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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Friday, February 1, 2013
Master P Says He Tried To Sign Tupac To No Limit Records
Arguably the greatest hustler in Hip Hop history, Master P revealed to HipHopDX yesterday (January 31st) that, had it happened, his most impressive score would have been adding the legendary Tupac Shakur to his once mighty No Limit Records roster.
“To be honest wit’chu, at one time, I was thinking about signing Tupac,” replied P when asked by DX if there were any other big-name free agents, in addition toSnoop Dogg, that The Colonel tried to bring over to Hip Hop’s most successful label of the 1990s.
According to Master P, he attempted to sign the Oakland-based Tupac several years before No Limit’s commercial explosion, when the label had yet to center its operations in P’s native New Orleans, Louisiana and was still headquartered in Richmond, California as one of several up-and-coming Bay Area independent labels.
“[Tupac] was liking the movement of what we was doing,” explained P, “but we wasn’t fully there yet. … That was one little piece that I was looking at like, ‘You know what? This could be alright.’”
While there is no known video footage or photos of Master P and Tupac together, the head honcho of the rechristened No Limit Forever label revealed that he and his currently incarcerated brotherC-Murder were once opening acts for the future icon of Reality Rap, and additionally confirmed to DX that he subsequently spoke to Tupac directly regarding Interscope Records’ then biggest Hip Hop signee possibly joining “the tank.”
“Everybody was interested in No Limit,” replied P when asked if ‘Pac personally expressed interest in enlisting as a No Limit soldier. “I don’t think there was one person in the music business that wasn’t interested in being a part of that movement.”
Stay tuned to HipHopDX for Master P’s full feature interview, in which The Colonel explains the stray shots at dress-wearing, skateboard-riding youth culture included on his just-released Al Caponemixtape, his parental relationship to Chief Keef and why he “can’t change” who he is and was forced to abandon his attempt at curse-free, positive Rap. The man who was once responsible for over 75 million albums sold also revisits No Limit Records' past – including if P’s hoop dreams destroyed the tank, why he refused to negotiate with Beats By The Pound and what the real origins of “Bout It” are, contrary to Mannie Fresh’s version of events.
Exclusive: Tupac Shakur Biopic Hires Michael Starrbury, Writer of 2013 Sundance Entry ‘The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete’
Progress on Morgan Creek’s Tupac Shakur biopic has been pretty quiet since 2011, when first Antoine Fuqua and then John Singleton left the project in a matter of months. But it hasn’t died down completely, and now it’s taking an important step forward.Michael Starrbury, writer of the buzzy Sundance drama The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, has been hired to do a new rewrite of the screenplay. (Here’s Germain’s review of Mister and Pete.) The original draft was penned by Steve Bagatourian,Stephen Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson. More details after the jump.
Morgan Creek first announced the Sundance biopic in early 2011, when Fuqua was set to direct. However, Fuqua left a few months later when he had trouble casting a lead actor, and Singletonentered talks to take over. Unfortunately, Singleton himself exitedjust a month later, opting to work on an unrelated romance instead.
Deadline reports that Starrbury is rewriting the screenplay, but it’s not clear whether he’s just polishing Bagatourian, Rivele, and Wilkinson’s earlier draft or doing a page one rewrite. Starrbury has has been on the rise in Hollywood the past couple of years, landing on the 2011 Black List for a script titled Watch Roger Do His Thing. He recently received some fresh attention for the George Tillman Jr.-directed The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, which had a preview screening at Sundance last week. (It officially premieres January 25 at the festival.) Currently, he’s working on Jorma Taccone’s upcoming adaptation of the graphic novel The Great Unknown.
Even with Starrbury on board, the Tupac biopic still has a ways to go before cameras can roll. No director has signed on since Singleton’s departure, and casting remains a major challenge. Interestingly, the iconic rapper has previously been played by Mister and Pete star Anthony Mackie in Tillman’s Notorious, about Shakur’s East Coast rival the Notorious B.I.G. Perhaps Starrbury’s involvement will lead to Tillman and/or Mackie boarding the project — though the 34-year-old Mackie seems a bit old nowadays to play Shakur, who was 25 at the time of his death in 1996.
Morgan Creek’s untitled film is being produced by James Robinson, David Robinson, and LT Hutton, with Shakur’s mother Afeni Shakur-Davis serving as executive producer. Here’s the plot description we got back in 2011:
The film chronicles the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur, including his rise to superstardom as a hip hop artist and actor, as well as his imprisonment and prolific, controversial time at Death Row Records, where he was steeped in the East coast/West coast rap war.
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