Tupac Shakur's 1995 Prison Interview to Premiere on YouTube on 12 October

An extended presentation of a 1995 interview with Tupac Shakur, filmed while the rapper was incarcerated in New York, is scheduled to premiere on YouTube on Monday, 12 October 2026.

Filmmaker Patrick Heaphy and his production company, LCM247, announced the release on 8 October. The premiere is scheduled for 9pm Eastern Time and falls exactly 31 years after Shakur was released from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, on 12 October 1995.

Heaphy filmed the interview earlier that year while Shakur was serving a prison sentence. The filmmaker originally travelled to the facility in connection with a proposed concert intended to address youth violence, but the planned event never took place. The interview, however, became a record of Shakur speaking about his life and ambitions at a pivotal point in his career.

The new presentation revisits that conversation more than three decades later. The producers are promoting it as an extended version of the interview, although they have not specified how much of the material has not appeared in earlier releases. The footage should therefore not be described as an entirely new or previously unseen discovery without further confirmation.

The release will also be accompanied by plans to offer the original Sony camera used to film the interview, along with source tapes from the production, at auction. Heaphy says he has authenticated the camera and holds the US-registered copyright to the original interview footage.

The auction is intended to support a wider project connected to the original idea behind the prison visit. A portion of the planned proceeds is expected to help develop a concert against youth violence, revisiting the ambition that brought Heaphy to Dannemora in 1995. The filmmakers are also developing a crowdfunding campaign, although further details about the auction and concert have not yet been announced.

Shakur was 24 when the interview was recorded and had already become one of the most influential figures in hip-hop. He was released from prison in October 1995 and went on to release All Eyez on Me the following year, before his death in September 1996.

The YouTube premiere offers audiences another opportunity to revisit a conversation from a significant period in Shakur's life, while the planned auction gives the original recording equipment a separate place in the story of how the interview was made.