USA - MUSIC

2PAC

His real name was Afeni Shakur
His mother and his father (billy garland) took part the group of the Black Panthers, a radical movement for the defence of black rights in the 1970s.
The careers of 2PAC started in 1990 when he made his first song called Sami.

2PAC has lived in New York and died in Las Vegas at the age of 25 years old. His musical rap was east coast. He was the living representation of the East Coast rap as opposed to Notorious Big for the west coast rap.

He played in a few films

2PAC's album called “Apocalypse” did not do as well in the charts as the next albums and didn't even reach the first five places.
At the end of 1993 Der Shakur Thug Life was formed, a band he created with his friends in particular Biggai Syke. The group usually performed in concerts without tupac.

Tupac also said: “I am not a gangster and I've never been. I'm not a thief who takes your bag. I'm not a guy who makes car jackings. I'm an artist.”

The rivalry with Notorious Big began with an album “Time Dog Penicillin” (1991), where he addresses violently to the Compton rappers such qu'Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Eiht and many others in “Fuck Compton” as “Fire Ships” or “Step to Me”. There followed a war between labels “Death Row Records” and “Bad Boy Records”, one being on the West Coast (Los Angeles) and the other on the East Coast (New York). “Death Row” had some of the best rappers such as Tupac, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube and Dr. Dre. At the other end of the country there was “Puff Daddy”, “The Notorious BIG” (Bad Boy Records) were the leaders of the West Coast.

2Pac and Notorious Big were victims of this war because both of them were shot. It's a shame when music becomes so violent.

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