Mopreme Shakur is stepping out of the shadows with tales nobody has heard earlier than about his stepbrother, Tupac Shakur, within the memoir This Thug’s Life, dropping on February 24.
The ebook guarantees never-before-told tales about rising up with the rap legend. Mopreme appeared on Jesse Weber Stay on Thursday to interrupt down why he lastly determined to talk.
“I’ve had a really attention-grabbing life, very attention-grabbing and legendary individuals in my life, a part of my life, and we’ve completed some unbelievable issues, and folks have been asking me through the years,” Mopreme defined in the course of the interview.
The timing hits completely different with Duane “Keffe D” Davis homicide trial scheduled for August 2026. Mopreme addressed his household’s mindset heading into the courtroom drama that would lastly carry justice for Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing.
“Our household is staying sturdy. We’re staying hopeful. We’re staying prepared for no matter information could come, however we’re in it till wheels fall off and we’re nonetheless pursuing justice,” he stated.
Mopreme is aware of the burden his brother nonetheless carries in Hip-Hop tradition. The Thug Life founding member watched Shakur remodel from a Baltimore teenager into a worldwide icon earlier than bullets minimize his story quick in Las Vegas.
“My brother was legend. His homicide was legend, you realize, and there’s loads to it, however there are solutions, you realize? I imply, there are solutions. It simply must be centered in on,” Mopreme added.
The memoir arrives throughout a Tupac Shakur ebook explosion.
Jeff Pearlman dropped Solely God Can Choose Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur in October 2025. Staci Robinson launched the approved biography Tupac Shakur: The Approved Biography in 2024.
Mopreme brings one thing completely different to the desk. He lived the Thug Life period from the within. The group fashioned in 1993 with Large Syke, Macadoshis, Rated R, and Shakur. Their self-titled debut album hit quantity 4 on the charts in 1994.
Earlier than Thug Life formally launched, Mopreme was already making strikes in music. He recorded beneath the identify Wycked and appeared on Tony! Toni! Toné!’s observe “Feels Good” within the early 90s. His first main look with Tupac Shakur got here on the 1993 tune “Papa’z Track.”
The stepbrothers shared greater than blood. They shared the revolutionary spirit handed down from their mother and father.
Mopreme’s father, Mutulu Shakur, spent a long time in jail for his involvement with the Black Liberation Military. Shakur’s mom, Afeni Shakur, was a Black Panther who fought for civil rights.
Mopreme toured with Tupac Shakur on the “Thugs for Life Tour” in 1994. He carried out alongside his brother till September 1996, when drive-by shooters ended his life at age 25.
Kensington Books will publish This Thug’s Life with 320 pages of household historical past and Hip-Hop recollections. The writer calls it “the first-ever insider account of the Shakur household” and guarantees particulars concerning the iconic group that modified rap endlessly.
Barnes and Noble and main retailers will inventory the memoir when it releases on February 24. The ebook arrives simply months earlier than Keffe D faces trial for allegedly orchestrating the homicide that shocked the world.
The trial bought pushed from its unique 2025 date to August 2026 after new proof surfaced. Protection attorneys are preventing to suppress proof from nighttime searches of Davis’s dwelling.
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