Timeline/Biograph
1971 Tupac Amaru Shakur was
born in Brooklyn, New York. At the present time his mother Afeni
Shakur sat in jail........................
1983 Tupac makes his first movie, Raising in the Sun.
1985 Tupac moves, with his mother, to Baltimore in Maryland. Tupac begins in High School for the Performing Arts, where he also participate in several school shows.
1988 Tupac and his mother moves to Marin City, California. Tupac jumps of his studing and insted he starts to hang out with "the wrong" gang, and he starts dealing drugs. Tupac is called The Infamous MC New York when he first comes to Marin City.
1990 Tupac gets a work as a dancer at Digital Underground.
1991 Tupac makes his first song, with Digital Underground, called Same Song on the album This is an EP Release. Tupac stars in his first movie this year with Digital Underground, he plays a rapper in Nothing But Trouble. The same year Tupac is given a big role in the movie Juice, and he releases his first soloalbum with the name 2Pacalypse Now (released in November).
1992 Ronald Ray Howard,
19, shoots a cop and Howards lawyer claims that Howard was
inspired by 2Pacalypse Now wich were in his car
stereo. (This was big news in the media and 2Pac was, again,
pointed out as a criminal. Something that never was told in the
media was that Howard didnt own a tape with 2Pac, but why should
they say that?)
In 22:nd August Tupac is involved in a fight with a gang from
Marin City, a gun go off and a 6 year old girl is killed. Tupac's
half-brother, Maurice Harding, is arrested for the
murder but he's later released due the lack of evidence.
The following month , September, the vice president Dan
Quayle goes out in public and says that the album 2Pacalypse
Now has no place in the society.
1993 Tupac medverkar i filmen Poetic Justice tillsammans med Janet jackson. I februari släpper 2Pac sitt andra album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. Tupac får nu sitt erkännande inom musikbranchen genom att bli nominerad till American Music Award som bästa nykomling inom rap hip hop genren. 13 mars hamnar Tupac i ett bråk med en limosinförare som anklagar Tupac för att ha använt droger i bilen. Anklagelserna dras tillbaka. I april är Tupac återigen i rätten, denna gång för att ha svingat ett baseboll trä mot en rappare under en konsert, och denna gång får han 10 dagars fängelse. 31 october gör Tupac sitt tredje besök detta år i rätten, nu anklagad för att ha skjutit mot två civilklädda pliser som trakaserade en svart bilist, men även detta åtal lades ner. Tupac's sista besök i rätten (det här året) sker en månade senare, 18 november, och denna gång är det en beundrare (19-årig flicka) som säger sig ha blivit våldtagen i Tupac's hotellrum. (Tupac deltog inte i våldtäkten, men stoppade den inte heller).
1994 The 10th March Tupac goes
to jail for 15 days after that he had beaten down Allen
Hughes, and this because she had denied him a role in the
movie Menace II Society. In September two teenagers
murder a police officer and they say that they've got the
inspiration from Tupac's song Souljah's Story. The
30th November Tupac is shot 5 times (two in the head) and at the
same time they take jewelery for $40,000 that Tupac had on him.
The robbery was commited at the recordstudio Times
Squarerecording studio in Manhattan, but the case is not
solved yet. Tupac wrote him self out from the hospital after a
3hrs operation.
The rapecharges that Tupac got against him in 1993 now results in
jail for 1,5 to 4,5 years. Tupac gets out from jail 8 month
later, 14th February 1995. While Tupac was in jail he was allowed
to star in the basketball movie Above The Rim. Under the
same period that he sits in jail he also stars in Bullet
with Mickey Rourke. With his own created group Thug
Life (now The Outlaws) he records the album Thug Life
Volume 1.
1995 While Tupac was in jail he was working on the album Me Against The World, later released in April. The album sold in over 2 millions ex. and the album got the No 1 place on the lists. One month later Tupac gets married with Keisha Morris and in October Tupac leaves the jail after that Suge Knight have paid the bail on 1,4 million dollars. Tupac signs a contract with Death Row and starts to work with his fourth album, All Eyez On Me.
1996 All Eyez On Me
is released and goes up to the No 1 place. The album is the first
double album (2 cd's) in HipHop/Rap history. The album is now
sold in more then 6 millions ex.
At the Soul Train award in Los Angeles Death Row
crew and Bad Boy crew gets in a fight wich ends after
that a gun goes off (nobody gets hit). The 4th September Tupac
gets in a fight at the MTV Music Awards. Three days
after, 7th September, Tupac is shot in a car after that he's been
on a fight with Mike Tyson. Tupac is operated twice
before he dies. Tupac is announced dead at 04:30 the 13th
September. The album Makaveli - the don killuminati - the 7
day theory is released after his death in November.
1997 The movies Gridlock'd and Gang Related, with Tupac, are released on the cinemas.
R.I.P
1971-1996