The Life Of Tupac Amaru Shakur

The Life Of Tupac Amaru ShakurTupac Amaru Shakur, in addition know as 2political action committee, Makaveli, or political action committee was an iconic American Rapper, Actor, and affectionate Activist. Shakurs im epoch as a stumper, and his Thug-Life persona, appealed to fans across the demesne and around the world. He is one of the popflank selling music artificers worldwide, and considered as one of the best and the close to influential Rap Artist ever. Tupacs life was unfortunately exclude short, after he was shot to death in 1996, at the age of 25, scarce his legacy lives on to this daylight.2Pac was born on June 16, 1971 in eastside Harlem section of Manhattan, in New York City. His sustain is Afeni Shakur, who was an active genus Ph on the wholeus of the distance Panther Party in the late sixties and septenaryties, and his biological incur is Billy Garland, who to a fault was a Black Panther member. Tupac was born a month after his mom was acquitted on more th an cl charges, which were charges against the U.S. government by the Panthers. His mother put his birth name as Lesane Parish Crooks, to disguise his true identity, because she fe bed that her enemies would attack her son. However, in 1972 after Afeni had separated from Garland, and had wed Mutulu Shakur (2Pacs Step-Father), she renamed 2Pac, Tupac Amaru Shakur, after an Incan ruler who was sen tennerced to death by the Spaniards, the name Tupac Amaru means, glossy Serpent, in the Inca language. Shakur had a half-sister, Sekyiwa, who was ii geezerhood one-year-older than him, and an antiquateder stepbrother, Mopreme Shakur, who appeared on some of his recordings.2Pac was surrounded by struggle, incarceration, murder, and more il licit activities from an early age. His mother had ties to drugs, his stepfather was wanted by the FBI, his godfather was convicted of murder and more. When he was twelve years old his mother enrolled him in Harlems 127th Street Repertory Ensemble, wh ere he started learning and practicing acting. In 1986, the family moved to Baltimore, Maryland. At Baltimore he completed two years at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, and then transferred to the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studied acting, jazz, numbers and ballet. Pac used to have blow competitions with school mates and friends, and would ever win. And even though he did not have flashy, trendy clothes, he was very popular because of his personality, good sense of humor, rapping skills, and his ability to mix in with a variety of crowds. During those years, Pac in like manner developed a mingy relationship with Jada Pinkett Smith, and there relationship lasted until his death. In June 1988, the Shakur family moved yet again, this meter to Marin City, California. Here 2Pac attended Tamalpais High School. In 1989 Shakur started to take poetry classes of Leila Steinberg. Steinberg unionised a concert for Tupac, and a former stem of his called Strictly Dope. This concert led to Tupac being signed, and becoming set up with the rap group Digital Underground. In 1990 Pac was hired as the groups roadie, and back up dancer.From then on, Pacs rapping career began. His skills were beginning de neverthelessed in 1991, as Pac had free-spoken turns in popular melodic phrases by Digital Underground. He began to rap with the group, and he was in their music videos. Then Pac decided to go solo. after in 1991, he released his first solo album, 2Pacalypse Now. His debut album did not sell too well at first, because of marketing troubles, until Interscope Records started to sell his record. In 1993, Pac released his second record, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. This record did better than the first, with progress to songs wish Keep Ya Head Up and I Get almost which featured members of Digital Underground. Later that year 2Pac formed the group Thug Life, with his friends, and he considered the concept of Thug Life as a doctrine of life.As his fame as a rapp er started, Tupacs troubles with the authority also began and increased. In late 1991, Pac had tried to a file a ten million dollar civil suit against Oakland Police Department, claiming that he was viciously beaten for jaywalking. More problems followed. In 1992, a Texas trooper was killed by a teenager, who was listening to 2Pacalypse Now. This raised a lot of media controversy. The Vice President of the nation at the time, Dan Quayle, demanded that the album be withdrawn from music stores and the media across the nation, and denounced the album, face it has no place in our society. However Interscope refused, and Shakur verbalise that his album aimed at the problems facing young black males, even though it was criticized for its images of violence towards fairness enforcement, and graphic language. In 1992, Tupac had an incident with people in Marin City, in which guess was involved, this eventually led to a wrongful death suit against him in 1995, stating that his shooting killed a six year old in Marin City. Tests proved that neither Pac nor his entourage was the shooter. Criminal charges were not sought, and Tupac settled with the family of the son with an amount between three hundred to quintette hundred gm dollars. In late 1993, Pac and his friends had an altercation with two Atlanta off-duty jurisprudence officers, again shooting was involved. One of the police was aerated with firing at Shakurs car, and afterward lying to the police during investigation, but all charges were dropped against all parties. In 1994, he was convicted of attacking a former employer while on a music video set, and was sentenced to fifteen days in jail for that. A big case against Shakur was in November 1993, when Pac and a couple of his friends were charged with sexually abusing a woman in a hotel room. The woman criminate numerous charges against Pac and his friends, but Pac denied the charges. He claimed that he had anterior relations with the woman in his h otel room, and that she revisited his hotel room, when the acts she claimed took place. He also claimed that he had fall asleep shortly after she arrived, and he woke up to her accusations and threats. Most charges were dropped, but Pac was convicted of sexual abuse and was sentenced to one and a half years in a correctional facility. He later on wrote in his songs, how he is not and can never be a rapist.As if the legal problems were not enough, 2Pac was robbed and shot on the night of November 30, 1994, the night before the finding of fact in his sexual abuse trial was to be announced. Tupac was shot five times and robbed after entering the lobby of Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan. He was shot by two armed men in army material. Doctors at the Bellevue Hospital, where he was taken immediately after the incident, stated that he had received five bullet wounds, two in the head, two in the groin and one through the arm and thigh. Tupac checked out of the hospital three hours aft er