Tupac Amaru Shakur

Tupac Amaru Shakur also known by his stage names 2Pac was an rapper and actor. 2Pac has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2007 making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. Rolling Stone Magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time. 2Pac began his career as a roadie, backup dancer, and MC for the alternative hip hopgroup Digital Underground. Afeni Shakur and Assata Shakur, his mother and aunt respectively, were involved with the Black Panthers, and 2pac made reference to the organization in the song Changes. On the night of November 30, 1994, Shakur was shot five times and robbed after entering the lobby of Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan by two armed men in army clothing luckily Pac lived on to do what he did best and make music. On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot four times in the Las Vegas metropolitan area of Nevada. He was taken to the University Medical Center, where he then passed six days later. R.I.P to one of the greatest additions to the music industry Tupac Amaru Shakur. I picked Tupac Amaru Shakur to talk about because of on great line he said in the video I posted on the blog. “Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots”. That is great inspiration from 2Pac and it makes blacks less insecure and feel like we can rise up after all that ha been said and done to us.