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by Emma Finamore | Photos by WENN.com

Tupac's heartfelt teenage poems published for first time

Icon's mentor releases previously unseen poetry

 

Tupac's heartfelt teenage poems published for first time

Photo: WENN.com

Tupac Shakur's handwritten teenage poems have been seen for the first time thanks to his old mentor and manager. 

Leila Steinberg, who first met Tupac when he attended her writing workshop in Oakland, gave the poems to magazine Citizens of Humanity.  According to Steinberg, the poems were written over a three-year period, starting when Tupac was just 17 years old. In characteristically heartfelt fashion, the iconic artist writes about love, loss and loneliness. 

Read an example of the teenage Tupac's writing below. 

 
She told Citizens of Humanity: “My life became consumed with making Pac matter to everybody. I believed he was the one, like Bob Marley and many before him. 

"How can you raise a generation who are not wanted? Tupac was obsessed with the pain and imbalance in his community—all of the issues that he was born and cultivated to address.”  

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