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."
1992
- Shakur appeared in the
Earnest Dickerson film "Juice."
1993
- Appeared in John
Singleton's release "Poetic Justice" with Janet Jackson.
1994
- Release of "Thug
Life."
- Appeared in "Above
The Rim."
- November: Shakur's New
York sex assault trial opens.
- November: Shakur is shot
during apparent robbery attempt outside a music studio in New York.
- December: One day after
being shot, Shakur is convicted of sexually abusing a woman he had
invited to his hotel room. He is acquitted of sodomy and weapons
charges.
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: Shakur married
longtime girlfriend, Keisha Morris.
- October: After nearly
eight months in prison, Shakur is released on bail while he appeals.
1996
- Shakur's fourth solo
album, "All Eyez on Me," debuts at No. 1 on Billboard's
album chart, goes on to sell about 5 million copies. The song
"How Do You Want It California Love" was a top 20 single
on Billboard magazine's charts.
- Acted as a detective in
Orion's urban crime thriller "Gang Related."
- Sept. 7: Shakur shot in
Las Vegas.
- Sept. 13: Shakur
pronounced dead at 4:03 p.m.
- Nov. 5: Shakur's album
"Makaveli" is released posthumously.
1997
- January: "Gridlock'd"
one of the last films Shakur appeared in opens in theaters around
the nation.
- Jan. 27: Shakur
was posthumously named favorite rap-hip hop artist at the American
Musica Awards. Presenter Brandy accepted the trophy for Shakur's
family.
- Feb. 10: The
No. 1 album in the nation this week, the soundtrack to the movie
"Gridlock'd," featuring songs by Shakur, among others.
- Oct.
8: Gang Related, Tupac Shakur's last movie, is released nationwide.
Shakur along with co-star James Belushi play cops who have been
cheating and then killing drug dealers. Their plans go wrong when
the kill an undercover DEA agent by mistake.
- October:
The soundtrack to the movie "Gang Related," featuring
songs by Shakur, among others becomes the No. 1 album in the nation
on Billboard's R&B chart.
