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Sign In. Edit Tupac Shakur. Showing all items. Tupac Amaru, in the Inca language, means "shining serpent". Was engaged to Kidada Jones after time of his death. Was going to play the role of Malik in Higher Learning More of his music has been released since his death than was while he was alive.

Used the name Makaveli which is an altered spelling of Machiavelli, about whom he read while in prison. Was cast in the movie Woo , but was shot five days before principal photography began. He was offered a record contract at the age of However, his mother refused to let him sign anything at such a young age. She felt he had a lot to learn about the world before joining the music industry.

He read for the part of "Bubba" in Forrest Gump In November , he was robbed and shot five times by a pair of muggers in the lobby of a New York recording studio. Tupac survived the attack, and afterwards frequently boasted of his durability in his lyrics. When he was 12 years old, his mother enrolled him in Harlem's th St Ensemble. Records with Digital Underground. His song "Ghetto Gospel" was released in , with some vocals by Elton John , and went to 1 in the UK, despite the fact he had been dead for eight years.

Was a good friend of fellow hip-hop MC M. In a Rolling Stones Magazine Vote, Tupac was named 6 of the ' immortal artists of all time' behind the likes of Elvis and Lennon. Wrote a song, but died before he could finish it. Rap artist Eminem finished the song with his own lyrics and released it shortly afterwards. Was a fan of actor Tim Roth and was delighted to learn he would work with him on Gridlock'd , released after Shakur's death. Read the article in "Entertainment Weekly" about his "Me Against The World" album's debut at number one, while incarcerated.

The album's title song also appeared in Bad Boys , which opened in March-- while Shakur was behind bars. Tupac's version, however, is at a faster tempo than the original.

In addition, entire album was recorded on analog tape. This was considered somewhat archaic by recording standards, as much of the recording industry had transitioned to digital recording. However, it should be noted that Dr. Dre , who produced two songs for the album still uses analog tape to record his music, as of late Gang member Orlando Anderson, often cited as Tupac's killer, was later murdered himself during an altercation at a LA car wash, on May 29th It should be noted that Anderson was never charged in the slaying.

He completed the 27 song "All Eyez On Me", considered by many to be his magnum opus, in only two weeks. Often cited as rap's first double album, "All Eyez" sessions began just hours after Shakur was released from jail.

Released on February 13th , the album debuted at number one on the Billboard album chart. His career triumphs--a number one album and pop single-- both happened on the 13th: Rap's first double album, "All Eyez on Me" certified by the RIAA as of December at 9 million copies sold hit store shelves on February 13th Sadly, it was on September 13th a Friday that Shakur succumbed to injuries sustained in a Las Vegas shooting.

It is certified at 7 million albums sold in the US and 28 million albums worldwide, making it both Tupac's best-selling album. His first album, "2Pacalypse Now" was released November 12, and was certified gold. Shakur was shot in Las Vegas on September 7, at approximately pm, at the corner of Flamingo and Koval streets. Shakur renamed his publishing company to "Joshua's Dream" in honor of a young, terminally ill child whose dying wish was to meet him.

His number one single, "California Love" was certified at sales of 2 million copies in Recorded close to songs during the final year of his life, and often completed three songs per day in the same period. Shakur also wrote lyrics in the studio and often performed his verses in one take.

He felt that rappers who could not perform their verses properly on the first take weren't ready to be rappers. His song "Me and My Girlfriend" from the rapper's posthumously released "Don Killuminati" album chronicles Shakur's relationship with his pistol, which he frequently carried for protection. The "finger fucking" Shakur refers to in the song is actually a euphemism for pulling the trigger.

Along with friends, he founded the "Junior Black Panthers" in his youth. Is portrayed by Anthony Mackie in Notorious Shakur's parents, Afeni Shakur and Billy Garland , were also members of the group. Was planning to record with the Wu-Tang Clan near the end of his life, as he revealed his admiration for their sound and lyrics.

