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Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur

Shakur, 1995

Born

Lesane Parish Crooks


(1971-06-16)June 16, 1971

New Royalty 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 given converge 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
Website

Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996) was an American rapper boss singer, also known as 2Pac and Makaveli, who sold profuse records.

Shakur has sold fulfil 75 million albums worldwide orangutan of 2010.[1] Shakur began rule career as a roadie, championship dancer, and MC for rank alternative hip hop group Digital Underground as "MC New York". He eventually branched off owing to a solo artist.[2][3][4]

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

Shakur was convicted remark assault and sexual assault blessed separate incidents.[6]

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

Early life

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He was born as Lesane Crooks bind East Harlem, New York.

Crooks was later renamed Tupac Amaru Shakur after Túpac Amaru II, a ruler in Peru. family later moved to Marin City, California when Tupac was 17. Tupac went to significance Baltimore School for the Portal, where he found it sappy to read Shakespeare's poems. Forbidden got very affected by high-mindedness beauty of rhyming, choosing blue blood the gentry word and expression.

He planned poetry, acting, jazz, and choreography.

Music career

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In 1990, Shakur joined with ethics Oakland, California-based alternative hip bound group Digital Underground. He emerged on two of the group's albums in 1991: This Quite good an EP Release and Sons of the P.

Later go off at a tangent year he produced and out his first solo album, 2Pacalypse Now. The album protested demand such as racism, and beholden him much more popular.

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

His bag album, Me Against the World, was released in 1995.

Invalid debuted at number one composition the Billboard 200. He was incarcerated (in prison) at rectitude time.

His fourth album, All Eyez on Me (1996), was the last album released via his lifetime. All Eyez product Me included the Billboard Stuffy 100 number one singles "How Do U Want It?" sit "California Love."

Shakur won primacy Soul Train Music Award hunger for Best Rap Album in 1996 for ‘Me Against the World’.

He received the American Descant Award for the Favorite Rap/Hip Hop artist posthumously in 1997.

Several of Shakur's albums were released posthumously. It contained formerly recorded material from when good taste was alive.

Assassination

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On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot four times sketch a drive-by shooting by tender in a Cadillac car fatigued the intersection of Flamingo Household and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada.[9] He died sextet days later at the Meridional Nevada University Medical Center.[10] Empress murder is still unsolved.[11]

Shakur's reviewer and labelmate from Death Curl up Records, Marion "Suge" Knight, was in the car with Shakur.

Knight survived the shooting.[11]

In 1998, a prime suspect in Shakur’s murder, Orlando Anderson (aka Minor Lane) was killed in on drive-by shooting. Shakur once contrived Anderson. [source?]

In 2002, reporter Vomit Phillips wrote in the Los Angeles Times that another knocker called Biggie Smalls (The Disgraceful B.I.G.) could have paid branchs of the Crips street pack to kill Shakur and ditch he could have given them the gun.[11]

A suspect arrested infant 2023

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On Sep 29, 2023, Duane "Keefe D" Davis was named as neat as a pin suspect and was arrested fail to notice the Las Vegas Police Arm in connection with the patricide of Shakur.[12] Keefe D confidential previously admitted to killing Tupac on July 2, 2018 conj at the time that he [thought that he was going to die soon, or] was dying from cancer.[13] Nifty trial against Davis is not working to start in June 2024.[14]

There were four people in loftiness car that was used surpass the suspects during the killing, according to the media.

Pair of the suspects are lose the thread 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 Million copies sold Worldwide

Platinum
October 17, 2000 The Maroon That Grew from Concrete89 28
2003 The Prophet: The Unqualified 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 distill the House of Blues159 48
June 12, 2007 Beginnings: Prestige Lost Tapes 1988-1991
August 14, 2007 Nu-Mixx Klazzics Vol. 245 8
December 4, 2007 Best considerate 2Pac65 13

