Tupac died which year

History Vault. Middle East. Art, Literature, and Film History. Civil War. Sign Up. World War II. I watched them come and go, and you saw the worried looks on their faces. You just knew that this time was different. On the Thursday after the shooting, talk began to circulate that, although Shakur had allegedly lost a lung, he was recovering from multiple surgeries.

So you better believe they saw that car come up and the gun come out. They will not tell you. According to Peter, Suge Knight showed up for police questioning three days after the shooting — with three lawyers in tow. This ultimately led to nobody being arrested for the crime. But if no one in the Death Row crew was talking, everyone else was, as theories about who was behind the shooting proliferated in the weeks and months that followed. Mean, who grew up with Shakur in their native New York City.

The voice people got to know and love was intact pretty early. From playing in the streets to wondering what we were going to eat, he was always creative and had a plan. Above all else, though, he was a force of nature on the mic: It was as if he had jet engines for lungs, such was the power and command with which he delivered his words.

Comment your favorite song of his below. Only members can comment. Become a member. Already a member? Log In. Tupac did go to jail for 15 days in for assaulting the director Allen Hughes, who had fired him from the set of the movie Menace II Society for being disruptive. Before Tupac released his third album, there was more trouble. In November , he was shot multiple times in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio, Quad, by two young Black men. Tupac believed his rap rival Biggie Smalls was behind the shooting, for which nobody has ever been charged.

Smalls always denied he knew anything; in Dexter Isaac, a New York prisoner serving a life sentence for an unrelated crime, claimed he was paid to steal from Tupac by the artist manager and mogul James "Henchman" Rosemond, and shot the rapper during the robbery. Their rivalry was fast becoming hip hop's most famous — and ugliest — beef.

Within three months, Tupac was murdered. In February , Tupac was sentenced to between one and a half and four and a half years of jail time for sexually abusing a female fan. The case related to an incident that had taken place in Tupac's suite in the New York Parker Meridien hotel in November Tupac maintained that he had not raped the girl, although he confessed to the Vibe magazine journalist Kevin Powell that he could have prevented others who were present in the suite at the time from doing so.

While Tupac was in prison on rape charges, he was visited by Suge Knight, the notorious label boss of Death Row records. The condition was that Tupac sign on to Death Row.

Tupac duly signed. He was released from the high-security Dannemora facility in New York in October At the same time as he was glorifying an outlaw lifestyle for Death Row, Tupac was financing an at-risk youth center, bankrolling South Central sports teams, setting up a telephone helpline for young people with problems — all noted in Robert Sam Anson's Vanity Fair article, published after Tupac's death.

Tupac has released a total of 11 platinum albums: four during his career, with seven more released posthumously. To date, Tupac has sold more than 75 million records worldwide.

Tupac's first album as a solo artist was 2Pacalypse Now. Although it did not yield any hits, it sold a respectable , copies and established Tupac as an uncompromising social commentator on songs such as "Brenda's Got a Baby" — which narrates an underaged mother's fall into destitution — and "Soulja's Story," which controversially spoke of "blasting" a police officer and "droppin' the cop.

The song was cited as a motivation for a real-life cop killing by a teenage car thief called Ronald Ray Howard and was condemned by the then-U. Vice President Dan Quayle. It continued in the same socially conscious vein as his debut. On the gold-certified single "Keep Ya Head Up," he empathized with "my sisters on the welfare," encouraging them to "please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up.

The album featured contributions from Tupac's stepbrother, Mopreme. Mopreme became a member of the hip-hop group Thug Life, which Tupac started and which released the album Thug Life: Volume 1 in When Tupac's third solo album came out on March 14, , he was in jail. Its title, Me Against the World , could not have been more apt.

It reached No. Coker at Rolling Stone. But there was vulnerability, too — lead single, "Dear Mama," was a tear-jerking tribute to his mother, Afeni, that hit number 9 on the Billboard Hot in April With his new hip-hop group Outlawz debuting on the album, All Eyez on Me was an unapologetic celebration of the thug lifestyle, eschewing socially conscious lyrics in favor of gangsta-funk hedonism and menace.

Within two months of its release, All Eyez on Me had been certified five-times double-platinum. It would eventually become diamond certified.