'Anderson’s wide-ranging and restless deep dive turns up vivid details and powerful vignettes.' Host byjoelanderson shares his experience making the latest season of Slow Burn.
On the night of 29 November 1994, Tupac Shakur arrived at a recording studio in New York. Having risen to stardom via his debut album 2Pacalypse Now and 1993 commercial breakthrough Strictly 4 My NIGGAZ, the Californian rapper was now on trial for possession of illegal weapons and sexual assault after a woman accused him and his entourage of raping her in a New York hotel room 12 months earlier.
Anderson is a reporter in search of that closure. Where the first two series of Slow Burn, presented by Leon Neyfakh, explored the respective impeachment trials of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, season three exits the White House to examine what Anderson describes on the show as “a friendship gone bad that turned into a nationwide turf war”. Anderson heard the news of Tupac’s death while driving home from college. “All the people on the radio were crying,” he says.
“It’s crazy to think there were Capitol Hill hearings about the music of the Geto Boys and Tupac,” Anderson says, of the era’s febrile mood. “But gangsta rap was much more explicit about what was going on in the artists’ communities, talking about real violence, real sexism, real police brutality – things that people did not talk about in that way before. It was jarring.
But Slow Burn’s focus on the wider picture never loses sight of its central characters. Anderson describes Tupac as “fearless, to the point of recklessness”, depicting him as mercurial, brilliant and troubled. “He’s endlessly fascinating. The emotion and pain he put into his music spoke to people. To my interviewees, he was like a whirlwind that changed their lives, no matter how long or brief their relationship,” says Anderson.
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