Tupac Amaru Shakur <TheRealistNiggah>

""They claim I'm violent just cuz refuse to be silent""

Pac's Movies8/13/08
 
Gang Related (Criminal Intent)
Gridlock'd
Bullet
Above The Rim
Poetic Justice
Juice
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Known Facts About Pac's Music8/13/08
 
Known Facts About Tupac's Music:
Tupac started his career on Tommy Boy Records with Digital Underground.

Tupac was first inspired to rap when a friend of his was killed while he was playing with a gun. His first rap was about gun control.

"Thug Luv" was just a song that Bizzy, Silk-E-Fine and Tupac were supposed to do but things happened and all of Bone Thugs -n- Harmony came in. Bizzy Bone that Pac came into the studio, wrote his verse in about 10 minutes and then left because he had to go model for Versace. Then he came back and sang with them all laid back.

According to K-Ci and Jojo the video for "Toss It Up" was shot the day before Tupac was shot.

Tupacs first appearance ever was on Digital Underground's Same Song where he raps wearing West African war clothes in the video.

Tupac wrote his hit song "Dear Mama" while in prison.

"I Get Around" was supposed to be on Digital Underground's album. Shock G wound up giving it to Pac and Digital Underground's label, Tommy Boy, wasn't very happy once it turned out to be such a big hit.

According to K-Ci and Jojo the video for "Toss It Up" was shot the day before Tupac was shot.
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Pacs Own Words8/13/08
 
"I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts."


"I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in my heart, I believe what I'm doing... is right. So I feel like I 'm going to heaven. I think heaven is just when you sleep, you sleep with a good conscience, you don't have nightmares. Hell is when you sleep, the last thing you see is all the f*cked up things you did in your life and you just see it over and over again, cause you don't burn. If that's the case, it's hell on earth cause bullets burn."


"My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My musi is spiritual. It's like Negro spiituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying that we are overcome."


"Live by the gun die by the gun."


"We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but It's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who i am, this is what i do. I say what's on my mind."


"When my Heart Can Beat No More I hope die for a principal or a belief that I have lived for"


"There's gonna be some stuff u gonna see that's gonna make it hard To smile in the future, but through whatever you see, Through all the rain and all the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullsh*t."
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Pacs Biography 8/13/08
 
Tupac Amaru Shakur, 16 June 1971, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA, d. 13 September 1996, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.


Tupac Shakur grew up around nothing but self-delusion. His mother, Alice Faye Williams, thought she was a "revolutionary." She called herself "Afeni Shakur" and associated with members of the ill-fated Black Panther Party, a movement that wanted to feed school kids breakfast and earn civil rights for African Americans.


During her youth she dropped out of high school, partied with North Carolina gang members, then moved to Brooklyn: After an affair with one of Malcolm X's bodyguards, she became political. When the mostly white United Federation of Teachers went on strike in 1968, she crossed the picket line and taught the children herself. After this she joined a New York chapter of the Black Panther Party and fell in with an organizer named Lumumba. She took to ranting about killing "the pigs" and overthrowing the government, which eventually led to her arrest and that of twenty comrades for conspiring to set off a race war. Pregnant, she made bail and told her husband, Lummuba, it wasn't his child. Behind his back she had been carrying on with Legs (a small-time associate of Harlem drug baron Nicky Barnes) and Billy Garland (a member of the Party). Lumumba immediately divorced fer.


Things went downhill for Afeni: Bail revoked, she was imprisoned in the Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village. In her cell she patted her belly and said, "This is my prince. He is going to save the black nation."


By the time Tupac was born on June 16, 1971, Afeni had already defended herself in court and been acquitted on 156 counts. Living in the Bronx, she found steady work as a paralegal and tried to raise her son to respect the value of an education.


From childhood, everyone called him the "Black Prince." For misbehaving, he had to read an entire edition of The New York Times. But she had no answer when he asked about his daddy. "She just told me, 'I don't know who your daddy is.' It wasn't like she was a slut or nothin'. It was just some rough times."When he was two, his sister, Sekyiwa, was born. This child's father, Mutulu, was a Black Panther who, a few months before her birth, had been sentenced to sixty years for a fatal armored car robbery.


