{"id":181580,"date":"2023-04-27T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T08:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=181580"},"modified":"2023-04-27T17:28:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T15:28:07","slug":"2pac-discussed-shifting-his-focus-from-music-to-acting-in-a-resurfaced-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/2pac-discussed-shifting-his-focus-from-music-to-acting-in-a-resurfaced-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"2Pac Discussed Shifting His Focus From Music To Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tsxkOzrSebc\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>2Pac<\/strong> spoke about wanting to distance himself from music and focus on his acting career prior to his death, according to a resurfaced interview with<strong> Entertainment Tonight<\/strong>. The outlet shared the rare discussion on Sunday, following the premiere of FX\u2019s <em>Dear Mama<\/em> docuseries. The show explores the relationship between the legendary rapper and his mother, <strong>Afeni Shakur.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_181581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181581\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"181581\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/2pac-discussed-shifting-his-focus-from-music-to-acting-in-a-resurfaced-interview\/tupac-shakur-in-gridlockd\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pac.jpg?fit=1024%2C687&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,687\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Getty Images&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Tupac Shakur in a scene from the film &#039;Gridlock&#039;d&#039;, 1997. (Photo by Gramercy Pictures\/Getty Images)&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2012 Getty Images&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Tupac Shakur In &#039;Gridlock&#039;d&#039;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tupac Shakur In &amp;#8216;Gridlock&amp;#8217;d&amp;#8217;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Tupac Shakur in a scene from the film &amp;#8216;Gridlock&amp;#8217;d&amp;#8217;, 1997. (Photo by Gramercy Pictures\/Getty Images)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pac.jpg?fit=640%2C429&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-181581\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pac.jpg?resize=540%2C362&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pac.jpg?resize=540%2C362&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pac.jpg?resize=768%2C515&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pac.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-181581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tupac Shakur in a scene from the film &#8216;Gridlock&#8217;d&#8217;, 1997. (Photo by Gramercy Pictures\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2Pac spoke about wanting to distance himself from music and focus on his acting career&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-LeI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}