- Sometimes Credited As: 2 Pac Shakur
- Nickname: 2Pac
- Godfather: Elmer Geronimo Pratt
- Named after Tupac Amaru, the Inca Indian that was sentenced to death by Spaniards. Tupac Amaru, in the Inca Indian language, means shining serpent.
- Wrote a song about his mother called Dear Mama while in prison.
- Grew up in Harlem, Baltimore and Marin County California
- He had the words 'Thug Life' tatooed across his abdomen.
- Was going to play the role of Malik in HIGHER LEARNING (1995)
- Died on a Friday the 13th.
- More of his music has been released since his death than was while he was alive.
- Appeared in the Salt-N-Pepa video, Whatta Man.
- Founding Member of the Outlawz
- Used the name Makaveli which is an altered spelling of Machiavelli, about whom he read while in prison.
- In the song Life Goes On from the 'All Eyez on me' album, he raps about his own funeral.
- As a young man, Tupac also studied ballet and dance
- Is listed as the most successful gangsta rapper in 'The Guinness Book Of World Records'.
- From childhood, everyone called him the Black Prince.
- Shakur means Thankful To God in Arabic.
- His given name was Lesane Crooks. He was the son of Afeni Shakur (government name Alice Fay Walker) who was one of the defendants at the Panther 21 trial.
- Studied drama at Baltimore's School For The Arts, where he rapped under the name MC New York.
- At the Baltimore School of the arts, Tupac met Jada Pinkett, who would become a close friend of his
- Was planned to act in the movies COOL RUNNINGS, HIGHER LEARNING, MENACE II SOCIETY and HOW TO BE A PLAYER.
- When Tupac was 12 years old, his mother enrolled him in Harlems 127thSt Ensemble. He played Travis in A Raisin in The Sun in his first acting role.
- While he was with Digital Underground, someone once shoved a 12 gauge shotgun in Tupac's face because of a dispute over a woman at a Martin Luther King Jr festival.
- Tupac said the individual letters in his THUG LIFE tattoo stood for The Hate U Give Little Infants F-ck Everybody
- Said that because of his moms ties with the Black Panthers, the FBI was always after him and his family.
- His first appearance ever was on Digital Underground's Same Song where he raps wearing West African war clothes in the video.
- Kidada Jones, daughter of Quincy Jones and fiancé of Tupac, has a tattoo of Tupac on her arm.
- Was a big fan of Jim Carrey.
- Porn Star Spontaneous XXXStacy, who's been in mags like Portfolioand Players has a tattoo on her arm with Tupacs name and the title of the song Keep Ya Head Up.
- Has a huge cross on his back that says Exodus 18:11 a reference to where the bible says Now I know That the Lord is Greater Than All Gods because he delivered the people from the hands of the Egyptians when they dealt with them arrogantly.
- Was first inspired to rap when a friend of his was killed while he was playing with a gun. His first rap was about gun control.
- When he first moved to California, Tupac was homeless for 2 years.
- In the movie JUICE, Tupac plays Bishop and said the now famous line Yeah I'm crazy, but you know what? I don't give a f-ck.
- Wanted to name his first child Star.
- Snoop Doggy Dogg made a tribute song for Pac & Biggie called How Many Blessings which is not released yet.
- Snoop Doggy Dogg has in his house a life-size cardboard cut-out of Tupac with his middle finger up giving the Thug Life Salute.
- MTV did a BioRhytm on Faith Evans and she said that she was working on a track for Pac for All Eyez On Me which eventually never made the album. She also denied having sex with Pac.
- In a German music show they had Nas in it. They asked him to which rapper he looks up to. At first Nas was like you know, I'm more like doin' my own thang but when he said well, some people might not like me sayin' that I developed lots of respect for Tupac
- I Get Around was supposed to be on Digital Underground's album. Shock G wound up giving it to Pac and Digital Underground's label, Tommy Boy, wasn't very happy once it turned out to be such a big hit.
- Thug Luv was just a song that Bizzy, Silk-E-Fine and Tupac were supposed to do but things happened and all of Bone Thugs -n- Harmony came in. Bizzy Bone that Pac came into the studio, wrote his verse in about 10 minutes and then left because he had to go model for Versace. Then he came back and sang with them all laid back.
- When Tupac was a child and he would get into trouble, his mother would make him sit in the corner and read the 'New York Times', and she would later quiz him on the articles.
- TQ and Tupac did 2 songz together which should be on TQ's next album.
- In Bizzy Bone's video for When Thugs Cry, at the end Bizzy is sitting cross-legged and there are pictures flying around him of Tupac, Eazy-E and Biggie.
