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At the Baltimore School for the Arts, Shakur befriended actress Jada Pinkett, who became a subject of some of his poems.[35] With his friend Dana \"Mouse\" Smith as beatbox, he won competitions as reputedly the school's best rapper.[36] Also known for his humor, he could mix with all crowds.[37] He listened to a diverse range of music that included Kate Bush, Culture Club, Sinéad O'Connor, and U2.[38]
Shakur's second album, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z..., was released in February 1993.[57] A critical and commercial advance, it debuted at No. 24 on the pop albums chart, the Billboard 200.[58] An overall more hardcore album, it emphasizes Tupac's sociopolitical views, and has a metallic production quality. The song \"Last Wordz\" features Ice Cube, co-writer of N.W.A's \"Fuck tha Police\", who in his own solo albums had newly gone militantly political, and gangsta rapper Ice-T, who in June 1992 had sparked controversy with his band Body Count's track \"Cop Killer\".[57]
In 1993, while visiting Los Angeles, the Notorious B.I.G. asked a local drug dealer to introduce him to Shakur and they quickly became friends. The pair would socialize when Shakur went to New York or B.I.G. to Los Angeles.[64] During this period, at his own live shows, Shakur would call B.I.G. onto stage to rap with him and Stretch.[64] Together, they recorded the songs \"Runnin' from tha Police\" and \"House of Pain\".
Shakur's third album, Me Against the World, was released while he was incarcerated in March 1995.[66] It is now hailed as his magnum opus, and commonly ranks among the greatest, most influential rap albums.[66] The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and sold 240,000 copies in its first week, setting a then record for highest first-week sales for a solo male rapper.[67][68]
Shakur played a gangster called Birdie in the 1994 film Above the Rim.[104] By some accounts, that character had been modeled after former New York drug dealer Jacques \"Haitian Jack\" Agnant,[105] who managed and promoted rappers.[106] Shakur was introduced to him at a Queens nightclub.[64] Reportedly, B.I.G. advised Shakur to avoid him, but Shakur disregarded the warning.[64] Through Haitian Jack, Shakur met James \"Jimmy Henchman\" Rosemond, also a drug dealer who doubled as music manager.[105]
Shakur was charged with two counts of aggravated assault.[152] Mark Whitwell was charged with firing at Shakur's car and later with making false statements to investigators. Scott Whitwell admitted to possessing a gun he had taken from a Henry County police evidence room.[154] Prosecutors ultimately dropped all charges against both parties.[155] Mark Whitwell resigned from the force seven months after the shooting.[140] Both brothers filed civil suits against Shakur; Mark Whitwell's suit was settled out of court, while Scott Whitwell's $2 million lawsuit resulted in a default judgment entered against the rapper's estate in 1998.[155]
On April 5, 1993, charged with felonious assault, Shakur allegedly threw a microphone and swung a baseball bat at rapper Chauncey Wynn, of the group M.A.D., at a concert at Michigan State University. Shakur claimed the bat was a part of his show and there was no criminal intent.[174] Nonetheless, on September 14, 1994, Shakur pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor, and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, twenty of them suspended, and ordered to 35 hours of community service.[175][174]
In 2011, via the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI released documents related to its investigation which described an extortion scheme by the Jewish Defense League (classified as \"a right wing terrorist group\" by the FBI[198]) that included making death threats against Shakur and other rappers, but did not indicate a direct connection to his murder.[199][200]
AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine described Shakur as \"the unlikely martyr of gangsta rap\", with Shakur paying the ultimate price of a criminal lifestyle. Shakur was described as one of the top two American rappers in the 1990s, along with Snoop Dogg.[206] The online rap magazine AllHipHop held a 2007 roundtable at which New York rappers Cormega, citing tour experience with New York rap duo Mobb Deep, commented that B.I.G. ran New York, but Shakur ran America.[207]
In 2014, BET explained that \"his confounding mixture of ladies' man, thug, revolutionary and poet has forever altered our perception of what a rapper should look like, sound like and act like. In 50 Cent, Ja Rule, Lil Wayne, newcomers like Freddie Gibbs and even his friend-turned-rival B.I.G., it's easy to see that Pac is the most copied MC of all time. There are murals bearing his likeness in New York, Brazil, Sierra Leone, Bulgaria and countless other places; he even has statues in Atlanta and Germany. Quite simply, no other rapper has captured the world's attention the way Tupac did and still does.\"[211] More simply, his writings, published after his death, inspired rapper YG to return to school and get his GED.[205] In 2020, former California Senator and current Vice-president Kamala Harris called Shakur the \"best rapper alive\", which she explained because \"West Coast girls think 2Pac lives on\".[212][213]
On April 15, 2012, at the Coachella Music Festival, rappers Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre joined a Shakur \"hologram\" (Although the media referred to the technology as a hologram, technically it was a projection created with the Musion Eyeliner),[222][223][224] and, as a partly virtual trio, performed the Shakur songs \"Hail Mary\" and \"2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted\".[225][226] There were talks of a tour,[227] but Dre refused.[228] Meanwhile, the Greatest Hits album, released in 1998, and which in 2000 had left the pop albums chart, the Billboard 200, returned to the chart and reached No. 129, while also other Shakur albums and singles drew sales gains.[229]
It is said that art imitates life, and vice versa. So, did Sidhu Moose Wala have an inkling of what was to come Did his songs foreshadow his gruesome end We take a look at the coincidences fuelling the online debate.
