Tupac's given name was Lesane Crooks. He was the
son of Afeni Shakur (government name Alice Fay Walker) who was one of
the defendants at the Panther 21 trial.
Tupac studied drama at Baltimore's School For The Arts, where he rapped under the name MC New York.
At the Baltimore School of the arts, Tupac met Jada Pinkett, who would become a close friend of his
Tupac was planned to act in the movies Cool Runnings, Higher Learning, Menace II Society and How To Be A Player.
As a young man, Tupac also studied ballet and dance.
Tupac Amaru Shakur was named after an Inca Indian chief, "Tupac Amaru" means "Shining serpent" and "Shakur" means "thankful to god" in Arabic.
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 he was with Digital Underground, someone once shoved a 12 gauge shotgun in Tupac's face because of a dispute over a woman at a Martin Luther King Jr festival.
Tupac said the individual letters in his THUG LIFE tattoo stood for "The Hate U Give Little Infants F-ck Everybody"
Tupac said that because of his moms ties with the Black Panthers, the FBI was always after him and his family.
Tupac wrote his hit song "Dear Mama" while in prison.
Tupac's first appearance ever was on Digital Underground's Same Song where he raps wearing West African war clothes in the video.
Kidada Jones, daughter of Quincy Jones and fiancé of Tupac, has a tattoo of Tupac on her arm.
Tupac was a big fan of Jim Carrey
Porn Star Spontaneous XXXStacy has a tattoo on her arm with Tupacs name and the title of the song "Keep Ya Head Up."
Naughty by Nature, also known as Treach, has a tattoo of Tupac on his left arm.
Tupac has a huge cross on his back that says Exodus 18:11 a reference to where the bible says "Now I know That the Lord is Greater Than All Gods because he delivered the people from the hands of the Egyptians when they dealt with them arrogantly."
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.
When he first moved to California, Tupac was homeless for 2 years.
In the movie Juice, Tupac plays Bishop and said the now famous line "Yeah I'm crazy, but you know what? I don't give a f-ck."
Tupac wanted to name his first child Star if it was a daughter Michaelangelo if it was a boy.
Tupac studied drama at Baltimore's School For The Arts, where he rapped under the name MC New York.
At the Baltimore School of the arts, Tupac met Jada Pinkett, who would become a close friend of his
Tupac was planned to act in the movies Cool Runnings, Higher Learning, Menace II Society and How To Be A Player.
As a young man, Tupac also studied ballet and dance.
Tupac Amaru Shakur was named after an Inca Indian chief, "Tupac Amaru" means "Shining serpent" and "Shakur" means "thankful to god" in Arabic.
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 he was with Digital Underground, someone once shoved a 12 gauge shotgun in Tupac's face because of a dispute over a woman at a Martin Luther King Jr festival.
Tupac said the individual letters in his THUG LIFE tattoo stood for "The Hate U Give Little Infants F-ck Everybody"
Tupac said that because of his moms ties with the Black Panthers, the FBI was always after him and his family.
Tupac wrote his hit song "Dear Mama" while in prison.
Tupac's first appearance ever was on Digital Underground's Same Song where he raps wearing West African war clothes in the video.
Kidada Jones, daughter of Quincy Jones and fiancé of Tupac, has a tattoo of Tupac on her arm.
Tupac was a big fan of Jim Carrey
Porn Star Spontaneous XXXStacy has a tattoo on her arm with Tupacs name and the title of the song "Keep Ya Head Up."
Naughty by Nature, also known as Treach, has a tattoo of Tupac on his left arm.
Tupac has a huge cross on his back that says Exodus 18:11 a reference to where the bible says "Now I know That the Lord is Greater Than All Gods because he delivered the people from the hands of the Egyptians when they dealt with them arrogantly."
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.
When he first moved to California, Tupac was homeless for 2 years.
In the movie Juice, Tupac plays Bishop and said the now famous line "Yeah I'm crazy, but you know what? I don't give a f-ck."
Tupac wanted to name his first child Star if it was a daughter Michaelangelo if it was a boy.
On the song Me and My Girlfriend from Makaveli:
7Day Theory the song is actual about 2pac and his gun not actually him
and his girlfriend. This song shows how lyrically talented 2pac was to
make a song that would seem as if it was about him and his girlfriend
but refers to his gun, its really interesting just to listen to it. For
Example: I love finger fuckin you, all of a sudden I'm hearing thunder
when you bust a nut, niggaz be duckin. Referring pullin the trigger of
his gun :)
Tupac is understood to have been offered a record deal at the age of
13, only for Afeni to turn it down as she thought he was to young for
such a thing.
Tupac listened to artists from various different genres of music such as; Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters and Jimmy Hendrix.
Biggie Smalls used to call Tupac ‘duke’.
When Tupac was young and living in Baltimore, he studied ballet and dance and the local performing arts school.
Kidada Jones, daughter of Quincy Jones and fiancé of Tupac, has a tattoo of Tupac on her arm.
Tupac was a huge fan of Jim Carrey.
Porn Star, Spontaneous XXXStacy, has a tattoo on her arm of Tupacs name along with the title of “Keep Ya Head Up”.
