The same year, Knight offered to post a bail ($ 1. 4 million ) for Tupac Shakur if the troubled rapper agreed to sign with Death Row.

During Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's performance in the 2012 show, a projection of deceased rapper Tupac Shakur came up from under the stage and began performing " Hail Mary " and " 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted ".

Crouch has criticised, among others, author Alex Haley, the author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Roots: The Saga of an American Family ; community leader Al Sharpton ; filmmaker Spike Lee ; scholar Cornel West playwright Amiri Baraka ; as well as Tupac Shakur, in reference to whom he wrote " what dredged-up scum you are willing to pay for is what scum you get, on or off stage.

Shakur was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, on July 16, 1947, where she lived for three years with her parents and grandparents, Lula and Frank Hill.

Shakur was arrested for the first time in 1967 with 100 other BMCC students, on charges of trespassing.

That same year she changed her name to Assata Shakur and joined the Black Liberation Army ( BLA ), " a politico-military organization, whose primary objective ( was ) to fight for the independence and self-determination of Afrikan people in the United States.

Following an August 23, 1971, bank robbery in Queens, Shakur was sought for questioning, and a photograph of a woman ( who was later alleged to be Shakur ) with thick rimmed black glasses, a high hairdo pulled tightly over her head, and a steadily pointed gun became ubiquitous in banks and full page print ads paid for by the New York Clearing House Association.

Atlanta law enforcement officials said that Shakur and Jackson had lived together for several months in Atlanta, Georgia, in the summer of 1971.

Shakur was one of those wanted for questioning for wounding a police officer attempting to serve a traffic summons in Brooklyn on January 26, 1972.

"; Shakur was also wanted for questioning after a further September 1, 1972 Bronx bank robbery.

Robert Daley, Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Police, for example, described Shakur as " the final wanted fugitive, the soul of the gang, the mother hen who kept them together, kept them moving, kept them shooting ".

As of February 17, 1972, when Shakur was identified as one of four BLA members on a short trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee, Shakur was wanted for questioning ( along with Robert Vickers, Twyman Meyers, Samuel Cooper, and Paul Stewart ) in relation to police killings, a Queens bank robbery, and the grenade attack.

On May 2, 1973, at about 12: 45 a. m., Assata Shakur, along with Zayd Malik Shakur ( born James F. Costan ) and Sundiata Acoli ( born Clark Squire ), was stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike in East Brunswick by State Trooper James Harper, backed up by Trooper Werner Foerster in a second patrol vehicle ( Car 820 ), for driving with a broken tail light.

According to a New Jersey Police spokesperson, Assata Shakur was on her way to a " new hideout in Philadelphia " and " heading ultimately for Washington " and a book in the vehicle contained a list of potential BLA targets.

Assata Shakur testified that she was on her way to Baltimore for a job as a bar waitress.

" An individual's name change often coincides with a religious conversion ( Muhammad Ali changed his name from Cassius Clay and Louis Farrakhan changed his from Louis Eugene Walcott, for example ) or involvement with the black nationalist movement ( e. g., Amiri Baraka and Assata Shakur ).

Displaying his influence on rap and hip hop, Clinton also worked with Tupac Shakur on the song " Can't C Me " from the album All Eyez on Me ; Ice Cube on the song and video for " Bop Gun ( One Nation )" on the Lethal Injection album ( which sampled Funkadelic's earlier hit " One Nation Under A Groove "); Outkast on the song " Synthesizer " from the album Aquemini ; Redman on the song " J. U. M. P.

In 1995, after doing " California Love ", which proved to be his best selling single ever, Tupac Shakur would do its remix with Dr. Dre again featured, who originally wanted it for his next album, but relented to let it be on the album All Eyez on Me instead.

* The lead role was originally written for Tupac Shakur in 1996, but when he died, production for the film was put on hold.

** Tupac Shakur begins serving a 15-day sentence in a county jail for attacking director Allen Hughes on the set of a video shoot.

After several years of chart successes for artists including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Outlawz and Tha Dogg Pound, Death Row Records stagnated after Knight's incarceration on parole violation charges in September 1996.

