The only songs I'd consider actively weak on the album are Life of an Outlaw and Just Like Daddy. My favorite songs on the album, outright, are probably Bomb First, Hail Mary, To Live and Die in L.A., Krazy, Hold Ya Head, White Man'z World, and Against All Odds. The overall atmosphere on the album is also incredible, best seen on songs like Hail Mary and Blasphemy. And while the production on it is nowhere near as good as All Eyez On Me's (or Me Against the World's), it's still mostly good, with some songs' beats (Hail Mary, Krazy, Hold Ya Head) becoming incredibly memorable. Pac's rapping on this album remains about as motivated and great as it was on albums like All Eyez on Me and Me Against the World, with some of his all-time best and most memorable verses (Bomb First, Hail Mary, Against All Odds, etc.) coming from this album. It's easily one of the most interesting albums ever released when considering all the circumstances surrounding it, and that hasn't changed at all 25 years later. In 1995, he was given an 18 months – 4.5 years jail sentence after he was found guilty of first-degree sexual assault.I used to be not that high on this album (primarily due to the overabundance of Outlawz features), but as of late I think it's become my personal favorite Pac album. The following year, he was sentenced to 30-days imprisonment after he pleaded guilty for assaulting fellow rapper, Chauncey Wynn. He was also charged for shooting a policeman in 1993. He was said to be involved in a shootout at the Qa’id Walker-Teal schoolyard which led to the death of one child. After some investigations, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, who was a member of the group known as Southside Compton Crips was named as the chief suspect, though he pleaded not guilty.
He was rushed to the hospital and after series of treatments, the artistes was announced dead on September 13. On their way, they were attacked by a group of people in a white Cadillac car and the rapper was shot four times. Later that night, the rapper, together with other friends and members of his team, decided to move to the Club 662 nightclub to continue with their personal stuffs. On September 7, 1996, 2Pac moved to Las Vegas to attend a birthday celebration of Tracy Danielle Robinson who happened to be his business partner.
The same year after he divorced, he started dating movie actress cum model, Kidada Jones. He got married to Keisha Morris, a movie actress, in 1995, but the couple went their separate ways a year later. He had a step-sibling named Mopreme “Komani” Shakur who was also a member of his group, ‘Thug Life’. His parents were Afeni Shakur and Billy Garland. He was born as Lesane Parish Crooks, but was later named after the former Peruvian leader, Túpac Amaru II. His other movie credits include “Poetic Justice” and “Bullet”. He starred as Birdie in the 1994 American movie entitled “Above the Rim”. A year later, the group dropped their first studio album called “Thug Life: Volume 1”.Īside from music, Shakur was also a renowned actor and was used in many movies. Aside from him, the group had members like Mopreme, Big Syke, and Stretch. He later dropped other albums like “Me Against the World” and “The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory”.Īfter becoming one of the leading arts in the country, 2Pac formed a hip hop group known as ‘Thug Life’ in 1993. In his explanation, Tupac said the album was to highlight some things that young African-American males go through in the society. The album created lots of controversies with the then vice-President of the country, Dan Quayle, describing it as a social misfit. That same year, he released his first studio album which was under the name “2Pacalypse Now”.