Possessions of the late rap icon, Tupac have been going up for auction or sale for years. As early as this year, unpublished liner notes from “The Don Killuminati: The Seven Day Theory” went up for sale for $30K. The liner notes included disses towards Faith Evans, Biggie, Mobb Deep, Jay-Z, De La Soul, and others.
On the lighter side of things, Temple University was blessed with prized possessions previously owned by Tupac Shakur that will be displayed at Temple University’s Charles L. Blockson Afro-American collection.
The university received approximately a dozen of Tupac’s items including handwritten lyrics for tracks such as “I Ain’t Mad At Cha” and “It Ain’t Easy,” a handwritten tracklist for unreleased albums he was working on prior to his 1996 death, a bullet-dented, golden medallion he was wearing when he was shot at Quad Studios in 1994 and the diamond earring he wore on the cover of “All Eyez On Me”. The university received the items previously owned by Tupac through a donation from Golden Auctions of Runnemede, NJ, who have handled several of the rapper’s memorabilia.
Temple University received the donation because of the excellent reputation of the #BlocksonCollection in addition to the school offering a course on Pac. Blockson Collection curator Diane Turner said, “He’s a hip-hop icon. This is a significant, contemporary addition to our already impressive collection of music items, ranging from African instruments to material from John Coltrane, Grover Washington Jr. and Natalie Hinderas. We are thrilled.”
