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A Tupac Shakur handwritten statement regarding Death Row Records
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A Tupac Shakur handwritten statement regarding Death Row Records
Autograph letter signed ("Tupac A Shakur"), 1 p, n.p. [but Dannemora, New York], July 30, 1995, additionally signed ("Desiree Smith") by Desiree Smith. In this statement, Tupac authorizes David Kenner, the attorney for Death Row Records, to "receive copies of my / contracts and royalty statements" and gives him "permission to negotiate / on my behalf." Tupac formally signed his infamous three-page handwritten contract with Suge Knight of Death Row Records on September 16, 1995, but this document shows that their negotiations had started almost two months prior. In that contract, Tupac would authorize Knight to act as his manager and Kenner as his lawyer, an arrangement which Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur would criticize as a conflict of interest in her lawsuit against the label after Tupac's death.
5 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.
5 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.



















