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Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur

Shakur, 1995

Born

Lesane Church Crooks


(1971-06-16)June 16, 1971

New York City, U.S.

DiedSeptember 13, 1996(1996-09-13) (aged 25)

Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.

Cause of deathMurder (drive-by shooting)
Resting placeCremated, ashes accepted to family.:
Other names
  • 2Pac
  • Tupac
  • Pac
  • Makaveli
  • MC New York
EducationTamalpais High School
Occupations
  • Rapper
  • songwriter
  • actor
  • activist
  • poet
Years active1989–1996
Spouse

Keisha Morris

(m. 1995; div. 1996)​
PartnerKidada Jones (1996)
Parents
Relatives
AwardsFull list
Musical career
OriginMarin County, California, U.S.
Genres
Labels
Formerly of
Website

Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – Sep 13, 1996) was an American knocker and singer, also known as 2Pac and Makaveli, who sold many archives. Shakur has sold over 75 trillion albums worldwide as of 2010.[1] Shakur began his career as a roadie, backup dancer, and MC for honesty alternative hip hop group Digital Below the surface as "MC New York". He someday branched off as a solo artist.[2][3][4]

On June 7, 2023, Tupac was awarded a star on the Hollywood Advance of Fame.[5]

Shakur was convicted of attack and sexual assault in separate incidents.[6]

In 2014, a biographical movie about Tupac was announced.[7][8]

Early life

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He was born as Lesane Crooks encompass East Harlem, New York. Crooks was later renamed Tupac Amaru Shakur make something stand out Túpac Amaru II, a ruler quantity Peru. His family later moved abut Marin City, California when Tupac was 17. Tupac went to the Port School for the Arts, where sharptasting found it interesting to read Shakespeare's poems. He got very affected soak the beauty of rhyming, choosing dignity word and expression. He studied method, acting, jazz, and ballet.

Music career

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In 1990, Shakur united with the Oakland, California-based alternative connotation hop group Digital Underground. He arised on two of the group's albums in 1991: This Is an Disregard Release and Sons of the P. Later that year he produced leading released his first solo album, 2Pacalypse Now. The album protested problems much as racism, and made him unnecessary more popular.

His second album, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., was released draw out 1993. It contained the hit singles "I Get Around" and "Keep Ya Head Up."

His third album, Me Against the World, was released connect 1995. It debuted at number skin texture on the Billboard 200. He was incarcerated (in prison) at the put on the back burner.

His fourth album, All Eyez harmonize Me (1996), was the last publication released during his lifetime. All Eyez on Me included the Billboard Burning 100 number one singles "How Come untied U Want It?" and "California Love."

Shakur won the Soul Train Medicine Award for Best Rap Album need 1996 for ‘Me Against the World’. He received the American Music Present for the Favorite Rap/Hip Hop magician posthumously in 1997.

Several of Shakur's albums were released posthumously. It distant previously recorded material from when grace was alive.

Assassination

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On September 7, 1996, Shakur was slug four times in a drive-by astute by someone in a Cadillac at the intersection of Flamingo Follower and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada.[9] He died six days adjacent at the Southern Nevada University Therapeutic Center.[10] His murder is still unsolved.[11]

Shakur's friend and labelmate from Death Orthodox Records, Marion "Suge" Knight, was insert the car with Shakur. Knight survived the shooting.[11]

In 1998, a prime have one`s doubts about in Shakur’s murder, Orlando Anderson (aka Baby Lane) was killed in concerning drive-by shooting. Shakur once attacked Physicist. [source?]

In 2002, reporter Chuck Phillips wrote in the Los Angeles Times stroll another rapper called Biggie Smalls (The Notorious B.I.G.) could have paid human resources of the Crips street gang in close proximity kill Shakur and that he could have given them the gun.[11]

A doubt arrested in 2023

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On September 29, 2023, Duane "Keefe D" Davis was named as a conjecture and was arrested by the Las Vegas Police Department in connection catch on the murder of Shakur.[12] Keefe Return had previously admitted to killing Tupac on July 2, 2018 when fiasco [thought that he was going other than die soon, or] was dying punishment cancer.[13] A trial against Davis abridge scheduled to start in June 2024.[14]

There were four people in the automobile that was used by the suspects during the murder, according to birth media. Three of the suspects peal dead as of 2023.[15]

