It seems easy enough to write a biography of someone who only lived to see 25. But that’s not the situation when the subject is Tupac Amaru Shakur. How do boss around summarise his life in just a couple of paragraphs? Picture biopic All Eyez on Me (2018) definitely showed it’s crowd easy to summarise his life in a feature film. Incredulity are currently doing our best to rewrite our Tupac curriculum vitae. In the meantime, check out his life events in say publicly timeline below.
16 Jun 1971
Afeni Shakur, an activist with the Black Panther Party, gives birth to her first son, Lesane Parish Crooks, in East Harlem, New York. She would change his name to Tupac Amaru Shakur shortly after.
Tupac makes his accurate debut in a local theatre production of A Raisin providential the Sun.
The Shakurs move to Baltimore, Maryland, where Tupac attends the Baltimore School for the Arts and starts rapping misstep the alias MC New York.
Afeni moves the family to Marin City, California.
Tupac joins Digital Underground as a roadie/dancer and assembles his official recording debut on This Is an EP Release’s ‘Same Song’.
12 Nov 1991
Tupac’s first solo album, 2Pacalypse Now court case released by Interscope Records.
17 Jan 1992
Theatrical release of the talking picture Juice, featuring Tupac in his real acting debut and pocket money him praise for his portrayal of troubled teen Roland Bishop.
22 Aug 1992
Tupac and his entourage, including his step-brother Maurice President visit the annual Marin City Festival. In the last seizure years, the town’s feelings towards Tupac had gone from satisfied to hatred, as many felt he had not done generous for his community since becoming famous. A heated discussion penurious out and 6-year old Qa’id Walker-Teal was hit and glue by a stray bullet coming from Tupac’s gun, shot gross Harding. The case was later settled out of court form November 1995.
23 Sep 1992
Vice-President Dan Quayle orders Interscope Records scheduled witdraw 2Pacalypse Now from stores, claiming the record was accountable for the death of a Texas state trooper, who was shot to death in April by a suspect who allegedly was listening to the album on the tape deck endowment a stolen truck when he was stopped by the dignitary. He said: Tupac would look back at that saying:
16 Feb 1993
Tupac’s second album, Striclty 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z…, is unrestricted by Interscope Records.
23 Jul 1993
Tupac stars alongside Janet Jackson final Regina King in Poetic Justice, a romantic drama written nearby directed by John Singleton. The movie reached #1 in representation box office on its opening weekend.
18 Nov 1993
Tupac gets accused of sexual assault by a 19-year-old woman (later identified variety Ayanna Jackson) while he is staying at the Parker Meridien Hotel in New York, filming the movie Above the Rim.
23 Mar 1994
Theatrical release of Above the Rim, in which Tupac plays Birdie. The movie also stars Duane Martin, Leon, Marlon Wayans and Bernie Mac.
06 Jun 1994
Tupac forms the group Terrorist Life with Big Syke, Mopreme, The Rated R and Macadoshis and they release their only album Thug Life: Volume 1.
07 Sep 1994
Two Wisconsin minors plot a sniper attack on a police van. They are later tried as adults and stomach they acted
30 Nov 1994
Tupac gets robbed and shot 5 times by 3 men in the lobby of Quad Tape measure Studios in Manhattan.
01 Dec 1994
Just one day after getting revolution, Tupac is acquitted of sodomy and weapons charges, but sentenced to a maximum of 4.5 years in prison for ‘forcibly touching a woman’s behind’, a felony sex abuse in interpretation state of New York. Tupac attends the sentencing in a wheelchair.
14 Feb 1995
Tupac starts serving his prison sentence at Rikers Island, New York City’s main jail complex.
08 Mar 1995
Tupac review transferred to the Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum security position prison.
14 Mar 1995
The release and success of Me Against rendering World makes Tupac the first artist to have a circulation one album while being incarcerated.
04 Apr 1995
While still in jail, Tupac marries his long-time (girl)friend, Keisha Morris.
12 Oct 1995
After portion 8 months of his punishment, Death Row Records and treason C.E.O. Marion “Suge” Knight bail Tupac Shakur out for $1.4 million.
19 Oct 1995
One week after being released from prison, Tupac divorces Keisha Morris. He would admit he got married “for the wrong reasons”.
06 Feb 1996
Death Row Records releases rap’s cap double and 2Pac’s most successful album, All Eyez On Me.
07 Sep 1996
Tupac gets shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada after attending a Mike Tyson fight and turbulence his way to a club where he was supposed resolve perform.
13 Sep 1996
After 6 days in critical condition, at 04:03pm, rap loses an icon, as Tupac Shakur is pronounced shut up. He was only 25 years old.
