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2pac 1971 - 1996

Rap star. Born Tupac Amaru Shakur on June 16, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York. The son of active Black Panthers, Shakur grew up with his single mom in Baltimore where he attended the Baltimore School for the Performing Arts. Though acting and music were an outlet from the violence on the streets, Shakur was arrested eight times by the time he was 20. He was also the subject of two wrongful-death lawsuits, one involving a six-year-old boy who was killed after getting caught in the crossfire between Shakur's gang and a rival group. After moving to Oakland, California, Shakur helped form the rap group Digital Underground in the early 1990s as a dancer and later a guest rapper. He released his first solo album, 2Pacalypse Now, in 1992, which went gold. The following year, he followed with Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., which quickly reached platinum with the Top 10 hits "I Get Around" and "Keep Ya Head Up.” In 1995, Me Against the World established him as one of the most popular rappers of the 1990s. Despite a stint in prison, he released his best-selling album in 1996 with Death Row Records, All Eyez on Me, which sold more than six million copies. Shakur augmented his fame as a rap star by appearing in several films throughout his career, including Poetic Justice, Bullet and Gridlock'd. In 1996, while riding in a car in Las Vegas, Shakur was shot and killed by unknown assailants. His murder has yet to be solved, though it has lead to increased scrutiny into the rap music industry and the feuds between the East and West coasts. Since his death, numerous unreleased tracks and compilations have been produced, including the double album, Until the End of Time, in 2001.
Discography
2pacalypse now Release Date: November 12, 1991 on Interscope Records	Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. Release Date: February 16, 1993 on Interscope records
thug life vol. 1 Release Date: September 26, 1994 on Interscope Records	me against the world Release Date: February 27, 1995 on Interscope Records
all eyez on me Release Date: February 13, 1996 on Deathrow Records	Makaveli The 7day Theory Release date: November 5, 1996 on Deathrow Records
r u still down release date: November 25, 1997 on amaru/jive	greatest hits book 1 Release date: november 24, 1998 on interscope
STILL I RISE Release Date: December 21, 1999 on Deathrow	until the end of time Release date: march 27, 2001 on Amaru/Tha Row/Interscope
Better dayz Release Date: November 26, 2002 on interscope	Resurrection Release Date: November 4, 2003 on amaru/interscope
Filmography
	Juice Release Date: January 17, 1992 Director: Ernest R. Dickerson Writers: Gerard Brown and Ernest R. Dickerson Musical Score: Bomb Squad Available on: Paramount Home Video Length: 95m Rating: R Box Office Sales: $20.15 million Cast: Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur (Bishop), Jermaine Hopkins, Khalil Kain, Cindy Herron, Vincent Laresca, Samuel L. Jackson
	Poetic Justice Release date: July 23, 1993 Director: John Singleton Writer: John Singleton Musical Score: Stanley Clarke Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Companies Available on: Columbia Tristar Home Video and Baker & Taylor Home Video Length: 109m Rating: R Box office sales: $27.5 million Cast: Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur (Lucky), Tyra Ferrell, Regina King, Joe Torry, Maya Angelou, Tone Loc, Q-Tip, Keith Washington
	Above The Rim Release date: March 23, 1994 Director: Jeff Pollack Writer: Jeff Pollack Musical Score: Marcus Miller Studio: New Line Cinema Available on: New Line Home Video Length: 97m Rating R Box office sales: $16.9 million Cast: Duane Martin, Tupac Shakur (Birdie), Leon, Marlon Wayans, Tonya Pinkins, Bernie Mac
	Bullet Release Date: January 21, 1997 Director, Julien Temple Writers: Bruce Rubenstein and Sir Eddie Cook Studio: New Line Home Video Available on: New Line Home Video Length: 96m Cast: Mickey Rourke, Tupac Shakur (Tank), Ted Levine, Adrien Brody
	Gridlock'd Release Date: January 29, 1997 Director: Vondie Curtis Hall Writer: Vondie Curtis Hall Studio: Gramercy Pictures Musical Score: Stewart Copeland Length: 91m Rating: R Cast: Tim Roth, Tupac Shakur (Spoon), Thandie Newton
	Gang Related (Criminal Intent) Release Date: Fall 1997 Director: Jim Kouf Writer: Jim Kouf Studio: Orion Pictures Cast: James Belushi, Tupac Shakur (Rodriguez), Lela Rochon, Dennis Quaid
Filmography links and data courtesy of The Internet Movie Database.
