Directer Allen Hughes On the Mind of Tupac

Menace II Society and Book of Eli director, Allen Hughes, offers us a glimpse into the mind of Tupac Shakur. What I took away from this interview is that Tupac was vastly more intelligent than he let-on or allowed his music to suggest. He was a man in control of his image and someone who created his persona. I'm not certain if the screening Hughes referenced was the inception point for the creation of the image we know today, but it very well could have been.

From the interview, we see that Tupac was employing strategy. It was all a mental thing. One of the reasons I teach the value of expanded consciousness in the academy is that everything in physical creation was at first a construct in the mind of man. So, all of the wealth in our world is the produce of human ingenuity and the master-minding of ideas. It's a beautiful thing when we can find evidence of the creative process that leads to eventual greatness, which is why I wanted to share this.

James Power