That completely changed after Tupac released his music. Tupac had the gift to tell a story into a way that made you feel like you were seeing what he was seeing. There was a side of him that wanted to just let it all out and cut loose and not care about consequences.
On the other side was that social conscience, showing all the facets of what life was life in the ghetto as a young black male, telling stories that hadn't been heard, and speaking out for the black community.
Singers and rappers use parts of their body to produce different sounds, such as using their head to produce a high-pitch voice or their stomach so their voice is deep and loud. In the documentary, Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel , one of Tupac's producers said, "Slick Rick rhymed from the nasal palate, Nas from the back of his throat, and Pac from the pit of his stomach, which is where his power came from.
His voice got people to listen to the issues he sang and rapped about. In November , Tupac was charged with sexually assaulting a woman in his hotel room and had to go to jail in for nine months. But before he was in prison he finished another album, which showed all of the emotions he felt facing jail time.
He dived into a world of gangster rap, formed a new group called Outlawz Immortalz and signed to the notorious record label Death Row Records. In , Tupac served a nine-month sentence on charges of sexual assault, something he strongly denied. The period between his release from prison and his death almost a year later was very intense. He came out of jail firing shots; he had a lot to say and made a huge amount of music in this time. He dived into a world of gangster rap, formed a new group called Outlawz Immortalz and signed to the notorious record label Death Row Records.
In terms of his approach to production, he wasn't focused on the musicality of the songs. Instead he had a real urgency to make music. You can hear this intensity and urgency in Tupac's delivery on tracks like Hail Mary, from his posthumous album 7 Day Theory.
Tupac didn't feel the need to be spending time in the studio choosing the right beat or the right kick. In October of , Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas that still hasn't been solved. He was We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.
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In October , Tupac shot and wounded two white off-duty cops in Atlanta — one in the abdomen and one in the buttocks — after an altercation. However, the charges were dropped after it emerged in court that the policemen had been drinking, had initiated the incident and that one of the officers had threatened Tupac with a stolen gun. The case illustrated the misrepresentation of African American males, and the attitude of some police toward them, which Tupac had been talking about in his music.
What was portrayed as gun-toting "gangster" behavior by a lawless individual turned out to be an act of self-defense by a young man in fear of his life. All the while, Tupac's star continued to rise. Tupac did go to jail for 15 days in for assaulting the director Allen Hughes, who had fired him from the set of the movie Menace II Society for being disruptive.
Before Tupac released his third album, there was more trouble. In November , he was shot multiple times in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio, Quad, by two young Black men. Tupac believed his rap rival Biggie Smalls was behind the shooting, for which nobody has ever been charged. Smalls always denied he knew anything; in Dexter Isaac, a New York prisoner serving a life sentence for an unrelated crime, claimed he was paid to steal from Tupac by the artist manager and mogul James "Henchman" Rosemond, and shot the rapper during the robbery.
Their rivalry was fast becoming hip hop's most famous — and ugliest — beef. Within three months, Tupac was murdered. In February , Tupac was sentenced to between one and a half and four and a half years of jail time for sexually abusing a female fan. The case related to an incident that had taken place in Tupac's suite in the New York Parker Meridien hotel in November Tupac maintained that he had not raped the girl, although he confessed to the Vibe magazine journalist Kevin Powell that he could have prevented others who were present in the suite at the time from doing so.
While Tupac was in prison on rape charges, he was visited by Suge Knight, the notorious label boss of Death Row records. The condition was that Tupac sign on to Death Row. Tupac duly signed. He was released from the high-security Dannemora facility in New York in October At the same time as he was glorifying an outlaw lifestyle for Death Row, Tupac was financing an at-risk youth center, bankrolling South Central sports teams, setting up a telephone helpline for young people with problems — all noted in Robert Sam Anson's Vanity Fair article, published after Tupac's death.
Tupac has released a total of 11 platinum albums: four during his career, with seven more released posthumously. To date, Tupac has sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Tupac's first album as a solo artist was 2Pacalypse Now. Although it did not yield any hits, it sold a respectable , copies and established Tupac as an uncompromising social commentator on songs such as "Brenda's Got a Baby" — which narrates an underaged mother's fall into destitution — and "Soulja's Story," which controversially spoke of "blasting" a police officer and "droppin' the cop.
The song was cited as a motivation for a real-life cop killing by a teenage car thief called Ronald Ray Howard and was condemned by the then-U. Vice President Dan Quayle. It continued in the same socially conscious vein as his debut.
On the gold-certified single "Keep Ya Head Up," he empathized with "my sisters on the welfare," encouraging them to "please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up. The album featured contributions from Tupac's stepbrother, Mopreme.
Mopreme became a member of the hip-hop group Thug Life, which Tupac started and which released the album Thug Life: Volume 1 in When Tupac's third solo album came out on March 14, , he was in jail. Its title, Me Against the World , could not have been more apt. It reached No. Coker at Rolling Stone. But there was vulnerability, too — lead single, "Dear Mama," was a tear-jerking tribute to his mother, Afeni, that hit number 9 on the Billboard Hot in April With his new hip-hop group Outlawz debuting on the album, All Eyez on Me was an unapologetic celebration of the thug lifestyle, eschewing socially conscious lyrics in favor of gangsta-funk hedonism and menace.
Within two months of its release, All Eyez on Me had been certified five-times double-platinum. It would eventually become diamond certified. It also reached No.
Tupac recorded a total of six studio albums released posthumously, up to and including Pac's Life in Before Tupac became a rapper, he wrote poetry. Along with his music, Tupac had appeared in several films by the time of his death, among them starring roles alongside Janet Jackson in 's Poetic Justice and Mickey Rourke in 's Bullet.
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