This infamous rapper was dying to live and living to die. Tupac Amaru Shakur was born Lesane Parish Crooks in June 16th 1971, which was then changed to his current name Tupac. He also goes by the names 2Pac and Makaveli, Tupac was a rapper, actor and public role model. Because his parents founded the Black Panther Party, Tupac was very familiar with conflict, imprisonment and black people’s standing in society. Tupac’s family was not wealthy, though his did live in poverty he studies musical art in school and this helped him to develop his outstanding rapping mind and skill set. Though Tupac only made his solo musical debut in 1991 on the politically minded album 2Pacalypse Now he formally rapped on the track Same Song by Digital Underground. …show more content…
He also stared in the drama Poetic Justice with Janet Jackson. Following this movie Tupac Formed the group Thug Life which only ever had one album released in its time. Tupacs career was based around selling records and landing acting roles in movies. However as for his personal life he was constantly wrapped up with police either about his lyrics or for assault allegations. In 1994 before going to prison for sexual abuse allegations he was shot and robbed. Over the next few years Tupac’s shooting started the east coast, west coast rivalry. The shooters are unknown but The Notorious B.I.G and Sean Puff Daddy Combs were accused of being involved as said by Tupac. His third studio album was released after being shot in 1995, titled Me Against The World. This album featured lyrics that were more personal and is regarded often as one of the most significant Hip-Hop albums in history. While in jail for sexual abuse charges Tupac’s album generated the successful single dear mama and made him the first artist in history to have a disc premier on the top of the Billboard …show more content…
This album touched upon many gangster themes and is considered one of the best albums to come out of 90s music. The east and west coast rivalry hadn’t yet ended, in fact Tupac kept on releasing diss tracks about Biggie, where his most famous diss track was Hit Em Up, where he talked about him having claimed sleeping with The Notorious B.I.G’s wife Faith Evans. Shortly after this, on September the 7th, 1996 when coming home from a boxing match accompanied by Suge Knight, Tupac Amaru Shakur was shot 4 times and was rushed to hospital where he died six days later on the 13th of September 1996. The murder case in 2017 is still yet to be solved and gave rise to many theories of the cause of the shooting and who the shooters were. Though since Tupac died passed, many of his unpublished albums have been released. During the next ten years after he died, the most successful album release of his, included Until The End Of Time and Loyal To the Game. Movies such as Bullet and other documentaries were also released after his