You wanna be successful? You wanna be like Trump? Gimme gimme gimme, push push push push, step step step, crush crush crush. It certainly doesn't sound like a conventional start for a rapper, but one of Tupac's biggest influences was in fact Shakespeare.
He wrote some of the rawest stories, man. I mean look at Romeo and Juliet. He went on to become possibly the most famous rapper in the world, but like most people Tupac has to work his way up the top spot.
His career kicked off as a backup dancer and MC in the hip-hop group Digital Underground before he became a solo artist. Picture: Yearbook. But before it started they were actually friends. The issues started when Biggie released 'Who Shot Ya? The track was the beginning of what went on to become the infamous hip-hop coastal war and shaped the music Tupac made from that moment on. In one of his most extraordinary interviews Tupac ever gave, with MTV in , the rapper came out with the line that would go on to be the most quoted Tupac statement of all time: "I'm not saying I'm going to rule the world or I'm going to change the world.
But I guarantee I will spark the brain that will change the world. That's our job — to spark somebody else watching us. The victim alleged that Shakur and his entourage raped her in a hotel room. Pac denied the charges, but was sentenced to 1. Picture: MTV. In return Tupac contractually agreed to make three albums under Death Row Records. Tupac often wrote lyrics about issues including racism, police brutality, poverty and politics.
His album '2Pacalypse Now' was one of his most political works and a defining moment in his career came as a result of it when it was claimed the album influenced a youth in Texas to shoot a state trooper. It has no place in our society. In '91 Tupac released his first album 2Pacalypse now. The album didn't generate any top 10 hits and didn't find the success that many think it did. Nonetheless, it was a defining moment of 2Pac's career and proved influential in the creation of the next generation of rappers including Nas, Eminem and Game, who all said it inspired their music.
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TimeLine Modified date: March 15, Who is Orlando Anderson aka Baby Lane? Pac's Death Modified date: March 18, Who and Why Shot Tupac 5 Times in ? Real Stuff Modified date: March 15, 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. But there was vulnerability, too — lead single, "Dear Mama," was a tear-jerking tribute to his mother, Afeni, that hit number 9 on the Billboard Hot in April With his new hip-hop group Outlawz debuting on the album, All Eyez on Me was an unapologetic celebration of the thug lifestyle, eschewing socially conscious lyrics in favor of gangsta-funk hedonism and menace.
Within two months of its release, All Eyez on Me had been certified five-times double-platinum. It would eventually become diamond certified. It also reached No. Tupac recorded a total of six studio albums released posthumously, up to and including Pac's Life in Before Tupac became a rapper, he wrote poetry. Along with his music, Tupac had appeared in several films by the time of his death, among them starring roles alongside Janet Jackson in 's Poetic Justice and Mickey Rourke in 's Bullet.
Tupac married Keisha Morris in while he was still in prison; the couple had met several months earlier at a nightclub when Morris was 20 and Tupac was Their marriage was annulled five months after Tupac was released from jail, in October ; the pair remained friends until his death.
Soon after his marriage to Morris ended, Tupac began dating Kidada Jones. They had met at a club when Tupac apologized for insulting her father, Quincy Jones , for only dating white women. Jones was in Las Vegas with Tupac the night he was shot. The black car in which rapper Tupac Shakur was fatally shot by unknown driveby assassins as he was riding with friend Suge Knight, who survived the shooting.
Tupac died in Las Vegas on September 13, , of gunshot wounds inflicted six days prior. His murder remains unsolved. There was a scuffle after the bout between a member of the Crips gang and Tupac. Knight, who was involved with the rival Bloods gang, and members of his entourage piled in.
Later, as a car that Tupac was sharing with Knight stopped at a red light, a man emerged from another car and fired 13 shots, hitting Tupac in the hand, pelvis and chest. He later died at the hospital.
His girlfriend Kidada and his mother Afeni were both with him in his final days. Tupac's body was cremated. Members of his old band, Outlawz, made the controversial claim that they had smoked some of his ashes in honor of him.
His mother announced she would scatter her son's ashes in Soweto, South Africa, the "birthplace of his ancestors," on the 10th anniversary of his murder. She later changed the date to June 16, — Tupac's 26th birthday as well as the anniversary of the Soweto uprising.
On March 9, , six months after Tupac died, Biggie Smalls was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles; his murder has never been solved, either. Tupac died of gunshot wounds in
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