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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Tupac" redirects here. For other uses, see Tupac (disambiguation).

Tupac Shakur

Shakur in 1991

Born Lesane Parish Crooks

June 16, 1971

Harlem, New York City, U.S.

Died September 13, 1996 (aged 25)

Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.

Cause of death Drive-by homicide (gunshot wounds)

 2Pac
Other names
 Tupac

 Pac

 Makaveli
  MC New York

Occupations  Rapper

 songwriter

 actor

Years active 1989–1996

Keisha Morris
Spouse

(m. 1995; ann. 1996)

Parents  Afeni Shakur

 Billy Garland

Relatives  Mutulu Shakur (step-father)

 Assata Shakur (step-aunt)

 Mopreme Shakur (step-brother)

 Kastro (cousin)

Awards Full list

Musical career

Origin Marin City, California, U.S.

Genres  Hip hop

 political hip hop

 West Coast hip hop

 gangsta rap

Labels  Interscope

 Jive

 Amaru

 Death Row

Formerly of  Digital Underground

 Thug Life

 Outlawz
 Website www.2pac.com 

Signature

Tupac Amaru Shakur (/ˈtuːpɑːk ʃəˈkʊər/; born Lesane Parish Crooks, June 16, 1971 –

September 13, 1996), also known by his stage name 2Pac and briefly Makaveli, was
an American rapper. He is widely considered one of the most influential and successful
rappers of all time.[1][2] Shakur is among the best-selling music artists, having sold more
than 75 million records worldwide. Much of Shakur's music has been noted for
addressing contemporary social issues that plagued inner cities, and he is considered a
symbol of activism against inequality.
Shakur was born in New York City to parents who were both political activists and Black
Panther Party members. Raised by his mother, Afeni Shakur, he relocated
to Baltimore in 1984 and to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1988. With the release of his
debut album 2Pacalypse Now in 1991, he became a central figure in West Coast hip
hop for his conscious rap lyrics.[3][4] Shakur achieved further critical and commercial
success with his follow-up albums Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... (1993) and Me Against
the World (1995).[5] His Diamond certified album All Eyez on Me (1996), the first double-
length album in hip-hop history, abandoned his introspective lyrics for volatile gangsta
rap.[6] In addition to his music career, Shakur also found considerable success as an
actor, with his starring roles in Juice (1992), Poetic Justice (1993), Above the
Rim (1994), Bullet (1996), Gridlock'd (1997), and Gang Related (1997).
During the later part of his career, Shakur was shot five times in the lobby of a New
York recording studio and experienced legal troubles, including incarceration. In 1995,
Shakur served eight months in prison on sexual abuse charges, but was released
pending an appeal of his conviction. Following his release, he signed to Marion "Suge"
Knight's label Death Row Records and became heavily involved in the growing East
Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry.[7] On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot four
times by an unidentified assailant in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas; he died six days
later. Following his murder, Shakur's friend-turned-rival, the Notorious B.I.G., was at first
considered a suspect due to their public feud; he was also murdered in another drive-by
shooting six months later in March 1997 while visiting Los Angeles. [8][9]
Shakur's double-length posthumous album Greatest Hits (1998) is one of his two
releases—and one of only nine hip hop albums—to have been certified Diamond in the
United States.[10] Five more albums have been released since Shakur's death, including
his critically acclaimed posthumous album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day
Theory (1996)[11] under his stage name Makaveli, all of which have been
certified Platinum in the United States.[12] In 2002, Shakur was inducted into the Hip-Hop
Hall of Fame.[13] In 2017, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in his first
year of eligibility.[14] Rolling Stone ranked Shakur among the 100 Greatest Artists of All
Time.[15] In 2023, he was awarded a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[16]

Early life
Shakur was born on June 16, 1971, in the East Harlem section of Upper Manhattan,
New York City.[17] While born Lesane Parish Crooks,[18][19][20] at age one he was renamed
Tupac Amaru Shakur.[21] He was named after Túpac Amaru II, the descendant of the
last Incan ruler, who was executed in Peru in 1781 after his failed revolt against Spanish
rule.[22] Shakur's mother Afeni Shakur explained, "I wanted him to have the name of
revolutionary, indigenous people in the world. I wanted him to know he was part of a
world culture and not just from a neighborhood." [21]
Shakur had an older stepbrother, Mopreme "Komani" Shakur, and a half-sister, Sekyiwa
Shakur, two years his junior.[23]
Panther heritage
Shakur's parents, Afeni Shakur—born Alice Faye Williams in North Carolina—and his
biological father, William "Billy" Garland, had been active Black Panther Party members
in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [24] A month before Shakur's birth, his
mother was tried in New York City as part of the Panther 21 criminal trial. She was
acquitted of over 150 charges.[25][26]
Other family members who were involved in the Black Panthers' Black Liberation
Army were convicted of serious crimes and imprisoned, including Shakur's
stepfather, Mutulu Shakur, who spent four years among the FBI's Ten Most Wanted
Fugitives. Mutulu Shakur was apprehended in 1986 and subsequently convicted for a
1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck, during which police officers and a guard were
killed.[27]
Shakur's godfather, Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, a high-ranking Black Panther, was
convicted of murdering a school teacher during a 1968 robbery. After spending 27 years
in prison, his conviction was overturned due to the prosecution's having concealed
evidence that proved his innocence.[28][29]
Shakur's godmother, Assata Shakur, is a former member of the Black Liberation Army,
who was convicted of the first-degree murder of a New Jersey State Trooper and is still
wanted by the FBI.[30]
The East Harlem neighborhood of New York City where Shakur was born

