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\u2018This is a brilliant opportunity to bring together the revolutionaries and the gang communities. And you can unite them.\u201d So a young Tupac Shakur is told in the first trailer for All Eyez On Me, Lionsgate\u2019s biopic starring newcomer Demetrius Shipp Jr. as the groundbreaking and ground-shaking rapper \u2014 and actor, poet and activist \u2014 who was killed in 1996 while at the top of his game. He was 25.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe love your music, Tupac,\u201d the LA record exec says. \u201cYou paint a picture for the listener that\u2019s not always pretty, but it\u2019s real.\u201d That, and there\u2019s a 4,000-page FBI file on him. The film follows his rise from the streets of NYC to the shores of SoCal to the top of the charts as the crown jewel of Death Row Records, run by Suge Knight (Dominic L. Santana), who tells him, \u201cA lot of people are born males, but they\u2019re not men. I\u2019m a man.\u201d Then there\u2019s the storied East Coast-West Coast rap war.<\/p>\n
Kat Graham, Lauren Cohan, Hill Harper, Jamal Woolard, Danai Gurira and Annie Ilonzeh co-star in the film from director Benny Boom. Jeremy Haft & Eddie Gonzalez and Steven Bagatourian penned the script. Named after his mega-selling 1996 album, All Eyez on Me will close the American Black Film Festival two days after Lionsgate\u2019s Summit Entertainment opens the film from Morgan Creek on June 16.<\/p>\n
Check out the trailer above and tell us what you think.<\/p>\n
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