In March of ’95, Interscope released Pac’s third album, Me Against the World. I’ve been having nightmares, thinking they’re still shooting me.”īut outside of prison, he was becoming a superstar. “I have headaches,” he’d later tell Vibe. In November of the previous year-the night before a jury convicted him-he was shot in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio. On top of normal psychological torture that comes with imprisonment, Pac was also having trouble sleeping. He had been sentenced to one and a half to four and a half years in a sexual assault trial the previous fall. About 300 miles north of Manhattan sits the Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison that, in 1995, housed its most famous inmate: Tupac Amaru Shakur.
