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Tupac Shakur (Music)

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 Influences: Kate Bush Culture Club Don McLean William Shakespeare Sinéad O'Connor U2Tupac Amaru Shakur (born Lesane Parish Crooksnote Renamed at age 1 after Túpac Amaru II, the descendant of the last Incan ruler, Túpac Amaru, June 16, 1971 - September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac (or simply Pac) and Makaveli, was an American rapper. In addition to his status as a top-selling recording artist, Shakur was a promising actor, a poet and a social activist.Most of Shakur's songs are about growing up amid violence and hardship in ghettos, racism, problems in society and conflicts with other rappers. Shakur's work is known for advocating political, economic, social and racial equality. Shakur was initially a roadie and backup dancer for the alternative hip hop group Digital Underground, before forming his own group Thug Life then going solo.note this hasn't stopped people on YouTube from re-labeling Digital Underground songs as "Digital Underground featuring 2Pac", even if he didn't actually appear in the song.Shakur became the target of lawsuits and experienced other legal problems. He was later shot five times and robbed in the lobby of a recording studio in New York City. Following the event, Shakur grew suspicious that other figures in the rap industry had prior knowledge of the incident and did not warn him; the controversy helped spark the East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry. Shakur was later convicted for rape, but he insisted all relations were consensual.After serving eleven months of his sentence he was released from prison on an appeal financed by Marion "Suge" Knight, the CEO of Death Row Records. In exchange for Suge's assistance, Shakur agreed to release three albums under the Death Row label. The first of such was All Eyez on Me, Shakur's first double album (as well as the only double album released during his lifetime) as well as one of the earliest double albums in hip-hop.In addition to his music, Shakur was also one of the first rappers to have a successful acting career. What separates him from the others (and what many people didn't realize), is that he actually went to school for acting and would have seriously pursued it had he not gotten into music. As a child, he played Travis in A Raisin in the Sun during a run at the Apollo Theater. As an adult, his best-known movies include Juice with Omar Epps, Poetic Justice with Janet Jackson, and Above The Rim with Duane Martin.On the night of September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. He died six days later of respiratory failure and cardiac arrest at the University Medical Center. For a few years, Tupac was just as prolific in death as in life. Rabid fans and conspiracy theorists have speculated that he staged his murder to escape his enemies, though this urban myth has largely died down. In 1997, Afeni Shakur, Tupac's mother, founded Amaru Entertainment to handle her son's posthumous releases, and inherited the rights to most of his prior studio albums.Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide. A wealth of posthumous material continues to be released as of 2010, but cynical listeners have always seen it as a way of cashing in on his legacy, especially since most of the songs were remixed with current musical trends and artists, which sometimes clash with Shakur's style. Nonetheless, he was one of the defining musicians of The '90s.In 2017, after seven years of Development Hell, a Biopic about Shakur's life was released, entited All Eyez on Me. In 2019, it was revealed that all of Tupac's masters were destroyed in a fire at a Universal Studios lot 11 years earlier, along with nearly 200,000 other master tapes from other artists.
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