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Speaking to
HipHopDX, Monroe revealed that he took the photo in 1993 when he set up a shoot with Onyx for a
Thrasher article. The hip-hop group was opening for either Ice-T, Public Enemy or someone else, so Monroe and the former four-piece went down to the stage before the performance began. “As I was packing my equipment away, someone from the other side of the stage goes, ‘Yo, come take our picture.’ I literally said, ‘Yes, give me a second.’ Then I ended up going over to the guys who said it. Literally just look at them, line up the picture and took one picture and said thank you and then went back to the dressing room to Onyx,” he said. “I got the film developed at some point and I kept remembering this giant middle finger. I remember writing the name Tupac on it, but I didn’t really understand who he was in 1993.”