She’s been a sensation since she’s been born, and now Blue Ivy has made her public debut.Tupac Shakur’s mother has donated a collection of the rapper’s writing to the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Atlanta University Center.
Afeni Shakur has handed over more than 150 of her son’s items, ranging from rough drafts of lyrics and poems to a photocopy of his contract with Suge Knight and Death Row Records.
The rapper’s collection will be part of the archives at the library on the campus of the Atlanta University Center, which comprises the historically black universities of Morehouse College, Spelman College, Clark Atlanta University and the Morehouse School of Medicine.
The library also houses The Martin Luther King Jr. Collection.
“We need to read history from the source,” Afeni Shakur said. “It gives people the opportunity to judge him objectively. What we want to do is educate.”
Other items include the rapper’s handwritten playlists of “All Eyez on Me” and “The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory”; and letters he wrote to his family when he was in prison in 1994.
Shakur was one of rap’s best-selling artists, becoming a bigger star after his release from prison in 1995 with his multiplatinum-selling album “All Eyez on Me.” He was shot to death while riding in a car with Knight in Las Vegas a year later.
