Singleton, whose films include the milestone 1991 release of Boys n The Hood , 2001’s Baby Boy and 2003’s 2 Fast 2 Furious is tackling the task of making a long-anticipated biopic on Tupac Shakur. Though he has no idea who to cast, the director has been recalling his memories of the late rapper. “Then I saw him do his first interview on B.E.T. He declared war on black Hollywood — not Hollywood itself, but black Hollywood. He was like, ‘F— Spike Lee, f— Eddie Murphy, f— Quincy Jones, f— all these fake-ass people. They’re going to see a new dude out here. I’m going to come hard.’ And I was like, ‘I want to work with him!’ ” Tupac starred in Singleton’s 1999 film Poetic Justice opposite Janet Jackson. “I planned to do a lifetime of films with him” Singleton said as he had written Baby Boy for Tupac and said it would be his Oscar winning role – the rapper was killed before the film was made. Singleton hopes to present a biopic that concentrates on the essence of who Tupac was and his experiences in his short but influential 25 years of life.