Tupac's music addresses such topics as the hardships of growing up around violence in United States ghettos, poverty, racism, and his feuds with fellow rappers. On September 13, 1996, six days after the shooting, Tupac died of respiratory failure and cardiac arrest at University Medical Centre, Las Vegas. On September 7, 1996, Tupac was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. In exchange, Shakur would release three records under the label, with his fifth album, the first ever double-disc album in hip hop history All Eyez on Me counting as two albums. After serving eleven months of his sentence, Shakur was released from prison on bail by Marion "Suge" Knight, the CEO of Death Row Records. Following the incident, Shakur grew suspicious that other figures in the rap industry had prior knowledge of the shooting and did not warn him the controversy would help spark the later East Coast-West Coast feud. The day before the guilty verdict was issued, Shakur was shot five times in a recording studio lobby in Manhattan, wounding him.
Most notably, he was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993 (although he vigorously denied the claims). Shakur became the target of various lawsuits, and experienced legal troubles. Tupac's debut album, 2Pacalypse Now, gained critical recognition and backlash for its controversial lyrics. In 1990, he was hired as a backup dancer for the alternative rap group Digital Underground. In 1988, his family moved to California, where he would reside for the rest of his life. He has been ranked by many fans, critics, and industry insiders as the greatest rapper ever.īorn in New York City, Tupac frequently found his family changing place of residence. Shakur is known for the political, economic, and messages of racial equality found in much of his work. Most of Shakur's songs are about growing up around violence and hardship in ghettos, racism, problems in society, and sometimes his feuds with fellow rappers.
This includes over 44.5 million sales in the United States alone. He is known in the Guinness Book of World Records as the top-selling hip-hop artist, having sold over 73 million albums worldwide. He is known by various alias such as: 2Pac, Makaveli and Pac. Tupac Amaru Shakur ( J– September 13, 1996) was an American rap artist, actor, activist, and poet. Rapper, Actor, Producer, Poet, Screenwriter, Activist Parish Lesane Crooks Later changed to Tupac Amaru Shakur