Education
In the 1980s, Shakur's mother found it difficult to find work and she struggled with drug
addiction.[31] In 1984, his family moved from New York City to Baltimore, Maryland.[32] He
attended eighth grade at Roland Park Middle School, then ninth grade at Paul Laurence
Dunbar High School.[32] He transferred to the Baltimore School for the Arts in the tenth
grade, where he studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet.[33][34] He performed
in Shakespeare's plays—depicting timeless themes, now seen in gang warfare, he
would recall[35]—and as the Mouse King role in The Nutcracker ballet.[27]
At the Baltimore School for the Arts, Shakur befriended actress Jada Pinkett, who
became a subject of some of his poems.[36] With his friend Dana "Mouse" Smith
as beatbox, he won competitions as reputedly the school's best rapper. [37] Also known for
his humor, he could mix with all crowds. [38] He listened to a diverse range of music that
included Kate Bush, Culture Club, Sinéad O'Connor, and U2.[39]
Upon connecting with the Baltimore Young Communist League USA,[40][41] Shakur dated
Mary Baldridge, who was the daughter of the director of the local chapter of
the Communist Party USA.[42][43] Baldridge, who was white, was described as an attractive
young woman who was raised to look past color.[44]
In 1988, Shakur moved to Marin City, California, an impoverished community in the San
Francisco Bay Area.[45][46] In nearby Mill Valley, he attended Tamalpais High School,
[47]
 where he performed in several theater productions. [48] Shakur did not graduate from
high school, but he later earned his GED.[49]

Music career
MC New York
Shakur began recording under the stage name MC New York in 1989. [50] That year, he
began attending the poetry classes of Leila Steinberg, and she soon became his
manager.[51][45] Steinberg organized a concert for Shakur and his rap group Strictly Dope.
Steinberg managed to get Shakur signed by Atron Gregory, manager of the rap
group Digital Underground.[45] In 1990, Gregory placed him with the Underground as
a roadie and backup dancer.[45][52]
Digital Underground
See also: Stretch (rapper) and Live Squad

In January 1991 Shakur debuted under the stage name 2Pac on Digital Underground,
under a new record label, Interscope Records, on the group's January 1991 single
"Same Song". The song was featured on the soundtrack of the 1991 film Nothing but
Trouble, starring Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Chevy Chase, and Demi Moore.[45] The
song opened the group's January 1991 EP titled This Is an EP Release,[45] while Shakur
appeared in the music video.
At the request of Steinberg, Digital Underground co-founder Jimi "Chopmaster J" Dright
worked with Shakur, Ray Luv and Dize, a DJ, on their earliest studio recordings. Dright
recalls that Shakur didn’t work well as part of a group, and added, “this guy was on a
mission. From day one. Maybe he knew he wasn't going to be around seven years
later.”[53]
From 1988 to 1991, Dright and Digital Underground produced Shakur’s earliest work
with his crew at the time, Strictly Dope.[54] The recordings were rediscovered in 2000 and
released as The Lost Tapes: Circa 1989.[55] Afeni Shakur sued to stop the sale of the
recordings but the suit was settled in June 2001 and rereleased as Beginnings: The
Lost Tapes 1988–1991.[55][56]
Shakur's early days with Digital Underground made him acquainted with Randy
"Stretch" Walker, who along with his brother, dubbed Majesty, and a friend debuted with
an EP as a rap group and production team, Live Squad, in the Queens, New York.
[57]
 Stretch was featured on a track of the Digital Underground's 1991 album Sons of the
P. Becoming fast friends, Shakur and Stretch recorded and performed together often. [57]
2Pacalypse Now
Main article: 2Pacalypse Now

Shakur's debut album, 2Pacalypse Now—alluding to the 1979 film Apocalypse Now—

arrived in November 1991. Some prominent rappers—like Nas, Eminem, Game,
and Talib Kweli—cite it as an inspiration.[58] Aside from "If My Homie Calls", the singles
"Trapped" and "Brenda's Got a Baby" poetically depict individual struggles under
socioeconomic disadvantage.[59]
US Vice President Dan Quayle said, "There's no reason for a record like this to be
released. It has no place in our society." Tupac, finding himself misunderstood,
[35]
 explained, in part
"I just wanted to rap about things that affected young Black males. When I said that, I
didn't know that I was gonna tie myself down to just take all the blunts and hits for all the
young Black males, to be the media's kicking post for young Black males." [60][61]
In any case, 2Pacalypse Now was certified Gold, half a million copies sold. The album
addresses urban Black concerns said to remain relevant to the present day. [45]
Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...
Main article: Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...

Shakur's second album, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z..., was released in February 1993.[62] A

critical and commercial success, it debuted at No. 24 on the pop albums chart,
the Billboard 200.[63] 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".[62]
In its vinyl release, side A, tracks 1 to 8, is labeled the "Black Side", while side B, tracks
9 to 16, is the "Dark Side".[citation needed] Nonetheless, the album carries the single "I Get
Around", a party anthem featuring Digital Underground's Shock G and Money-B, which
became Shakur's breakthrough, reaching No. 11 on the pop singles chart,
the Billboard Hot 100.[63] And it carries the optimistic compassion of another hit, "Keep
Ya Head Up", an anthem for women's empowerment.[64] The album was
certified Platinum, with a million copies sold. As of 2004, among Shakur albums,
including posthumous and compilation albums, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... was 10th in
sales at about 1,366,000 copies.[65]
Thug Life

The test pressing single for "Dear Mama": the Platinum single is among the top-ranked songs in hip-hop
history.

In late 1993, Shakur formed the group Thug Life with Tyrus "Big Syke" Himes, Diron
"Macadoshis" Rivers, his stepbrother Mopreme Shakur, and Walter "Rated R" Burns.
[66]
 Thug Life released its only album, Thug Life, Volume I, on October 11, 1994, which is
certified Gold. It carries the single "Pour Out a Little Liquor", produced by Johnny "J"
Jackson, who would also produce much of Shakur's album All Eyez on Me. Usually,
Thug Life performed live without Tupac.[67]
The track also appears on the 1994 film Above the Rim's soundtrack. Due to gangsta
rap being under heavy criticism at the time, the album's original version was scrapped,
and the album redone with mostly new tracks. Still, along with Stretch, Tupac would
perform the first planned single, "Out on Bail", which was never released, at the 1994
Source Awards.[68][unreliable source?]
The Notorious B.I.G. and Junior M.A.F.I.A.
See also: The Notorious B.I.G.

