TUPAC VISITING HIS BIRTHPLACE, HARLEM 1994!!
Tupac was being filmed for a TV show called “Box Talk” where guests would show where they grew up, as Tupac was born in Harlem he showed them around his old neighbourhood.
So while in New York I had to go visit Harlem for myself & see the place that birthed the GOAT of hip hop, the video will be out soon on YouTube, subscribe now so you won’t miss it, link is in bio 💪
These iconic shots were taken by the amazing photographer T. Eric Monroe
@tdoteric and I’ll put below what he said about that day
“I received a call from Tupac’s publicist (Interscope Records), asking if I wanted to photograph Tupac in Harlem. He was having a press day and being filmed for music video channel, The Box. The format of the segment, Box Talk, was that camera crews would follow the artist around their childhood neighborhood. They would then shoot a particular segment in front of a location meaningful to the artist.
For Tupac, it was to be his elementary school in Harlem.
When I arrived at the location (155th Street & St. Nicholas Avenue), not far from Yankee Stadium, it was chaos. Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. had just dropped the prior year and ‘Pac was already a household name. Everyone wanted a piece of him as he had recently released the album Thug Life: Volume 1. Magazine and newspaper photographers, The Box camera crew, and local news teams were yelling at Tupac to look at their cameras.
I watched it for a while, then slowly got out my camera and moved toward some of the action. I was relatively close to Tupac and I kept to certain angles so I would not be intrusive in ‘Pac’s space. The connection became more endearing. At times, both of us looked at each other and quietly laughed at the media circus around us.”
