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How ‘2Pacalypse Now’ Marked The Birth Of A Rap Revolutionary
Hip-hop has come a long way and evolved from its humble beginnings in South Bronx, NY into a billion-dollar business, but the culture’s essence will be forever linked to civil rights and activism. And few artists have embodied revolutionary warfare quite like the late Tupac Amaru Shakur, whose 1991 debut album, 2Pacalypse Now, would jumpstart the career of one of the most influential artists of all-time.
Rap’s initial recordings’ sole purpose may have been rocking the party, but as the genre began to take shape and form its identity as the voice of young minorities across America, its tone became more rigid while its content was more attuned to the plight of the inner-city. The late ’80s, which was marked by the crack epidemic and the effects of Reaganomics, spawned pioneering politically-minded acts like Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, and Queen Latifah, all of whom
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From the Archives: Tupac Shakur: ‘I am not a gangster’
Six days after his release from a New York prison, Tupac Shakur is holed up in the control booth of a dimly lit Tarzana recording studio.
Bobbing his head and grinning, the 24-year-old rapper turns up the volume on a funky duet called “2 of America’s Most Wanted,” which he just finished with label mate Snoop Doggy Dogg (a.k.a. Calvin Broadus, whose murder trial is set to begin Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court).
It’s the 14th song Shakur has recorded since emerging from behind bars . Death Row Records, which recently signed a contract with Shakur, posted $1.4 million on Oct. 12 to spring the rapper from Riker’s Island maximum-security penitentiary, where he was serving up to 4 1/2 years for two counts of sexual abuse. The charges stemmed from a 1993 incident at a Manhattan hotel in which Shakur and an associate were convicted of holding a female fan down while a third man sexually assaulted her.
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The strange ursprung of Tupac Shakur’s name
Tupac Shakur was one of the most well-known rappers in the world and, during the 1990s, was the go-to artist if you wanted hardcore and passionate gangsta rap. As the primary artist of Dr Dre and Suge Knight’s Death Row Records, Tupac undeniably made massive hits and, before his murder in 1996, was one of the most famous rappers in the world.
Pac, as well as being a talented rapper, was also highly controversial and was, for all intents and purposes, the perpetrator of the east coast vs west coast feud. The bloodshed and horror of the 1990s was primarily down to Shakur and Suge Knight. The rapper, as the son of a political activist and member of the Black Panther Party, naturally had an anti-establishment mindset and, as such, was ganska a brash character and highly troublesome. But still popular.
Tupac knew of his popularity and power, which is why he described his music as “America’s Most Wanted” and, in a 1996 interview with M