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. [69] During this period, at his own
live shows, Shakur would call B.I.G. onto stage to rap with him and Stretch. [69] Together,
they recorded the songs "Runnin' from tha Police" and "House of Pain".
Reportedly, B.I.G. asked Shakur to manage him, whereupon Shakur advised him
that Sean Combs would make him a star.[69] Yet in the meantime, Shakur's lifestyle was
comparatively lavish to B.I.G. who had not yet established himself. [69] Shakur welcomed
B.I.G. to join his side group Thug Life, but he would instead form his own side group,
the Junior M.A.F.I.A., with his Brooklyn friends Lil' Cease and Lil' Kim. Shakur had a
falling out with B.I.G. after he was shot at Quad Studios in 1994. [70]
Me Against the World
Main article: Me Against the World

Shakur's third album, Me Against the World, was released while he was incarcerated in
March 1995.[71] It is now hailed as his magnum opus, and commonly ranks among the
greatest, most influential rap albums. [71] 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. [72][73]
The lead single, "Dear Mama", was released in February 1995 with "Old School" as
the B-side.[74] It is the album's most successful single, topping the Hot Rap Singles chart,
and peaking at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100.[6] In July, it was certified Platinum.[75] It
ranked No. 51 on the year-end charts. The second single, "So Many Tears", was
released in June 1995,[76] reaching No. 6 on the Hot Rap Singles chart and No. 44 on
Hot 100.[6] The final single, "Temptations", was released in August 1995.[77] It reached No.
68 on the Hot 100, No. 35 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, and No. 13 on the
Hot Rap Singles.[6] Several celebrities showed their support for Shakur by appearing in
the music video for "Temptations."[78]
Shakur won best rap album at the 1996 Soul Train Music Awards.[79] In 2001, it ranked
4th among his total albums in sales, with about 3 million copies sold in the US. [80]
All Eyez on Me
Main article: All Eyez on Me

While Shakur was imprisoned in 1995, his mother was about to lose her house. Shakur
had his wife Keisha Morris contact Death Row Records founder Suge Knight in Los
Angeles.[69] Reportedly, Shakur's mother promptly received $15,000. [69] After an August
visit to Clinton Correctional Facility in northern New York state, Knight traveled
southward to New York City to attend the 2nd Annual Source Awards ceremony.
Meanwhile, an East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry was brewing between Death Row
and Bad Boy Records.[81] In October 1995, Knight visited Shakur in prison again and
posted $1.4 million bond.[82] Shakur returned to Los Angeles and joined Death Row with
the appeal of his December 1994 conviction pending. [82]
Shakur's fourth album, All Eyez on Me, arrived on February 13, 1996. It was rap's first
double album—meeting two of the three albums due in Shakur's contract with Death
Row—and bore five singles.[83] The album shows Shakur rapping about the gangsta
lifestyle, leaving behind his previous political messages. With standout production, the
album has more party tracks and often a triumphant tone. [6] Music journalist Kevin
Powell noted that Shakur, once released from prison, became more aggressive, and
"seemed like a completely transformed person".[84]
As Shakur's second album to hit No. 1 on both the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and
the pop albums chart, the Billboard 200,[6] it sold 566,000 copies in its first week and was
it was certified 5× Multi-Platinum in April.[85] The singles "How Do U Want It" and
"California Love" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.[86] Death Row released
Shakur's diss track "Hit 'Em Up" as the non-album B-side to "How Do U Want It." In this
venomous tirade, the proclaimed "Bad Boy killer" threatens violent payback on all things
Bad Boy — B.I.G., Sean Combs, Junior M.A.F.I.A., the company — and on any in the
East Coast rap scene, like rap duo Mobb Deep and rapper Chino XL, who allegedly had
commented against Shakur about the dispute. [87]
All Eyez on Me won R&B/Soul or Rap Album of the Year at the 1997 Soul Train Music
Awards.[88] At the 1997 American Music Awards, Shakur won Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop
Artist.[89] The album was certified 9× Multi-Platinum in June 1998, [90] and 10× in July 2014.
[91]

Posthumous albums
At the time of his death, a fifth and final solo album was already finished, The Don
Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, under the stage name Makaveli. It had been recorded in
one week in August 1996 and released that year. [92][93] The lyrics were written and
recorded in three days, and mixing took another four days. In 2005, MTV.com
ranked The 7 Day Theory at No. 9 among hip hop's greatest albums ever, [94] and by
2006 a classic album.[95] Its singular poignance, through hurt and rage, contemplation
and vendetta, resonate with many fans.[96]
According to George "Papa G" Pryce, Death Row Records' then director of public
relations, the album was meant to be "underground", and was not intended for release
before the artist was murdered.[97][unreliable source?] It peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-
Hop Albums chart and on the Billboard 200,[98] with the second-highest debut-week sales
total of any album that year.[99] On June 15, 1999, it was certified 4× Multi-Platinum. [100]
Later posthumous albums are archival productions, these albums are:

 R U Still Down? (1997)
 Greatest Hits (1998)
 Still I Rise (1999)
 Until the End of Time (2001)
 Better Dayz (2002)
 Loyal to the Game (2004)
 Pac's Life (2006)[101]

Film career
Shakur's first film appearance was in the 1991 film Nothing but Trouble, a cameo by the
Digital Underground. In 1992, he starred in Juice, where he plays the fictional Roland
Bishop, a militant and haunting individual. Rolling Stone's Peter Travers calls him "the
film's most magnetic figure".[102]
In 1993, Shakur starred alongside Janet Jackson in John Singleton's romance
film, Poetic Justice.[103] Singleton later fired Shakur from the 1995 film Higher
Learning because the studio would not finance the film following his arrest. [104][105] For the
lead role in the eventual 2001 film Baby Boy, a role played by Tyrese Gibson, Singleton
originally had Shakur in mind.[106] Ultimately, the set design includes a Shakur mural in
the protagonist's bedroom, and the film's score includes Shakur's song "Hail Mary".[107]
Director Allen Hughes had cast Shakur as Sharif in the 1993 film Menace II Society, but
replaced him once Shakur assaulted him on set due to a discrepancy with the script.
Nonetheless, in 2013, Hughes appraises that Shakur would have outshone the other
actors "because he was bigger than the movie". [108]
Shakur played a gangster called Birdie in the 1994 film Above the Rim.[109] By some
accounts, that character had been modeled after former New York drug dealer Jacques
"Haitian Jack" Agnant,[110] who managed and promoted rappers.[111] Shakur was
introduced to him at a Queens nightclub.[69] Reportedly, B.I.G. advised Shakur to avoid
him, but Shakur disregarded the warning.[69] Through Haitian Jack, Shakur met James
"Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond, also a drug dealer who doubled as music manager. [110]
Soon after Shakur's death, three more films starring him were
released, Bullet (1996), Gridlock'd (1997), and Gang Related (1997).[112][113]
Posthumous rumored roles and Star Wars
It was rumored that Shakur was being considered by George Lucas to portray Jedi
Master Mace Windu in the Star Wars prequel films (1999-2005). According to
former Death Row Records chief engineer Rick Clifford, George Lucas was eyeing
Tupac to star in his return to the "Star Wars" saga. Clifford talked about how
understandably excited Tupac was for the role,"'Pac found out that I worked for Brian
Austin Green, who was on '90210,' then he found out I [worked on] some movies, so we
always talked about his film career and stuff. [...] He was telling me that he was
supposed to read for George Lucas and them. They wanted him to be a Jedi. I'm
serious. Samuel L. [Jackson] got Tupac's part. [Tupac] said [to me], 'Old man, keep
your fingers crossed.' He said, 'I've got three movies coming up. One of them, I've got to
read for George Lucas."[114]
The Phantom Menace script had begun being written in 1996 and the eventual film
seeing release in 1999. Lucas had asked Jackson to ask Shakur to audition but due to
Shakur's untimely death the role ultimately went to veteran, icon and legendary
actor Samuel L. Jackson. The two had worked on the film Juice together. The
characters bald appearance could have also been an homage to Shakur. [114]

