Despite a musical career of only six years, Tupac Shakur is one of the greatest and most influential musicians of all time.
The multi-award-winning rapper, who was also an actor and activist, is best known for songs like ‘California Love’, ‘Dear Mama’ and ‘Hit Em Up’, which focus on East-West hip-hop beef. -West Coast in which he was involved at the time.
the biography
Tupac Shakur was born Croat to the parish of Lesane Afeni Shakur and Billy Garland on June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, New York. A year after his birth, his mother renamed him Tupac Amaru as a Peruvian revolutionary fighter. She also gave him the surname of her new husband, Mutulu Shakur.
Around the age of fifteen, the Shakur family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School for a year before transferring to the Baltimore School for the Arts. It was during his time here that he began to explore his rapping abilities and also became very close friends with Jada Pinkett Smith.
By 1988, the Shakur family was on their way again, this time to Marin City, California, where he enrolled at Tamalpais High School and became heavily involved in the school’s arts and theater department. . He also took poetry lessons with Leila Steinberg, who introduced him to the hip-hop group Digital Underground.
With Digital Underground, Tupac’s career as a musician took off. He first featured on their track “Same Song” in 1991 before becoming an unofficial member of the group. Later that year, he released his debut album, “2pacalypse Now”, which received rave reviews from the underground hip-hop scene. However, songs like “Brenda’s Got a Baby” and “Trapped” addressed the sociopolitical issues America made him a poster boy for the violence perpetrated by young black men.
Tupac Shakur released his second album, ‘Strictly4 My NIGGAZ..’ in February 1993. The album debuted at number 24 on the Billboard 200 and sold over 1.3 million copies in 2004. His third album, ‘Me Against The World’, was released in 1995 and was hailed as one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time. The album won Best Rap Album at the 1996 Soul Train Awards, and by 2011 had sold over 3.5 million copies in the United States alone.
In 1996, Tupac Shakur released his fourth studio album “All Eyez on Me”. The album sold over 5 million copies after two months of release and won the 1997 award for Soul Train R&B/Soul or Rap Album of the Year. His fifth and final album, ‘The 7 Day Theory’, recorded and produced in less than a week in August 1996, peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. In June 1999, it was certified four times platinum.
Is Tupac Shakur dead or alive?
Tupac Shakur is dead. The Death Row records rapper died ahead of the release of his fifth album from trauma caused by a shooting that took place in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 7, 1996, after attending a boxing match between Bruce Seldon to Mike Tyson.
Tupac was hit by four bullets; two in the chest, one in the arm and one in the thigh before being taken to hospital. Despite spending six days in the critical care unit at the University of Southern Nevada Medical Center, Tupac died of respiratory failure that led to cardiac arrest. His body was then cremated.
There have been several conspiracy theories alleging that Tupac Shakur is still alive. Believers of this plot point to lyrics in his music where he supposedly implied that he was pretending to die.
His net worth
Tupac Shakur reportedly had a net worth of $3.5 million before his death. He achieved this through sales of his various albums, concert tickets, and other film and acting roles. That figure more than quadrupled after his death, with his family’s estate now exceeding $40 million, thanks to posthumous sales of published and unreleased record albums.
Family
Upon his death, Tupac Shakur left behind his mother, Afeni Shakur, née Alice Faye Williams, his biological father, Billy Garland, and his half-sister Sekiyiwa Shakur.
He also left behind an ex-wife whom he married while in prison. The marriage, however, was called off after he was released on bail.
Who are his children?
Tupac Shakur had no children before his death. Several reports claimed that he had a daughter, but these reports cannot be proven.
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