When it hits theaters on June 16, what would have been the rapper’s 46th birthday, it will mark the end of a complicated journey, one fraught with two multimillion-dollar lawsuits, a rotating door of writers and directors, a noncommittal estate, and a public thrashing from an Oscar-nominated filmmaker. Stories like these have been rattling around Hutton’s mind as he puts the finishing touches on the long-gestating Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me. You messed the kitchen up.’ He was like, ‘Aww, I like you, I like your spirit.’” “I said, ‘Let me explain something: You’re not just gonna check me. At first, Hutton says, Shakur was incredulous about the dish-cleaning request. Twenty-two years later, Hutton is sitting in a seventh-floor conference room in Beverly Hills, chuckling as he retells the story. Hutton says he walked over, introduced himself, and said, “Brother, you just got out of jail, you went through a struggle, the record was dope. Despite being signed to the same label, Hutton had yet to speak at length with Shakur, who was now standing in front of him, shirtless, frying up plates of sausage and bacon. It was 1995, Shakur had just been released from prison, and Hutton, then a young producer for Death Row Records, was living at Snoop Dogg’s mansion in the San Gabriel Valley. Hutton woke to the sound of Tupac Shakur cooking breakfast. Photo: Vulture and Photo by Getty Images and Quantrell Colbert
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