Personal life
In his 1995 interview with Vibe magazine, Shakur listed Jada Pinkett, Jasmine
Guy, Treach and Mickey Rourke among the people who were looking out for him while
he was in prison.[104] Shakur also mentioned that Madonna was a supportive friend.
[104]
 Madonna later revealed that they had dated in 1994. [115][116]
Shakur met Jada Pinkett while attending the Baltimore School for the Arts. [117] She
appeared in his music videos "Keep Ya Head Up" and "Temptations." [118][78] She also
came up with the concept for his "California Love" music video and had intended to
direct it, but she removed herself from the project. [119] In 1995, Pinkett contributed
$100,000 towards Shakur's bail as he awaited an appeal on his sexual abuse
conviction.[120] Speaking about Pinkett, Shakur stated: "Jada is my heart. She will be my
friend for my whole life"; and Pinkett said he was "one of my best friends. He was like a
brother. It was beyond friendship for us. The type of relationship we had, you only get
that once in a lifetime."[121]
After Shakur was shot in 1994, he recuperated at Jasmine Guy's home. [122] They had met
during his guest appearance on the sitcom A Different World in 1993.[122] Guy appeared
in his music video "Temptations" and later wrote his mother's 2004 biography, Afeni
Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary.[123][78]
Shakur befriended Treach when they were both roadies on Public Enemy's tour in 1990.
[124]
 He made a cameo in Naughty by Nature's music video "Uptown Anthem" in 1992.
[125]
 Treach collaborated with Shakur on his song "5 Deadly Venomz" and appeared in his
music video "Temptations."[78] Treach was also a speaker at a public memorial service
for Shakur in 1996.[126]
Shakur and Mickey Rourke formed a bond while filming the movie Bullet in 1994.
[127]
 Rourke recalled that Shakur "was there for me during some very hard times." [128]
Shakur had friendships with other celebrities, including Mike Tyson[129] Chuck D,[130] Jim
Carrey,[131] and Alanis Morissette. In April 1996, Shakur said that he, Morrissette, Snoop
Dogg, and Suge Knight were planning to open a restaurant together. [132][133]
On April 29, 1995, Shakur married his then girlfriend Keisha Morris, a pre-law student.[134]
[135]
 Their marriage was annulled ten months later.[135]
In a 1993 interview published in The Source, Shakur criticized record producer Quincy
Jones for his interracial marriage to actress Peggy Lipton.[136] Their daughter Rashida
Jones responded with an irate open letter. [137] Shakur later apologized to her
sister Kidada Jones, who he began dating in 1996.[138] Shakur and Jones attended Men's
Fashion Week in Milan and walked the runway together for a Versace fashion show.
[139]
 Jones was at their hotel in Las Vegas when Shakur was shot. [140]

