Tupac Shakur's letters he writes in prison are selling for $225,000

Tupac Shakur's letters he penned while serving time at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., after his 1995 conviction for sexually abusing are for sale.

The letters are being sold 20 years after his death, but only for a buyer with BossPlaya money.

The seller, a purveyor of precious historical paperwork called Moments in Time, is selling the five-page prison letter for $225,000. It's a fixed price, first-come-first-serve offer, according to Gary Zimet, owner of Moments in Time.

Shakur wrote a one-page letter to Nina Bhadreshwar, a staffer at Death Row Records, and included in the envelope was a separate four-page explanation of his philosophy entitled "Is THUG Life Dead?"

"It's long but it's true," he wrote to Bhardreshwar. "Use it as U see fit. I am not granting this information 2 any other publication, not even Time & Rollingstone. So please represent it.''

He outlined the three stages of man, starting with "DustKicker" and evolving into "Thug." He said that if man survives the thug phase, he can attain the highest state of all: "BossPlaya."

"A Boss Playa is a thinker, a leader, a builder, a moneymaker, a souljah, a teacher and most of all a Man!" he wrote.

He urged "all the Souljahs of this Nation 2 examine and evaluate your lives. Are u ready 4 the next level! I Did not begin thug life I just personified it."

Source: CNNMoney