TUPAC SHAKUR

BACKGROUND

• Tupac a. Shakur
• Born lesane parish brooks
• June 6/16/1971
• East Harlem, NYC, NY
• Attended Baltimore school of arts around age 12

*The cAreer*

• Started with digital underground in the the early 90s
• Left for solo career
• Released 2pAcalypse now in 1991
• His music talked about police brutality, fascism, and inner city life
• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXwmDGJAB8

• Career cont.
• His second LP Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z did better then his first
• He had a lot more commercial success thanks to better production
• It got a 5 out of 5 in rolling stone album guide

LEGAL ISSUES

• 10/1991 - $10 million settlement for his brutal beating for jaywalking
• 11/1993 - rape charge, appealed
• Served 120 days for violating terms of release of bail

MUSICAL SUCESS

• Both his next two solo albums All Eyez on Me and Me Against the world went platinum
• These two albums are acclaimed as two beset rap albums both selling over 75 million copies worldwide
• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb1ZvUDvLDY

East coast v West coast

• 11/30/1994- Visited B.I.g. At Quad Recording studio and ambushed and shot 5 times
• Biggie Smalls and his producer Sean diddy combs said they had nothing to do with the attack , but Pac blamed them
• He released a diss song towards them called ''hit me up'' 5 days after releasing himself out of hospital after the shooting

ACTING CAREER

• Outside of rapping , he was a pretty successful rapper
• He appeared in the movie nothing but trouble as a cameo, but starred in his next few crimes.
• He was one of the first few rappers to be. Successful actor while rapping
• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QsWto8p7t1E
• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iMHo2TAxRYo

DEATH

• After we released from prison after alleged sexual assaults, He changed his stage name to Makaveli. He released his fifth and finial album ''The Dom Killiminati: the 7 day theory
• He died shortly before the release of his album in a drive by shorty in Las Vegas

INFLUENCES

• Influenced many rappers such as nas, eminem, jay-z, j.cole, Kendrick lamar
• Help change rap from just rhymes to putting more passion into each track and telling a story almost like poetry
• Almost any rapper would say that either Tupac or biggie Smalls inspired them
• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0N642_6QBtc