Almost anyone who is even casually familiar with Hip-Hop knows that the late rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur, son of Black Panthers and famous Death Row hip-hop artist Billy Garland, gave the rap game one of it's greatest odes to motherhood with the timeless \"Dear Mama.\" Shakur wrote the song as tribute to his mother Afeni Shakur, and he penned it as a sort of apology to her after he'd exhibited anger towards her for years prior. That bit of reconciliation gave 2Pac one of his most beloved songs and set a standard for rap tributes to Moms.
Punjabi singer and rapper Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead in Mansa district of Punjab on Sunday. The 28-year-old singer's murder has created shockwaves across the country, with the finger of suspect pointing to gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldy Brar. The singer, accused of glorifying gun culture and violence through his songs, joins the ill-fated list of musicians who were fatally shot. Here are the five other rappers and singers who met a tragic end. 1. Scott La Rock: Scott Monroe Sterlin, also known as La Rock was an American hip hop artiste and DJ. A member of the Boogie Down Productions, Rock was on the verge of signing a recording contract with Warner Brothers Records, the New York Times reported. The duo's first album comprising rhythmic rap tunes was about to hit the record charts. Unfortunately, he was shot dead on July 13, 1987, in the South Bronx area. According to police officials and hospital reports, a gunman fired from an apartment window across the street at a jeeb on which Sterling and four other friends were on board. The rapper was shot in the head and neck. He was taken to the hospital where he died.
3. Young Dolph: The rapper was shot dead in Memphis in Tennessee in 2021. According to autopsy reports, he was shot 22 times while picking up cookies for his mother from a bakery he frequently visited. 4. Notorious BIG: Christopher Wallace, also known as Notorious Big, was shot dead in 1997, six months after Tupac Shakur's death in a shootout in Las Vegas. He was shot when an assailant opened fire at him while his car was at a red light. 5. XXXTentacion: Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, popularly known as Rapper XXXTentacion, was shot dead while leaving a motor sports dealership in Deerfield Beach, just 64 kilometres north of Miami in 2018. (With ANI inputs)
You may not have met him when he was alive and on his grind, but you must have heard his name at one point in time. Tupac Amaru Shakur, known by his performance name 2Pac and later by his identity Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor born in Lesane Parish Crooks on June 16, 1971. Tupac died on September 13, 1996. Today, people are still wondering who killed Tupac.
This request showed their investigation of the Jewish Defense League, which extorted protection money from Shakur and other rappers after sending them death threats. This was according to Haaretz, an Israeli daily.
Tupac was 25 years old when he was shot and killed. At the time of his death, he was already one of the leading names and most prominent personalities in 1990s gangster rap. Along with Snoop Dogg, Shakur was considered one of the top two American rappers of the 1990s.
He encouraged people to notice real friends when their money is gone and who stays when enemies rise against them. The rapper urged people to choose friends wisely lest they become their greatest mistake.Forever in my heart tupacI love u
It certainly doesn't sound like a conventional start for a rapper, but one of Tupac's biggest influences was in fact Shakespeare. He studied the English writer when he attending the Baltimore School for the Arts and said: \"I love Shakespeare. He wrote some of the rawest stories, man. I mean look at Romeo and Juliet. That's some serious ghetto s**t.\"
He went on to become possibly the most famous rapper in the world, but like most people Tupac has to work his way up the top spot. His career kicked off as a backup dancer and MC in