Legal issues
Sexual assault case, prison sentence, appeal and release
In November 1993, Shakur and two other men were charged in New York
with sodomizing a woman in Shakur's hotel room. The woman, Ayanna Jackson,
alleged that after she performed oral sex on Shakur at the public dance floor of a
Manhattan nightclub, she went to his hotel room a later day, when Shakur, record
executive Jacques "Haitian Jack" Agnant, Shakur's road manager Charles Fuller and an
unidentified fourth man apprehended and forced her to perform non-consensual oral
sex on each of them.[141][142] Shakur was also charged with illegal possession of a
firearm as two guns were found in the hotel room. [143] Interviewed on The Arsenio Hall
Show, Shakur said he was hurt that "a woman would accuse me of taking something
from her", as he had been raised in a female household and surrounded by women his
whole life.[144]
On December 1, 1994, Shakur was acquitted of three counts of sodomy and the
associated gun charges, but convicted of two counts of first-degree sexual abuse for
"forcibly touching the woman's buttocks" in his hotel room. [141][35] Jurors have said the lack
of evidence stymied a sodomy conviction.[145] In February 1995, he was sentenced to 18
months to 4+1⁄2 years in prison by a judge who decried "an act of brutal violence against
a helpless woman".[143][146] Shakur's lawyer characterized the sentence as "out of line" with
the groping conviction and the setting of bail at $3 million as "inhumane". Shakur's
accuser later filed a civil suit against Shakur seeking $10 million for punitive damages
which was subsequently settled.[147][148]
After Shakur had been convicted of sexual abuse, Jacques Agnant's case was
separated and closed via misdemeanor plea without incarceration. [69][149] A. J.
Benza reported in New York Daily News Shakur's new disdain for Agnant who Shakur
theorized had set him up with the case. [69][110] Shakur reportedly believed his accuser was
connected to and had sexual relations with Agnant and James Rosemond behind
his 1994 Quad Studios shooting.[150]
Shakur began serving his prison sentence on sexual abuse charges at Rikers Island on
February 14, 1995; before being transferred to Clinton Correctional Facility in March.
[151]
 While imprisoned, he began reading again, which he had been unable to do as his
career progressed due to his marijuana and alcohol habits. Works such as The
Prince by Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and The Art of War by Chinese military
strategist Sun Tzu sparked Shakur's interest in philosophy, philosophy of
war and military strategy.[152] On April 29, 1995, Shakur married his girlfriend Keisha
Morris; the marriage was later annulled.[135] While in prison, Shakur exchanged letters
with celebrities such as Jim Carrey and Tony Danza among others.[153][154] He was also
visited by Al Sharpton, who helped Shakur get released from solitary confinement.[155]
By October 1995, pending judicial appeal, Shakur was incarcerated in New York. [120] On
October 12, he bonded out of the maximum security Dannemora Clinton Correctional
Facility in the process of appealing his conviction, [35] once Suge Knight, CEO of Death
Row Records, arranged for posting of his $1.4 million bond.[49]
1993 shooting in Atlanta
On October 31, 1993, Shakur was arrested in Atlanta for shooting two off-duty police
officers, brothers Mark Whitwell and Scott Whitwell.[156] The Atlanta police claimed the
shooting occurred after the brothers were almost struck by a car carrying Shakur while
they were crossing the street with their wives.[157] As they argued with the driver, Shakur's
car pulled up and he shot the Whitwells in the buttocks and the abdomen. [158][159] However,
there are conflicting accounts that the Whitwells were harassing a black motorist and
uttered racial slurs.[158][157] According to some witnesses, Shakur and his entourage had
fired in self-defense as Mark Whitwell shot at them first. [145]
Shakur was charged with two counts of aggravated assault. [156] 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.[158] Prosecutors ultimately dropped all charges against both
parties.[159] Mark Whitwell resigned from the force seven months after the shooting.
[145]
 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.[159]
1994 Quad Studios shooting
On November 30, 1994, while in New York recording verses for a mixtape of Ron G,
Shakur was repeatedly distracted by his beeper.[160] Music manager James "Jimmy
Henchman" Rosemond, reportedly offered Shakur $7,000 to stop by Quad Studios, in
Times Square, that night to record a verse for his client Little Shawn.[69][160] Shakur was
unsure, but agreed to the session as he needed the cash to offset legal costs. He
arrived with Stretch and one or two others. In the lobby, three men robbed and beat him
at gunpoint; Shakur resisted and was shot. [161] Shakur speculated that the shooting had
been a set-up.[161][162]
Against doctor's advice, Shakur checked out of Metropolitan Hospital Center a few
hours after surgery and secretly went to the house of the actress Jasmine Guy to
recuperate.[122][163] The next day, Shakur arrived at a Manhattan courthouse bandaged in a
wheelchair to receive the jury's verdict for his sexual abuse case. [163] Shakur posted a
$25,000 bond and spent the next few weeks being cared for by his mother and a private
doctor at Guy's home.[122] The Fruit of Islam and former members of the Black Panther
Party stood guard to protect him.[122]
Setup accusations involving the Notorious B.I.G.
In a 1995 interview with Vibe, Shakur accused Sean Combs,[164] Jimmy Henchman,
[161]
 and the Notorious B.I.G, - who were at Quad Studios at the time - among others, of
setting up or being privy to the November 1994 robbery and shooting. Vibe alerted the
names of the accused.[165] The accusations were significant to the East-West Coast
rivalry in hip-hop; in 1995, months after the robbery, Combs and B.I.G. released the
track "Who Shot Ya?", which Shakur took as a mockery of his shooting and thought
they could be responsible, so he released a diss song, "Hit 'Em Up", in which he
targeted B.I.G., Combs, their record label, Junior M.A.F.I.A., and at the end of "Hit 'Em
Up", he mentions rivals Mobb Deep and Chino XL.[166][167][168][169][170]
In March 2008, Chuck Philips, in the Los Angeles Times, reported on the 1994 ambush
and shooting.[171] The newspaper later retracted the article since it relied partially on FBI
documents later discovered forged, supplied by a man convicted of fraud. [172] In June
2011, convicted murderer Dexter Isaac, incarcerated in Brooklyn, issued a confession
that he had been one of the gunmen who had robbed and shot Shakur at Henchman's
order.[173][174][175] Philips then named Isaac as one of his own, retracted article's unnamed
sources.[176]
Other criminal or civil cases
1991 Oakland Police Department lawsuit
In October 1991, one month before the release of 2Pacalypse Now, two Oakland Police
Department officers stopped Shakur for jaywalking. The officers allegedly asked for his
name since it did not sound American, he answered them and they brutalized him
scratching his face over the street.[177] Shakur filed a $10 million lawsuit against the
Oakland Police Department. The case was settled for about $43,000.[49]
Misdemeanor assault convictions
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, that he
never swung it, and that there was no criminal intent. [178] Nonetheless, on September 14,
1994, Shakur pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and was sentenced to 30 days in jail,
twenty of them suspended on condition that he complete 35 hours of community
service.[179][178]
Slated to star as Sharif in the 1993 Hughes Brothers' film Menace II Society, Shakur
was replaced by actor Vonte Sweet after allegedly assaulting one of the film's directors,
Allen Hughes. In early 1994, Shakur served 15 days in jail after being found guilty of the
assault.[180][181] The prosecution's evidence included a Yo! MTV Raps interview where
Shakur boasts that he had "beat up the director of Menace II Society".[182]
Concealed weapon case
In 1994, Shakur was arrested in Los Angeles, when he was stopped by police on
suspicion of speeding. Police found a semiautomatic pistol in the car, a felony offense
because a prior conviction in 1993 in Los Angeles for carrying a concealed firearm.
[183]
 On April 4, 1996, Shakur was sentenced to 120 days in jail for violating his release
terms and failing to appear for a road cleanup job, [184] but was allowed to remain free
awaiting appeal. On June 7, his sentence was deferred via appeals pending in other
cases.[185]
1995 wrongful death suit
On August 22, 1992, in Marin City, Shakur performed outdoors at a festival. For about
an hour after the performance, he signed autographs and posed for photos. A conflict
broke out and Shakur allegedly drew a legally carried Colt Mustang but dropped it on
the ground. Shakur claimed that someone with him then picked it up when it
accidentally discharged.[186][187]
About 100 yards (90 meters) away in a schoolyard, Qa'id Walker-Teal, a boy aged 6 on
his bicycle, was fatally shot in the forehead. Police matched the bullet to a .38-
caliber pistol registered to Shakur. His stepbrother Maurice Harding was arrested in
suspicion of having fired the gun, but no charges were filed. Lack of witnesses stymied
prosecution. In 1995, Qa'id's mother filed a wrongful death suit against Shakur, which
was settled for about $300,000 to $500,000.[186][187]
C. Delores Tucker lawsuit
Civil rights activist and fierce rap critic C. Delores Tucker sued Shakur's estate in federal
court, claiming that lyrics in "How Do U Want It" and "Wonda Why They Call U Bitch"
inflicted emotional distress, were slanderous, and invaded her privacy. [188] The case was
later dismissed.[189]

