When was tupac built

You got this guy Romeo from the Bloods who falls for Juliet, a female from the Crips, and everybody in both gangs is against them. So they have to sneak out and they end up dead for nothing. Real tragic stuff. And look how Shakespeare busts it up with Macbeth. He creates a tale about this king's wife who convinces a happy man to chase after her and kill her husband so he can take over the country. After he commits the murder, the dude starts having delusions just like in a Scarface song.

I mean the king's wife just screws this guy's whole life up for nothing [ In an interview in Spain, American music journalist Chuck Philips said that what impressed him the most about Shakur was that he was a poet. Philips said, "I like sacred texts, myths, proverbs, and scriptures. It wasn't just the rhythm or the cadence.

I liked their attitude. It was protest music in a way nobody had ever thought about before. Tupac had so many sides. He was unafraid to write about his vulnerabilities. Shakur's debut album, 2Pacalypse Now , revealed his socially conscious side. On this initial release, Shakur helped extend the success of such rap groups as Boogie Down Productions , Public Enemy , X-Clan , and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five , as he became one of the first major socially conscious rappers from the West Coast.

He also showed his compassionate side with the anthem "Keep Ya Head Up", while simultaneously putting his legendary aggressiveness on display with the title track from the album Strictly 4 My N. He added a salute to his former group Digital Underground by including them on the playful track "I Get Around". Throughout his career, Shakur expressed an increasingly aggressive attitude on his subsequent albums.

The contradictory themes of social inequality and injustice, unbridled aggression, compassion, playfulness, and hope all continued to shape Shakur's work, as expressed in his incendiary album Me Against the World. Shakur described All Eyez on Me as a celebration of life, and the album was critically and commercially successful.

His style on 2Pacalypse Now was highly influenced by the social consciousness and Afrocentrism pervading hip hop in the late s and early s. All Eyez on Me was a change of style from his earlier works; while still containing socially conscious songs and themes, this album was heavily influenced by party tracks and tended to have a more "feel good" vibe than his earlier albums.

Shakur had several family members who were members of the Black Panthers: Mutulu Shakur, his step-father; Assata Shakur, his step-aunt; Billy Garland, his biological father; and Afeni Shakur, his mother. His father Billy Garland said Shakur's anger developed from his frustrations in being misunderstood. He particularly reacted when people questioned his commitment to the black community and the West Coast.

Shakur lived with Kidada Jones, his girlfriend, daughter of Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton, for several months until his death. Jones was waiting for Shakur in their Las Vegas hotel room when she was notified that he was shot. She rushed to the hospital and remained with him until he died from his injuries six days later.

Shakur publicly spoke out against interracial marriage in an interview with The Source magazine in , but later retracted these comments. He befriended fellow rappers Snoop Dogg and Freddie Foxxx , collaborating on songs with the pair and writing to Foxxx while in prison.

Many analysts currently describe him as a deist. He believed in Karma but rejected a literal afterlife and organized religion. His bandana tied into rabbit ears was considered by British writer Rob Marriott as one of hip-hop's most recognizable style choices.

According to his bodyguard and friend Frank Alexander, Shakur's favorite color was green. He wore a green tank-top on the night of his death. On August 22, , in Marin City, Shakur performed at an outdoor festival and stayed for an hour afterward signing autographs and pictures. A confrontation occurred and Shakur drew a legally registered Colt Mustang, and allegedly dropped it. As it was picked up by a member of his entourage, a bullet was discharged.

About yards 90 m away, Qa'id Walker-Teal, a 6-year-old boy, was riding his bicycle at a school playground nearby when he was fatally struck by a bullet in the forehead, killing him. Although the police matched the bullet to a. Marin County prosecutors have said they were stymied by a lack of witnesses. In , a wrongful death suit was brought against Shakur by Qa'id's mother.

The defense attorney acknowledged that the bullet that killed Qa'id was traced by authorities to a gun registered to Shakur. On April 5, , Shakur was charged with one count of felonious assault. He was accused of attempting to hit rapper Chauncey Wynn from the group M. The incident reportedly began when Shakur became angry and threw a microphone. Shakur pleaded guilty on September 14, , to a misdemeanor in exchange for the dismissal of the felonious-assault charge.

He was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 20 of which were suspended, and ordered to perform 35 hours of community service. In October , in Atlanta, two brothers and off-duty police officers, Mark and Scott Whitwell were with their wives celebrating Mrs.