With Mutulu away, the family experienced hard times. No matter where they moved-the Bronx, Harlem, homeless shelters-Tupac was distressed. "I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from everywhere. I didn't have no buddies that I grew up with."


As time passed, the issue of his father tormented him. He felt "unmanly," he said. Then his cousins started saying he had an effeminate face. "I don't know. I just didn't feel hard. I could do all the things my mother could give me, but she couldn't give me nothing else."
The loneliness began to wear on him. He retreated into writing love songs and poetry. "I remember I had a book like a diary. And in that book I said I was going to be famous." He wanted to be an actor. Acting was an escape from his dismal life. He was good at it, eager to leave his crummy family behind. "The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothin' to get out of who I am and go into somebody else."


His mother enrolled him in the 127th Street Ensemble, a theater group in the impoverished Harlem section of Manhattan, where he landed his first role at age twelve, that of Travis in A Raisin in the Sun. "I lay on a couch and played sleep for the first scene. Then I woke up and I was the only person onstage. I can remeber thinking, "This is the best shit in the world!" That got me real high. I was gettin' a secret: This is what my cousins can't do."
In Baltimore, at age fifteen, he fell into rap; he started writing lyrics, walking with a swagger, and milking his background in New York for all it was worth. People in small towns feared the Big Apple's reputation; he called himself MC New York and made people think he was a tough guy.


He enrolled in the illustrious Balitomore School for the Arts, where he studied acting and ballet with white kids and finally felt "in touch" with himself. "Them white kids had things we never seen," he said. "That was the first time I saw there was white people who you could get along with. Before that, I just believed what everyone else said: They was devils. But I loved it. I loved going to school. It taught me a lot. I was starting to feel like I really wanted to be an artist.


By the time he was twenty, Shakur had been arrested eight times, even serving eight months in prison after being convicted of sexual abuse. In addition, he was the subject of two wrongful-death lawsuits, one involving a six-year-old boy who was killed after getting caught in gang-war crossfire between Shakur's gang and a rival group.


In the late eighties, Shakur teamed up with Humpty-Hump (a.k.a. Eddie Humphrey, a.k.a. Gregory "Shock-G" Jacobs) and other Oakland-based rappers to create Digital Underground, a band intent on massive bass beats and frenetic, Parliament-Funkadelic-style rhythms. In 1990, the group released its debut and best album, Sex Packets, a pulsating testament to the boogie power of hip-hop, featuring two classic tracks, "Humpty Dance" and "Doowutchyalike." After an EP of re-mixes in 1991, D.U. released Sons of the P and, the following year, The Body-Hat Syndrome, all on Tommy Boy Records.
In 1992, Shakur entered a most fruitful five-year period. He broke free of D.U. and made his solo debut, 2Pacalypse Now, a gangsta rap document that put him in the notorious, high-speed lane to stardom. That same year he starred in Juice, an acclaimed low-budget film about gangs which saw some Hollywood success. In 1993, he recorded and released Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., an album that found Shakur crossing over to the pop charts. Unfortunately, he also found himself on police blotters, when allegations of a violent attack on an off-duty police officer and sexual misconduct arose. The same year, Shakur played a single father and Janet Jackson's love interest in the John Singleton film Poetic Justice.


In November of 1994, he was shot five times during a robbery in which thieves made off with $40,000 worth of his jewelry. Shakur miraculously recovered from his injuries to produce his most impressive artistic accomplishments, including 1995's Me Against the World, which sold two million copies, and the double-CD All Eyez on Me, which sold nearly three million. As his career arc began a steep rise toward fame and fortune, Shakur was shot (most say suspiciously) and killed after watching a Mike Tyson fight with Death Row Records president Marion "Suge" Knight. Though his death was a jolt to his fans and the music community, Shakur himself often said that he expected he'd die by the sword before he reached thirty.


Following his passing, Shakur's label released an album, The Don Killuminati, under the pseudonym "Makaveli." The cover depicted Shakur nailed to a cross under a crown of thorns, with a map of the country's major gang areas superimposed on it. In January of 1997, Gramercy pictures released Gridlock'd, a film in which Shakur played the role of a drug addict to mostly good reviews. His final film, Gang Related, was released in 1997, and Death Row is said to have several unreleased recordings in the vaults for potential future release.