Death
Main article: Murder of Tupac Shakur
East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane, where the murder occurred

On the night of September 7, 1996, Shakur was in Las Vegas, Nevada, to celebrate his
business partner Tracy Danielle Robinson's birthday[190] and attended the Bruce Seldon
vs. Mike Tyson boxing match with Suge Knight at the MGM Grand. Afterward in the
lobby, someone in their group spotted Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, a Southside
Compton Crip, whom the individual accused of having recently tried to snatch his neck
chain with a Death Row Records medallion in a shopping mall. The
hotel's surveillance footage shows the ensuing assault on Anderson. Shakur soon
stopped by his hotel room and then headed with Knight to his Death Row nightclub,
Club 662, in a black BMW 750iL sedan, part of a larger convoy.[191]
At about 11 pm on Las Vegas Boulevard, bicycle-mounted police stopped the car for its
loud music and lack of license plates. The plates were found in the trunk and the car
was released without a ticket.[192] At about 11:15 pm at a stop light, a white, four-door,
late-model Cadillac sedan pulled up to the passenger side and an occupant rapidly fired
into the car. Shakur was struck four times: once in the arm, once in the thigh, and twice
in the chest[193] with one bullet entering his right lung.[194] Shards hit Knight's head. Frank
Alexander, Shakur's bodyguard, was not in the car at the time. He would say he had
been tasked to drive the car of Shakur's girlfriend, Kidada Jones.[195]
Shakur was taken to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada where he was
heavily sedated and put on life support. [9] In the intensive-care unit on the afternoon of
September 13, 1996, Shakur died from internal bleeding.[9] He was pronounced dead at
4:03 pm.[9] The official causes of death are respiratory failure and cardiopulmonary
arrest associated with multiple gunshot wounds.[9] Shakur's body was cremated the next
day. Members of the Outlawz, recalling a line in his song "Black Jesus", (although
uncertain of the artist's attempt at a literal meaning chose to interpret the request
seriously) smoked some of his body's ashes after mixing them with marijuana.[196][197]
In 2002, investigative journalist Chuck Philips,[198][199] after a year of work, reported in
the Los Angeles Times that Anderson, a Southside Compton Crip, having been
attacked by Suge and Shakur's entourage at the MGM Hotel after the boxing match,
had fired the fatal gunshots, but that Las Vegas police had interviewed him only once,
briefly, before his death in an unrelated shooting. Philips's 2002 article also alleges the
involvement of Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace and several within New York
City's criminal underworld. Both Anderson and Wallace denied involvement, while
Wallace offered a confirmed alibi.[200][unreliable source?] Music journalist John Leland, in The New
York Times, called the evidence "inconclusive".[201]
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[202]) that included
making death threats against Shakur and other rappers, but did not indicate a direct
connection to his murder.[203][204]

Artistry
Shakur's music and philosophical outlook were deeply influenced by a wide range of
American, African-American, and global influences, including the Black Panther
Party, black nationalism, egalitarianism, and the concept of liberty. Moreover, Shakur's
artistic sensibilities were enriched by his passion for theater and admiration for the
works of William Shakespeare. Notably, he honed his theatrical skills as a student at
the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he delved into the psychological complexities
inherent in inter-gang warfare and inter-cultural conflicts, reflecting themes explored in
Shakespearean dramas.[1]
2Pacalypse Now (1991), showcased his socially conscious perspective. Through
powerful tracks like "Brenda's Got a Baby," "Trapped," and "Part Time Mutha," Shakur
addressed social injustice, poverty, and police brutality. In doing so, he contributed to
the ongoing success of rap groups such as Boogie Down Productions, Public
Enemy, X-Clan, and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, while establishing
himself as one of the pioneering socially conscious rappers from the West Coast. [4]
Continuing his focus on the social challenges faced by African-American people,
Shakur's second album featured songs like "The Streetz R Deathrow" and "Last
Wordz." Simultaneously, he showcased his compassionate side with the empowering
anthem "Keep Ya Head Up," and his legendary intensity with the title track from the
album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... Additionally, he paid homage to his former
group Digital Underground by including them on the playful track "I Get Around."
Throughout his career, Shakur's subsequent albums reflected a growing assertiveness
in his approach.[7]
Shakur's body of work encompassed contrasting themes, including social
inequality, injustice, compassion, playfulness, and hope. These elements continued to
shape his artistry, exemplified by his explosive 1995 album Me Against the World.[10] The
release of All Eyez on Me in 1996 further solidified his reputation, with tracks like
"Ambitionz Az a Ridah," "I Ain't Mad at Cha," "California Love," "Life Goes On," and
"Picture Me Rollin'" being hailed as classics by critics. Shakur described All Eyez on
Me as a celebration of life, and the album achieved both critical acclaim and commercial
success.[8]