Whitwell's passing of the state bar examination. The officers were drunk and in possession of stolen guns. As they crossed the street, a car with Shakur inside passed them or "almost struck them". The Whitwell's argued with the driver, Shakur, and the other passengers, who were joined by a second passing car. Shakur shot one officer in the buttocks and the other in the leg, back, or abdomen, according to varying news reports. Mark Whitwell was charged with firing at Shakur's car and later lying to the police during the investigation.

Shakur was charged with the shooting. Prosecutors dropped all charges against the parties. In November , Shakur and others were charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a hotel room. Shakur denied the charges. According to Shakur, he had prior relations days earlier with the woman which were consensual the woman testified she performed consensual oral sex on Shakur. The complainant claimed sexual assault after her second visit to Shakur's hotel room; she alleged that Shakur and his entourage raped her.

At trial, Shakur was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse, and acquitted of the weapons and sodomy charges. In October , Shakur's assault case was on appeal. After serving nine months of his sentence, Shakur was released from the Clinton Correctional Facility on October 12, On April 5, , a judge sentenced Shakur to serve days in jail for violating terms of his release on bail. On the night of November 30, , the day before the verdict in his sexual abuse trial was to be announced, Shakur was robbed and shot five times by three men in the lobby of Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan.

Shakur said that he believed the robbery was simply a setup for the attack, wondering why they would take jewelry and leave his Rolex watch. Three hours after surgery for his wounds, Shakur checked out of the Bellevue Hospital Center against doctor's orders. In the day that followed, he entered the courthouse in a wheelchair in the verdict hearing for his sexual abuse trial.

He was found guilty of three counts of molestation and found not guilty of six other charges, including sodomy, stemming from his arrest. Vibe changed the names of the accused assailants upon publication. And later, when Q, trying to get his life back together, slams his locker shut only to find Bishop standing there, it's a vision of one hell-born. The movie house gasps were loud and in unison. Tupac played Bishop-as-bogeyman ingeniously. Dickerson placed him throughout Juice as a cloaked figure--at one point put it, Tupac Shakur knew to give us a little God with our gangsta rap.

Tupac was at his best on Strictly 4 My N. On "Representin' 93," Tupac names the brothers he loves--and in , he was still referring to DU as his 'real niggaz. Listen and you can almost hear Shock-G in the studio telling 'Pac to lighten up a little bit--take a swim, have some sex, go platinum, live a little. Tupac was on his way to being deified or dead or both, is what everyone said.

We watched him in his black Versace, knowing exactly which was correct. In 's Poetic Justice Tupac is bald, extra slew-footed, and wears a huge nose ring. Much was made of Tupac playing a Regular Guy, not someone like Bishop, who was closer to what people believed to be Tupac's "real" personality, and therefore easy to play. He succeeded to a large degree, considering John Singleton's banal story line.

What hurt the film most was the coldness between Shakur and Jackson. She'd requested he take an HIV test before she would even kiss him, and the sizzle, if there had been any, was imperceptible on the screen.

In truth, Tupac wasn't easy around girls in his films or in his videos. There was bravado and awkwardness, but little smoothness. Burning bridges all over Hollywood's colored section, Tupac ended up in Above the Rim , playing a murderous gangsta basketball scout. In the film, Tupac's bandannas coordinate with his every outfit, neatly folded and painstakingly pressed.

He's like Doris Day at the beginning of 's Pillow Talk, perfectly dressed and bonneted and ready to rumble. Tupac's character, Birdie, was flimsily written, but Tupac fully dramatized the deadness of soul certain killers must have. As in Juice, there are moments in Rim when Tupac captures the calm of bitter people who've been kicked when they were defenseless, the confidence that comes with constantly intimidating people. He does casual evil as deftly as John Malkovich, tells you all about Hades with his fringed eyes.

Above the Rim has its happy ending Duane Martin's character goes to Georgetown on a basketball scholarship but there's also Birdie's violent comeuppance. Marlon Wayans's character, Bugaloo, at the end of the film, raises a pistol to shoot Birdie. Tupac's mouth turns down in a sneer as the bullet hits him.

He's pushed back, and his arms fly up over his head. In slow motion, Birdie looks like a spirit has entered him, or like he's pouring himself, in spurts, into some lover. Particularly in a moment when some were beginning to wonder, If he didn't rape that girl in the hotel, why didn't he help her? Did he really nap through a gangbang? And he didn't spend much time in jail, either. Tupac was entrenched in the Death Row camp by , his production strictly L.

