This dynamic opens up the Pandora’s Box to the many dynamics going on during Tupac’s short life and ultimately tragic end.Īll Eyes on Me doesn’t escape those contradictions, but there’s enough exciting and exceptional tracks on its sprawling two disc spread to warrant entry in my best 1,000 albums ever. However, a good amount of it in my view is either uninteresting or kind of a turn off in terms of its lyrical content. He’s obviously incredibly talented, and some of his output represents exceptional and cutting edge 1990s hip hop. I’ve always had mixed feelings about Tupac Shakur as a musical artist. What does 2Pac’s All Eyez on Me mean to me? What does it make me feel? Why is it exciting or compelling? Find out more about why I embarked on a best 1,000 albums ever project. This is 100% my own personal super biased, incredibly subjective take on what my top 1,000 albums are, ranked in painstaking order over the course of doing research for nearly a year, Rob from High Fidelity style. Yeah, I know it’s audacious, a little crazy (okay, maybe a lot cray cray), bordering on criminal nerdery.īut here’s what it’s NOT: a definitive list of the Greatest Albums of All-Time. As the singer worked hard in the studio, many of his unreleased songs later entered his posthumous albums.What does the “best 1,000 albums ever” mean and why are you doing this? The artist died of the wounds in the hospital. The disc titled The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory became the darkest work ever by Tupac and was issued after his murder. Tupac gathered a new band Outlawz, with which he recorded the first double album in rap history All Eyes On Me. After 7 months of imprisonment, the Death Row Records director put a bail for Shakur, agreeing with the rapper that he would make a contract with the studio for three discs in return. Being in jail, he also married to his long-time girlfriend Keisha Morris, but this marriage was annulated later. In his prison cell Shakur read a lot, including Machiavelli, Sun Tsu and other political philosophers, writing his own film script. Being in a prison, Shakur released his third disc Me Against The World, which became the first album in the world that became the chart leader, while its author served his prison sentence. The artist was attacked at the studio lobby and shot five times – twice in his head. Tupac listened to the verdict, sitting in a wheel chair, as he did not heal yet after the recent armed robbery. However, soon he was accused of a sexual abuse and sentenced to 4 years and a half in jail. Later he was accused of attacking two police officers, but again found not guilty. At the end of 1993, the rapper organized the Thug Life band out of his friends, with whom he managed to record only one album Thug Life Vol. In the summer of 1993, Tupac was sentenced to 15 days in jail for assaulting the director during film shooting. The reason was that Shakur and his friends were attacked, they started shooting with the attackers and as a result, a child-bystander was killed. For the beginning, he was accused of a murder. Around the same time Tupac got serious problems with the law. followed soon and rocketed with the hits I Get Around and Keep Ya Head Up. His second full-length Striclty 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.
At the same time Shakur proved to be an extremely gifted actor, making his debut appearance in Juice picture by Ernest Dickerson.
Many public faces criticized sharply his edgy and colorful texts. It was titled 2Pacalypse Now and saw light in 1992, making a lot of noise with the single Brenda's Got A Baby. Soon Tupac not only danced, but also rapped with the Digital Underground on their disc, composing his own debut work in spare time. In 1990, Shakur got acquainted with the members of the rap band Digital Underground, becoming their back-up dancer. There he went to the Tamaplais High School, but dropped out. However, Tupac did not finish the school as he had to move again with the family because of his mother's drug-addiction. Being a teenager, Shakur managed to enter the prestigious Baltimore School For The Arts, where he studied jazz, ballet and acting, performing in Shakespeare's plays.
Tupac's childhood consisted of constant travels along the USA his family had problems with the law and lived in poverty. Only at the age of three months the boy was called by his real name in honor of Indian Tupac Amaru II, who lead the riot of Inks against Spanish invaders and was later convinced to death. Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur, called him Lesane Parish Crooks at birth, concealing their kin in fear for his life, as Black Panthers had many foes. Tupac Amaru Shakur was the son of two Black Panthers members, who split before his birth.
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