Netflix Sets 27 November Premiere for Four-Part Series Built on Angie Martinez's 1996 Tupac Shakur Interview
Netflix will premiere The Tupac Tapes on 27 November. The four-part series, hosted by Angie Martinez, will present her complete 1996 interview with Tupac Shakur to the public for the first time, according to Rolling Stone.
The show is a podcast, an audio series released in episodes. Its centrepiece is a conversation recorded three decades ago.
In 1996, Martinez flew to Los Angeles to interview Shakur at his home. The visit was Shakur's suggestion.
At the time, Martinez aired only select segments of the interview and withheld most of the conversation. Most of it never reached the airwaves.
Shakur was murdered a few months after the interview. He was 25. The recording now reaches listeners almost thirty years after his death, and it will do so in full rather than in the excerpts broadcast in 1996.
The series also features eight other voices: Dream Hampton, RZA, Big Boy, Joe Budden, Charlamagne tha God, Monie Love, Bootleg Kev and Erica Ford. Each appears alongside Martinez's material, the report said.
Netflix, the streaming service, will carry the series from its premiere on 27 November. Further details on episode release schedules were not included in the announcement.