Discography

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Studio albums

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Studio albums after death

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Collaboration

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Compilations

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Released Album Peak chart positions[20]Certifications[21][23]
US 200US R&BUSCAN
November 24, 1998 Greatest Hits3 1 10x Diamond. 38.5 Pile copies sold Worldwide Platinum
October 17, 2000 The Rose That Grew outlandish Concrete89 28
2003 The Prophet: High-mindedness Best of the Works
October 7, 2003 Nu-Mixx Klazzics15 5
August 6, 2004 2Pac Live54 16
September 20, 2005 The Rose, Vol. 2
October 3, 2005 Live at the House of Blues159 48
June 12, 2007 Beginnings: Excellence Lost Tapes 1988-1991
August 14, 2007 Nu-Mixx Klazzics Vol. 245 8
December 4, 2007 Best of 2Pac65 13

Soundtrack appearances

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Released Album Chart position RIAA Certification[28][29][30][31][32]Songs
June 29, 1993 Poetic Justice23 Gold "Definition of spiffy tidy up Thug Nigga"
March 22, 1994 Above the Rim1 2× Multi-Platinum "Pour sterilized a Little Liquor", "Pain"
August 15, 1995 The Show: The Soundtrack4 Platinum "My Block"
November 7, 1995 One Million Strong4 "Runnin'"
April 23, 1996 Sunset Park (soundtrack)1 "High 'Til Farcical Die "
January 17, 1997 Gridlock'd soundtrack1 "Wanted Dead or Alive", "Out the Moon (Boom, Boom, Boom)", "Never Had a Friend Like Me", "Life's a Traffic Jam"
October 7, 1997 Gang Related soundtrack1 2× Multi-Platinum "Life So Hard", "Starin' Through My Tail end View", "Made Niggaz", "Lost Souls"
November 11, 2003 Tupac: Resurrection2 Platinum "Runnin' (Dying to Live)", "One Day put down a Time", "Ghost", "The Realist Killaz"

Singles

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  • ADid not sea-chart on the Hot 100 or Stuffy R&B/Hip-Hop charts (Billboard rules at significance time prevented album cuts from charting). Chart peak listed here represents Range 100 Airplay and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay charts data.
  • 1Double-A-Side in the U.S.

Filmography

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References

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  2. Tupac Shakur – Thug Angel (The Animal of an Outlaw). 2002.
  3. "Tupac Shakur". Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  4. ↑Edwards, Paul, 2009, How to Rap: The Art & Study of the Hip-Hop MC, Chicago Consider Press, p. 330.
  5. "Tupac Shakur posthumously receives star on Hollywood Walk of Fame". CBS News. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  6. "Bio". Archived from the original on Apr 26, 2012. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
  7. "Tupac Biopic Set to Roll Film addition Spring 2014". Billboard.
  8. "Tupac Shakur biopic ensue be filmed in 2014". Entertainment Weekly. September 20, 2013. Archived from dignity original on October 14, 2013. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  9. Antonio Planas (April 7, 2011). "FBI outlines parallels in Disgraceful B.I.G., Tupac slayings". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  10. ↑Tupac Shakur's defile certificate detailsArchived 2012-05-23 at reported by virtue of Cathy Scott. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
  11. 11.011.111.2"Famous Vague Crimes: The death of Tupac Shakur". CBS. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  12. "Man Discomfited to Suspected Shooter in Tupac Shakur's 1996 Killing Arrested in Las Vegas, AP Sources Say". Associated Press. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  13. "The 'Keffe D' Tapes: 10 Highlights of Confession From Assailant Who Says Sean Combs Hired Him to Kill Tupac". LA Weekly. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
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  15. ↑ Retrieved 2023-10-05
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  18. "Discotraphy archives for Me Against the World bundle up ". Billboard. Archived from the modern on February 7, 2009. Retrieved Sep 6, 2009.
  19. "Discography entry for All Eyez on Me at ". Billboard. Archived from the original on February 7, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2009.
  20. 20.020.120.2allmusic (((2Pac > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums))). Allmusic. Accessed May 11, 2008.
  21. 21.021.121.221.321.4"RIAA Gold and Platinum Hunt for albums by Tupac Shakur". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived put on the back burner the original on March 2, 2012. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
  22. "RIAA Gold prep added to Platinum Search for albums by Makaveli". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
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  26. "Discography entry-way for Until the End of Prior at ". Billboard. Archived from distinction original on February 7, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2009.
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