Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur

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Jeff Pearlman breaks down Tupacs life like a veteran sportswriter examining a dynasty. This detailed look at his life is the work of a writer who understands the ego of greatness.Chuck D

Pearlman delivers rich, engrossing, and fascinating new details about Shakurs life and legacynot just once or twicebut throughout each lively page...This is the type of needed journalism, reporting, and biography that finally and deservedly provides the definitive historic account on Shakur.Jonathan Abrams, author of The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop

Scrutinized in life, mythologized in death, Tupac Shakur remains a subject of immense cultural significance and speculation nearly thirty years after his murder. Despite a multitude of books, documentaries, and even a feature film, much about Tupacs story remains shrouded and misunderstood. Like many icons who died tragically young, Tupac the man has long been obscuredhis edges sanded down, his complexity numbedby the competing agendas that surround his legacy.

InOnly God Can Judge Me, accomplished biographer and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman tackles his most nuanced subject, telling the definitive story of Tupac Shakur in unprecedented depth. In this authoritative look at Tupacs life, Pearlman skillfully recreates West Coast hip hop in all its glory, going inside Death Row Records and on the sets of movies likeJuiceandPoetic Justiceto offer the most clear-eyed rendering to date of the man who still casts a shadow over modern hip hop. But more than just a biography of a complicated figure,Only God Can Judge Mealso captures the time and place in which Tupac rose, a singular moment in music history when West Coast hip hop became a phenomenon and transformed popular music.

Featuring nearly seven hundred original interviews and never-before-published details from every corner of Tupacs life, the result offers a truly singular portrait of one of modern pop cultures most towering figures.Guided by the voices of those who knew and lived life alongside him, Only God Can Judge Me captures the layers of a man who, even thirty years after his death, remains as elusive as ever.

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Jeff Pearlman is a columnist for SI.com, a former Sports Illustrated senior writer, and the critically acclaimed author of Boys Will Be Boys, The Bad Guys Won!, and Love Me, Hate Me.