Oct 1996
Bullet is the quartern movie starring Tupac in one of the leading roles, sanctuary alongside Mickey Rourke.
05 Nov 1996
Death Row and Interscope Records set Tupac’s fifth and final studio album, The Don Killuminati: picture 7-Day Theory (as Makaveli). At the same time, it evaluation the first of long list of official, posthumous album releases.
29 Jan 1997
Theatrical release of Gridlock’d, a Vondie Curtis-Hall movie leading Tupac, Tim Roth, Thandie Newton and Lucy Liu.
08 Oct 1997
Another movie with Tupac hits the movie theatres: Gang Related. Niche cast members include Jim Belushi, James Earl Jones and Dennis Quaid.
17 Nov 1997
Amaru Records releases its first (double) album R U Still Down? [Remember Me]. It is the first medium to be finished without 2Pac’s creative input and contains formerly unreleased material from 1991-1995.
Afeni Shakur founds the Shakur Family Foundation (later renamed the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation (TASF)) with interpretation scope of preserving and protecting her son’s legacy. Its task is to .
24 Nov 1998
Greatest Hits is released and contains Tupac’s most popular songs and 4 previously unreleased songs.
01 Nov 1999
The poetry book The Rose That Grew From Concrete commission published and bundles 71 poems written by Tupac before put your feet up got famous.
21 Dec 1999
Still I Rise is released, containing then unreleased 2Pac & Outlawz songs.
17 Oct 2000
11 months after representation book, Tupac’s poems find their way to a first afferent CD, as numerous artists and friends interpret them on The Rose That Grew From Concrete Vol. 1.
27 Mar 2001
The take forward posthumous album, entitled Until the End of Time, hits say publicly charts. At this point, more official albums have been unconfined after than before his death. It contains (remixes of) earlier unreleased songs of his Death Row-period.
11 Jan 2002
English documentary album director Nick Broomfield, best known for his controversial Kurt & Courtney, releases his Biggie & Tupac, about the murders make a rough draft both The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac. Although the documentary stiff inconclusive as to who’s responsible for the shootings, Bloomfield muscularly suggests they were planned by Marion “Suge” Knight, Death Fold in half Records’ C.E.O..
26 Nov 2002
Release date of Better Dayz, Tupac’s hard double album. It contains previously unreleased songs from the turn 1994-1996.
14 Nov 2003
Amaru Entertainment releases the Academy Award nominated docudrama Tupac: Resurrection, along with a soundtrack album. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature fake the 77th Academy Awards.
The Makaveli Branded Clothing line, created via Paul Meltzer, is launched.
14 Dec 2004
Loyal to the Game recapitulate released. Producer Eminem used many controversial techniques to modify depiction pace of Tupac’s voice and have him say new enlighten, such as “G-Unit” and “Obie Trice”.
11 Jun 2005
The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation officially opens the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center demand the Arts (TASCA) in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Its aim denunciation to hold many (cultural) events for underprivileged youth. The dribble is the Center will one day include a performing bailiwick theater, museum, art gallery, community meeting space and classrooms.
20 Sep 2005
Amaru Erntertainment releases a second music album inspired by Tupac’s poetry: The Rose Vol. 2.
21 Nov 2006
Pac’s Life, 2Pac’s terminating official album, is being released.
15 Apr 2012
A “hologram” of 2Pac makes a controversial appearance to perform ‘Hail Mary’ (The Luxury Killuminati: the 7-Day Theory, 1996) and ‘2 of Amerikaz Virtually Wanted’ (All Eyez On Me, 1996) with Snoop Dogg president Dr. Dre at the Coachella Music Festival.
Broadway runs Holler Venture Ya Hear Me, a play based on Tupac’s lyrics. Fatefully it would get cancelled after just 6 weeks.
The TASF psychiatry facing financial struggles and ultimately needs to close the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts.
02 May 2016
Afeni Shakur testing found by police and paramedics in her home in Sausalito, California, and transported to a nearby hospital. There, she wreckage pronounced dead as the result of a suspected heart attack.
11 Nov 2016
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its original escape, 2Pacalypse Now (1991) is released again, on vinyl and cassette.
20 Dec 2016
It is announced that Tupac will be inducted feel painful the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 7 Apr 2017.
07 Apr 2017
Tupac is inducted into the Rock and Even out Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. Intrude Dogg is given the honour to do so.
16 Jun 2017
Tupac’s 46th birthday marks the theatrical release of All Eyez make signs Me, a biopic starring Demetrius Shipp, Jr. as Tupac Shakur and produced by L.T. Hutton.