1^st Source” Rolling Stone- Tupac Bio

• Most influential and self-destructive pop star of the 90s
• Husky voice= severe denial
• Loved and praised strong women
• Art and reality became a non-factor after his murder in Las Vegas in 1996
• Son of Black Panther members (Billy Garland and Afeni Shakur)
• Shakur is Arabic for “Thankful of God”
• Mother was pregnant with him in jail (after birth he was named Tupac Amaru for an Incan Chief whose name means “shining serpent”
• Spent his younger days in the Bronx and Harlem
• Age 13: acting debut in “A Raisin In the Sun” at an Apollo Theater
• Attended Baltimore School of Arts before dropping out at age 17, and staying in Marin County, California
• 1991: Signed with Interscope and released the album 2pacalypse (#64 for Pop and #12 for R&B) consisted of a mixture of inner-city pictures and messages of racial strength
• Tupac’s police record was longer than his music hit list
• 1992: Arrested because he was accused of killing a 6-year old boy who was killed by a bullet caused by a fight between Tupac and 2 others
• 1993: charged in Atlanta with shooting 2 police officers who were off-duty
• Tupac was a target due to the hype between the West Coast v. East Coast hip hop “beef”

Source 2: Tupac’s final words revealed by police officer on scene of murder

• 1996: drive-by murder, Tupac’s last words weren’t seen as peaceful
• “He looked at me, and he took a breath to get the words out, and he opened his mouth….And then the words came out: “F**k you.”
• Shot many times on September 7, 1996 (he was leaving a boxing match with Suge Knight [Death Row Records CEO]
• Rappers and bodyguards got into a fight with a 21-year old Crip member named Orlando Anderson in a Grand casino lobby
• A man shot out the back window of the car Tupac was in, in a white Cadillac after pulling u beside him and Suge Knight
• Tupac never spoke another word, he went into surgery, bled heavily, possibly going into a comma and that he never came out of, said one of the cops

Source 3: Tupac Shakur (Actor, Rapper 1971-1996)

• A sensitive, talented, troubled soul
• Died 6 days later after he was gunned down (Sept. 7, 1996)
• Murder has never been solved
• Spokesperson for his generation and those who struggled for equality like him
• After he died, he became an icon symbolizing noble struggle
• His biggest battle was himself, sometimes
• Tupac’s body was cremated and members of his old band Outlawz said they had smoked some of his ashes in honor of him
• His mom said she would scatter them in Soweta, South Africa “the birthplace of his ancestors”
• Thought his father was dead all his life
• “I felt I needed my daddy to show me the ropes and I didn’t have one”
• Has a younger sister named Sekiya who is 2 years younger than him
• Tupac to 2pac: Manager Atron Gregory got him a gig as a roadie/groupie and dancer for the Hip hop group Digital Underground in 1990
• 1^st Album sold 500,000 copies and he was then established as an uncompromising social commentator on songs like “Brenda’s Got A Baby” (tells a story about young mother’s who are in poverty)
• He often complained that he was misunderstood, he felt like his sensitive music went unnoticed which is why he incorporated more drug and killing in his music
• He believed Biggie was behind the shooting November 1994, when he was shot in Manhattan recording studio by 2 black men
• Biggie denied everything, but they arrested Dexter Isaac who’s serving a life sentence, claiming he was paid to steal from Tupac per an artist manager
• Months after that (February 1995) Tupac was sentenced between 1 1/2- 4 ½ years of jai for sexually abusing a female

Source 4: ‘All Eyes On Me’: The Legal Battle Over Bringing Tupac’s Life to the Screen

• Sources say that family is not a fan of the movie
• Co-producers were Morgan Creek and Emmett/Fula
• The problem started in 2009 when Morgan Creek sued Amani in an argument about Shakur’s life rights
• In 2011 it was settled with Morgan Creek getting permission to continue
• The project remained on hold until 2015 with the option in the process of being terminated
• Shakur’s camp said the movie didn’t do anything to lift their spirits and it wasn’t accurate
• Afeni (his mother) died May 2016: wasn’t listed as an executive producer although she had every right to receive credit

Source 5: Tupac Shaku (American Rapper & Actor)

• 2acalypse’s tone and content was much closer to the works of Public Enemy and West Coast ‘gansta rappers’ N.W.A
• After assaulting the girl in 1994, he was incarcerated when ‘Me Against the World; (3^rd Album) was released in 1995

Source 6: Tupac Shakur died 20 years ago today. Read front page story from 1996.

• Described as a “Ganster Rapper”

Source 7: Tupac Shakur Biography

• Gemini
• Music consisted of street violence, ghettos, sex, gangs and other social problems he faced growing up
• He studied poetry, jazz, acting and ballet at the Baltimore School for the Arts
• Talented rapper, won a lot of competitions while in school
• Won the Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap Album in 1996 for ‘Me Against the World’
• Jada Pinkett was a very close friend of his
• He was briefly married to his longtime girlfriend Kiesha Morris from 1995 to 1996

Source 8: After 21 Years, Suge Knight Finally Reveals the Two People Who Killed Tupac Shakur

• It has been known for years that Reggie Wright Jr. and his ex-wife Sharitha were behind the murder of Tupac and attempted murder of Suge Knight” said Knight’s attorney Thaddeus Culpepper lies told during testimonies, one of them being Tupac faked his own death
• B.I.G (Notorius) has also been accused

Source 9: Video of Tupac

• Came out with “One Nation” to show that the East Coast and West Coast (Crips and Bloods) can love one another

Source 10: The Killing of Tupac Shakur 3^rd Edition

• In the new updated and expanded third edition of this acclaimed biography, Las Vegas crime writer Cathy Scott has finally been able to include the previously unpublished chapter featuring the account of that last fateful night from “Big Frank,” the rapper’s now-deceased personal bodyguard.
• The music of Tupac Shakur is the legacy of his life.
• includes exclusive photo evidence (including of Tupac’s autopsy), is the evidence of the unsolved murder of Tupac Shakur: the many possible motives, the failed investigation, the rap wars, the killing of Biggie Smalls, the Bloods-Crips connection, the Suge Knight and Death Row Records association

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