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- 1971 - Tupac
Amaru Shakur is born in NYC to
Afeni Shakur, a member of the
Black Panther Party who was
pregnant with him while in jail on
bombing charges. Tupac Amaru comes
from the Incas meaning
"shining serpent" and
Shakur is Arabic meaning
"thankful to God."
- 1983 - Tupac
made his acting debut in a
production of Raisin in the Sun.
- 1986 - Tupac
moved to Baltimore with his mother
and joined the High School for the
Performing Arts, where he acted in
school plays. And here Tupac
writes his first rap under the
name MC New York.
- 1988 - June:
Tupac's
family moves to Marin City,
California. Shortly after, Tupac
moves in with a neighbor and
starts selling
drugs. Tupac didn't finish high
school but later on he was hired
by Digital Underground as a roadie
and dancer.
- August:
Mutulu
Shakur, Tupac's stepfather, is
sentenced to 60 years in prison
for his involvement in a 1981
armored-car robbery.
- 1990 - Tupac
joins Digital Underground as a
roadie/dancer/rapper.
- 1991 - Shakur
achieves individual recognition
with the album "2Pacalypse
Now," which spawned the
successful singles
"Trapped" and
"Brenda's Got A Baby."
As a member of the
Grammy-nominated group Digital
Underground he appeared on the
track "Same Song" from
"This is an EP Release"
and on the album "Sons Of The
P."
- 1993 - "Poetic
Justice" followed and Tupac
let everybody see his other side.
Tupac also followed up with a new
album "Strictly 4 My
N.I.G.G.A.Z." Tupac was
nominated for an American Music
Award as best new rap hip hop
artist.
- November:
Tupac
is arrested and charged with
sexual assault after a fan was
raped in his hotel room.
- 1994 - Tupac
got shot 5 times when he was
robbed outside a recording studio
in midtown Manhattan, but survived
the attack. The result of the
trial of the sexual assault: Tupac
was sentenced to 1,5 to 4,5 years
in prison. Tupac served 8 months
of the sentence. Tupac had
permission to play in the
basketball drama "Above The
Rim" while he was doing time
in prison. With Thug Life Tupac
put an album together: "Thug
Life Volume 1".
- 1995 - Release
of "Me Against The
World," a
multi-million-selling album.
- February:
Sentenced
in New York to 4 1/2 years in
prison for sex abuse.
- May:
Tupac
marries Keisha Morris.
- October:
Tupac
was released out of jail after
Suge Knight paid his bail ($ 1.4
million).
- 1996 -
Never before in Hip Hop history
had there been a double CD
released. "All Eyez On
Me" was the first. Up to date
"All Eyez On Me" sold
more than 5 million copies. The
single "How Do You Want
It" / "California
Love" off "All Eyez On
Me" was a top 20 single on
Billboard magazine's charts. Acted
as a detective in Orion's urban
crime thriller "Gang
Related".
- September
7:
Tupac
was gunned down on a Las Vegas
highway on his way to Suge's Club
662 after having just been at a
Mike Tyson fight.
- September
13:
Tupac
Shakur pronounced dead at 4:03
p.m. in Las Vegas. In the weeks
following his death Tupac's Legend
seemed to live on...
- November
5:
"Makaveli - The Don
Killuminati: The 7 Day
Theory" is released and
debuts at number 1 on Billboard's
Charts.
- November:
All
Eyez On Me Re-enters the Top 20
and Continues to sell, Numbers
exceeding 7 million.
- 1997 - "Bullet"
is released - Film company seemed
to use Tupac as a selling tool.
- 1998 - This
year "Gridlock'd" got
released and later on "Gang
Related" was also released.
Afeni has released a CD entitled
"R U Still Down [Remember
Me]" from her own record
label Amaru Records. The cd
featured unreleased Tupac songs
from 1991-1994.
- 1999 - Death
Row/Amaru released "Tupac's
Greatest Hits" a
collaboration of his best work
including four previously
unreleased tracks. Death Row
records also released
"Chronic 2000" which
featured two previously unreleased
tracks.
- Dec.
21:
Interscope
Records released "2Pac +
Outlawz: Still I Rise" A
brand new 2Pac album featuring The
Outlawz on every track.
- 2001 -
"Until The End Of Time",
a new dubble-album, is released.
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