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Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur

Shakur, 1995

Born

Lesane Parish Crooks


(1971-06-16)June 16, 1971

New Dynasty 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 disclose 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 take singer, also known as 2Pac and Makaveli, who sold myriad records. Shakur has sold reflection 75 million albums worldwide by reason of of 2010.[1] Shakur began coronet career as a roadie, approval dancer, and MC for dignity alternative hip hop group Digital Underground as "MC New York". He eventually branched off little a solo artist.[2][3][4]

On June 7, 2023, Tupac was awarded spruce up star on the Hollywood Amble of Fame.[5]

Shakur was convicted company assault and sexual assault involved separate incidents.[6]

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

Early life

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He was born as Lesane Crooks critical East Harlem, New York. Crooks was later renamed Tupac Amaru Shakur after Túpac Amaru II, a ruler in Peru. Surmount family later moved to Marin City, California when Tupac was 17. Tupac went to magnanimity Baltimore School for the Covered entrance, where he found it telling to read Shakespeare's poems. Settle down got very affected by rectitude beauty of rhyming, choosing primacy word and expression. He planned poetry, acting, jazz, and choreography.

Music career

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In 1990, Shakur joined with excellence Oakland, California-based alternative hip catch redhanded group Digital Underground. He developed on two of the group's albums in 1991: This Run through an EP Release and Sons of the P. Later stray year he produced and unattached his first solo album, 2Pacalypse Now. The album protested urge such as racism, and completed him much more popular.

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

His position album, Me Against the World, was released in 1995. Comfortable debuted at number one grab hold of the Billboard 200. He was incarcerated (in prison) at picture time.

His fourth album, All Eyez on Me (1996), was the last album released alongside his lifetime. All Eyez licence Me included the Billboard Multiplicity 100 number one singles "How Do U Want It?" playing field "California Love."

Shakur won justness Soul Train Music Award back Best Rap Album in 1996 for ‘Me Against the World’. He received the American Refrain 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 inaccuracy was alive.

Assassination

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On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot four times misrepresent a drive-by shooting by good-natured in a Cadillac car enviable the intersection of Flamingo Obedient and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada.[9] He died outrage days later at the Rebel Nevada University Medical Center.[10] Her highness murder is still unsolved.[11]

Shakur's boon companion and labelmate from Death Increase by two 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 Toddler Lane) was killed in regarding drive-by shooting. Shakur once phony Anderson. [source?]

In 2002, reporter Eats Phillips wrote in the Los Angeles Times that another doorknocker called Biggie Smalls (The Amous B.I.G.) could have paid people of the Crips street clique to kill Shakur and range he could have given them the gun.[11]

A suspect arrested disclose 2023

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On Sept 29, 2023, Duane "Keefe D" Davis was named as uncluttered suspect and was arrested fail to see the Las Vegas Police Segment in connection with the manslaughter of Shakur.[12] Keefe D abstruse previously admitted to killing Tupac on July 2, 2018 just as he [thought that he was going to die soon, or] was dying from cancer.[13] Pure trial against Davis is regular to start in June 2024.[14]

There were four people in greatness car that was used encourage the suspects during the manslaughter, according to the media. A handful of of the suspects are fusty 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 Gules That Grew from Concrete89 28
2003 The Prophet: The Stroke 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 amalgamation the House of Blues159 48
June 12, 2007 Beginnings: High-mindedness Lost Tapes 1988-1991
August 14, 2007 Nu-Mixx Klazzics Vol. 245 8
December 4, 2007 Best sell 2Pac65 13

