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Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur, also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. He was one of the most influential musical artists of the 20th century, and a prominent political activist for Black America. He is among the best-selling music artists, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Some of Shakur's music addressed social injustice, political issues, and th…
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Born 16 June 1971 · Died 13 September 1996 · Q6107
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2026· 27 entries
Public attention spiked: 147,061 Wikipedia readers in one day, 18.7× the usual 7,878, with 42 article edits. Coverage that week: “‘It always comes around’: fans react to conviction in Tupac Shakur’s murder 30 years later” (The Guardian).
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The Guardian: First Thing: Duane Keith Davis found guilty of 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur
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The Guardian: Thirty years of waiting, a memoir and a trial: conviction in Tupac Shakur killing brings closure
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The Guardian: Duane Keith Davis found guilty of 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur
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The Guardian: Tupac Shakur murder trial: jury begins deliberations after hearing closing arguments
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South Side Compton Crips member Duane "Keffe D" Davis was convicted of orchestrating Shakur's murder, but the shooter (suspected to be Baby Lane) has not been conclusively identified
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The Guardian: Tupac Shakur trial: lawyers share full account of killing as witnesses still refuse to testify
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The Guardian: Tupac Shakur murder trial: ‘You better treat me as a hostile witness,’ Suge Knight associate testifies – as it happened
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The Guardian: Tupac Shakur murder trial: gang leader plotted killing to avenge beating of nephew, court hears
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The Guardian: What we know about Tupac Shakur’s death and what to expect from murder trial
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Public attention spiked: 40,064 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.1× the usual 7,878, with 20 article edits. Coverage that week: “Tupac Shakur murder trial: gang leader plotted killing to avenge beating of nephew, court hears” (The Guardian).
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“I just wanted to rap about things that affected young black males. When I said that, I didn”
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“a poet and activist who became one of his era”
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“a woman would accuse me of taking something from her”
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“Jada is my heart. She will be my friend for my whole life. We”
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TIME: 30 Years After Tupac Shakur Was Killed, a Murder Trial Begins
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Yahoo: The key players in Tupac Shakur’s murder
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The Guardian: Thirty years after Tupac Shakur’s killing, can a murder trial offer justice?
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Showbiz Cheat Sheet: Ex-Death Row Security Chief Calls Keffe D a ‘Habitual Liar’ Over Tupac Shakur Murder Accusations
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Messenger-Inquirer: The trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis for the murder of Tupac Shakur begins Monday in Las Vegas
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Associated Press News: After nearly 30 years, a man is on trial in the fatal shooting of Tupac Shakur. Here’s what to know
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Public attention spiked: 31,563 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4× the usual 7,878, with 8 article edits. Editors noted: Murder and aftermath
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Davis's trial for Shakur's murder began
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Davis' trial for Shakur's murder would begin
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Snopes rated the claim “A photo authentically shows the rapper Tupac Shakur with former "Blue's Clues" host Steve Burns.” Fake.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A photo authentically shows the rapper Tupac Shakur with former "Blue's Clues" host Steve Burns.” Fake.
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2025· 3 entries
Lead Stories rated the claim “Images showing Tupac Shakur in a hospital room in the last days of his life are real.” Not Real.
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Davis' trial would once again be delayed, this time to August 10, 2026
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Davis, who at this point in time still remained at the Clark County Detention Center, was ordered to also serve a 16 to 40-month prison sentence for a separate jailhouse fight-related conviction he received in April 2025
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2024· 17 entries
Snopes rated the claim “The late rapper Tupac Shakur once said, "Just because you lost me as a friend, doesn't mean you gained me as an enemy. I’m bigger than that, I still wanna see you eat, just not at my table."” Unproven.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “The late rapper Tupac Shakur once said, "Just because you lost me as a friend, doesn't mean you gained me as an enemy. I’m bigger than that, I still wanna see you eat, just not at my table."” Unproven.
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Snopes rated the claim “Jim Carrey wrote funny letters to Tupac Shakur when the rapper was in prison.” Unfounded.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Jim Carrey wrote funny letters to Tupac Shakur when the rapper was in prison.” Unfounded.
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Snopes rated the claim “Viral photograph shows Tupac Shakur and Jim Carrey together.” Fake.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Viral photograph shows Tupac Shakur and Jim Carrey together.” Fake.
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Published video “#2Pac - Family Tree (Poetry Collection)”.
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Published video “2Pac - Family Tree (Poetry Collection)”.
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Published video “#2Pac - Can U C The Pride In The Panther (Poetry Collection)”.
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Published video “#2Pac - The Rose That Grew from Concrete (Poetry Collection)”.
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Published video “2Pac - The Rose That Grew from Concrete (Poetry Collection)”.
