Tupac shakur date of death

He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all time. Academics regard him as one of the most influential music artists of the 20th century and a prominent political activist for Black America.

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He is among the best-selling music artists , having sold more than 75 million records worldwide. With the release of his debut album 2Pacalypse Now in , he became a central figure in West Coast hip-hop for his conscious rap and political rap lyrics. Dre , and Outlawz. During the later part of his career, Shakur was shot five times in the lobby of a New York recording studio and experienced legal troubles, including incarceration.

When was tupac born and died

He served eight months in prison on sexual abuse charges, but was released pending an appeal of his conviction in Following his murder, the Notorious B. Shakur's double-length posthumous album Greatest Hits is one of his two releases—and one of only nine hip-hop albums—to have been certified Diamond in the United States. I wanted him to know he was part of a world culture and not just from a neighborhood.

Their marriage fell apart when it was discovered that Lumumba was not Tupac's biological father. Shakur had an older stepbrother, Mopreme "Komani" Shakur , and a half-sister, Sekyiwa Shakur, two years his junior. She was acquitted of over charges. Mutulu Shakur was apprehended in and subsequently convicted for a robbery of a Brinks armored truck , during which police officers and a guard were killed.

Shakur's godfather , Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt , a high-ranking Black Panther, was wrongly convicted of murdering a schoolteacher during a robbery.