Legacy and remembrance

A statue of Shakur at the MARTa museum in Herford, Germany

Shakur is considered one of the most influential rappers of all time. [205][206] with Rolling
Stone listing him as one of greatest artists of all time. [207] He is widely credited as an
important figure in hip hop culture, and his prominence in pop culture in general has
been noted.[208] Dotdash, formerly About.com, while ranking him fifth among the greatest
rappers, nonetheless notes, "Tupac Shakur is the most influential hip-hop artist of all
time. Even in death, 2Pac remains a transcendental rap figure." [209] Yet to some, he was
a "father figure" who, said rapper YG, "makes you want to be better—at every
level."[210] In 2023, Billboard ranked Tupac at number 4 among the top 50 rappers of all
time.
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.
[211]
 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. [212] Shakur emerged as a
celebrated artist, earning recognition for his astonishingly prolific output and unwavering
commitment to his craft.[213]
According to British writer Rob Marriott, he deemed the act of tying a bandana into
rabbit ears as one of the most distinctive and instantly recognizable style choices in the
world of hip-hop. Regarded as a sex symbol, his unique style helped shape the fashion
landscape of the 1990s and continues to influence artists and fashion enthusiasts to this
day.[214][215]
In 2010, writing Rolling Stone magazine's entry on Shakur at No. 86 among the "100
greatest artists", New York rapper 50 Cent appraised
Every rapper who grew up in the Nineties owes something to Tupac. He didn't sound
like anyone who came before him.[216]
According to music journalist Chuck Philips, Shakur "had helped elevate rap from a
crude street fad to a complex art form, setting the stage for the current global hip-hop
phenomenon."[217] Philips writes, "The slaying silenced one of modern music's most
eloquent voices—a ghetto poet whose tales of urban alienation captivated young people
of all races and backgrounds."[217] Via numerous fans perceiving him, despite his
questionable conduct, as a martyr, "the downsizing of martyrdom cheapens its
use", Michael Eric Dyson concedes.[218] But Dyson adds, "Some, or even most, of that
criticism can be conceded without doing damage to Tupac's martyrdom in the eyes of
those disappointed by more traditional martyrs." [218]
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."[219] More simply, his writings, published after his death, inspired rapper YG to
return to school and get his GED.[210] 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".[220][221]
Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation
In 1997, Shakur's mother founded the Shakur Family Foundation. Later renamed the
Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, or TASF, it launched with a stated mission to "provide
training and support for students who aspire to enhance their creative talents." The
TASF sponsors essay contests, charity events, a performing arts day camp for
teenagers, and undergraduate scholarships. In June 2005, the TASF opened the Tupac
Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, or TASCA, in Stone Mountain, Georgia. It closed in
2015.
Academic appraisal
In 1997, the University of California, Berkeley, offered a course led by a student titled
"History 98: Poetry and History of Tupac Shakur". [222] In April 2003, Harvard
University cosponsored the symposium "All Eyez on Me: Tupac Shakur and the Search
for the Modern Folk Hero".[223] The papers presented cover his ranging influence from
entertainment to sociology.[223] Calling him a "Thug Nigga Intellectual", an "organic
intellectual",[224] English scholar Mark Anthony Neal assessed his death as leaving a
"leadership void amongst hip-hop artists",[225] as this "walking contradiction" helps, Neal
explained, "make being an intellectual accessible to ordinary people." [226]
Tracing Shakur's mythical status, Murray Forman discussed him as "O.G.", or
"Ostensibly Gone", with fans, using digital mediums, "resurrecting Tupac as an ethereal
life force."[227] Music scholar Emmett Price, calling him a "Black folk hero", traced his
persona to Black American folklore's tricksters, which, after abolition, evolved into the
urban "bad-man". Yet in Shakur's "terrible sense of urgency", Price identified instead a
quest to "unify mind, body, and spirit." [227]
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East Harlem, New York City, US

Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Carmagnola, Turin, Italy

Multimedia releases
In 2005, Death Row released on DVD, Tupac: Live at the House of Blues, his final
recorded live performance, an event on July 4, 1996. In August 2006, Tupac Shakur
Legacy, an "interactive biography" by Jamal Joseph, arrived with previously
unpublished family photographs, intimate stories, and over 20 detachable copies of his
handwritten song lyrics, contracts, scripts, poetry, and other papers. In 2006, the Shakur
album Pac's Life was released and, like the previous, was among the recording
industry's most popular releases.[228] In 2008, his estate made about $15 million.[229]
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),[230][231][232] and,
as a partly virtual trio, performed the Shakur songs "Hail Mary" and "2 of Amerikaz Most
Wanted".[233][234] There were talks of a tour,[235] but Dre refused.[236] 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.[237]
Film and stage
The documentary film Tupac: Resurrection was released in November 2003. It was
nominated for Best Documentary at the 2005 Academy Awards.[238]
In 2014, the play Holler If Ya Hear Me, based on Shakur's lyrics, played on Broadway,
but, among Broadway's worst-selling musicals in recent years, ran only six weeks. [239] In
development since 2013, a Shakur biopic, All Eyez on Me, began filming in Atlanta in
December 2015.[240] It was released on June 16, 2017, on Shakur's 46th birthday,
[241]
 albeit to generally negative reviews.
In August 2019, a docuseries directed by Allen Hughes, Outlaw: The Saga of Afeni and
Tupac Shakur, was announced.[242]
Unpublished works
On March 30, 2022, one of Shakur's earliest pieces of writing, an unpublished booklet
of haiku poetry, was auctioned by Sotheby's estimated at $200,000 to $300,000 and
hammered down at $302,400 plus buyer premium. [243] Shakur was 11 years old when he
wrote and illustrated the booklet for Jamal Joseph and three other Black Panther
Party members while they were incarcerated at Leavenworth Prison. Even at his young
age, Shakur's writing dealt with themes such as black liberation, mass incarceration,
race, and masculinity. The booklet features a self-portrait of Shakur sleeping, pen in
hand, dreaming of the Black Panthers being freed from prison, and signed with a heart
and the phrase “Tupac Shakur, Future Freedom Fighter." [244]
A dream is lovely.
You drift to another land.
I dream in the night.[245]
Awards and honors
In 2002, Shakur was inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame. In 2004, Shakur was
among the honorees at the first Hip Hop Honors.[246]
In 2006, Shakur's close friend and classmate Jada Pinkett Smith donated $1 million to
their high school alma mater, the Baltimore School for the Arts, and named the new
theater in his honor.[247][248] In 2021, Pinkett Smith honored Shakur's 50th birthday by
releasing a never before seen poem she had received from him. [117]
In 2009, drawing praise, the Vatican added "Changes", a 1998 posthumous track, to its
online playlist.[249] On June 23, 2010, the Library of Congress added "Dear Mama" to
the National Recording Registry, the third rap song.[250][251]
In 2015, the Grammy Museum opened an exhibition dedicated to Shakur. [252]
In his first year of eligibility, Shakur was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on
April 7, 2017.[14][253][254]
In January 2022, the exhibition Tupac Shakur: Wake Me When I'm Free opened at The
Canvas at L.A. Live in Los Angeles.[255]
On May 16, 2023, Oakland City Council voted to name the section of MacArthur
Boulevard between Grand Avenue and Van Buren Avenue "Tupac Shakur Way". [256]
On June 7, 2023, Shakur received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[257][258][259] His
half-sister, Sekyiwa "Set" Shakur, accepted the award in his honor. [260]
Rankings

 2002: Forbes magazine ranked Shakur at 10th among top-earning dead celebrities.