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Published video “2Pac - Can U C The Pride In The Panther (Poetry Collection)”.
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Published video “#2Pac - If I Fail (Poetry Collection)”.
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Published video “2Pac - If I Fail (Poetry Collection)”.
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Published video “#2Pac - Starry Night (Poetry Collection)”.
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Published video “2Pac - Starry Night (Poetry Collection)”.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph authentically shows Tupac Shakur posing next to Jada Pinkett Smith in high school.” True.
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2023· 18 entries
Published video “Makaveli - Hail Mary (Official Music Video) ft. The Outlawz”.
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Published video “2Pac - Do For Love (Official Music Video) ft. Eric Williams”.
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Published video “Makaveli - Toss It Up (Official Music Video) ft. Danny Boy, Aaron Hall”.
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Published video “Makaveli - To Live & Die In L.A. (Official Music Video)”.
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Published video “2Pac - Papa'z Song (Official Music Video) ft. Wycked”.
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Published video “2Pac - How Do U Want It (Official Music Video) ft. K-Ci & JoJo”.
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Published video “2Pac - Hit 'Em Up (Edited Version) (Official Music Video)”.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph authentically shows Tupac Shakur with Osama bin Laden.” Fake.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A YouTube video posted on Oct. 14, 2023, accurately reported that actor Will Smith had filed for divorce from his wife, fellow actor Jada Pinkett Smith, after she had admitted she loved the late rapper Tupac Shakur more.” Unfounded (retired).
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Snopes rated the claim “A YouTube video posted on Oct. 14, 2023, accurately reported that actor Will Smith had filed for divorce from his wife, fellow actor Jada Pinkett Smith, after she had admitted she loved the late rapper Tupac Shakur more.” Unfounded (retired).
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Snopes rated the claim “A YouTube video posted on Oct. 5, 2023, accurately reported that a grand jury had “confirmed” Sean "Diddy" Combs’ role in rapper Tupac Shakur’s murder.” Unfounded (retired).
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Snopes rated the claim “A YouTube video posted on Oct. 1, 2023, accurately reported that Sean “Diddy” Combs was "losing it" because Tupac Shakur's alleged murderer threatened to "rat him out."” Unfounded (retired).
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The AP reported that Las Vegas Metropolitan Police had arrested a suspect, Duane "Keffe D" Davis, in Shakur's murder
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The AP reported that Las Vegas Metropolitan Police had arrested a suspect, Duane "Keefe D" Davis, in Shakur's murder
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The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department executed a search warrant in connection with Shakur's murder
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Published video “Makaveli - Hail Mary (Lyric Video)”.
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Was awarded a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Billboard ranked Tupac at number 4 among the top 50 rappers of all time
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2022· 3 entries
Published video “2Pac - When Thugz Cry (Visualizer)”.
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Published video “2Pac - Lil' Homies (Visualizer)”.
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Smith stated that she had neither been underage nor intoxicated at the time of the encounter
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2021· 4 entries
BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “This photo shows rapper 2Pac (Tupac Shakur) and Steve Irwin together.” False.
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Saweetie told Complex that Tupac was "the greatest rapper that ever lived"
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Jada Pinkett Smith commemorated Shakur's 50th birthday by sharing a previously unreleased poem titled "Lost Soulz" on Instagram
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“Citation choisie pour le 22 mars 2021.”
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2020· 1 entry
“TUPAC SHAKUR QUOTES (2020)”
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2018· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “A photograph captures Donald Trump hanging out with musician Tupac Shakur.” False.
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2017· 3 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2017).
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Was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility
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American rapper Snoop Dogg called Tupac "the greatest rapper of all time" during his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame tribute
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2015· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 14 avril 2015.”
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2014· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Rapper Tupac Shakur, thought to have been killed in 1996, has come out of hiding.” False.
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2013· 2 entries
Hughes stated that Shakur would have outshone the other actors "because he was bigger than the movie"
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Hughes appraises that Shakur would have outshone the other actors "because he was bigger than the movie"
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2011· 3 entries
Via the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI released documents related to its investigation which described an extortion scheme by the Jewish Defense League (classified as "a right wing terrorist group" by the FBI) that
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Another video featuring Shakur receiving oral sex while rapping along to an unreleased song was reportedly sold to a private collector
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In 2011, another video featuring Shakur receiving oral sex while rapping along to an unreleased song was reportedly sold to a private collector.
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2010· 1 entry
Writing Rolling Stone magazine's entry on Shakur at No
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2009· 1 entry
“como citado in: Somebody Scream!: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power - página 207, Marcus Reeves · Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009, ISBN: 9781466822153, 1466822155”
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2008· 1 entry
“como citado in: Rock Music Styles - Página 296, Katherine Charlton · McGraw-Hill Companies,Incorporated, 2008, ISBN: 9780073121628, 0073121622”
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Breaking the Barrier”.
