• Tupac's given name was Lesane Crooks. He was the son of Afeni Shakur (government name Alice Fay Walker) who was one of the defendants at the Panther 21 trial.
• Tupac studied drama at Baltimore's School For The Arts, where he rapped under the name MC New York.
• At the Baltimore School of the arts, Tupac met Jada Pinkett, who would become a close friend of his
• Tupac was planned to act in the movies Cool Runnings, Higher Learning, Menace II Society and How To Be A Player.
• As a young man, Tupac also studied ballet and dance.
• Tupac Amaru Shakur was named after an Inca Indian chief, "Tupac Amaru" means "Shining serpent" and "Shakur" means "thankful to god" in Arabic.
• When Tupac was 12 years old, his mother enrolled him in Harlems 127thSt Ensemble. He played Travis in "A Raisin in The Sun" in his first acting role.
• While he was with Digital Underground, someone once shoved a 12 gauge shotgun in Tupac's face because of a dispute over a woman at a Martin Luther King Jr festival.
• Tupac said the individual letters in his THUG LIFE tattoo stood for "The Hate U Give Little Infants F-ck Everybody"
• Tupac said that because of his moms ties with the Black Panthers, the FBI was always after him and his family.
• Tupac wrote his hit song "Dear Mama" while in prison.
• Tupacs first appearance ever was on Digital Underground's Same Song where he raps wearing West African war clothes in the video.
• Kidada Jones, daughter of Quincy Jones and fianc頯f Tupac, has a tattoo of Tupac on her arm.
• Tupac was a big fan of Jim Carrey
• Porn Star Spontaneous XXXStacy, who's been in mags like Portfolioand Players has a tattoo on her arm with Tupacs name and the title of the song "Keep Ya Head Up."
• Tupac has a huge cross on his back that says Exodus 18:11 a reference to where the bible says "Now I know That the Lord is Greater Than All Gods because he delivered the people from the hands of the Egyptians when they dealt with them arrogantly."
• Tupac started his career on Tommy Boy Records with Digital Underground.
• Tupac was first inspired to rap when a friend of his was killed while he was playing with a gun. His first rap was about gun control.
• When he first moved to California, Tupac was homeless for 2 years.
• In the movie Juice, Tupac plays Bishop and said the now famous line "Yeah I'm crazy, but you know what? I don't give a f-ck."
• Tupac wanted to name his first child Star.
Tupac Shakur Personal quotes:
"Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes". Tupac Shakur in Vibe interview 2/96
"All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways." Tupac Shakur in Details magazine interview, spring 1996.
Snoop Doggy Dogg made a tribute song for Pac & Biggie called "How Many Blessings" which is not released yet.
Snoop Doggy Dogg has in his house a life-size cardboard cut-out of Tupac with his middle finger up giving the Thug Life Salute.
MTV did a BioRhytm on Faith Evans and she said that she was working on a track for Pac for "All Eyez On Me" which eventually never made the album. She also denied having sex with Pac.
In a German music show they had Nas in it. They asked him to which rapper he looks up to. At first Nas was like "you know, I'm more like doin' my own thang" but when he said "well, some people might not like me sayin' that I developed lots of respect for Tupac"
"I Get Around" was supposed to be on Digital Underground's album. Shock G wound up giving it to Pac and Digital Underground's label, Tommy Boy, wasn't very happy once it turned out to be such a big hit.
"Thug Luv" was just a song that Bizzy, Silk-E-Fine and Tupac were supposed to do but things happened and all of Bone Thugs -n- Harmony came in. Bizzy Bone that Pac came into the studio, wrote his verse in about 10 minutes and then left because he had to go model for Versace. Then he came back and sang with them all laid back.
Tupac had sex with almost all the women during the filming of the X-rated "How Do U Want It?" video. He collapsed from exhaustion.
Right before Snoop Doggy Dogg's marriage, he was having doubts about marrying his wife to be since he could basically get any woman he wanted. It was Snoop, Pac, Suge and a few other guys and Snoop told them of his doubts and they told Snoop not to get married and that she was just a bitch like all the other ones. Pac came in and told Snoop the importance of what he had between him and his wife, that she wasn't just another hoe, and that he shouldn't listen to those other guys who were just low thugs that didn't have shit. Snoop took Pac's advice to heart, and was very glad he married his wife.
When Tupac was a child and he would get into trouble, his mother would make him sit in the corner and read the 'New York Times', and she would later quiz him on the articles.
TQ and Tupac did 2 songz together which should be on TQ's next album.
In Bizzy Bone's video for "When Thugs Cry", at the end Bizzy is sitting cross-legged and there are pictures flying around him of Tupac, Eazy-E and Biggie.