Since his death Shakur's recorded legacy has generated several posthumous releases and hit singles, amid ugly squabblings over his estate. R U Still Down? (Remember Me) (released on his mother's new Amaru label) collects unreleased material from 1992-1994. The Rose That Grew From Concrete is an excellent tribute album from many of rap's new wave, all of whom owe much to his talent and legacy.



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Pacs Discography8/13/08
 
Better Dayz
Interscope Records
Released November 26, 2002
Highest Chart Position: -



Until The End Of Time
Amaru, Deathrow, Interscope
Released March 27, 2001
Highest Chart Position: #1 R&B, #1 Pop
Certified 3X Platinum; May 10, 2001



The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Amaru, Interscope
Released Nov 21, 2000



Still I Rise
Amaru/Jive, Interscope, Deathrow
Released Dec 14, 1999
Highest Chart Position: #2 R&B, #7 Pop
Certified 2X Platinum



Greatest Hits
Amaru/Jive, Interscope, Deathrow
Released Nov 24, 1998
Highest Chart Position: #1 R&B, #1 Pop
Certified 9X Platinum; Oct 16, 2000



R U Still Down
Amaru/Jive Records
Released Nov 25, 1997
Certified 4X Platinum; Dec 15, 1997




The 7 Day Theory
Deathrow Records
Released Nov 5, 1996
Highest Chart Position: #1 R&B, #1 Pop
Certified 4X Platinum; June 15, 1999



All Eyez on Me
Deathrow Records
Released Feb 13, 1996
Highest Chart Position: #1 R&B, #1 Pop
Certified 9x Platinum; June 18, '98



Me Against The World
Interscope Records
Released Feb 27, 1995
Highest Chart Position: #1 R&B, #1 Pop
Certified 2x Platinum; April 26, '95



Thug Life vol. 1
Interscope Records
Released Sept 26, 1994
Highest Chart Position: #6 R&B, #42 Pop
Certified Gold: Jan 24, '96



Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.
Interscope Records
Released Feb 1, 1993
Certified Gold: Sept. 24, '93
Certified Platinum: April 19, '95



2Pacalypse Now
Interscope Records
Released Nov 12, 1991
Highest Chart Position: #4 R&B, #64 Pop
Certified Gold April 19, 1995



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Interesting Facts 8/13/08
 
While still a boy, 2Pac and his family sometimes lived in shelters.


TuPac Amaru is Inca for "shining serpent." Shakur is Arabic for "thankful to God".


Janet Jackson demanded 2Pac take an HIV test before she would do any kissing scenes for the film Poetic Justice.


2Pac didn't have a criminal record before he became a rap star.


In 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle said 2Pac's 2Pacalypse Now "has no place in our society."


2Pac wrote his first rap at 15.


At 15, 2Pac also attended Baltimore School for the Arts where he studied ballet and acting.

Tupac was married to Keisha Morris but the marriage was nullified. In the unreleased song "Ghetto Star" with Bad Azz he says "an addict for a wife, livin the life, of a ghetto star". She has a Tupac tattoo on her arm.

2Pac's Death Row debut album, All Eyez on Me, was rap's first double CD.

While he was in jail, 2Pac's 1995 album, Me Against the World, debuted at No. 1. It went double platinum in 7 months.

Tupac had sex with almost all the women during the filming of the X-rated "How Do U Want It?" video. He collapsed from exhaustion.
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Tupacs Fact Files8/13/08
 
Tupac Amaru Shakur was named after an Inca Indian chief, "Tupac Amaru" means "Shining serpent" and "Shakur" means "thankful to god" in Arabic.

Tupac shielded Suge Knight from the bullets that were fired on the night of September 7th, 1996 by trying to jump into the back of the car.

Tupac was married to Keisha Morris but the marriage was nullified. In the unreleased song "Ghetto Star" with Bad Azz he says "an addict for a wife, livin the life, of a ghetto star". She has a Tupac tattoo on her arm.

As a young man, Tupac also studied ballet and dance.

Tupac was banned from playing in many states because his concerts were wild. His song Initiated on the Daz CD says "My lyrics so lethal turn coliseums to murder scenes." He was sued by a woman who was shot and paralyzed at a concert he held in 1993. She said he got the crowd to rowdy.

The video for "I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto" was filmed in New Mexico.

