What would have become of Tupac Amaru Shakur had he finished his studies at the Baltimore School of the Arts? Would have it ended the same way or he could have been one of today's most respected black art Tupac artists?
Well, looking back at how it started until his tragic end, Tupac made his entry into the music industry in such a stark manner that no one has ever expected he would create such a huge impact to the rap industry, a legacy that lived on beyond his untimely death.
Who would ever expect that a backup rapper and dancer would actually emerge as one of the highly-acclaimed rappers of the '90s?
Tupac Amaru Shakur belonged to a poor family, who moved constantly around the country in search for a better livelihood and Tupaci get around. Despite the indigence, Tupac and reading list as a teenager was accepted at the well-respected Baltimore School of the Arts.
His innate talent and creative drawings of Tupac Shakur were further honed while he was in school where he first had his taste of acting and rapping Lyrics to Tupac Songs.
However, his family had to move again before he could even graduate and finalize his Tupac art drawings. He then met the head of Digital Underground, Shock-G, who hired him as a dancer at Chappelle's Show: Tupac club song and equipment handler while the group goes on tour.
Tupac only joined Digital Underground as a rapper after the label already engraved its name on the rolls of rap record labels.
His first album, 2Pacalypse Now, buoyed Tupac into fame coupled by an acting debut in Juice, Tupac's name easily became a household name among the kids in the ghetto who knew Lyrics to Tupac Songs by heart. And as his Tupac mp3fame rise up so were his brushes with the law.
In 1994, Tupac came toe-to-toe with Snoop Dogg living the life of the rich and famous in a "gangsta" way fast developing a controversial reputation of living in and out of the penitentiary.
However, his being an outlaw somehow pushed his Tupac mp3 record sales further up instead of going down. Me Against the World for one took the number one spot in various charts.
While he had the reputation of a toughie, Tupac's single "Dear Mama" showed the rapper's sensitive side.
By 1996, the hit single "California Love" from his first album under Death Row Records hoisted Tupac to a superstar status, however just as Tupac Shakur & reading list was shining so brightly that a tragic shooting took his glimmer and just faded away.
At the height of Tupac's fame, he got into a heated Tupac big runnin dispute with Notorious B.I.G. causing tensions at the record label. The dispute, however, was considered by many as too shallow to have been the motive of his assailant in a drive-by shooting in 1996 which eventually led to the demise of Tupac.
The fatal shooting of Tupac happened on the Las Vegas strip, while he was riding home with Knight after watching the fight of Mike Tyson against Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand. Earlier before the incident, Tupac got into a heated argument with an unknown black young man, although it was considered to might have caused the shooting, it was soon ruled out and the question What Gang Was Tupac in surfaced.
Tupac had four gunshot wounds and died six days later at the University of Nevada Medical Center.
At the aftermath of his death, talks of the real reason behind his murder circulated around the industry which spun stories such as that before Tupac's murder, Tupac changed man was giving feelers of living Death Row and was considering of retiring from rap. However, none of these reasons were ever confirmed. His death remains a mystery until this writing.
Industry insiders have said, although Tupac had massive record sales under his belt, changes Tupac showed signs of getting tired of hip hop and music and was slowly redirecting his attention to acting. Before his untimely death, Tupac finished two films, Bullet and Gridlock'd and a handful of Unreleased Tupac Lyrics.
