Rebecca switched off her laptop and went to look out of the window.
She sighed, she had planned to go to the beach that afternoon but it didn’t look like the
rain was going to stop anytime soon.
She took out her CD collection and searched through it, on a miserable day like this there
was only one thing that would cheer her up.
She found her favourite, it was by the artist Tupac Shakur , she put the CD in the player
and picked up her headphones.
She leant back in the chair and listened as the familiar words played in her ears.
She knew the songs like the back of her hand.
As each track played she began to relax and forget about the rain.
Suddenly she sat up in shock.
It should’ve been her favourite song playing next, but instead she heard the voice of Tupac
Shakur, it seemed like he was speaking directly to her
If you want to know the truth about Princess Diana’s Death
Look no further, these are the facts You will find out who her killer is by the
end of this track!
Welcome back to SCP exposed, today we bring you the Thaumiel class subject SCP-2137.
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SCP-2137 is a single compact disc copy of "Me Against The World," a hip-hop album by
the artist Tupac Shakur, released in 1995.
Physical examination as well as laser testing indicates that the CD was one of the initial
releases, manufactured and distributed in 1995; conventional testing of the disk itself
reveals identical results to a non-anomalous copy of the album.
The case and liner notes have been determined to have no anomalous qualities, and the physical
makeup and encoding of the disk appear completely normal.
However, upon playing track 7, normally "Heavy In The Game," the listener will encounter
an instance of SCP-2137-1.
The anomaly takes the form of spontaneously-generated, professionally-produced songs featuring Tupac
Shakur in various styles within the hip hop genre.
Though each instance of SCP-2137-1 generated is unique, they share certain commonalities
in terms of subject matter.
The central focus of the song invariably addresses a crime, almost always a murder or series
of murders, and then gives necessary anecdotal evidence or information to correctly identify
and prosecute the killer, even going so far as to specify prosecutors or recommend vigilante
justice.
Though generation of SCP-2137-1 has been determined to have a definite causal nature, the manner
in which the instances are copied onto the disc has yet to be ascertained.
When not being used, the disc is to be kept within a typical electronic 10-digit metal
safe in the Safe Wing of Site 23.
Initially all digital and wireless broadcast media had to be kept at least one hundred
meters away from it.
However it was later determined that due to its anomalous effect having no ranged limit,
digital, wireless and broadcast media may be used but should be monitored closely for
any appearance of SCP-2137-1 or 2.
Once a week, 2137 is to be cleaned and all tracks are to be played in succession, with
special attention paid to the instance of 2137-1 that replaces track 7.
The names, situations and anecdotes presented in that instance must then be reported to
the 2137 Special Committee otherwise known as Pac Watch.
On the rare occasion that non-Foundation organizations cannot address the situation presented in
an instance of SCP-2137-1, O5-9 has given authorization to activate MTF-339 "The Suge
Knights" to take any and all measures necessary to reach a resolution to the problem.
Operational success will be indicated by a new instance of 2137-1.
Personnel who wish to examine or attempt to interact with the disc must ask Dr. Kivowitz
for authorization beforehand, which will then pend O5 clearance.
The primary voice on the songs, from herein identified as SCP-2137-2, matches cleanly
through advanced audio analysis to that of the real Tupac Shakur, who died in 1996, over
a year before the recovery of the disc.
However, occasionally, on crimes of a particularly complicated or brutal nature, he will be joined
by other "performers," either guest-rapping or singing the chorus or bridge.
This has included many of Tupac's contemporaries, such as Snoop Doggy Dogg, or No Doubt, as
well as artists from the 2000s including Chris Brown, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Eminem, usually
at the height of their popularity.
On a few notable occasions involving long-unsolved crimes by still active criminals, there have
been guests of a more blatantly anachronistic nature, stand-outs among whom include Frank
Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles.
Heavily anachronistic guests tend to take the role of primary artist, the song performed
in their style, with SCP-2137-2 joining as a rap guest.
When contacted, none of these artists had any recollection of recording for, or information
regarding, SCP-2137.
The crimes themselves share that they are unsolved, or, in some cases, have escaped
detection entirely.
The majority of instances of SCP-2137-1 address crimes of private citizens such as serial
killers, spree-murders, or career criminals, though occasionally the songs will address
larger groups, such as Hamas, ISIS, the IRA, and even in two separate instances the Chaos
Insurgency and the Church of the Broken God.
The following is an prototypical example of SCP-2137-1,
Jeff Riegert out there and still stalkin the night,
Killed his brother and five strangers with the same damn knife,
Now it's not my place to tell you what to do,
But I know what I would do if I were you He hid the blade in an old barn off the North
111 He already killed six don't make it seven
When the crimes have been addressed and the guilty parties brought to light, either by
the legal system or otherwise, SCP-2137-1 is immediately replaced by a new instance.
However, the track is easily recorded through conventional means, recorded versions are
not subject to change or replacement, and the original can be replayed from the CD endlessly
before the killer is found, with no little variation.
There are currently nearly one thousand instances of SCP-2137-1 on record.
The disc was recovered in the home of Avon Lincoln, arrested for the vigilante slaying
of Michael Ferris, who was later revealed to have been the Ojai Strangler, responsible
for six murders over the summer of 1996.
Avon's insistence that Tupac Shakur spoke to him from beyond the grave and told him
he had to take justice into his own hands, because Ferris' position as District Attorney
would prevent a fair trial, drew the attention of Foundation agents after the song in question
was produced as evidence in court.
Amnestics were administered to all involved, and Lincoln was released back into the general
population.
