Netflix dropped the trailer today for “The Tupac Tapes with Angie Martinez,” a four-part video podcast built around an interview almost nobody has ever heard: Angie Martinez’s full 1996 sit-down with Tupac Shakur, recorded three months before he was killed.
Only about 12 minutes of that conversation ever aired. The full session ran close to two hours, and Martinez has said for years that the rest was too explosive for 1996, when the East Coast and West Coast were one headline away from something worse. She called the tape inflammatory, and she sat on it.
The tapes were not sitting in some network vault either. By her own account, they were on her laundry room floor until Jay-Z told her to put them somewhere safe.
“For a long time, I didn’t feel comfortable releasing the tapes. But almost 30 years have passed. I also realized these tapes were bigger than me.”
Angie Martinez, speaking to Netflix
The series is not a straight playback. Martinez revisits the interview with RZA, Joe Budden, Charlamagne Tha God, Big Boy, Lil’ Cease, E.D.I. Mean, Matt Barnes, Wallo and Dream Hampton, among others, talking through Pac’s life and everything that was hanging over him that summer.
“The Tupac Tapes with Angie Martinez” premieres Friday, November 27 on Netflix. Thirty years late is still better than never hearing it.
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