A handwritten letter by the late Tupac Shakur is going up for sale for a reported $225,000.
The rapper penned the note to Nina Bhadresher, who edited Death Row Uncut magazine and her own publication The Real State, while in jail on sexual assault charges in 1995.
In it, he set out his intent to start a "new chapter" of his life.
He wrote: "I am not granting this information to any other publication, not even Time & Rolling Stone so please represent it as it is layed. I trust u.(sic)"
The rapper - who was fatally shot a year after writing the letter - went on to explain that while withdrawing from drugs and alcohol, "the seeds planted . . . before me showed me the path to the next level."
He continued: "[Many] never survive the next level of Thug Life . . . They become addicted to death. A True Boss Playa knows when to advance . . . U must play the game, not let the game play u.
