Love Letter Tupac Shakur Wrote Selling For $35k

Where art thou Tupac?

A love letter written by the late Tupac Shakur to his high school crush is being sold $35,000 on the auction site, Moments In Time.

The late performer, who penned the note to a woman he nicknamed "Beethoven" because she had a penchant for playing the piano, met her in drama class at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, Calif, where they studied Shakespeare.

"He was good, I mean really good," she wrote in a letter on the auction site. "When Tupac's turn came, suddenly you understood what we were reading. He took something as difficult as Shakespeare and gave it such a contemporary voice."

The two became fast friends and "used to sit together and commiserate about our unrequited love," she recalled.
In the love letter, Tupac drew cutesy artwork (the "I" is replaced with an eye complete with long lashes and hearts are drawn not spelled out) accompanied with sentimental musings like, “As you will soon find out, I do not spare words, I say what I feel. So if something I say scares you, please don’t panic because I tend to get over emotional.”

Even though Tupac told the piano princess they had a lot in common (a mutual love of Prince and candles) their short-lived romance fizzled out after he dropped out of high school and became famous.

"The second and last time I saw him and I was driving out of Marin City and he was in a car," she wrote. "He leaned his head out the window and yelled my name as he reached out and waved to me enthusiastically."

Beethoven wasn't a big fan of Pac after that.

“I didn't know that man who tattooed "Thug Life" on his chest and was gunned down on a Las Vegas Street," she said, referencing his 1996 murder. "I never really cared for the music he recorded — it was nothing like those freestyles I remember in front of our school. I knew the kid who made me understand Shakespeare and who didn’t care that he dressed different or wore his hair different."

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