New album 'Pac's Life' originally titled 'Ready 2 Die' is released. It is the 9th album of his to be released after his death. Has another posthumous album tentatively tiled "Ready 2 Die". It's also his 14th album. A fan of Tim Roth , Shakur was excited when he found out he was going to be in a movie with Roth. Roth, however, didn't like the idea of a rapper being in the movie with him, as he didn't know he was an actor before he became a rapper.

Roth's attitude changed, when they tested together and the two were very good friends until Shakur's death. Was the original choice for Jody in Baby Boy His godmother Assata Shakur , was found guilty of the murder of a New Jersey state trooper. She broke out of prison and fled to Cuba. Died on the same day that the pilot episode of Everybody Loves Raymond premiered. He also performed under the stage name Makaveli. His song "Dear Mama" was added to the Library of Congress in A hologram of his body performed alongside his former friends Dr.

Dre and Snoop Dogg at the Coachella music festival in A lifelong fan of Star Wars, when Shakur found out in that George Lucas was creating a prequel trilogy, he lobbied hard to read for the role which would eventually become Mace Windu.

Unfortunately, Shakur was gunned down in Las Vegas before being able to read for the part, and Samuel L. Jackson was cast in the role. Everybody's at war with different things I'm at war with my own heart sometimes". The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world. I swear, if they hadn't tried to ruin me, I never would have ended up being a rapper. I probably would have been a preacher or something. If you walked by a street and you was walking on the concrete and you saw a rose growing from the concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete.

So why is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how I am leaning crooked to the side, you can't even see that I've come up from out of that.

But I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence. Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mother can't reassure you the way a man can. My mother couldn't show me where my manhood was.

You need a man to teach you how to be a man. It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me. It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down. I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect. My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for. Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated. It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us. I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers. I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up?

By people who you trusted? That's bad. What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made. Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care? I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child.

Tupac was born on June 16, , in Harlem, New York. His mother, Afeni, was raising two children on her own and struggled for money. The family moved homes often, sometimes staying in shelters.

They moved to Baltimore, where Tupac enrolled at the prestigious Baltimore School for the Arts, at which he felt "the freest I ever felt. Tupac was named Lesane Parish Crooks at birth. After joining the Black Panther party, his mother changed his first name to Tupac Amaru, a Peruvian revolutionary who was killed by the Spanish. She became pregnant with Tupac in while on bail after being charged with conspiring to set off a race war. Afeni was acquitted the following year after successfully defending herself in court, displaying a gift for oration that her son would inherit.

Afeni died in May at the age of Tupac's father, Billy Garland, was also a Panther but lost contact with Afeni when Tupac was five years old. The rapper would not see his father again until he was Afeni gave birth to a daughter, Sekiya, two years after Tupac. She had a cameo in his music video for 'Strictly 4 My Niggaz.

It was about survival, and it had always been about survival between us," she said. It turned out to be a "mean little ghetto," according to Robert Sam Anison's comprehensive posthumous feature on Tupac for Vanity Fair in It was in Marin City that Afeni succumbed to crack addiction — a drug her son, Tupac, would sell on the same streets where his mother bought her supply. Tupac's love for hip hop would steer him away from a life of crime for a while, at least.

At 17, in the spring of , he met an older white woman, Leila Steinberg, in a park. They struck up a conversation about Winnie Mandela. Steinberg would later recall "a young man with fan-like eyelashes, overflowing charisma, and the most infectious laugh. By the time they met, Tupac was obsessively writing poetry and convinced Steinberg, who had no music-industry experience, to become his manager.

Steinberg was eventually able to get Tupac in front of music manager Atron Gregory, who secured a gig for him in as a roadie and dancer for the hip hop group Digital Underground.

He soon stepped up to the mic, making his recording debut in on Same Song , which soundtracked the Dan Aykroyd comedy Nothing but Trouble. After the band's manager, Gregory, took over from Steinberg, he landed Tupac a deal with Interscope Records.

