After 30 Years, Angie Martinez Is Finally Releasing Her Unheard Tupac Interview on Netflix

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For nearly 30 years, Angie Martinez sat on one of hip-hop’s most important interviews — and now she’s finally letting the world hear it.

Netflix has released the trailer for “The Tupac Tapes with Angie Martinez,” a four-part video podcast event premiering globally on Friday, Nov. 27, 2026. The series is built around previously unreleased portions of a 1996 interview Martinez recorded with Tupac Shakur at his Los Angeles home, roughly three months before he was shot in Las Vegas on Sept. 7, 1996 and died six days later at age 25.

The sit-down ran about an hour and 40 minutes — but only around 12 minutes ever aired. Martinez cut the rest by hand with a razor blade, fearing the remarks could inflame the East Coast–West Coast feud and put people at risk. “I didn’t want anybody to die because of a conversation that I went to L.A. to go get,” she has said.

She held the tapes for nearly three decades, at one point storing them in her laundry room, before Jay-Z urged her to digitize and secure them. The series pairs the original audio with a rotating panel of guests reflecting on the tapes, including RZA, Charlamagne Tha God, Joe Budden, Big Boy, Dream Hampton, Lil’ Cease, Monie Love, Ed Lover, Wallo, Matt Barnes, and E.D.I. Mean.

The release comes weeks after Duane “Keffe D” Davis was sentenced Oct. 13 to 40 years to life for Tupac’s murder. Martinez has also denied longstanding rumors that Sean “Diddy” Combs paid her to suppress the tape.

For a generation that grew up on the 12 minutes that aired, the other 88 are finally coming.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons — Tupac Shakur in 1995, the year before the Martinez interview.

Sources: Hypebeast | What’s On Netflix

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