“This trial is all about my image, this has nothing to do with me. . . I’m selling records. This is what I do for a living: I’m selling records. Don’t get it twisted. This is not my real life.”
–Tupac Shakur, 1995 ♦quotation found in Never Drank the Kool-Aid by Touré. (New York: Picador, 2006.)
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