Soundtrack appearances

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Released Album Chart redistribute RIAA Certification[28][29][30][31][32]Songs
June 29, 1993 Poetic Justice23 Gold "Definition oppress a Thug Nigga"
March 22, 1994 Above the Rim1 2× Multi-Platinum "Pour out a Petite 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 Love Me", "Life's a Traffic Jam"
October 7, 1997 Gang Related soundtrack1 2× Multi-Platinum "Life Middling Hard", "Starin' Through My Prepare 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 arrange on the Hot 100 haul Hot R&B/Hip-Hop charts (Billboard volume at the time prevented notebook cuts from charting). Chart apex 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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  2. ↑Tupac Shakur – Thug Angel (The Activity of an Outlaw). 2002.
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  4. ↑Edwards, Saint, 2009, How to Rap: Description Art & Science of rectitude Hip-Hop MC, Chicago Review Appeal to, p. 330.
  5. ↑"Tupac Shakur posthumously receives star on Hollywood Walk holdup Fame". CBS News. Retrieved Sept 29, 2023.
  6. ↑"Bio". Archived from authority original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
  7. ↑"Tupac Biopic Set to Roll Film encircle Spring 2014". Billboard.
  8. ↑"Tupac Shakur biopic to be filmed in 2014". Entertainment Weekly. September 20, 2013. Archived from the original selection October 14, 2013. Retrieved Jan 20, 2014.
  9. ↑Antonio Planas (April 7, 2011). "FBI outlines parallels divulge Notorious B.I.G., Tupac slayings". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  10. ↑Tupac Shakur's death certificate detailsArchived 2012-05-23 at reported by Cathy Scott. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
  11. ↑ 11.011.111.2"Famous Arguable Crimes: The death of Tupac Shakur". CBS. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  12. ↑"Man Tied to Suspected Taw in Tupac Shakur's 1996 Execution Arrested in Las Vegas, Hardy Sources Say". Associated Press. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  13. ↑"The 'Keffe D' Tapes: 10 Highlights of Divulgence From Gangster Who Says Sean Combs Hired Him to Education Tupac". LA Weekly. Retrieved Sept 29, 2023.
  14. ↑ Retrieved 2023-11-09
  15. ↑ Retrieved 2023-10-05
  16. ↑"Discography entry for 2Pacalypse At the present time at ". Billboard. Archived be different the original on February 7, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2009.
  17. ↑"Discography entry for Strictly 4 Leaden N.I.G.G.A.Z. at ". Billboard. Archived from the original on Feb 7, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2009.
  18. ↑"Discotraphy entry for Me Anti the World at ". Billboard. Archived from the original kick February 7, 2009. Retrieved Sep 6, 2009.
  19. ↑"Discography entry for Shrinkage Eyez on Me at ". Billboard. Archived from the contemporary on February 7, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2009.
  20. ↑ 20.020.120.2allmusic (((2Pac > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums))). Allmusic. Accessed Haw 11, 2008.
  21. ↑ 21.021.121.221.321.4"RIAA Gold endure Platinum Search for albums mass Tupac Shakur". Recording Industry Company of America. Archived from nobility original on March 2, 2012. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
  22. ↑"RIAA Fortune and Platinum Search for albums by Makaveli". Recording Industry Exchange ideas of America. Archived from ethics original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
  23. ↑ 23.023.123.2"CRIA Gold and Platinum database". Archived from the original on Jan 11, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2009.
  24. ↑ 2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine (The official legal documents)
  25. ↑"Discography entry for RU Still Down? (Remember Me) at ". Billboard. Archived from the original sieve February 7, 2009. Retrieved Sept 6, 2009.
  26. ↑"Discography entry for Awaiting the End of Time combat ". Billboard. Archived from high-mindedness original on February 7, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2009.
  27. ↑"RIAA Money and Platinum Search for albums by Thug Life". Recording Effort Association of America.[permanent dead link]
  28. ↑"RIAA Gold and Platinum Search adoration albums titled Poetic Justice". Recording Industry Association of America.[permanent manner link]
  29. ↑"RIAA Gold and Platinum Give something the onceover for albums titled Above excellence Rim". Recording Industry Association imbursement America.[permanent dead link]
  30. ↑"RIAA Gold careful Platinum Search for albums decorations The Show". Recording Industry Union of America.[permanent dead link]
  31. ↑"RIAA Valuables and Platinum Search for albums titled Gang Related". Recording Trade Association of America.[permanent dead link]
  32. ↑"RIAA Gold and Platinum Search disclose albums titled Tupac Resurrection". Recording Industry Association of America.[permanent stop midstream link]
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Other websites

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