Tupac Shakur Facts
Tupac Shakur Facts
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Tupac Shakur is also known as just Tupac, or Makaveli. |
The name Shakur is derived from the South American Tupac Amaru, a revolutionary. |
Tupac was born a month after his mother was acquitted of many charges of conspiracy against the US government and landmarks. |
Tupac played Travis Younger in a play at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, when he was 13 years old, to help raise money for Jessie Jackson's presidential campaign. The play was A Raisin in the Sun. |
Tupac went to school for the arts in Baltimore and took ballet and also played the Mouse King in the Nutcracker. |
When Tupac started rapping in Baltimore he used the name MC New York. |
Tupac began his career as a backup dancer for The Digital Underground in 1990. |
Tupac auditioned for the role of Bubba in Forrest Gump. He didn't get the part. |
Tupac was forced to take an HIV test before filming a love scene with Janet Jackson in the movie Poetic Justice. |
Tupac once dated Madonna. |
Tupac loved Shakespeare. |
Tupac was a fan of Kate Bush, Culture Club, U2, and Sinead O'Connor. |
Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. were actually friends before the East Coast/West Coast battle broke out. |
Tupac was in jail when his album hit #1 on the Billboard 200. Me Against the World was the album title. |
Tupac and Ice T once sang a duet together. |
Two of the best-selling albums in the United States are Tupac's work, including Greatest Hits (1998), and All Eyez on Me (1996). |
Tupac is considered to be one of the most influential rap artists of all time. |
Rolling Stone ranked Tupac in The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time as #86. |
Tupac was cremated and some of the members of the Outlawz are believed to have mixed some of his ashes with marijuana and smoked it. |
Tupac's song Dear Mama is the 3rd rap song to be entered into the National Recording Registry. |
Tupac was once charged with shooting two off duty police officers. Charges were later dropped as the police were in the wrong. |
Seven of Tupac's eleven platinum albums were released after his death. |
There are many conspiracy theories surrounding Tupac's murder. He was shot after a fight at the MGM Grand hotel by an unknown gunman. |
In 2017 Tupac was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. |
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