Lil' Kim once said that Bad Boy did a track dissing Tupac but they didn't released it after Tupac "died". The song did not feature Biggie; it was only Lil' Kim and Junior M.A.F.I.A.
The video for "All 'Bout You" (Greatest Hits version) that was released in 1998 contains scenes of a new Volkswagen Beatle which was only available since 1998!
According to MC Hammer, Tupac told him that he wanted to do free concerts for schools and the only way you could get in was to have a C or better grade average.
Tupac did a song for a DJ at KKDA radio in Texas which was just a rap about that radiostation. It had the exact beat as Bone Thugs -n- Harmony's song "Body Rott". The chorus was womething like "just give me your soul, just give me your soul, give me your soul."
According to Daz Dillinger, Tupac made about 700 songs (!!!) at Death Row Records which have not been released yet.
Daz Dillinger himself did more than 120 songs with Tupac. So seven albums or more could be made which only have songs with Daz and Tupac.
Kidada Jones, daughter of Quincy Jones, has a tattoo of Tupac on her arm.
Tupac shielded Suge Knight from the bullets that were fired on the night of September 7th, 1996 by trying to jump into the back of the car.
At the end of the movie about the Bloods street gang called "This Is For My Dead Homies", there is a Biggie and Tupac freestyle.
Snoop Doggy Dogg made a tribute song for Pac & Biggie called "How Many Blessings" which is not released yet.
Snoop Doggy Dogg has in his house a life-size cardboard cut-out of Tupac with his middle finger up giving the Thug Life Salute.
MTV did a BioRhytm on Faith Evans and she said that she was working on a track for Pac for "All Eyez On Me" which eventually never made the album. She also denied having sex with Pac.
In a German music show they had Nas in it. They asked him to which rapper he looks up to. At first Nas was like "you know, I'm more like doin' my own thang" but when he said "well, some people might not like me sayin' that I developed lots of respect for Tupac"
"I Get Around" was supposed to be on Digital Underground's album. Shock G wound up giving it to Pac and Digital Underground's label, Tommy Boy, wasn't very happy once it turned out to be such a big hit.
"Thug Luv" was just a song that Bizzy, Silk-E-Fine and Tupac were supposed to do but things happened and all of Bone Thugs -n- Harmony came in. Bizzy Bone that Pac came into the studio, wrote his verse in about 10 minutes and then left because he had to go model for Versace. Then he came back and sang with them all laid back.
Tupac had sex with almost all the women during the filming of the X-rated "How Do U Want It?" video. He collapsed from exhaustion.
Right before Snoop Doggy Dogg's marriage, he was having doubts about marrying his wife to be since he could basically get any woman he wanted. It was Snoop, Pac, Suge and a few other guys and Snoop told them of his doubts and they told Snoop not to get married and that she was just a bitch like all the other ones. Pac came in and told Snoop the importance of what he had between him and his wife, that she wasn't just another hoe, and that he shouldn't listen to those other guys who were just low thugs that didn't have shit. Snoop took Pac's advice to heart, and was very glad he married his wife.
When Tupac was a child and he would get into trouble, his mother would make him sit in the corner and read the 'New York Times', and she would later quiz him on the articles.
TQ and Tupac did 2 songz together which should be on TQ's next album.
In Bizzy Bone's video for "When Thugs Cry", at the end Bizzy is sitting cross-legged and there are pictures flying around him of Tupac, Eazy-E and Biggie.
Lil' Kim once said that Bad Boy did a track dissing Tupac but they didn't released it after Tupac "died". The song did not feature Biggie; it was only Lil' Kim and Junior M.A.F.I.A.
The video for "All 'Bout You" (Greatest Hits version) that was released in 1998 contains scenes of a new Volkswagen Beatle which was only available since 1998!
According to MC Hammer, Tupac told him that he wanted to do free concerts for schools and the only way you could get in was to have a C or better grade average.
Tupac did a song for a DJ at KKDA radio in Texas which was just a rap about that radiostation. It had the exact beat as Bone Thugs -n- Harmony's song "Body Rott". The chorus was womething like "just give me your soul, just give me your soul, give me your soul."
According to Daz Dillinger, Tupac made about 700 songs (!!!) at Death Row Records which have not been released yet.
Daz Dillinger himself did more than 120 songs with Tupac. So seven albums or more could be made which only have songs with Daz and Tupac.
Kidada Jones, daughter of Quincy Jones, has a tattoo of Tupac on her arm.
Tupac shielded Suge Knight from the bullets that were fired on the night of September 7th, 1996 by trying to jump into the back of the car.
At the end of the movie about the Bloods street gang called "This Is For My Dead Homies", there is a Biggie and Tupac freestyle.