Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the 1994 film Above The Rim, Marlon Wayans shared stories about seeing both The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur less than an hour before each was shot and killed. Appearing on ESPN’s Numbers Never Lie series hosted by Michael Smith and Jemele Hill, Wayans explained working alongside Tupac in the Jeff Pollack directed movie.
“Me and Pac had a great relationship,” Wayans said. “You
know what was great about Pac? Everybody think he was this thug, this
gangster. First of all, he was a performance high school kid. Pac was
very smart and he was very silly. He was a clown. He wasn’t real
gangster but he acted gangster. He was a method actor, so he went a
little too far. He was like, ‘Oh, I’ll shoot you!’ Pow! He’d really
shoot you. He’d overcommit. I could tell he wasn’t a gangster because he
had the softest hands. No gangster has hands [like that], I call him a
Palmolive thug. He’d be like, ‘Come here, you want some of this,’ and
then he’d give you this gentle hand. It was soft. Then he had these long
eyelashes looking like [Mr.] Snuffleupagus, just like, ‘You don’t want
none of this. I’m thug!’
Asked what he thinks Tupac might have
gone on to accomplish had his life not been cut short, Wayans explained
feeling like the rapper was at a turning-point in his life and career
around the time of his murder.
“I think he would have matured at this point to be the
leader that I think this generation could use in a lot of ways because
he was that,” Wayans said, apparently touching on the emcee’s gangster
image. “I think Pac was about to come to his come-to-Jesus moment where
he actually became the philanthropist and the teacher that he honestly
could have and should have been. He was an amazing dude. He was a
well-rounded dude. He’s missed. And he was silly. We had a lot of fun.
We laughed a lot.”
Marlon Wayans Describes Spending Time With Tupac & Biggie On The Night Of Their Respective Deaths
Near the end of his appearance, Wayans went on to share a
story about seeing both Biggie and Tupac separately on the night of
their respective deaths.
“I saw Biggie and Pac perform together,” Wayans said. “But before that. Okay, so Pac, the night he died, I saw him. Me and Omar Epps
who I went to school with...I was with them. I was with my best
friends. So we saw 'Pac standing outside of the Luxor. So we went on
over to say what’s up and Suge [Knight]
was there. Omar was like, ‘Yo I’m gonna go say what’s up.’ I was like,
‘Hey Pac!’ from far away. I was like, ‘Mmhmm.’ He had all these thugs
with him. So we went over, shook his hand, said, ‘What’s up,’ gave him
love. We got in a cab, went off. Pac looked at us, and then he went in
the car that he wound up getting shot.
“Biggie, I saw at the museum at that party,” he continued.
“I went to that party. I saw him 20 minutes before. He goes, ‘Yo, I love
your family. I love what ya’ll do man. Yo, you heard the shoutout I
gave you in the song?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah!’ So, I got to meet
him, 20 minutes later, he got shot.
“If you see this shot, there’s a famous shot of Tupac and
Biggie," he added. "It’s on Vibe magazine. In the corner—it’s at club
Glam Slam downtown L.A.—I’m in the corner just twisting my hair looking
at both of them. It was crazy because I saw both of them right before
they got shot.”
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