached in that song and felt wrong by bad boy entertainment and biggie. See Tupac was a smart business man and knew that how he felt and how it was portrayed by his music he was making it a cash money business and he was all about the color of green and not being a phony to his fans and he was real in many ways. So how he felt even at the beginning of his career was no bulls***, how he felt was how he rap and he took advantage of the disrespect and beef with bad boys. Rightfully so after previous incidents and he being the only guard on him really wasn't smart but they were all busy doing things they just missed that part that was costly to suge. After tupac died death row never recovered really and suge sort f went down and he knew it was bad for him. So I feel suge really liked tupac and they hit it off and he was upset to see his home boy go. overall I think frank did his best and was dealt a rough card but keeping tupac safe which wasn't a easy task and the fact he was limited resources. I have more to say but that would require a lot of energy to type lol. Get the book if you really enjoy tupac, its a excellent read. Frank tells the untold behind the scenes of how tupac really was and how chill he was to those that love him.
RIP TUPAC AMURA SHAKUR- 6/16/71-9/13/96
AND BIG FRANK ALEXANDER 1959-4/28/2013.
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