* 1971 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper, producer, and actor ( Digital Underground ) ( d. 1996 )

* June 16 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper, poet, and actor ( died 1996 )

Among the album's twelve tracks was also a posthumous duet with Tupac Shakur that was assembled from the large cache of unreleased recordings done prior to his murder in 1996.

Three of the most famous drive by shootings were the murders of Tupac Shakur on September 13, 1996, and The Notorious B. I. G on March 9, 1997 and The Steve Harvey Show's Merlin Santana on November 9, 2002.

After the death of Shakur in 1996, Burrell left the record company.

A stream of Dre-dissing records followed, but things turned tragic in September 1996, when Shakur was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.

It is known to have signed many popular West Coast hip hop artists such as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, 2Pac, MC Hammer, Nate Dogg and the rap group Tha Dogg Pound consisting of rappers Kurupt and Daz Dillinger also Lisa " Left Eye " Lopes of TLC although most if not all departed from the label after its demise following the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996.

After the death of Shakur in 1996, Burrell left the record company.

Later that night, Shakur was shot several times while in a car Suge was driving as they headed to Knight's Vegas Club 662 ; despite living several days in critical condition, the rapper died on September 13, 1996.

* Bullet ( 1996 film ), a 1996 film starring Mickey Rourke and Tupac Shakur

Shakur and the Death Row crew attended a boxing match in Las Vegas, where he was murdered in 1996.

* On September 13, 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur died from respiratory failure and cardiac arrest, after having been in critical condition for six days.

Amaru Entertainment was founded by Tupac Shakur's mother, Afeni Shakur, in early 1997 to handle the release of the unreleased material Tupac Shakur had created before his death on September 13, 1996.

* Tupac Shakur ( June 16, 1971-September 13, 1996 )

Late 1993, Tupac Shakur formed the group Thug Life with a number of his friends, including Big Syke, Macadoshis, his stepbrother Mopreme Shakur, and Rated R. The group released their only album Thug Life: Volume 1 on September 26, 1994, which went gold.

His debut album, 2Pacalypse Now, revealed the socially conscious side of Shakur.

On this album, Shakur attacked social injustice, poverty and police brutality on songs " Brenda's Got a Baby ", " Trapped " and " Part Time Mutha ".

Jon Pareles of The New York Times gave the album a favorable review, calling Shakur the " St. Augustine of gangster rap " due to his ambivalence towards the behavior and nature of the gangster lifestyle.

The album also included " Thug Luv " with Tupac Shakur.

Tha Dogg Pound's debut album, Dogg Food, continued the label's streak of commercial successes ; its members, rappers Kurupt and Daz Dillinger, joined Shakur in ridiculing New York rappers with their single " New York, New York ," featuring Snoop Dogg.

Tupac Shakur was paid $ 200, 000 dollars by Death Row Records owner Suge Knight to record a track for the album.

Category: Tupac Shakur album covers

Category: Tupac Shakur album covers

*" Candy " was sampled by Tupac Shakur on his song " All Bout U ", Will Smith on his song " Candy ", by Mariah Carey on her song " Loverboy ", by Eightball and MJG on " Jus like Candy ", and by The Black Eyed Peas on their songs " Like That " and " Ba Bump " from their album " Monkey Business ", By Master P Album " Mamas Bad Boy " for song " Eyes Of A Killer " and again for His Group Tru album " Tru to the Game " song " Candy ".

Tupac Shakur intended to sign Nice & Smooth to his Makaveli label and even recorded tracks with the duo for the One Nation album.

In 2004, Saadiq produced a remix of the song " Crooked Nigga Too " by Tupac Shakur which is featured on the album Loyal To The Game.

In 2006, he released a 10-year anniversary tribute album for Tupac Shakur called A 2Pac Tribute: Dare 2 Struggle, featuring artists such as Mopreme Shakur, Outlawz, and Imaan Faith.

Mopreme recently released the mixtape " Assassin & Mopreme Shakur Present: Black & Brown Pride " as a prelude to his album, which was released in early 2007.

* " Changes " ( Tupac Shakur song ), a 1998 song by Tupac Shakur on his Greatest Hits album