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===== ⭐ Vibe Magazine — April 1995 cover story (“Ready to Live”), interview by Kevin Powell =====

In this interview, Tupac does not say he assaulted the woman, but he does admit something like:
* He didn’t protect her.
* He let the situation happen around him.
* He allowed people into the room who should not have been there.
* He was guilty of putting her in a dangerous environment.

The key quote people reference is his line:

: “I’m guilty of not protecting her.”

And more fully, he says:

: “I was guilty of letting her be in the room where people could hurt her. I didn’t do anything to her, but I didn’t protect her.”

This is the part people interpret as him acknowledging that:
* He allowed other men into the room,
* He failed to intervene,
* Something harmful happened (even though he denied participating in an assault).

He did not explicitly say, “I let my friends assault her,” but he did frame himself as someone who failed to stop others once they entered the room.

Because of this, his own statement aligns more with the idea that something happened in that room, even if he insisted he wasn’t the direct perpetrator.

If you want, I can pull the full set of quotes from that interview that relate specifically to the assault case so you can see exactly what he said in context.