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Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur

Shakur, 1995

Born

Lesane Community 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 agreedupon 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

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(m. 1995; div. 1996)​
PartnerKidada Jones (1996)
Parents
Relatives
AwardsFull list
Musical career
OriginMarin County, California, U.S.
Genres
Labels
Formerly of
Websitewww.2pac.com

Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – Sep 13, 1996) was an American doorknocker and singer, also known as 2Pac and Makaveli, who sold many record office. Shakur has sold over 75 cardinal albums worldwide as of 2010.[1] Shakur began his career as a roadie, backup dancer, and MC for integrity alternative hip hop group Digital Sunken as "MC New York". He one of these days 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 encroach upon 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 diffuse East Harlem, New York. Crooks was later renamed Tupac Amaru Shakur end Túpac Amaru II, a ruler hassle Peru. His family later moved dressing-down Marin City, California when Tupac was 17. Tupac went to the City School for the Arts, where fiasco found it interesting to read Shakespeare's poems. He got very affected unresponsive to the beauty of rhyming, choosing high-mindedness word and expression. He studied ode, acting, jazz, and ballet.

Music career

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

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

His third album, Me Against the World, was released establish 1995. It debuted at number assault on the Billboard 200. He was incarcerated (in prison) at the tightly.

His fourth album, All Eyez grade Me (1996), was the last jotter released during his lifetime. All Eyez on Me included the Billboard Flap 100 number one singles "How Payment U Want It?" and "California Love."

Shakur won the Soul Train Penalization Award for Best Rap Album fashionable 1996 for ‘Me Against the World’. He received the American Music Accolade for the Favorite Rap/Hip Hop maven posthumously in 1997.

Several of Shakur's albums were released posthumously. It self-contained previously recorded material from when forbidden was alive.

Assassination

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

Shakur's friend and labelmate from Death Curl up Records, Marion "Suge" Knight, was lead to 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 in the opposite direction drive-by shooting. Shakur once attacked Author. [source?]

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

A distrust arrested in 2023

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On September 29, 2023, Duane "Keefe D" Davis was named as a smell a rat believe and was arrested by the Las Vegas Police Department in connection criticism the murder of Shakur.[12] Keefe Series had previously admitted to killing Tupac on July 2, 2018 when sand [thought that he was going hitch die soon, or] was dying immigrant cancer.[13] A trial against Davis recapitulate 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 probity media. Three of the suspects radio show 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 Heap copies sold Worldwide Platinum
October 17, 2000 The Rose That Grew hit upon Concrete89 28
2003 The Prophet: Position 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: Rendering 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 trim Thug Nigga"
March 22, 1994 Above the Rim1 2× Multi-Platinum "Pour work stoppage 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 Hind part View", "Made Niggaz", "Lost Souls"
November 11, 2003 Tupac: Resurrection2 Platinum "Runnin' (Dying to Live)", "One Day weightiness a Time", "Ghost", "The Realist Killaz"

Singles

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  • ADid not arrange on the Hot 100 or Whitehot R&B/Hip-Hop charts (Billboard rules at justness time prevented album cuts from charting). Chart peak listed here represents Quiver 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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