Initially, researchers experimented with anonymously tipping off local police departments through
Foundation plants, which led to the resolution of numerous cold cases, including the recovery
of three SCP subjects , though no direct link has been established other than the murders
involved.
However, after several years this use of the SCP was deemed impractical; repeatedly addressing
the crimes discussed in 2137's "music" was, in practice, allowing the SCP to dictate the
circumstances of its containment, and under the wrong circumstances, opened the Foundation
to potential exposure through continuous interaction with law enforcement at all levels across
multiple governments.
In response to this, O5-9 ceased addressing the crimes.
After two months passed, the disc’s behavior radically changed, when, for the first time,
an instance of SCP-2137-1 was produced that revealed SCP-2137-2 had an awareness of its
containment with lines such as
“You say you're about security but you ain't the good guys” and
“Locked in drawer feelin like y'all tryna screw me,
You're steppin all up on my destiny You might not believe I'm the real Pac
But I'm not just a CD”
The decision was made to halt testing entirely, rather than acquiesce.
After one week passed, an instance of SCP-2137-1 appeared spontaneously on the YouTube channel
of a Los Angeles-based hip hop station, and in the lone hour before it was taken down
it had accrued a huge amount of views.
In a massive sweeping operation involving the activation of multiple task forces across
many continents all trace of the video was erased, and all of its viewers were administered
Class-A Amnestics.
Midway through this operation, an entire album titled "XK Scenario" was released to the iTunes
account of Beyonce Knowles.
Each song featured SCP-2137-2, as well as a variety of guest artists, and focused on
a different Keter class SCP currently in captivity.
In the "XK Scenario" Incident the image displayed on the video was a still photograph, apparently
authentic though by its nature highly anomalous.
The photograph is of Shakur, estimated to be in his early forties,1 wearing the garb
of Foundation D-Class Personnel, with his middle fingers raised.
The accompanying song, titled focused on an SCP subject, revealing its actual location
and means by which it could be broken free of current containment procedures, and identified
several members of the O5 Council by their first names as it described the function and
nature of the Foundation.
Though SCP tracking bots were able to bring "XK Scenario" down after only a few downloads,
complete digital eradication of the individual files has proven difficult.
Though no loss of life or property was incurred, the sheer scale of the danger posed by this
containment breach prompted a Foundation-wide state of high alert.
This prompted an ongoing upgrade to all automatic SCP firewalls, and engendered the reclassification
of SCP-2137 from Euclid to Keter.
The breach sparked heated debate as to how to proceed with the containment of and conceptual
understanding regarding the disc, which came to an end upon the appearance of a new instance
of SCP-2137-1.
This instance was produced spontaneously through the mouth of an SCP subject, which appeared
to fall into a trance state during the incident, with the lyrics, in totality, repeatedly written
one hundred and seventeen thousand times all over the interior of its containment chamber.
The instance began with the lyrics
Tryin’ not the play the CD, you’re startin’ a war
You don’t really wanna see me in flesh I wouldn’t hesitate to put you little nerds
to rest
And ended with:
Dressed in black like you can’t be seen I fight alone i don’t need no team
So do your job cus i’m giving you tips And put that whole CD in the Mix, Biatch
The decision was made to resume the former method of testing, involving the embedded
informants used to relay the disc’s evidence and information, while continuing to study
the method by which it transmits its broadcasts, in an effort to truly contain it completely.
SCP-2137-2 resumed its previous behavioral pattern, SCP-2137-1s focusing on crimes until
their killers are located by conventional law enforcement, with the exception of one
final track.
At this time, its last recorded direct interaction with the Foundation.
I guess it took time for it to sink in I’m just glad you understood what i was
thinkin’ I see it’s hard to get some sleep at night
You got a head full of greys and your skin ain’t tight
It’s black and white so don’t get caught up in the deep thoughts
You got my music on the side with a greater force
Investigation into any kind of link or pattern between the crimes the disc solves is ongoing,
as is interest to why it doesn't use its agency to pursue the criminals in question rather
than working through proxies.
An email was sent to 05 council by Dr Gwen Pristine the director of site-515 in which
she proposed the disc be redesignated Thaumiel class object.
She reasoned that in the nearly 3 decades since its containment, the Foundation’s
collaboration with the disc has led to the recovery of dozens of SCPs.
She wrote;
“A silent, undocumented understanding has grown among us.
The SCP does not simply “catch” murderers.
It directly and aggressively searches out anything that maliciously takes a human life.”
She went on to say that
“A few young researchers have diligently continued a hunt for meaning, for greater
truth behind SCP-2137-1.
An unexpected advance in this area is behind the urgency in my message to you today.
It had long been understood that the life of the actual Tupac Shakur held little information
or relevance towards the mystery of SCP-2137’s existence.
This has potentially changed.”
A researcher named Marija Cozlvich had recently come across an interview held with Tupac Shakur
two years before his death.
The following are Tupac’s words:
“People ask me where I get my inspiration from.
They say how do you go so hard, put in that much work.
But what they don’t understand is, This is me taking a break.
This is me on vacation.
I can’t be chasing the king all the time.
I feel like I’ve been doing that forever, to protect you, all of you.
You don’t see that when I die, I’ll live on.
My death is my destiny, and then I become something else…what I was before.
The voice will still shout, and it’ll shout justice, in poetry, and art, and music!
I got you.
I got you, humanity.
When I eventually go toe to toe and brawl with this fool, he’s gonna gather up his
little red dress and go home crying, and he knows it.
Evil knows its days are numbered.
So the king’s still running.
The chase isn’t over.
Prepare.
Prepare.”
At the time of his murder in 1996, Shakur was twenty-five years old.
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