Love Letter Written By An Emotional & Thoughtful Teenage Tupac Is Sold Online

On September 7th 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur was leaving a boxing event in Las Vegas when he was shot mulitple times. 

Six days later, he was dead at the young age of 25. 

Tupac left behind a huge fan-base, a catalogue of music and one of culture's most persistent mysteries. 

Tragically, his death remains unsolved. However there is speculation that it was caused by the volatile East Coast/West Coast rap war of the era. It was a feud that held Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. as it's avatars. 

Just recently a letter written by a teenage Tupac, known as the "Earliest Known Letter of Tupac Shakur", emerged online and has now been sold on website Moments In Time for $35,000 USD. 

The note paints Tupac as a thoughtful and emotional teenager who was happy to admit he’d experienced heartbreak.

The anonymous owner of the note spoke in detail about her high school romance with the rapper:

“I met him in drama class after he transferred from Baltimore to California. He called me Beethoven because of my piano skills. He was a charismatic character who didn’t give a damn, highlighting the fact he wore Afrocentric gear and rocked a blonde high-top fade before it was the cool thing to do in the west coast.

The thing that really attracted me to him was that he made me understand Shakespeare – he took something as difficult as Shakespeare and gave it a contemporary voice.

I never really cared for the music he recorded – it was nothing like those freestyles I remember in front of our school. I knew the kid who made me understand Shakespeare and who didn’t care that he dressed different or wore his hair different.

I knew the kid who loved Prince, and candles and had a broken heart. And the kid who drew birds flying upside down on the notes that he passed in school.”

The note, which you can see in full below, is filled with drawings and doodles alongside the emotional words:

“Felt compelled to write u. Can’t really explain it, but feel good vibes from u. I’m almost sure we’ll be very close friends. I would have never guessed that u + I would be friends. But as the old saying goes… wait, how does that saying go? Forget it! U get the A! I want u to know that u can tell me anything and if u ever need a shoulder 2 cry on, you can cry on mine. I have so many good thoughts about what lies ahead 4 us and it is my hope that they all come true.

“As u will soon find out, I do not spare words, I say what I feel. So if something I say scares u please don’t panic because I tend 2 get over emotional. My heart usually leads me 2 fast and that’s probably why I always get hurt, so if it ever seems as though I’m moving 2 fast please slow me down! Talking 2 u on the phone was such a good feeling 4 me. I was beginning 2 feel alone and out of the blue, I meet you and it’s almost like I’ve known u 4 years.

He ends the note by saying: “We have so much in common. We both love Prince, we’ve both had out hearts broken and we both love candles. What else could I ask for? C U 2morrow Beethoven. 4 eternity.”