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In the latest installment of the Allison Interviews Podcast, journalist and host Allison Kugel talks with New York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman, about writing Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur (on sale 10/21, Mariner Books), the most complete Tupac Shakur biography ever penned, featuring 650+ interviews. The book features in-depth interviews with Tupac’s sister Set Shakur, late Outlawz member Yaki Kadafi’s mother Yaasmyn Fula, Digital Underground’s Money B, Tupac’s aunt Gloria and her son Kenny Lesane, former Tupac managers Leila Steinberg and Atron Gregory, Juice director Ernest Dickerson, former classmates, love interests and close friends from the Baltimore School for the Arts, former roommates from the projects and former classmates in Marin City, the surprising woman who gave Tupac his first and middle name, actress Lela Rochon, Gang Related director Jim Kouf and hundreds of others. The book also features never before heard quotes from Tupac’s former fiancée Kidada Jones.
Traditionally a sports figure biographer, Pearlman’s previous book include: Showtime (adopted for the screen with HBO’s Winning Time series), The Last Folk Hero, Three-Ring Circus, Football for a Buck, Gunslinger, Sweetness, The Rocket That Fell to Earth, Boys Will Be Boys, Love Me Hate Me and The Bad Guys Won.
Jeff Pearlman’s Links
https://jeffpearlman.com/
https://www.instagram.com/jeff_pearlman/
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/only-god-can-judge-me-jeff-pearlman?variant=43756802310178
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