{"id":11807,"date":"2015-07-15T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=11807"},"modified":"2015-07-15T14:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:00:25","slug":"eminem-pens-heartfelt-letter-to-afeni-shakur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=11807","title":{"rendered":"Eminem Pens Heartfelt Letter to Afeni Shakur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ohsodj.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/eminem.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ohsodj.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/eminem.jpg?resize=250%2C246\" alt=\"eminem\" width=\"250\" height=\"246\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6249\" \/><\/a>As part of The Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts in Georgia, Eminem penned a heartfelt tribute penned to Afeni Shakur, showing his profound respect for the fallen rap icon, Tupac.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was feeling at my worst, I knew I could put that Tupac tape in, and suddenly things weren\u2019t so bad,\u201d Em wrote. \u201cThank you for giving us his spirit and yours! God bless you!\u201d  He complemented the devout letter with a stenciled drawing of \u2018Pac rocking his signature bandana and Jesus cross chain dangling from his neck. Under it, a message that read, \u201cYour friend 4-ever!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eminem has had long revealed affection for \u2018Pac since his 2003 MTV collaborative project, Reconstructing Tupac, where he produced soundtracks for the MTV film. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of things about Pac that stood out,\u201d Eminem told MTV of the project at the time. \u201cPersonality. I guess no matter what color you was or where you came from, you felt like you could relate to him. He made you feel like you knew him. I think that honestly, Tupac was the greatest songwriter that ever lived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out Em\u2019s letter and sketching of the legendary rap icon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eminem-letter-afeni-shakur-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eminem-letter-afeni-shakur-1.jpg?resize=252%2C300\" alt=\"eminem-letter-afeni-shakur-1\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eminem-letter-afeni-shakur-1.jpg?w=630&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eminem-letter-afeni-shakur-1.jpg?resize=252%2C300&amp;ssl=1 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eminem-letter-afeni-shakur-2-630x800.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eminem-letter-afeni-shakur-2-630x800.jpg?resize=236%2C300\" alt=\"eminem-letter-afeni-shakur-2-630x800\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eminem-letter-afeni-shakur-2-630x800.jpg?resize=630%2C800&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eminem-letter-afeni-shakur-2-630x800.jpg?resize=236%2C300&amp;ssl=1 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>As part of The Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts in Georgia, Eminem penned a heartfelt tribute penned to Afeni Shakur, showing his profound respect for the fallen rap icon, Tupac.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[395,807,1318],"class_list":["post-11807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-eminem","tag-matrix","tag-tupac"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-34r","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/eminem.jpg?fit=250%2C246&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}