Books
	Holler If You Hear Me Author: Michael Eric Dyson Paperback: 224 pages Published by: Basic Books Publication date: August 14, 2001 ISBN number: 046501755X Description: a Baptist minister, reveals the complexity of Shakur and shows why even five years after his death his records, poetry and films continue to sell. "He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all," writes Dyson. "He was more than the sum of his artistic parts." Complementing Dyson's articulate perspectives on the short life and extraordinary impact of the icon are his emotive interviews with writer Toni Morrison, actress Jada Pinkett Smith (Shakur proposed to her, but was turned down), rapper Mos Def and more than a dozen others.
	Rebel For The Hell Of It Author: Armond White Paperback: 200 pages Published by: Thunder's Mouth Pr Publication date: September 1, 1997 ISBN number: 1560251220 Description: In this first, full-length biography of the rapper, critic Armond White attempts to make sense of Shakur's life and death, examining the larger issues of rap and ghetto culture, exploitation in the music industry, and the black struggle for self-expression. 16 photos are in this book available.
	Tough Love Author: Michael Datcher (Editor), Kierna Dawsey (Introduction), Mutulu Shakur, Kwame Alexander (Editor) Paperback: ? Published by: Alexander Pub Group Publication date: November 1996 ISBN number: 1888018054 Description: More than twenty young Black writers are gathered in this collection to offer a compelling blend of insightful and critical observations of the death of Tupac Shakur, hip-hop's premier "gangsta" rapper. If you look for more information about the LIFE of tupac shakur then this book is not the one for you.
	Tupac Amaru Shakur 1971-1996 Author: Quincey Jones, the Editors of Vibe Magazine (Editor), Vibe Magazine, Quincy Jones, Alan Light (Preface) Paperback: 159 Published by: Three Rivers Pr Publication date: Oktober 1998 ISBN number: 0609802178 Description: A sort of gangsta Festschrift, a biography made up of disparate articles assembled by the editors of Vibe magazine, celebrates the late superstar Tupac Shakur. Predictably, it features the occasional foray into verboten vocabulary, although not enough, probably, to provoke the tut-tutting tempest hip-hop culture often inspires. Call the lingo fittingly gritty. Shakur, more than most pop idols, lived his image. The book follows his trials, legal and otherwise, from a childhood marked by frequent uprootings, his mother's membership in the Black Panthers, and rampant drug use, to the rise of the volatile East Coast^-West Coast rap rivalry that eventually claimed his life.
	The Killing of Tupac Shakur Author: Cathy Scott Paperback: 182 Published by: Huntington Press Publication date: September 1997 ISBN number: 092971217X Description: Who did it and why? Tupac Amaru Shakur was the most popular rapper in the world. No one symbolized the violence at the heart of gangsta rap more than Tupac, and he ultimately fell victim to that violence, gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas at age 25. This raw, no-holds-barred account discloses new information, including exclusive photo evidence, about the unsolved murder of Tupac: the failed investigation, the rap wars, the killing of Biggie Smalls, the Bloods-Crips connection, and the many possible motives leading to the murder that rocked the music world.
	Got Your Back Author: Frank Alexander, Heidi Sigmund Cuda, Heidi Siegmund Cuda (Contributor), Cuda Alexander Paperback: 240 Published by: Griffin Trade Paperback Publication date: December 1999 ISBN number: 0312242999 Description: Got Your Back details the exploits of one of the most famous rappers of all time. The drugs, the women, the violence, the money--all provided fuel to the fire that was Tupac's life. As his platinum-selling, posthumously released albums prove, Tupac lives on through his music. Complete with exclusive new interview material with Tupac's mother, Afeni, Got Your Back provides an insider's view of a life gone away.
	The Rose That Grew From Concrete Author: Tupac Shakur, Nikki Giovanni, Leila Steinberg (Introduction) Paperback: 149 Published by: Simon & Schuster Publication date: November 1999 ISBN number: 0671028448 Description: Here now, newly discovered, are Tupac's most honest and intimate thoughts conveyed through the pure art of poetry -- a mirror into his enigmatic life and its many contradictions. Written in his own hand at the age of nineteen, they embrace his spirit, his energy...and his ultimate message of hope.