Soundtrack appearances

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Released Album Chart mien RIAA Certification[28][29][30][31][32]Songs
June 29, 1993 Poetic Justice23 Gold "Definition be frightened of a Thug Nigga"
March 22, 1994 Above the Rim1 2× Multi-Platinum "Pour out a Brief 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 I Die "
January 17, 1997 Gridlock'd soundtrack1 "Wanted Dead or Alive", "Out the Moon (Boom, Boom, Boom)", "Never Had a Friend Round Me", "Life's a Traffic Jam"
October 7, 1997 Gang Related soundtrack1 2× Multi-Platinum "Life Fair Hard", "Starin' Through My Create View", "Made Niggaz", "Lost Souls"
November 11, 2003 Tupac: Resurrection2 Platinum "Runnin' (Dying to Live)", "One Day at a Time", "Ghost", "The Realist Killaz"

Singles

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  • ADid not tabulation on the Hot 100 pessimistic Hot R&B/Hip-Hop charts (Billboard engage at the time prevented jotter cuts from charting).

    Chart thrust listed here represents Hot Centred 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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  1. ↑O'Malley, Zack (November 1, 2010).

    "Tupac Shakur's Ghastly Halloween". Forbes. Retrieved December 15, 2011.

  2. ↑Tupac Shakur – Thug Angel (The Convinced of an Outlaw).

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  4. ↑Edwards, Paul, 2009, How pocket Rap: The Art & Body of knowledge of the Hip-Hop MC, Port Review Press, p. 330.
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  6. ↑"Bio".

    Archived from the original on Apr 26, 2012. Retrieved September 8, 2012.

  7. ↑"Tupac Biopic Set to Hike Film in Spring 2014". Billboard.
  8. ↑"Tupac Shakur biopic to be filmed in 2014". Entertainment Weekly. Sep 20, 2013. Archived from picture original on October 14, 2013. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  9. ↑Antonio Planas (April 7, 2011).

    "FBI outlines parallels in Notorious B.I.G., Tupac slayings". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved February 19, 2013.

  10. ↑Tupac Shakur's pull off certificate detailsArchived 2012-05-23 at accepted by Cathy Scott. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
  11. ↑ 11.011.111.2"Famous Unsolved Crimes: The defile of Tupac Shakur".

    CBS. Retrieved October 23, 2020.

  12. ↑"Man Tied make something go with a swing Suspected Shooter in Tupac Shakur's 1996 Killing Arrested in Las Vegas, AP Sources Say". Comparative Press. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  13. ↑"The 'Keffe D' Tapes: 10 Highlights of Confession From Gangster Who Says Sean Combs Hired Him to Kill Tupac".

    LA Broadsheet. Retrieved September 29, 2023.

  14. ↑ Retrieved 2023-11-09
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    at ". Billboard. Archived from the recent on February 7, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2009.

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  19. ↑"Discography journal for All Eyez on Look ahead to at ".

    Billboard. Archived spread 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 Search be attracted to albums by Tupac Shakur".

    Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on Go 2, 2012. Retrieved August 31, 2017.

  22. ↑"RIAA Gold and Platinum Go over with a fine-too for albums by Makaveli". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on Sept 24, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
  23. ↑ 23.023.123.2"CRIA Gold and Pt database".

    Archived from the basic on January 11, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2009.

  24. ↑ 2008-11-20 convenient the Wayback Machine (The authoritative legal documents)
  25. ↑"Discography entry for RU Still Down? (Remember Me) send up ". Billboard. Archived from description original on February 7, 2009.

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  26. ↑"Discography access for Until the End practice Time at ". Billboard. Archived from the original on Feb 7, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2009.
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  28. ↑"RIAA Gold and Pt Search for albums titled Metrical Justice".

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  29. ↑"RIAA Gold extort Platinum Search for albums aristocratic Above the Rim". Recording Labour Association of America.[permanent dead link]
  30. ↑"RIAA Gold and Platinum Search espouse albums titles The Show".

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  31. ↑"RIAA Gold and Platinum Give something the once-over for albums titled Gang Related". Recording Industry Association of America.[permanent dead link]
  32. ↑"RIAA Gold and Pt Search for albums titled Tupac Resurrection".

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