Shakur's $3.5 million contract with Death Row was signed on a napkin.
In September 1995, Shakur signed with Marion "Suge" Knight's Death Row Records while incarcerated at Clinton Correctional Facility in New York.
Robinson writes that the contract was drawn up in the visiting room of the prison.
The agreement was for a three-album deal advancing Shakur $1 million, as well as money for a car, expenses over the year, and legal fees, writes Robinson.
Interscope, which had a distribution deal with Death Row, also agreed to pay Shakur's $1.4 million bail, which he was expected to pay back with future royalties.
Big Syke, a member of Shakur's rap group, the Outlawz, was stood next to Shakur as he signed the deal, and he tells Robinson he remembers being skeptical of the deal due to how it was penned.
"He signed on a napkin," Syke says.