2Pac Covers XXL

What you know about Lesane Crooks? Other than the fact he made the XXL cover for September, he died 15 years ago this month. The feature article includes interviews with The Outlawz, ‘Pac’s ex-wife Keisha Morris, his ex-manager and mentor Leila Steinberg and his biological father Bill Garland who had this to say about his son:

“[Tupac] cared for people,” he said. “That was his main thing. He really cared for people. I think that’s why he would get so upset when people tried to question his commitment, his love for Black women or Black men. The East Coast/West Coast, you know, that’s a fabrication. I don’t have to begin to tell you that. So when that was questioned, it bothered him. Because he would give his heart or soul. He was a giving person. He would give anything to people. He would go in a store. [If there was a] Black man who couldn’t afford a $1,500 pair of boots, he would buy ’em for him. Think that Black man would ever forget Tupac? That’s just the way he is. But I don’t think that he did it for that. He did it because he had it, and he didn’t. That’s the way he is.”