Photo: Getty Images
Angie Martinez is finally planning to debut her highly anticipated interview with the late Tupac Shakur 30 years after it was recorded.
On Wednesday, November 11, the veteran radio host and Netflix announced the release date for The Tupac Tapes With Angie Martinez. The four-part podcast series will feature audio from Martinez's long-awaited interview along with commentary from Charlamagne Tha God, Big Boy, Bootleg Kev, Ed Lover, Monie Love, Joe Budden, RZA, Lil' Cease, DJ Hed, and more. Martinez met with 'Pac three months before he died following a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996.
"I was a young woman on the radio trying to live out her dream," Martinez says in the trailer. "I didn't want anyone to die because of a conversation that I went to L.A. to go get."
The interview was recorded the interview in Los Angeles during the height of hip-hop's East Coast and West Coast beef. At the time, 'Pac was at odds with Sean "Diddy" Combs and The Notorious B.I.G. He had signed to Death Row Records and rolled around with its co-founder, Suge Knight, who was in the car with him on the night he was shot. Martinez refused to air the interview and held on to it for three decades. Fans have never heard any audio from the conversation until now.
"I've done more for credibility in hip-hop than any f**king artist," 2Pac says.
The series will arrive months after 2Pac and his family finally received justice. The sole living person who was in the car with the shooter, Duane "Keefe D" Davis, was found guilty of murder. Davis was arrested in 2023 following a decades-long investigation into Shakur's murder. Prosecutors argued that Davis organized the shooting with his nephew, Orlando Anderson, and two others. They presented Davis' own words about what happened that night from interviews and a book her co-authored. After a jury found him guilty, Davis was sentenced to serve 40 years to life in prison.
The Tupac Tapes With Angie Martinez premieres on Netflix on November 27.