Tupac's handwritten lyrics will be up for grabs later this month at a London auction and it has been reported that the pieces are expected to bring in over $70,000.
As noted by XXL, both of the lyric manuscripts were written by Pac while he was serving jail time for sexual assault charges in 1995. One manuscript contains lyrics to "Ambitionz Az A Ridah," which was featured on his 1996 Diamond-certified album, All Eyez on Me. It is expected to go for anywhere between $47,000 and $78,000.
The other item, according to New York Daily News, features the nine lines that make up the spoken outro to “Tradin’ War Stories,” which was included on the same album. Both lyrics are autographed “2Pac Shakur.”
Tupac's manuscripts will join other items in Sotheby’s upcoming Rock & Pop auction sale, including an autographed Rolling Stones tour program, a poster designed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono and a weathered harmonica given to Jimi Hendrix by Bob Dylan.
“[Shakur] is a fixture of enormous popularity and great cultural significance, so we are confident there’ll be a lot of interest,” Gabriel Heaton, a specialist in books and manuscripts at Sotheby’s, said in a statement.
Earlier this year, Bonhams, a privately owned British auction house and one of the world’s oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques, announced the launch of an entertainment memorabilia auction. The collection boasts rare handwritten letters from Pac to his friend Desiree Smith. In the letters, the "California Love" rapper reportedly addresses who he believed was behind the shooting at Quad Records and who set him up on the sexual abuse charge that sent him to prison.
Tupac died Sept. 13, 1996 following a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.
Actor Marcc Rose, who portrayed Tupac in Straight Outta Compton, shared that he's been working with John Singleton on a movie about that late rapper.
Check out Tupac's handwritten lyrics below:
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