A month after Sons of the P hit the stores came 2Pacalypse Now , Tupac's debut album as a solo artist. Tupac often complained that he was misunderstood. To me a perfect album talks about the hard stuff and the fun and caring stuff. The thing that bothers me is that it seems like a lot of the sensitive stuff I write just goes unnoticed.

Photo: Courtesy Darrin Keith Bastfield. In August , Tupac was attacked by jealous youths in Marin City. He drew his pistol but dropped it in the melee. Someone picked it up, the gun fired, and a 6-year-old bystander, Qa'id Walker-Teal, fell down dead.

While Tupac was not charged for Walker-Teal's death, he was reportedly inconsolable. In October , Tupac shot and wounded two white off-duty cops in Atlanta — one in the abdomen and one in the buttocks — after an altercation.

However, the charges were dropped after it emerged in court that the policemen had been drinking, had initiated the incident and that one of the officers had threatened Tupac with a stolen gun. The case illustrated the misrepresentation of African American males, and the attitude of some police toward them, which Tupac had been talking about in his music.

What was portrayed as gun-toting "gangster" behavior by a lawless individual turned out to be an act of self-defense by a young man in fear of his life. All the while, Tupac's star continued to rise. Tupac did go to jail for 15 days in for assaulting the director Allen Hughes, who had fired him from the set of the movie Menace II Society for being disruptive.

Before Tupac released his third album, there was more trouble. In November , he was shot multiple times in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio, Quad, by two young Black men. Tupac believed his rap rival Biggie Smalls was behind the shooting, for which nobody has ever been charged. Smalls always denied he knew anything; in Dexter Isaac, a New York prisoner serving a life sentence for an unrelated crime, claimed he was paid to steal from Tupac by the artist manager and mogul James "Henchman" Rosemond, and shot the rapper during the robbery.

Their rivalry was fast becoming hip hop's most famous — and ugliest — beef. Within three months, Tupac was murdered. In February , Tupac was sentenced to between one and a half and four and a half years of jail time for sexually abusing a female fan.

The case related to an incident that had taken place in Tupac's suite in the New York Parker Meridien hotel in November Tupac maintained that he had not raped the girl, although he confessed to the Vibe magazine journalist Kevin Powell that he could have prevented others who were present in the suite at the time from doing so.

While Tupac was in prison on rape charges, he was visited by Suge Knight, the notorious label boss of Death Row records. The condition was that Tupac sign on to Death Row. Tupac duly signed. He was released from the high-security Dannemora facility in New York in October At the same time as he was glorifying an outlaw lifestyle for Death Row, Tupac was financing an at-risk youth center, bankrolling South Central sports teams, setting up a telephone helpline for young people with problems — all noted in Robert Sam Anson's Vanity Fair article, published after Tupac's death.

Tupac has released a total of 11 platinum albums: four during his career, with seven more released posthumously. To date, Tupac has sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Tupac's first album as a solo artist was 2Pacalypse Now.

Although it did not yield any hits, it sold a respectable , copies and established Tupac as an uncompromising social commentator on songs such as "Brenda's Got a Baby" — which narrates an underaged mother's fall into destitution — and "Soulja's Story," which controversially spoke of "blasting" a police officer and "droppin' the cop.

The song was cited as a motivation for a real-life cop killing by a teenage car thief called Ronald Ray Howard and was condemned by the then-U. Vice President Dan Quayle. It continued in the same socially conscious vein as his debut.

On the gold-certified single "Keep Ya Head Up," he empathized with "my sisters on the welfare," encouraging them to "please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up. The album featured contributions from Tupac's stepbrother, Mopreme. Mopreme became a member of the hip-hop group Thug Life, which Tupac started and which released the album Thug Life: Volume 1 in When Tupac's third solo album came out on March 14, , he was in jail.

Its title, Me Against the World , could not have been more apt. It reached No. Coker at Rolling Stone.