- Lil' Kim once said that Bad Boy did a track dissing Tupac but they didn't released it after Tupac died. The song did not feature Biggie; it was only Lil' Kim and Junior M.A.F.I.A.
- The video for All 'Bout You (Greatest Hits version) that was released in 1998 contains scenes of a new Volkswagen Beatle which was only available since 1998!
- According to MC Hammer, Tupac told him that he wanted to do free concerts for schools and the only way you could get in was to have a C or better grade average.
- Did a song for a DJ at KKDA radio in Texas which was just a rap about that radiostation. It had the exact beat as Bone Thugs -n- Harmony's song Body Rott. The chorus was womething like just give me your soul, just give me your soul, give me your soul.
- According to Daz Dillinger, Tupac made about 700 songs at Death Row Records which have not been released yet.
- Shielded Suge Knight from the bullets that were fired on the night of September 7th, 1996 by trying to jump into the back of the car.
- At the end of the movie about the Bloods street gang called THIS IS FOR MY DEAD HOMIES, there is a Biggie and Tupac freestyle.
- After Tupac's death there were rumors that Biggie wanted to do a song called Dig Him Up dissing Pac by saying that if people really thought Tupac was alive they should dig him up.
- When Will Smith won a Grammy Award (in 1997 or 1998) he dedicated it to Tupac and Biggie.
- Snoop Doggy Dogg and Tupac didn't talk to each other after their last trip to N.Y. together. This was because Snoop made a song dissing Death Row called Death Row Killaz. They later were friends again.
- His mother, Afeni Shakur, said that she knew that Tupac would be special from the time he started to grow in her womb because she had four miscarriages befor Tupac.
- Would only sleep for 3 or 4 hours every night. He would wake up before the sun came up and shoot a movie and then immediately go to the studio.
- E.D.I. Amin and Kastro of The Outlawz say that the Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory album was recorded in 7 days. That's why it was called that way. They also said that Tupac didn't have a religion but that he believed in God. Kastro said that one of the things Tupac said to him was, The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
- The Cocoa Brovas (f.k.a. Smiff -n- Wesson) were on BET's Rap City and they were talking about the One Nation album. They said that they stayed at Tupac's house while making the album and it was just cool. They met his mother and his aunt. They, Tupac and The Outlawz used to have waterfights when it was hot. They said they made 6 songz together with Tupac, themselves, Outlawz, Melly Mel, Grandmaster Flash, The Luniz, Outkast and others.
- Treach of Naughty By Nature has a tattoo of Tupac.
- The director of Gang Related once told in an interview that Tupac walked in one day with a bodyguard and was telling the guard to make sure he is watching his back. Tupac told the director that he got a death threat.
- According to K-Ci and Jojo the video for Toss It Up was shot the day before Tupac was shot.
- In Vancouver a local DJ did an interview with Big Syke of Thug Life (a.k.a. Mussolini of The Outlawz). The interviewer asked him about the intro to Makaveli (Suge shot me!). Big Syke said that it scared him as well especially since he had known that Tupac did some minor changes to the intro before it was finally finished. He said that Tupac actually finished the album and then came back to the intro and added a few things. Big Syke said that he thinks that Tupac did mention certain things but that was all he was gonna say about the topic.
- Mickey Rourke (co-star in the movie BULLET with Tupac) has a special room in his house that is dedicated to his friends who have died. It is a room full of pictures of his friends. He has a small statue of the Virgin Mary on a table and a picture of him with Tupac next to it. He once explained that Tupac was a special friend of his and was there for him during his rough period. He told that he owed his life to Tupac. He said Tupac gave him some good advice on changing his life while they were filming the movie BUKKET. He also said how sad he was when he heard of Tupac's death and wanted to continue changing his life for the better because he knew that tupac would have wanted it that way.
- His mother, Afeni Shakur, once told MTV that Tupac knew his time left and that he worked like a 'demon' and that he has about 10 years worth of material that hasn't been released!
- The video for I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto was filmed in New Mexico.
- In a newspaper they once had predictions for 1998 and they wrote this about Pac: Rumors that slain rapper Tupac Shakur is still alive reach a fever pitch until he emerges from self-imposed seclusion and admits a look-alike was gunned down in his place. His shocking new mission: To rid the world of violence.
- Somebody said that Tupac was wearing new Penny Hardaway shoes in the Toss It Up video and in the To Live & Die In L.A. video it was told he was wearing Air Jordans. Both of these shoes were not available at that time yet. But somebody also told me that celebrities receive new shoes before they hit the stores to promote them.
- There are rumours spreaded by a radiostation that over 500 people sited Tupac in Cuba.
Quotes- "All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways."
- "Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes"."
- "Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."
- "The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams."
- "The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else."
- "I guarantee, I will spark the brain that will change the world."
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