E.D.I. Amin and Kastro of The Outlawz say that the "Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory" album was recorded in 7 days. That why it was called that way. They also said that Tupac didn't have a religion but that he believed in God. Kastro said that one of the things Tupac said to him was, "The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams."

"Thug Luv" was just a song that Bizzy, Silk-E-Fine and Tupac were supposed to do but things happened and all of Bone Thugs -n- Harmony came in. Bizzy Bone that Pac came into the studio, wrote his verse in about 10 minutes and then left because he had to go model for Versace. Then he came back and sang with them all laid back.

"Me And My Girlfriend" is about his gun, not his girlfriend.

Tupac said he wanted to move to Arizona and name a daughter Star or a son Michelangelo.

Tupac was planned to act in the movies Cool Runnings, Higher Learning, Menace II Society and How To Be A Player.

When Tupac was 12 years old, his mother enrolled him in Harlems 127thSt Ensemble. He played Travis in "A Raisin in The Sun" in his first acting role.

While doing a show in Marin County Tupac got into an altercation which was handled really bad by the Marin County Sheriffs department, gun shots were fired and a shot from someone's gun ricocheted and killed a little kid.

Stretch was Tupac's friend and was there when Pac got shot the first time. He was later killed exactly 1 year to the date of that shooting. Pac says "and to that n*gga that was down for me, rest his head, switched sides guess his new friends wanted him dead."
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Pacs Profile <38/13/08
 
Name: Tupac Amaru Shakur (born as Lesane Parish Crooks)
Social Security # 546-47-8539
DOB: 6-16-1971 - Brooklyn, NY
OD: 9-13-1996 - Las Vegas, NV
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 168 lbs
Marital status: Separated (once maried to Keisha Morris), engaged with Kidda Jones
Occupation: Rapper & Actor
Mother: Alice Fay Walker aka Afeni Shakur
Father: William Garland
Step Father: Jeral Wayne Williams aka Mutulu Shakur
Half Sister: Sekyiwa Shakur
Half Brother: Maurice Harding aka Mopreme Shakur
Godfather: Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt
Aliases: MC New York, 2Pac, Makaveli
Music Groups: One Nation Emcees, Two From The Crew, Strictly Dope, Digital Underground, Thug Life, Outlaw Immortalz/Outlawz
Mother: Afeni Shakur
Biological Father: Billy Garland
Father: Mutulu Shakur
Brother: Maurice Harding a.k.a Mopreme Shakur
Uncle: Lumumba Shakur
Uncle: Zayd Shakur
Godfather: Geronimo Pratt
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Pac Poems8/13/08
 
I Cry

Sometimes when I'm alone
I Cry,
Cause I am on my own.
The tears I cry are bitter and warm.
They flow with life but take no form
I Cry because my heart is torn.
I find it difficult to carry on.
If I had an ear to confiding,
I would cry among my treasured friend,
but who do you know that stops that long,
to help another carry on.
The world moves fast and it would rather pass by.
Then to stop and see what makes one cry,
so painful and sad.
And sometimes...
I Cry and no one cares about why.



In the event of my Demise

In the event of my Demise
when my heart can beat no more
I Hope I Die For A Principle
or A Belief that I had Lived 4
I will die Before My Time
Because I feel the shadow's Depth
so much I wanted 2 accomplish
before I reached my Death
I have come 2 grips with the possibility
and wiped the last tear from My eyes
I Loved All who were Positive
In the event of my Demise



The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet. Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared.




Fallen Star

They could never understand what u set out 2 do instead they chose 2 ridicule u when u got weak they loved the sight of your dimming and flickering starlight How could they understand what was so intricate 2 be loved by so many, so intimate they wanted 2 c your lifeless corpse this way u could not alter the course of ignorance that they have set 2 make my people forget what they have done for much 2 long 2 just forget and carry on I had loved u forever because of who u r and now I mourn our fallen star.




And Tomorrow

Today is filled with anger, fueled with hidden hate. Scared of being outkast, afraid of common fate. Today is build on tragedies which no one want's to face. Nightmares to humanity and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with Rage, violence in the air. Children bred with ruthlessness cause no one at home cares. Tonight I lay my head down but the pressure never stops, knowing that my sanity content when I'm droped. But tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new, build on spirit intent of heart and ideas based on truth. Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong because of pride. I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.