the surgery, against doctors orders. And he entered the courthouse in a wheelchair the day after, where he was found guilty for sexual abuse, and sentenced to a year and a half to four years in prison on February 6, 1995. Tupac would later accuse Sean Combs, large-mouthedgie Smalls, Andre Harrell for the shooting, he also suspected his close friend/associate, ruttish Stretch Walker. This accusation heated the West-Coast East-Coast Rivalry.The Prison Sentence was a study experience in Pacs Life. He began serving his sentence at the Clinton punitive Facility on February 14, 1995. Shortly afterwards, Pac released his album, Me Against the humanity, which became multi-platinum. He is the only artist to have an album at number one on the billboard 200, while serving a prison sentence. The album broke records, like the highest first week sales for a solo male rap artist at the time. Shakur married his long-time girlfriend while in prison, Keisha Morris, on April 4, 1995, but they later divorced in 1996. Also during his sentence, Pac wrote a screenplay, read many books by Niccolo Machiavelli, Sun Tzus The Art of War, and other political philosophy and strategy works. After serving eleven months of his sentence, in October 1995, Pac was released mainly due to the enchant of Suge ennoble, the CEO of finis haggle Records. Suge Knight posted a 1.4 million dollar bail in counterchange for 2Pac to release three albums under the Death Row Label.Being a member of Death Row Records was a major part of 2Pac Rapping Career. When Pac was released he formed the group called Outlaw Immortalz, with his close people. And he went to song recording immediately. He released the double album All Eyez on Me, which were the first two albums part of his three-album commitment. The album sold over nine million copies. Pac continued his recordings with Death Row, even with the increasing problems with the label, when Dr. Dre left as producer to start his own label, Aftermath. Pa c produced hundreds of track, during his time with Death Row, and most of the songs were released after his death. 2Pac also released songs like Hit Em Up with the Outlawz, lyrically assaulting Biggie and others associated with him and Bad Boy Productions. This was during the East Coast West Coast Conflict. 2Pac was also close with Rapper Snoop Dogg. On July 4, 1996 Pac performed at the admit of Blues with the Outlawz, Snoop Dogg, and Tha Dogg Pound, which was his last live performance. 2Pac also released his fifth and nett studio album under the name Makaveli (from his influence of Niccolo Machiavelli), the album was The endure Killuminati The 7 Day Theory, the album was completed (the lyrics, production and more) within seven days, hence the name. Pac also had plans of starting Makaveli Records, which would have included Outlawz, Wu-Tang Clan, Big Daddy Kane, Big Syke, and Gang Starr.The Great Rappers life was unfortunately limited. On the night of September 7, 1996, Shakur att ended the Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon boxing match at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas. At the time Pac was engaged to Kidada Jones. After the push Pac and his entourage along with Suge and his assistants assaulted Orlando Baby Lane Anderson, a member of the Southside Crips, because earlier that year Anderson and fellow Crips had robbed a member of the Death Row entourage. After the brawl Shakur got in Suges black 1996 BMW and they were on their way to the Death Row owned Club 662, and on the way, while at a red light, a white, four-door Cadillac rolled to their right side, opened a window and fired gunshots. Shakur was fatally wounded, and Suge was injured. They were rushed to the University Medical Center. Shakur went through many surgeries, life-support and more, unfortunately on the afternoon of September 13, 1996, Shakur died of internal bleeding, and his mother make the decision to tell the doctors to stop the attempts to revive him. He was pronounced exanimate at 403 p.m. and the official cause was respiratory failure and cardiac arrest along with multiple gunshot wounds. Shakurs body was cremated and some of his ashes were later mixed with marijuana and smoked by members of the Outlawz. The murder case is a cold case. Due to lack of progress on the case by law enforcement, many independent investigations and theories have emerged about the murder. However, the main suspects are not found, and the case has not been solved.Tupac Shakur was not only a rapper. He was an actor he played in several movies before his death, and was going away to release more, if he had not died. And he also was a fond activist. Through his music and image, he cried out to higher authorities to require out for the people in the slums and the ghettos. In his songs he explains the troubles of the people in the urban areas, he reflects on how they need help, and also gets mad at how the government does not care. He is a very big influence to people worldwide for who he represent ed, as in a young black male, who came out of the slums, became famous, and wanted to make a change. He was also a strong poet his works are very inspirational and influential. In many interviews, 2Pac has claimed that he will soon try to start a political party, for the people who are not represented by the government, including African-Americans, Mexicans, Armenians and more. He was a very complex artist. He had the Thug-Life persona, of not a gangster, but a thug, a black male from the streets, who held his own, yet he had a soft side, and expressed it in his music. For example he addresses to Black women in the ghettos to be strong, he motivates them like in Keep Ya Head Up, and he also expresses his soft side through songs such as sound Mama and more. He read works of Machiavelli, Maya Angelou and more. And he has said, Im not saying Im gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will scintillate the brain that will change the world.Pacs legacy lives on to this day, and he is known world-wide. Rappers today always make references to him. About.com named him the most influential rapper. The Guinness Book of World Records recognized him as the highest selling rapper, he was inducted in the Hip vamoose Hall of Fame in 2002, he has make it has Number 1 MC on MTV in 2003, fans have voted him as the greatest rapper of all time in the Vibe magazine poll in 2004. And he is also in the Definitive 200 list of the Rock and shed Hall of Fame. He is known as the King of Rap by many. His mother has founded the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, and the foundation has opened the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts. Hes been in several movies, many documentaries and movies have been released about him after his death such as Tupac Resurrection, many books have been written about his life, and five and counting albums have been made with his music, and recorded works, after his death. The Legacy of Tupac Amaru Shakur lives on today, through his fans worldwide.