Inside a Thug's Heart

by Ardis, Angela

• ISBN13: 9780758207890
• ISBN10: 0758207891
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Kensington

Summary

Rikers Island is the centrepiece of the New York City Department of Corrections, a sprawling prison city of concrete and steel with housing for more than 16,000 inmates. Early in 1995, it was also the temporary home of legendary rapper Tupac Shakur, incarcerated for a crime he swore he did not commit. And it was there that Angela Ardis, acting on a late-night wager among her friends and co-workers, sent a letter, along with a photo and her phone number. To her utter delight and amazement, Angela's phone rang a short while later. Tupac Shakur was on the line. Over the next several months, Angela and Tupac shared a near-daily exchange of letters, poems and phone calls, and there the relationship quickly grew into something neither of them could quite define, a kinship of souls that touched each in unexpected ways. Those original poems and letters, many of them written after Tupac's transfer from Rikers to Dannemora State Prison, are presented here, along with the increasingly passionate and personal phone calls that touched on every subject imaginable.

Author Biography

Angela Ardis is an author, screenwriter, actress and model.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Bet	1	(10)
Chapter 2. The Call	11	(10)
Chapter 3. The First Letter Exchange	21	(8)
Chapter 4. Tupac Reaches Out	29	(18)
Chapter 5. Our Letters Cross	47	(11)
Chapter 6. Misunderstood	58	(14)
Chapter 7. A Request	72	(18)
Chapter 8. Getting Personal (and Shocked)	90	(23)
Chapter 9. Trying to Get to the Bottom of It	113	(13)
Chapter 10. An Invitation	126	(6)
Chapter 11. Thug Mansion	132	(6)
Chapter 12. Getting Really Personal	138	(17)
Chapter 13. Getting Heavier	155	(23)
Chapter 14. Anticipation	178	(12)
Chapter 15. He Truly Needed a Hug	190	(12)
Chapter 16. I Send an Invitation	202	(10)
Chapter 17. Another Shocking Discovery	212	(10)
Chapter 18. The Trip	222	(4)
Chapter 19. The Visit	226	(10)
Chapter 20. Release	236