Then came a one-off collaboration between these three former group mates: "So Fly," a mixtape freestyle send-up of Monica's hit single "So Gone. The reunited then hit the studio, and roughly a year later, in August , The Hard Way was released to much fanfare, preceded by the release of lead single "Groupie Luv. Lil Wayne. Tupac Amaru Shakur was an American rapper.
In addition to his status as a. He is recognized in the Guinness Book of World. Records as the highest-selling rap artist, with over 75,, albums.
Many fans, critics, and industry insiders rank him as one of the greatest. Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in the East Harlem section. He was named after. His mother,. United States government and New York landmarks" in the. New York Panther 21 court caseTupac grew up around nothing but.
His mother, thought she was a "revolutionary. During her youth she dropped out of high school, partied with North Carolina. When the mostly white United Federation of Teachers went on strike in , she crossed the picket line and taught the children herself. She took to ranting about killing "the pigs" and overthrowing the government, which eventually led to her arrest and that of twenty comrades for conspiring to set off a race war.
Pregnant, she made bail and told her husband, Lummuba, it wasn't his child. Behind his back she had been carrying on with Legs a small-time associate of Harlem drug baron Nicky Barnes and Billy Garland a member of the Party.
Lumumba immediately divorced her. Tupac had a half-sister, Sekyiwa, two years his junior, and an older stepbrother, Mopreme "Komani" Shakur, who appeared on many of his recordings. At the age of twelve, Shakur enrolled in Harlem's famous "th Street Ensemble. In , his family relocated to Baltimore, Maryland. After completing his second year at Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School he transferred to the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet.
From childhood, everyone called him the "Black Prince. But she had no answer when he asked about his daddy. It was just some rough times. This child's father, Mutulu, was a Black Panther who, a few months before her birth, had been sentenced to sixty years for a fatal armoured car robbery.
With Mutulu away, the family experienced hard times. No matter where they moved-the Bronx, Harlem, homeless shelters Tupac was distressed. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in.
Because I was from everywhere. I didn't have no buddies that I grew up with. His mother's crack addiction led him to move into Leila Steinberg's home with his friend Ray Luv at the age of seventeen and he eventually dropped out of high school. Leila Steinberg acted as a literary mentor to Shakur, an avid reader. Steinberg has kept copies of the books that he read, which include J. Most of these books were read before the age of twenty.
It has been said that Shakur was, in fact, more well-read and intellectually well-rounded at that age than the average student in the first year class of most Ivy League institutions In , Leila Steinberg organized a concert with Shakur's group, Strictly Dope. The concert lead to him being signed with Atron Gregory who set him up with Digital Underground. Shakur's professional entertainment career began in the early s, when he debuted his rapping skills on "Same Song" from the Digital Underground album This is an EP Release.
He first appeared in the music video for "Same Song". Later, he released his first solo album, 2Pacalypse Now. Initially he had trouble marketing his solo debut, but Interscope Records' executives Ted Field and Tom Whalley eventually agreed to distribute the record. Shakur claimed his first album was aimed at the problems facing young black males, but it was publicly criticized for its graphic language and images of violence by and against law enforcement.
In one instance, a young man claimed his killing of a Texas-based trooper was influenced by the album. Former Vice President Dan Quayle publicly denounced the album as having "no place in our society" 2Pacalypse Now did not do as well on the charts as future albums, spawning no top ten hits.
His second record, Strictly 4 My N. Shakur's profile was raised considerably by his acclaimed role in the Ernest Dickerson film Juice, which led to a lead role in John Singleton's Poetic Justice the following year. By the time the film hit theaters, 2Pac had released his second album, Strictly 4 My N. Late in , he acted in the basketball movie Above the Rim. Although Shakur was selling records and earning praise for his music and acting, he began having serious altercations with the law; prior to becoming a recording artist, he had no police record.
By the time he was twenty, Tupac Amaru Shakur had been arrested eight times, even serving eight months in prison after being convicted of sexual abuse.
In addition, he was the subject of two wrongful-death lawsuits, one involving a six-year-old boy who was killed after getting caught in gang-war crossfire between Shakur's gang and a rival group. The group released their first and only record album Thug Life Vol. The group usually performed their concerts without Shakur.
The concept of "Thug Life" was viewed by Shakur as a philosophy for life. He declared that the dictionary definition of a "thug" as being a rogue or criminal was not how he used the term, but rather he meant someone who came from oppressive or squalid background and little opportunity but still made a life for himself and was proud. In , he was found guilty of sexual assault. The day after the verdict was announced, he was shot by a pair of muggers while he was in the lobby of a New York City recordings studio.
Shakur was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison on February 7, On the night of November 30, , the day before the verdict in his sexual abuse trial was to be announced, Shakur was shot five times and robbed after entering the lobby of the Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan, New York City, New York, by two armed men in army fatigues.
Shakur also suspected his close friend and associate, Randy "Stretch" Walker, of being involved in the attempt. According to the doctors at Bellevue Hospital, where he was admitted immediately following the incident, Shakur had received five bullet wounds; twice in the head, twice in the groin and once through the arm and thigh. He checked out of the hospital, against doctor's orders, three hours after surgery.