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2006· 1 entry
“como citado in: MitzvahChic: How to Host a Meaningful, Fun, Drop-Dead Gorgeous Bar Or Bat Mitzvah - Página 251, Gail Anthony Greenberg · Touchstone, 2006, ISBN: 9780743298407, 0743298403”
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2002· 2 entries
Investigative journalist Chuck Philips, after a year of work, reported in the Los Angeles Times that Anderson, a Southside Compton Crip, having been attacked by Suge and Shakur's entourage at the MGM Hotel after the boxi
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Shakur was inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame
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2001· 1 entry
It ranked 4th among his total albums in sales, with about 3 million copies sold in the U
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “The Rose That Grew From Concrete, Volume 1”.
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And released as The Lost Tapes: Circa 1989
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1997· 3 entries
Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist (1997).
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Awarded Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Album of the Year for All Eyez on Me (1997).
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Civil rights activist and fierce rap critic C
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1996· 41 entries
Died 1996-09-13.
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Shakur was murdered by an unidentified assailant in a drive-by shooting in Paradise, Nevada; he died six days later
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Released album “East & West Coast Rival”.
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Awarded MOBO Awards for Best Video for California Love (1996).
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Awarded Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap Album for Me Against the World (1996).
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Shakur was sentenced to 120 days in jail for violating his release terms and failing to appear for a road cleanup job, but was allowed to remain free awaiting appeal
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Treach was also a speaker at a public memorial service for Shakur in 1996.
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“(en) I'd rather die like a man than live like a coward.”
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“First, I wanna say 'peace' to my mother. She's not here but I gotta give a 'peace out' to her because I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my mother.”
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“(en) And they say, it's the white man I should fear but, it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here”
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“(en) When I die, I wanna be a livin' legend”
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“(en) And even as a crack fiend, mama. You always was a black queen, mama. I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy tryin' to raise a man.”
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“(en) Will I survive 'til the mornin', to see the sun? Please Lord forgive me for my sins, 'cause here I come.”
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“Tired of being trapped in this vicious cycle If one more cop harasses me I just might go psycho And when I get ‘em, I’ll hit ’em with the bum rush Only a lunatic would like to see his skull crushed Yo, if you’re smart you’ll really let me go, G But keep me cooped up in this ghetto and catch the Uzi They got me trapped.”
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“(fr) Is there heaven for a G? Remember me. So many homies in the cemetery, shed so many tears.”
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“Rapper, poeta, attivista… be', Tupac era tutto: Huey Newton, Mao Tse-tung e Karl Marx insieme. Io sono in grado di citare Marx e Hegel, ma lui conosceva tutte le teorie rivoluzionarie, poteva discuterne per ore. Se parlavi con lui e arrivavi a conoscerlo bene, ti rendevi conto che non era un teppista, ma uno a cui piaceva istruire il prossimo. (Mike Tyson)”
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“We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins”
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“(en) I think it's time to kill for our women. Time to heal our women, be real to our women.”
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“Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.”
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“It's not about East or West. It's about niggaz and bitches, power and money, riders and punks. Which side are you on? [Rider: sinonimo di "thug"] (da Intro/Bomb First(My Second Reply))”
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“Non si tratta dell'Est o del West. Si tratta di negri e puttane, di potere e soldi, di motociclisti e teppisti. Tu da che parte stai?”
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“I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”
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Further solidified his reputation, with tracks like "Ambitionz az a Ridah", "I Ain't Mad at Cha", "California Love", "Life Goes On", and "Picture Me Rollin'" being hailed as classics by critics
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“It's not going to stop until "we" stop it. And it's not just white man that's doing this to Brenda. It's not just white man that's keeping us trapped. It's "black." And we have to find the new African in everybody... But before we can be African, we gotta be black first.”
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“What I want you to take seriously is what we have to do for the youth.”
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“(en) Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here ? 'Cuz even thugs cry but do the Lord care ?”
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“You grew up, we grew up B.C. Before crack. That's just saying it all. You understand? You don't have parents... You have young kids, fourteen, coming home and their mama is smoking out, going to their best friend to get the product.”
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“It's not just about you taking care of "your" child. It's about you taking care of these children.”
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“(en) I hear the doctor standing over me, screaming I can make it, got a body full of bullet holes, laying here naked, still I can't breathe something evils in my I-V cuz everytime I breathe I think they're killing me I'm having nightmares homicidal fantansies I wake up stranglin' danglin' my bed sheets, I call the nurse cuz it hurts to reminisce.”
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“Não estou dizendo que vou mudar o mundo, mas garanto que vou acender o cérebro que vai mudar o mundo.”
