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2pac Biography |
 While locked up in prison, Tupac worked on and released "Me Against The World" on April 1st, 1995, a multi-platinum album which debuted at number one on the charts and stayed there for 4 weeks. This album brought us the hits "Dear Mama", "Temptations" ,and "So Many Tears". In May Tupac married longtime girlfriend, Keisha Morris and got an annulment soon after his release. He also began getting visits from Suge Knight who had lawyer David Kenner look over all of Tupac's cases. Out of nowhere, on an appeal, when no one else would, Suge Knight put up a $1.4 million bond to bail Tupac out of jail and sign him to a shady three album deal to then the industry's leading Rap label-Death Row Records. The money for Tupac's bail was really from Interscope, Tupac's record label before he signed with Death Row. My guess is that they threw him into Suge's lap, figuring he could better control him, keep him out of trouble, and relieve political pressure on them because of all the controversy. On the night of After Tupac got signed to Death Row he started a group called Outlaw Immortalz (Makaveli (2Pac), Napoleon, Mussolini, Hussein Fatal, Kastro, E.D.I. Mean, and Kadafi). Tupac didn't let them sign to Death Row, because he "didn't want any of them to live in bondage". Now amongst the likes of super producer Dr. Dre, artists Snoop Doggy Dogg, and The Dogg Pound, 2Pac released an unheard of (for a Rap artist) double CD entitled "All Eyez On Me" on February 13th, 1996. This was probably his best and most controversial album (which sold 5 million albums in three months). He blamed former friend Notorious B.I.G. and his producer and Bad Boy Entertainment CEO, Sean "Puffy Combs for his attack back in '94 and publicly dissed them in interviews and songs which sparked a media hyped-up East Coast-West Coast feud. 2Pac now spoke about being a "ridah", being a Mob type figure, speaking about death as if he wasn't afraid or he was looking forward to it (as he did on "Me Against The World"), and always throwin' up his hands with his middle and ring finger crossed to resemble the letter W which stood for Westside or West Coast, while Biggie and Puffy were from the East Coast. On March 29th Death Row employees and Bad Boy employees face off in the parking lot at the Soul Train awards in Los Angeles, words were exchanged and a gun was pulled. This from the same artist who brought us "Dear Mama" which should have won a Grammy for song of the year over Coolio's short lived hit "Gangster's Paradise". The East West war came closer to reality when 2Pac released the B-side single "Hit 'Em Up". In this song he dissed and threatened Biggie, Puffy, and many other artists who previously tried to discreetly (mostly in songs) diss him. Biggie blew up while Pac was locked up and released a B-side single "Who Shot Ya" (an obvious diss) not too long after Pac got shot. Biggie also eventually teamed up with rapper Jay-Z on the tacky, but close enough to piss Pac off song, "Brooklyn's Finest". With the help of the media, especially Vibe and The Source more words are exchanged via interviews and tempers flair in the already tense world of Rap. Since his release and hostile takeover as the once again King of Rap, the entire Bad Boy camp was virtually unheard from for months. Months go by as the make-believe war seemed to die down and by now, Tupac is at the height of his fame with two more finished movies ("Gridlock'd" and "Gang Related") and the Makaveli "The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory" LP soon to be released. On September 4 Tupac returned to New York for the MTV Music Video Awards and got into a scuffle, adding on to the media's East vs. West theory. On September 7th 1996, after the Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Seldon fight, the Death Row entourage beat up Crip gang member Orlando Anderson (now dead also) in the MGM casino for allegedly stealing a gold and diamond encrusted Death Row medallion from an employee. Later that night a car pulled up next to the car which was driven by Suge with 2Pac in the passenger seat, and fired several shots. Tupac took 4 more bullets in an apparent act of revenge. Suge who was grazed by bullet fragments made a senseless U-turn (there was a hospital in plain view right down the street from the crime scene) and drove wildly to get to a hospital, but he was stopped by the Police who heard the shots and saw him driving recklessly, and an ambulance was on the scene shortly thereafter. That night, and the next six were to be Tupac Shakur's last seven days on earth. On Friday September 13th, at 4:03pm, six days after the shooting, Tupac Shakur was pronounced dead and the Nation is shocked.
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