When Tupac first moved to California he was homeless for 2 years and was living in shelters.
Tupac’s favourite Food was Fried Chicken Wings with Hot Sauce.
His favourite drink was Orange Pop.
His favourite colours were Black and Gold.
Tupac intended for “R U Still Down?” to be released.
Before becoming famous Tupac was part of the local Baltimore TV news
Special. The program, called “Saturday Night Specials,” was on a type
of gun. Tupac spoke with great knowledge on the guns, speaking on how
they were poorly and cheaply made.
The video tape named “Tupac and Jada Home video” which appears on
Tupac: Resurrection, was recorded at King’s Dominion Amusement Park.
Herbie Lovebug, manger of “Salt-N-Peppa,” was once asked by Tupac’s
group Born Busy to hear one of their raps. Herbie told them “Naw, I aint
got time for this shit I gotta be on a plane in ten hours!” Years later
when Tupac was at the opening of “Juice,” Herbie approached him and
expressed a desire to work with him. Tupac’s reply wasn’t one Herbie was
looking for.
Tupac turned up at a ball at the Baltimore School Of The Art’s
dressed as Shaka Zulu. His roommate and close friend John Cole dressed
as his white slave. Tupac and John won the best costume award.
As a child, Tupac’s friends often gave him clothes for Christmas and
birthdays, because they were aware of the poverty in which he lived.
Tupac & Big Saccs both went looting together during the LA
Riots. According to Sacc’s, he and Tupac went straight from the studio
to the hood and started looting.
The Tupac poem “Nothing can come between us,” was written for his friend John Cole, whom Tupac nicknamed “White Boy John.”
For a short time Tupac lived with Linda Pratt, the wife of Gernimo Pratt, in Marin City.
Tupac’s favorite piece of music was from the play Les Miserables.
He went to see the play with his then girlfriend Keisha Morris.
According to Suge Knight, the song “Never Had A Friend Like Me” was
about their relationship because Suge once told Tupac “Your Enemies my
Enemies.”
It was reported by Mike Dyson that the song “Vincent” by Don Maclean was played on repeat during Tupac’s last hours with us.
Tupac auditioned for the part of “Bubba” in the hit film “Forest Gump” starring Tom Hanks.
Tupac stood for the code of ‘THUGLIFE’, which stands for “The Hate U
Give Lil Infants Fuck Everybody”, the term ‘NIGGA’ stands for “Never
Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished”. The ‘Outlawz’ group Tupac formed
and was with stands for “Operating Under Thug Laws As Warriors”.
Tupac met Fredro Starr at the premiere of “Sunset Park.”
Tupac’s cousin Scott got him the role of Travis in “A Rasin in the Sun.” Scott was also in the New York School for the arts.
Tupac was planning to go on tour with Snoop Dogg and Tha Dogg Pound
in October 1996. The name of the tour was going to be “All Eyez On Us.”
When Tupac and Keisha Morris got married, during the ceremony when
the priest stated the line “with all your worldly possessions…,” Tupac
interupted saying, “Well, Keisha can’t have my pool table or my big
screen TV.”
Keisha Morris, when married to Tupac, came to visit him in his hotel
room in Atlanta. The hotel-room caught fire and she tried to quickly
escape. Tupac was disappointed in her and told her he couldn’t trust her
because she didn’t stay with him to fight the fire.
The song “When Will You Learn” and “U Don’t Wanna Battle Me”, along
with a few others, were recorded onto a disc which Tupac lost.
Tupac and Sanyika Shakur were good friends and Tupac wanted to play him in a movie about Sanyika’s life.
After Pac had released his debut solo album ’2Pacalypse Now’ he
wanted to bring out a group called “Nothing Gold.” He was going to do
production for them while they wrote their own lyrics, but it never
happened. He was also working with a female artist called “A Sister
Named Mister” but she never came out either.
Tupac and Sanyika Shakur were good friends and Tupac wanted to play him in a movie about Sanyika’s life.
Before he was famous, Tupac was paid $335 to appear in an
advertisement for a local news channel. He used that money to pay for
the months rent.
When Tupac got out of jail Suge arranged a private plane back to
L.A, a limo, and five police officers for protection. Suge Knight also
gave Tupac money to buy Afeni a house when he came to Suge’s Death Row
Records label.
Tupac and Snoop were supposed to perform “2 Of Amerikaz Most Wanted”
on Saturday Night Live, an NBC TV-show. Snoop never appeared for the
rehearsal, so Tupac and Ice-T performed “Only God Can Judge Me”, “You
Don’t Bring Me Flowers” (Barbara Streisand cover) and a little skit.
Even though he didn’t look it, it is known Pac was embarrassed by the
Streisand cover and was really mad at Snoop for not showing up.
Tupac was cremated by “Davis Mortuary” in Las Vegas.
Tupac met ‘The Assassin’ and ‘Dee Tha Mad Bitch’ in late ’93. He
enjoyed the time he spent working with them so much that he booked a
studio for the three of them for an entire week
Tupac and Sanyika Shakur were good friends and Tupac wanted to play him in a movie about Sanyika’s life.
Tupac bought Biggie Smalls his first ‘Rolex’ watch.
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