In an undated letter after Eminem broke out, the rapper penned a heartfelt letter to Afeni Shakur, Tupac's mom, and enclosed a drawing he'd made of the “California Love” rapper.
“When I was feeling at my 'worst' (before fame, before Dre), I knew I could put that 'Tupac' tape in and, suddenly, things weren't so bad,” he wrote. “He gave me the courage to stand up and say, 'F*ck the world! This is who I am! And if you don't like it, go f*ck yourself!'”
Although both the sketch…
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