Is Tupac Still Alive or Dead?
Tupac Amaru Shakur was an American rapper and one of the most influential rappers. He was known to rap about social issues that affected the inner cities and his poetic lyrics. He sold over 75 million copies making him one of the best-selling music artists. He was born Lesane Parish Crooks in 1971 in East…
Tupac Amaru Shakur was an American rapper and one of the most influential rappers. He was known to rap about social issues that affected the inner cities and his poetic lyrics. He sold over 75 million copies making him one of the best-selling music artists.
He was born Lesane Parish Crooks in 1971 in East Harlem, New York. He was renamed at the age of one Tupac Amaru Shakur after Túpac Amaru II, a Spanish freedom fighter.
Tupac studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet at the Baltimore School for the Arts.
In 1989, Tupac was part of the rap group “Strictly Dope”. However he went solo in 1991 and recorded his first album 2Pacalypse Now, the album went gold.
Shakur’s third album was Me Against the World, it quickly topped the chart and earned him the 1996 Soul Train Music Awards for a best rap album.
In 1995, Tupac signed with Suge Knight’s Death Row Records. He recorded hit singles like How Do U Want It, California and released his album All Eyez on Me. The album went platinum and won Rap Album of the Year.
Is Tupac Still Alive or Dead?
In 1994, Shakur was shot at the Quad Studios but he was not killed. Some people speculated it was a set-up which fueled his beef with Notorious BIG.
On the night of September 7 1996, Tupac shot again while driving with Suge in Las Vegas.
He was struck four times, two bullets hit his chest. Sadly Tupac died on September 13, 1996, at the hospital. He was only 25 years old.