Life of Tupac Amaru Shakur user name 2Pac
The son of two members of the Black Panthers, Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in New York. His parents separated before even his birth and he found his mother with his sister. The family moved regularly during his childhood, struggling with poverty. He managed to be accepted to the prestigious Baltimore School of the Arts while he is young. It is during his stay at the school that his creative side blossomed while he began to compose parts of rap and play at the theatre. He however fails to receive his degree since the family moved to California and settled in Marin City while he is 17 years old. In the years following, he lives in the street and spawning with small criminals. He eventually made the knowledge of Shock-G, Digital Underground leader. The Oakland Group decides to hire him as a dancer and technician.
On tour, take this opportunity to develop its own equipment. 2Pac made a first appearance on "this is an ep Release" disk of Digital Underground, which is launched in the spring of 1991. You can also hear him on their second album, "Sons of the P.". The following year, he launched his first effort in solo, "2Paccalypse Now". Disk won a success with the mouth while the exhibit "Brenda's Got a Baby" reached the Top 30 R & B. The disc eventually achieve certification gold. However, its raw and vulgar texts earned him the criticism of the vice-President Dan Quayle and parent groups.
The notoriety of Shakur is greatly increased by his role in "Juice" of Ernest Dickinson. This role won in a second in "Poetic Justice" of John Singleton in which he plays alongside Janet Jackson. Until the film comes in the room, 2Pac already launched his second album, "strictly 4 my N.I.G.G.A.Z.", which reached Platinum certification in addition to crab-wise to fourth in the R & B charts. At the end of 1993, seen in the basketball film "Aboce the Rim."
Despite its criticism of favorable both in musical film, he began to experience problems with the law. Before starting his career as a rapper, he had no criminal record. He was first arrested in 1992 after having been involved in a dispute which ended with an exchange of gunfire in which a boy of six is killed by a stray bullet. However, the charges will be dropped. 2Pac turns in the film "Threat II Society" in 1993 when he takes to the Director Allen Hughes, were sentenced to 15 days in jail in early 1994. The award comes after two other incidents of importance. In October 1993, he is accused of firing on two police officers in Atlanta were not in service. The charges are dropped, but in the months following, he is charged in the company of two members of his entourage with sexually assaulting a fan. In 1994, found guilty of sexual assault. The day after the verdict, he is shot by two unidentified individuals while it is located in the lobby of a New York recording studio. It is is to then have a sentence of four and a half years in prison on 7 February 1995.
Later in the month, he began to serve his sentence. He is in jail when his third album, "Me against the world", published in March. The disk directly between the number one, making 2Pac the first artist to win a first position while serving a sentence of imprisonment. While he is behind bars, he accuses the Notorious B.I.G., Puffy Combs (P. Diddy), Andre Harrell and his own friend Randy "Stretch" Walker of masterminding the bombing of the New York studio.
Shakur eventually would spend only eight months in prison while Suge Knight of Death Row Records asked that he be released on parole against a deposit of $ 1.4 million. Before the end of the year, he got out of prison and began working on his first album for Death Row. On 30 November 1995, a year after the bombing of New York, Walker is killed like gangsters in Queens.
The first album of 2Pac in Death Row, "All Eyez on Me", is double album of original material in the history of hip-hop. The disc between first when it is launched in February 1996 and is certified Platinum five times in the fall. While a new album a success, Shakur began to grow tired of hip-hop and focuses on cinema. In the summer 1996, he made two films, "Bullet" and "Gridlock'd."
At the time of his death in September 1996, it is believed that Shakur considered the possibility to leave Death Row and the rap industry. Shakur is shot on the main Las Vegas Street while he held the seat of the passenger in the vehicle of Suge Knight. The duo returned to the boxing bout between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon
