Tupac released his fourth studio album, All Eyez on Me, on February 13, 1996. The album received average reviews and went double platinum. "Dear Mama", "So Many Tears", and "Temptations" became singles. With Thug Life disbanding after only two years, Tupac released his third studio album, Me Against the World, on March 14, 1995. It was later revealed that Tupac created two other versions of the album, which have since went unreleased. Most of the material that was originally intended for the album was scrapped, because Interscope Records felt that many of the other recorded songs were too controversial to release to the public market. Thug Life: Volume 1, released on September 26, 1994, was the only album the side project group released. The group featured fellow hip-hoppers and rappers Big Syke, Macadoshis, Mopreme, and The Rated R. The album was certified platinum.Īround the same time his second studio album was released, Tupac formed a side project hip-hop group known as Thug Life. Notably, one track that did not release as a single was "Last Wordz", the fifth track of the album, which featured fellow superstars Ice Cube and Ice-T. The fourth single, "Papa'z Song", featured Wycked and Poppi. "Keep Ya Head Up" featured Dave Hollister and was the third single out of the album. The next single was "I Get Around" featuring Digital Underground, although it had nothing to do with the song The Beach Boys had of the same title. "Holler If Ya Hear Me" featured Live Squad and was released as a single. Tupac released his second studio album, Strictly for my N.I.G.G.A.Z., on February 16, 1993. The album received mixed to below average reviews, and went on to be gold 19 years after its release.
The album included thirteen tracks.ĭespite the release, the tracks did not garner any airplay due to explicit and tricky lyrics. Recording for the album took place at Starlight Sound Studios in Richmond, California. Tupac had signed with Interscope Records in order to help finance the recording timeframe and release of the album. Tupac released his first studio album, 2Pacalypse Now, on November 12, 1991. He helped collaborate with Digital Underground for the single "Same Song", which would later be put in the film Nothing but Trouble. In January 1991, Tupac used the alias 2Pac for short due to his experience with rapping. In nearby Mill Valley, he attended Tamalpais High School, where he performed in several theater productions. In 1988, Tupac and his family moved to the small and impoverished Marin City, California. While at the Baltimore School for the Arts, Tupac met Jada Pinkett, who became influenced by some of his poems.Īfter connecting with the Young Communist League USA, Tupac dated the daughter of the director of the local chapter of the Communist Party USA. He then transferred to the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet.
He attended Roland Park Middle School to finish his middle school run and later went to Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. In 1984, Tupac and his family relocated in Baltimore, Maryland. Pratt died of a heart attack in Tanzania, on June 3, 2011. Pratt was also a Sergeant in the Army during the Vietnam War. Tupac's grandfather, Geronimo Pratt, a high-ranking Black Panther, was convicted of murdering a school teacher during a 1968 robbery, although his sentence was overturned. Tupac's stepfather, Mutulu Shakur, whose real name is Jeral Wayne Williams, was a member of the Black Panthers' Black Liberation Army until being sentenced to 60 years in prison for his role in the 1981 Brink's robbery and murder of two police officers. Only a month before Crooks was born, his mother Afeni, whose real name is Alice Faye Williams, was tried in New York City as part of the Panther 21 criminal trial. At one year of age, he was renamed after José Gabriel Túpac Amaru, a Peru-born rebellion leader who was executed on May 18, 1781. Lesane Parish Crooks was born in the East Harlem section of Manhattan, New York City, New York on June 16, 1971.
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