A young heart with an old soul

How can there be peace?
How can I be in the depths of solitude
When there are two inside of me?
This duo in me causes the perfect opportunity
To learn and live twice as fast
As those who accept simplicity...




Ambition over Adversity

Take ones adversity
Learn from their misfortune
Learn from their pain
Believe in something
Believe in yourself
Turn adversity into ambition
Now blossom into wealth




Can You See the Pride In the Panther

Can You See the Pride In the Panther
As he grows in splendor and grace
Topling obstacles placed in the way,
of the progression of his race.
Can You See the Pride In the Panther
as she nurtures her young all alone
The seed must grow regardless
of the fact that it is planted in stone.
Can You See the Pride In the Panthers
as they unify as one.
The flower blooms with brilliance,
and outshines the rays of the sun




Jada

You are the omega of my heart
The foundation of my conception of love
When i think of what a black woman should be
It's you that I first think of

You will never fully understand
How deeply my heart feels for you
I worry that we'll grow apart
And I'll end up losing you

You bring me to climax without sex
And you do it all with regal grace
You are my heart in human form
A friend I could never replace




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<38/13/08
 
"Only God can judge me."

"With all my fans I got a family again."

"All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me."

"Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans."

"America wants its respect."

"All the stuff I say in my rhymes I say because of how I grew up. So instead of going to a pyschiatrist, I got a kids' group that deals with the problems a younger generation is going through."

"Death Row East is gonna be a personification of what we did on the West Side. We gonna prove once that all these people talking 'bout a East Coast West Coast war."

"Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

"Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him."

"Even though I'm innocent of the charge they gave me, I'm not innocent in terms of the way I was acting. I had a job to do and I never showed up."

"Even if they give me the maximum sentence, that's still my job."

"Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did."

"Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority women... they're the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me."

"From now on, it's not going to be a strictly black thing with me. I apologized to Quincy Jones for the stuff I said about him and his wives."

"You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it."

"You just can't be calling us fakers and pretenders and non-creative and say we can't freestyle."

"You can't disrespect the love. You can't disrespect the peace treaty."

"Whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. They're going to come 100 percent."

"When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character."

"When I dis y'all, it's not because I'm ungrateful, it's because I'm nervous. I'm paranoid, I just got out of jail. I've been shot, cheated, lied and framed."

"When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect."

"What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made."

"We already run these streets out here. We got the ways to make them use their talents to the maximum affect. And thats what it's about."

"We are together as black men-they over there, we over here. If we really gonna live in peace, we all can't be in the same room. Yellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's."

"Thug Life to me is dead."

"Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals."

"They thought they were just gonna make millions and there wasn't gonna be no problems? You wanna be in the rap game, hustle for it just like I had to do."

"This ain't no game. If this was chess, we'd be yelling checkmate three years ago."

"There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me."

"The first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for as long as I have and then you stop. I didn't know myself."

"The only time I have problems is when I sleep."

"Sometimes when I'm drunk I think to myself, Should I just stop trying and give up? They're waiting for me to give up. So this is just a fun little game that I cry at sometime."

"The Bay is the type of place where if you ain't there, they're gonna talk about you."

"The addict in Tupac is dead. The excuse maker in Tupac is dead. The vengeful Tupac is dead. God let me live for me to do something extremely extraordinary."

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."

"Other people need to just know that life's a bitch!"

"Puffy wrote me while I was in jail. I wrote him back that I don't got no problems with him. I don't want it to be fighting, I just wanna make my money."

"People on the East coast are real proud and real cultural and real strong like we are on the west coast."

"Nobody ever came to save me. They just watch what happen to you."

"My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand."

"If anybody finds Janet, tell her I'm looking for her. She ain't my enemy. I want her to know that. She met me at a time in my life when I was real immature."

"I'm a smart general and I'm not gonna attack at no blind soldier. I'm gonna attack those who attack me."

"I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society."

"I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect."

"I used to believe I could never be touched. Now I'm more careful because I have been shot. I know what that feels like. My choices have already been made."

"I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail."

"I do not suggest that children buy this album. There's a lot of cursing. There's a lot of raw game that needs to be discussed in a family moment before you let them listen."

"I can make my way in this business besides rapping."

"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.''
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