'A Real Education' is the third and final chronicle in the series. It is the personal account of Real State journalist and Death Row Records employee, Nina Bhadreshwar, her life in South Central, Los Angeles from 1994, Tupac's correspondence, Interscope and Death Row Records plus the final whirlwind of 1996.
Nina is still living in Watts covering the post-riot situation there and the emergence of West Coast hip hop. After publishing another edition of The Real State, she is recruited by Death Row Records' Suge Knight to write the narratives and bios for the non-media friendly artists. Death Row Records soon becomes her beloved new American family and home. While continuing her correspondence with Tupac in jail, she does all she can to involve him, raise his profile and get him out. But events and agendas clash and, by the time Nina realises what is going on, Tupac is on his way to Death Row.
Nina leaves, enemies increase and she is hunted, hounded and abducted, her property seized. Barely escaping with her life and a badly broken leg, she returns to Europe where the threats and stalking continue.
Six weeks' later, Tupac's death is announced.
Nina is still living in Watts covering the post-riot situation there and the emergence of West Coast hip hop. After publishing another edition of The Real State, she is recruited by Death Row Records' Suge Knight to write the narratives and bios for the non-media friendly artists. Death Row Records soon becomes her beloved new American family and home. While continuing her correspondence with Tupac in jail, she does all she can to involve him, raise his profile and get him out. But events and agendas clash and, by the time Nina realises what is going on, Tupac is on his way to Death Row.
Nina leaves, enemies increase and she is hunted, hounded and abducted, her property seized. Barely escaping with her life and a badly broken leg, she returns to Europe where the threats and stalking continue.
Six weeks' later, Tupac's death is announced.