Tupac told me he couldn't deal with Atron Gregory "apologizing for him," and by , Tupac was being managed by Suge himself, and had gone from being signed to Jimmy Iovine's Interscope to being signed to its subsidiary, Knight's Death Row Records. Hip hop's first double album, All Eyez on Me went on to sell seven million units. Death Row cofounder and house producer Dr.

Dre and Suge Knight were starting to fall out by the time Tupac began recording, and Dre produced only two tracks for All Eyez, one of them being the huge hit "California Love. The rest of the album is mostly, to use one of Tupac's favorite words, simple. They seduce with inspired beats and intriguing chauvinisms.

Many of the ditties on All Eyez are repulsive not only because the production is tired, but because the misogynist themes are weak, and break under the pressure of two or three listens.

You can't even respect them for their intensity, let alone be offended or scared. And it's not like everything has to be about peer marriages or keeping your head up. If you wanna fight, I'm right here, is what these California soul brothers are saying. Then he says "Love me for my thug nature," sounding foolish at first, but then desolate, and in the end, profoundly sad. In Bullet, it's Mickey Rourke, as a bandanna'd white cholo, who's constantly getting in touch with his thug nature.

It was beyond friendship for us. The type of relationship we had, you only get that once in a lifetime. In June , Shakur and his family moved to Marin City, California, a residential community located 5 miles 8. He began attending the poetry classes of Leila Steinberg in That same year, Steinberg organized a concert with a former group of Shakur's, "Strictly Dope"; the concert led to him being signed with Atron Gregory.

He set him up as a roadie and backup dancer with the young rap group Digital Underground in Shakur broke into the music business with rap group Digital Underground as a back-up dancer and roadie. Shakur's professional entertainment career began in the early s, when he debuted his rapping skills in a vocal turn in Digital Underground 's "Same Song" from the soundtrack to the film Nothing but Trouble and also appeared with the group in the film of the same name.

Shakur appeared in the accompanying music video. After his rap debut, he performed with Digital Underground again on the album Sons of the P. Later, he released his first solo album, 2Pacalypse Now. Though the album did not generate any "Top Ten" hits, 2Pacalypse Now is hailed by many critics and fans for its underground feel, with many rappers such as Nas , Eminem , Game, and Talib Kweli having pointed to it as inspiration.

Although the album was originally released on Interscope Records, rights of it are now owned by Amaru Entertainment. The album's name is a reference to the film Apocalypse Now. The album generated significant controversy. Dan Quayle criticized it after a Texas youth's defense attorney claimed he was influenced by 2Pacalypse Now and its strong theme of police brutality before shooting a state trooper.

Quayle said, "There's no reason for a record like this to be released. It has no place in our society. His second studio album, Strictly 4 My N. The album did better than the previous one debuting on number 24 on the Billboard The album contains many tracks emphasizing Tupac's political and social views.

This album had more commercial success than its predecessor, and there were noticeable differences in production. While Tupac's first effort had an indie-rap-oriented sound, this album was considered his "breakout" album.

For the film, see Thug Life film. For the album, see Thug Life: Volume 1. The group released their only album Thug Life: Volume 1 on September 26, , which went gold. The group usually performed their concerts without Shakur. Due to criticism about gangsta rap at the time, the original version of the album was scrapped and re-recorded with many of the original songs being cut.

Although the original version of the album was not completed, Tupac performed the planned first single from the album, "Out on Bail" at the Source Awards. Although the album was originally released on Shakur's label Out Da Gutta, Amaru Entertainment, the label owned by the mother of Tupac Shakur, has since gained the rights to it. Thug Life: Volume 1 was certified Gold. Shakur was rushed to Bellevue Hospital after a near-fatal shooting in On the night of November 30, , the day before the verdict in his sexual abuse trial was to be announced, Shakur was shot five times and robbed by two armed men in army fatigues after entering the lobby of Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan.

Shakur also suspected his close friend and associate, Randy "Stretch" Walker, of being involved in the attack. In a documentary, Biggie says that they were in the recording studio and did not know Shakur would be there. Once they heard he was downstairs, Lil' Cease went to get him but came back with news that he had just been shot.

When Biggie 's entourage went downstairs to check on the incident, Shakur was being taken out on a stretcher, still conscious and giving the finger to those around. According to the doctors at Bellevue Hospital, where he was admitted immediately following the incident, Shakur had received five bullet wounds; twice in the head, twice in the groin and once through the arm and thigh. His father also mentions that when he saw Tupac's groin, he knew that he was his son. He checked out of the hospital against doctor's orders, three hours after surgery.