The exhibit explores the late rapper’s life and opens in Los Angeles next year
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Tupac Shakur’s estate has announced a new exhibition exploring the late rapper’s life and legacy. Wake Me When I’m Free will open in Los Angeles on January 21. The exhibit will travel to other cities after its L.A. stint, but those details have not yet been announced. See more here.
A press release describes Wake Me When I’m Free as “part museum, part art installation, part sensory experience,” and notes that the life of Tupac’s mother Afeni Shakur, who was a member of the Black Panthers, has a significant presence in its narrative. Its creative director Jeremy Hodges has previously worked with the likes of Drake and JAY-Z. Hodges developed Wake Me When I’m Free alongside Nwaka Onwusa, the chief curator and Vice President of Curatorial Affairs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Tupac was inducted into the Rock Hall in 2017.
Read an excerpt from the Tupac oral history Changes by Sheldon Pearce on the Pitch.