In the day that followed, Shakur entered the courthouse in a wheelchair and was found guilty of three counts of molestation, but innocent of six others, including sodomy. On November 30, , exactly one year to the day of the shooting, Stretch was killed in an execution-style murder in Queens.
Shakur began serving his prison sentence at Clinton Correctional Facility on February 14, Shortly afterwards, he released his multi-platinum album Me Against the World. Shakur is the only artist ever to have an album at number one on the Billboard while serving a prison sentence.
The album made its debut on the Billboard and stayed at the top of the charts for five weeks. The record album sold , copies in its first week, setting a record for highest first week sales for a solo male rap artist at the time.
He married his long-time girlfriend, Keisha Morris, while serving his sentence. This marriage was later annulled.
While imprisoned, Shakur read many books by Niccol? He also wrote a screenplay titled Live 2 Tell while incarcerated, a story about an adolescent who becomes a drug baron. After serving eleven months of his one-and-a-half year to four-and-a-half year sentence,Shakur was released from the penitentiary, due in large part to the help and influence of Marion "Suge" Knight, CEO of Death Row Records.
It debuted at number one upon its February release, and would be certified quintuple platinum by the fall. Although he had a hit record and, with the Dr. Dre duet "California Love," a massive single on his hands, Shakur was beginning to tire of hip-hop and started to concentrate on acting. During the summer of , he completed two films, the thriller Bullet and the dark comedy Gridlock'd, which also starred Tim Roth. He also made some recordings for Death Row, which was quickly disintegrating without Dre as the house producer, and as Knight became heavily involved in illegal activities.
Machiavelli and other published works, which inspired his pseudonym "Makaveli" under which he released the record album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. The album presents a stark contrast to previous works. Throughout the album, Shakur continues to focus on the themes of pain and aggression, making this album one of the emotionally darker works of his career. Shakur wrote and recorded all the lyrics in only three days and the production took another four days, combining for a total of seven days to complete the album hence the name.
The album was completely finished before Shakur died and Shakur had complete creative input on the album from the name of the album to the cover, which Shakur chose to symbolize how the media had crucified him. The record debuted at number one and sold , copies in the first week. Shakur immediately rushed Anderson and knocked him to the ground.
Shakur's entourage, as well as Knight and his followers assisted in beating down Anderson. The fight was captured on the hotel's video surveillance. A few weeks earlier, Anderson and a group of Crips robbed a member of Death Row's entourage in a Foot Locker store, precipitating Shakur's onset.
He rode in Knight's black BMW i sedan as part of a larger convoy with some of Shakur's friends, Outlawz, and bodyguards. At p. The plates were then found in the trunk of Knight's vehicle; they were released without being fined a few minutes later. At about p. Shakur, who was standing up through the sunroof, exchanged words with the two women, and invited them to go to Club At approximately p.
He was struck by four rounds; one hit him in the chest, the pelvis, and his right hand and thigh. One of the rounds apparently ricocheted into Shakur's right lung. Knight was hit in the head by shrapnel, though it is thought that a bullet grazed him. According to Knight, a bullet from the gunfire had been lodged in his skull, however, medical reports later contradicted this statement. At the time of the drive-by, Shakur was riding alongside Knight, with his bodyguard following behind in a vehicle belonging to Kidada Jones, Shakur's then-fianc?
The bodyguard, Frank Alexander, stated that when he was about to ride along with the rapper in Knight's car, Shakur asked him to drive Kidada Jones' car instead just in case they were too drunk and needed additional vehicles from Club back to the hotel. Shortly after the assault, the bodyguard reported in his documentary, Before I Wake, that one of the convoy's cars drove off after the assailant but he never heard back from the occupants.
After arriving on the scene, police and paramedics took Knight and a fatally wounded Shakur to the University Medical Center. According to an interview with one of Shakur's closest friends and music video director Gobi, while at the hospital, he received news from a Death Row marketing employee that the shooters had called the record label and were sending death threats aimed at Shakur, claiming that they were going there to "finish him off".
Upon hearing this, Gobi immediately alerted the Las Vegas police, but the police claimed they were understaffed and no one could be sent. Nonetheless, the shooters never arrived. At the hospital, Shakur was in and out of consciousness; heavily sedated, breathed through a ventilator and respirator, was placed on life support machines, and was ultimately put under a barbiturate-induced coma after repeatedly trying to get out of the bed.
While in Critical Care Unit on the afternoon of September 13, , Shakur died of internal bleeding; doctors attempted to revive him but could not stop his hemorrhaging. His mother, Afeni Shakur, made the decision to tell the doctors to stop He was pronounced dead at p. Suga Free tries, but man this is bad. Rumors Wow, this is just terrible. Why is 4 tay making a club track? Make tracks for the Don P drinking players. Kurupt was already wack by this point, and Daz was getting there.
Yea, not exactly a great track, but the beat was pretty decent I suppose. Average For the beat, and Daz seemed motivated. This would sound great in the ride. Well, this is right up your alley.
This is pretty average. This sounds like something the NB Ridaz would rap over. I was waiting for the Troutman-like voice synth to kick in. I appreciate the effort displayed. Good beat, good try by 4 tay, everything else? The Bay fans need to hear this one. The beat is a little too seizure inducing, but the message was right. Get High With Me Ft. It Only Rains Sometimes Ft Pimpin' Ain't Easy Ft.
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