Death Row, the leading purveyor of West Coast "gangsta rap," is a music-business phenomenon. The company earned seventy-five million dollars in revenues last year. The first album Tupac made for Death Row, "All Eyez on Me," which was released in early 1996, sold over five million units...
and he signed with Suge Knight’sDeath Row Recordsfor his next release. That album,All Eyez on Me(1996), was a two-disc paean to the “thug life” that Shakur embodied. It debuted at number one on theBillboardcharts and sold more than five million copies within its first year of rele...
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The biggest travesty with the timing of his death was that had he lived another three to six months, he would have completely shifted not only his trajectory, but his environment. In one of our last conversations he said, “In six months from now, no one’s going to recognize me because...
Interestingly, Tupac dies in his last video released under the name "Tupac". His new video "Toss It Up" from the new album was released under the name "Makaveli". The second video to be released by the name Makaveli is "To Live and Die in L.A." But how could they shoot the ...
Shakur’s last album created while alive was The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. Released two months after his death, this album was portentous and dark, predicting his own death in many songs. The entire album is said to have been created in only seven days, and one of the more ...
His friend and label mate, Snoop Dogg, was one of the last to visit him in the hospital. by Brenda Alexander Music Inside The Restaurant Tupac Shakur Was Planning to Open Before His Death Tupac Shakur was working on several music, film, and entrepreneurial projects before his death. One...
One can totally hear and feel the tension of that rivalry between the Death Row Records crew and Biggie (the Notorious B.I.G.) and Bad Boy Records lads as Pac mentions them negatively numerous times in his 25-minute set before he gives the stage...
The film was produced under the supervision of Shakur's mother, and was narrated entirely with Tupac's own voice, from archival footage recorded before his death. * Although the Tupac we know worked hard to cultivate his 'tough guy' image, one of the rapper's first loves was Shakespeare....
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”–Tupac Shakur “I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”–Tupac Shakur ...