Tupac Amaro Shakur

      Tupac Shakur was pretty much a beast when it came to rap. Initially, he desired to be an actor because he claimed acting was an "escape" from everyday life. This which he desperately needed an escape from. Tupac grew up everywhere and had a difficult time fitting in. Tupac landed his first role as Travis in a film called "A Raisin in the Sun". At the young age of 15, Tupac had fallen into rap. He began writing lyrics and got pretty into himself when he developed his "tough guy" reputation in New York City.

     As he grew up, he enrolled himself in the Illustrious Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studied acting and ballet and finally felt "in touch with himself". Around the late eighties, Tupac teamed up with Humpty-Hump and other Oakland-based rappers to create Digital Underground. This was a band intent on massive bass beats and frenetic, Parliament-Funkadelic-style rhythms. In 1990, the group released a debut and an album named Sex Packets. They later created an EP of remixes in 1991.

     Around 1992, Shakur entered a very fruitful stage of his life. He broke free of Digital Underground and made a solo debut (2Pacalypse Now) and this put him in a high-speed lane to stardom. In this same year, he starred in a multitude of movies.

     In November of 1994, Tupac was shot five times during a robbery. He miraculously recovered from these shots to produce his most impressive artistic accomplishments, including 1995's Me Against the World, which sold two million copies, and the doube-CD All Eyez on Me, which sold nearly three million! As his career's arc took a sharp rise toward fame, Tupac was shot and fought for his life, and sadly failed. Though this was shocking to his many fans, he said himself that he expected he'd die by the age of thirty.

     What it all boils down to is that Tupac had an unbelievable amount of inspirable accomplishments and is a legend. And in everyone's hearts, he still lives today.