{"id":31236,"date":"2011-04-27T18:43:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=31236"},"modified":"2024-10-24T22:04:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T20:04:44","slug":"video-tupacs-96-photoshoot-w-david-lachapelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-tupacs-96-photoshoot-w-david-lachapelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Tupac’s ’96 Photoshoot w\/ David LaChapelle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ffiteen minutes of super rare footage of Pac\u2019s infamous bathtub photo shoot with renowned photographer David LaChapelle shortly after his release from prison.<\/p>\n

Here are some of Lachappelle\u2019s comments on the shoot:<\/p>\n

DM: I feel that a lot of your work emphasises on beauty in people, regardless of colour or size. One of my favourite pieces of your work is \u201cBecoming Clean\u201d with Tupac Shakur amongst others. How was it like work with him?<\/p>\n

DL: Tupac was great, he was very sensitive and is truly a good person. I wrote to his mum when he died and she sent me flowers and gave me his last song, \u201cGhetto Gospel.\u201d When we did the shoot, he had just come out of prison and every shot has a reason, it\u2019s never random, so this was the idea of the photo shoot, him becoming clean. He had given this interview when he was still in prison and he really opened up and was so honest. I had read it and thought it was so truthful so for the work I did with him, there was this idea of washing away and rebirth. And we did another shoot where he posed as a slave on a cotton field. They traced rapping and rhyming to \u201ccall and repeat\u201d during slavery time in sugar cane and cotton fields to pass the time. It\u2019s on the Hotel Lachapelle book. Tupac came to the shoot 2 hours early, which was very unusual for a rapper. So I wasn\u2019t ready for the shoot and he didn\u2019t care. He reminded me of my black friends whom I went to art schools with, he was so cool, open-minded and chill. He wasn\u2019t judgemental. Then later on, I found out that he had gone to an art school. He left behind a big bag of socks and underwear because he had just come out from prison and never picked it up. He died shortly after. I still wear his socks sometimes (laughs).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hit continue reading to check some of the classic pics LaChapelle took that day.<\/p>\n

Via NR \/ Urban Empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previous: Lost Prison Interview With Tupac<\/a><\/p>\n

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