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“(en) Still lookin' for a rich man, you dug a ditch, got your legs up tryin' to get rich.”
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“They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.”
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“(en) Keep your head up, legs closed, eyes open.”
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“A realidade é errada, os sonhos são reais.”
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“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.”
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“Quando eu morrer, as pessoas vão entender sobre o que eu estava falando”
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“In my death , people will understand what I was talking about”
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“Bem, os dois primeiros dias na prisão, eu tive que encarar a vida sem fumar maconha pois tive que parar. Emocionalmente, era como se eu não me conhecesse”
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“(en) Niggas, get up your ass if you plan to be rich!”
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“Eu pensei que tinha amigos, mas no fim morremos sozinhos.”
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“(1996) It seems, my main thing was to be major paid The game sharper than a motherfucking razor blade Say money bring bitches, bitches bring lies. All Eyez On Me”
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1995· 7 entries
Shakur married his girlfriend Keisha Morris, then a pre-law student, while he was incarcerated
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Shakur married his girlfriend Keisha Morris; the marriage was later annulled
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Was sentenced to 18 months to 4+1⁄2 years in prison by a judge who decried "an act of brutal violence against a helpless woman"
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Pinkett contributed $100,000 toward Shakur's bail while he awaited an appeal of his sexual abuse conviction
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Qa'id's mother filed a wrongful death suit against Shakur, which was settled for about $300,000 to $500,000
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In 1995, Pinkett contributed $100,000 toward Shakur's bail while he awaited an appeal of his sexual abuse conviction.
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Jada Pinkett contributed $100,000 toward Shakur's bail while he awaited an appeal of his sexual abuse conviction
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1994· 8 entries
Shakur was acquitted of three counts of sodomy and the associated gun charges, but convicted of two counts of first-degree sexual abuse for "forcibly touching the woman's buttocks" in his hotel room
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While in New York recording verses for a mixtape of Ron G, Shakur was repeatedly distracted by his beeper
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Shakur pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, twenty of them suspended on condition that he complete 35 hours of community service
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Shakur was arrested in Los Angeles, when he was stopped by police on suspicion of speeding
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Shakur and Rourke developed a close friendship while filming the movie Bullet in 1994, with Rourke later recalling that Shakur "was there for me during some very hard times."
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With Rourke later recalling that Shakur "was there for me during some very hard times
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Recuperated at the home of actress Jasmine Guy
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After Tupac Shakur was shot in 1994, he recuperated at the home of actress Jasmine Guy.
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1993· 8 entries
Shakur was arrested in Atlanta for shooting two off-duty police officers, brothers Mark Whitwell and Scott Whitwell
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Charged with felonious assault, Shakur allegedly threw a microphone and swung a baseball bat at rapper Chauncey Wynn, of the group M
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“Holla If Ya Hear Me" (1993).”
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Also included Money B of Digital Underground
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During a police raid of Shakur's room at the Parker Meridian Hotel in New York City, authorities confiscated a videotape showing Shakur with his then-girlfriend, Desiree Smith
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In Los Angeles for carrying a concealed firearm
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While visiting Los Angeles, the Notorious B
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Shakur portrayed Lucky in the film Poetic Justice alongside Janet Jackson
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1992· 3 entries
In Marin City, Shakur performed outdoors at a festival
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Starred in Juice, marking Shakur's first acting role, in which he plays the fictional Roland Bishop, a militant and haunting individual
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Shakur made his feature film debut in Juice, in which he plays the film's antagonist, Roland Bishop
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1991· 4 entries
Shakur released his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now thru Interscope Records
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Two Oakland Police Department officers stopped Shakur for jaywalking at a downtown intersection
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Jada Pinkett reported that Tupac Shakur developed alopecia sometime around 1991.
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“Trapped, (September 25, 1991)”
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1990· 1 entry
Gregory placed him with the Underground as a roadie and backup dancer
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1988· 1 entry
Shakur moved to Marin City, California, an impoverished community in the San Francisco Bay Area
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1986· 1 entry
And subsequently convicted for a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck, during which police officers and a guard were killed
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1984· 2 entries
His family moved from New York City to Baltimore, Maryland
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When Shakur was 13, he lived in the Pen Lucy neighborhood with his mother and younger sister at 3955 Greenmount Ave
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1979· 1 entry
And was on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list in 2013, and would remain on the list up until her death in 2025
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1977· 1 entry
Of the first-degree murder of a New Jersey State Trooper
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1971· 3 entries
Born 1971-06-16.
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In East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, to Afeni Shakur (January 10, 1947 – May 2, 2016) and Billy Garland (born March 14, 1949)
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In East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, to Afeni Shakur and Billy Garland
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