Tupac was born into a family that required him to be a leader, and there was a real...

LEILA: Tupac was born into a family that required him to be a leader, and there was a real plan
for Tupac. He was gonna be, you know, the chairman of
the New Afrikan Panther Party, which was a continuation of the Black Panthers. MAN: Now, how long have you been national chairman
of the New Afrikan Panthers? TUPAC: I was...[chuckling]
matter of fact, - about, what, a week.
- MAN: A week? TUPAC: We had a central
committee meeting. We had representatives from Los Angeles and Atlanta and, uh, Mississippi and New York,
and we just had a vote. WATANI: Pac was
always an artist. Particularly,
he was a wordsmith, one of the best I knew at that. And so that was part of Tupac's and young people's job was to be griots,
or use their art form to talk about our movement