S: [?], what's up?
T: [?], playa.
S: I got the message you was trying to send. But you know they had me on the Hannibal Lecter trip.
T: Yeah, I was wondering what happened, because they did that to me, too, when I was up in there.
S: Yeah, I heard.
T: [?] people I couldn't write to like [?]. they opened my whole letter to him
S: Oh yeah, you know, ? long way, right. ? this cat named Robin ; I can't do that sh**.
T: ? because this other cat wrote me, that said you talked to him . I know he said that.
S: Right, right.
T: Everybody know I'm trying to get at you.
S: That was a good shoutout you gave me, man in the Vibe, man.
T: Oh, you know it's all good. I've been trying to tell it to your face for the longest time.
S: Ay, ay, you don't remember when we met, huh?
T: Nah. ? said it was up in L.A., right?
S: Straight up, man.
T: I don't remember that sh**.
S: ? It was me, you, it was ? Dara, we was kicking it in Mkumbu's pad.
T: I still don't remember that sh**. I budded out, though.
S: I know, homie. Hey, you got my number, though?
T: No.
S: You called me, remember?
T: But I got that number from Mo. He was with me. He dialed the number for me.
S: Okay, take the number down. 909-243-2889.
T: 2889.
S: You know, we start shooting the movie next month, right?
T: You do?
S: I'm telling you, man, I want you to play me, man.
T: I want to play you. They can't have nobody play you.
S: Dig this. Check this out. The producer—I mean the director, right—is Antoine Fuqua; young brother, 28 years old, from Baltimore, right. But he's straight, straight up cat like us, right. And he's a good cat. We got hella pull with him, right. We didn't even did casting yet, man. You know?
T: You gotta put me down.
S: I'm telling you. I had seen your sh**, I just seen Juice.
T: Oh, you did?
S: ‘Cause I was all locked up all them years.
T: Oh sh**.
S: I just seen your sh**, man.
T: Word.
S: ? last night?
T: Yeah, when I was up in that jailhouse I wrote one too. I was supposed to be getting that sh** together. What else are you doing, man?
S: Ay, man, you won't believe that I got some dope a** lyrics.
T: Word?
S: I'm serious! I got this sh** called “Level 5” that's bomb sh**.
T: Word [laughing] You got to come in the studio then.
S: I'm telling you, I got some sh**.
T: So when are you going to come through?
S: When can I come through?
T: Anytime you want. I'm in the studio every day. I'm finishing an album. Doing a double album this Christmas called All Eyez on Me. I've got a song with Dre, I've got a song with Roger, I got a song with George Clinton.
S: That sh** is fat.
T: I got Sister Souljah coming. If you're coming, we could be the bomb.
S: Hey, check this out, check this out. That sh** you shot, man, “So Many Tears”.
T: Yeah.
S: Man, I burst out in tears when I heard that sh**.
T: You like that sh**?
S: Man, you ? that sh**. [Tupac laughing] I'm telling you, yesterday, I was cleaning up the pad - me and my wife, right. And I'm cleaning up the pad, and “Lord Knows” was on, right. The last verse that sh** hit me and froze me.