Angie Martinez to Release Unaired Tupac Interview on Netflix
Written by adamraymitchelleve@gmail.com on November 13, 2026
Angie Martinez is finally opening a vault hip-hop has talked about for thirty years. Netflix announced on November 11 that “The Tupac Tapes with Angie Martinez,” a four-part video podcast built on her unaired 1996 interview with Tupac Shakur, will premiere November 27.
Martinez was a 25-year-old voice at New York’s Hot 97 when she sat down with Tupac at his Los Angeles home, about three months before he was killed in September 1996, at the height of the East Coast-West Coast feud. The conversation ran about an hour and forty minutes, but listeners at the time heard only about twelve minutes of it.
Back in New York, Martinez physically cut the tape with a razor blade and held the rest back. She has said the unheard portions included remarks that could have hurt people, damaged relationships and added fuel to an already dangerous situation, and after Tupac died she did not want the interview to become his unintended final statement. She was on the air herself the day his death was announced.
The Netflix series pairs the original audio with reflections from guests who lived through that era, including RZA, Charlamagne Tha God, Joe Budden, Big Boy, Lil’ Cease, Monie Love, Ed Lover, Dream Hampton and Wallo. For fans who have only ever heard the twelve minutes that made it to radio, November 27 is the first chance to hear what she cut.
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