‘Pac was blessed with being able to express himself’ – brother Mopreme Shakurpublished at 20:41 BST
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Shaimaa Khalil
North America correspondent
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Mopreme Shakur lights up when he talks about his younger brother. He’s animated and still laughs at memories of the good times.
“I miss our play time. Pac couldn’t play many sports,” he smiles.
“So, when the guys would get together and we would play basketball from time to time, it was so funny to watch Pac trying to play basketball because he could not.”
“He was fun, he was energetic, he could be aggressive sometimes, and he was sensitive.”
Tupac died at 25, at the height of his career. His records were selling millions, while films including Juice and Poetic Justice had made him known in Hollywood as well.
But Mopreme says success never erased the difficulties of Tupac’s childhood—or their lasting impact.
“I think Pac was actually traumatized by the poverty… having no lights, having no food from time to time, having no clothes while you’re going to school, got to go to school every day, and bumming clothes.”
“Pac was sensitive, so he felt all those things deeply. And he was blessed with the gift of being able to express himself and make people feel it.”