[261]

 2003: MTV's viewers voted Shakur the greatest MC.[262]

 2005: Shakur was voted No.1 on Vibe's online poll of "Top 10 Best of All Time".[263]
 2006: MTV staff placed him second on its list of "The Greatest MCs Of All Time".[95]
 2012: The Source magazine ranked him No. 5 among "The Top 50 Lyricists".[264]
 2007: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame placed All Eyez on Me at No. 90 and Me
Against the World at No. 170.[265]
 2010: Rolling Stone magazine placed Shakur at No. 86 among the "100 Greatest
Artists".[216]
 2020: All Eyez on Me was ranked No. 436 on Rolling Stone's list of the "500
Greatest Albums Of All Time."[266]
 2023: Billboard ranked Shakur at number 4 of the top 50 rappers.[267]

Discography
Main articles: Tupac Shakur discography and songs

Studio albums

2Pacalypse Now (1991)
Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... (1993)
Me Against the World (1995)
All Eyez on Me (1996)
Posthumous studio albums

 The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (1996) (as Makaveli)

  R U Still Down? (Remember Me) (1997)
 Until the End of Time (2001)
 Better Dayz (2002)
 Loyal to the Game (2004)
 Pac's Life (2006)
Collaboration albums

 Thug Life, Volume I with Thug Life (1994)

Posthumous collaboration album

 Still I Rise with Outlawz (1999)

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes

Himself (in a fictional Brief appearance as part of the group Digital

1991 Nothing but Trouble
context) Underground

1992 Juice Roland Bishop First starring role

1993 Poetic Justice Lucky Co-starred with Janet Jackson

1993 A Different World Piccolo Episode: Homie Don't Ya Know Me?

1993 In Living Color Himself Season 5, Episode: 3

Co-starred with Duane Martin. Final film release

1994 Above the Rim Birdie
during his lifetime

Murder Was the Case: The

1995 Sniper Uncredited; segment: "Natural Born Killaz"
Movie

1996 Saturday Night Special Himself (guest host) 1 episode

 Himself (musical
1996 Saturday Night Live Episode: "Tom Arnold/Tupac Shakur"
guest)

1996 Bullet Tank Released one month after Shakur's death

Ezekiel "Spoon"
1997 Gridlock'd Released four months after Shakur's death
Whitmore

Detective Jake
1997 Gang Related Shakur's last performance in a film
Rodriguez

2001 Baby Boy Himself Archive footage

2003 Tupac: Resurrection Himself Archive footage

2009 Notorious Himself Archive footage

2015 Straight Outta Compton Himself Archive footage

2017 All Eyez on Me Himself Archive footage

Transformers: Rise of the

2023 Himself Archive footage
Beasts

Portrayals in film
Year Title Portrayed by Notes

2001 Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story Lamont Bentley Biographical film about MC Hammer

2009 Notorious Anthony Mackie Biographical film about the Notorious

 B.I.G.

2015 Straight Outta Compton Marcc Rose[268] Biographical film about N.W.A

Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge &

2016 Adrian Arthur Biographical film about Michel'le
Michel'le

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

2017 All Eyez on Me [269]
Biographical film about Tupac Shakur[270]

Documentaries
Shakur's life has been explored in several documentaries, most notably the Academy
Award-nominated Tupac: Resurrection (2003).

 1997: Tupac Shakur: Thug Immortal

 1997: Tupac Shakur: Words Never Die (TV)
 2001: Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake...
 2001: Welcome to Deathrow
 2002: Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel
 2002: Biggie & Tupac
 2002: Tha Westside
 2003: 2Pac 4 Ever
 2003: Tupac: Resurrection
 2004: Tupac vs.
 2004: Tupac: The Hip Hop Genius (TV)
 2006: So Many Years, So Many Tears
 2015: Murder Rap: Inside the Biggie and Tupac Murders
 2017: Who killed Tupac?
 2017: Who Shot Biggie & Tupac?
 2018: Unsolved: Murders of Biggie and Tupac?
 2021: The Life & Death of Tupac Shakur[271]
 2023: Dear Mama

See also

 Poetry portal

 Biography portal
  Music portal

 New York City portal

 United States portal

 List of best-selling music artists

 List of best-selling music artists in the United States
 List of murdered hip hop musicians
 List of number-one albums (United States)
 List of number-one hits (United States)
 List of awards and nominations received by Tupac Shakur
 List of artists who reached number one in the United States

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Further reading
 Holley, Santi Elijah (2023). An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They
Created. New York: Mariner Books. ISBN 9780358588764. OCLC 1345214629.

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 Greatest Hits

 The Prophet: The Best of the Works

mpilation  Nu-Mixx Klazzics

albums  Tupac: Resurrection

 The Prophet Returns

 Beginnings: The Lost Tapes 1988–1991

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 Poetic Justice (soundtrack)

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 Gridlock'd (soundtrack)

 Gang Related (soundtrack)

 A 2Pac Tribute: Dare 2 Struggle

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 The Rose, Vol. 2

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 "Brenda's Got a Baby"

 "If My Homie Calls"

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 "Holler If Ya Hear Me"

 "I Get Around"

 "Keep Ya Head Up"

 "Papa'z Song"

 "Cradle to the Grave"

 "Dear Mama"
Singles
 "So Many Tears"
 "Temptations"

 "California Love"

 "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted"

 "How Do U Want It"

 "I Ain't Mad at Cha"

 "Toss It Up"

 "To Live & Die in LA"

 "Hail Mary"

 "Wanted Dead or Alive"

thumous  "I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto"

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  "Changes"

 "Unconditional Love"

 "Baby Don't Cry (Keep Ya Head Up II)"

 "Until the End of Time"

 "Letter 2 My Unborn"

 "Thugz Mansion"

 "Still Ballin'"

 "Runnin' (Dying to Live)"

 "One Day at a Time (Em's Version)"

 "Thugs Get Lonely Too"

 "Ghetto Gospel"

 "Untouchable"

 "Pac's Life"

 "Playa Cardz Right"

 "I Don't Give a Fuck"

 "Runnin' from tha Police"

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 "Are U Still Down"

 "Panther Power"

 "Gotta Get Mine"

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