Tupac Amaru Shakur known by his stage names
2Pac and briefly as
Makaveli, was a rapper and actor.
He was named after Túpac Amaru,
an 18th-century South American revolutionary who was executed after leading an indigenous uprising against Spanish rule.
Shakur has sold over 75 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
MTV ranked him at number two on their list of
The Greatest MCs of All Time and
Rolling Stone named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time.
His double disc album
All Eyez on Me is one of the best selling hip hop albums of all time. BET named 2Pac the most influential rapper of all time.
Shakur began his career as a roadie, backup dancer, and MC for the hip hop group Digital Underground, eventually branching off as a solo artist.
Most of Shakur's songs revolved around the violence and
hardship in inner cities, racism and other social problems. Both of his
parents and several other of his family were members of the Black Panther Party, whose ideals were reflected in his songs.
On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada.
He was taken to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, where he died six days later.
Shakur's hit song "Dear Mama" is one of 25 songs that were added to the National Recording Registry
in 2010. The Library of Congress has called "Dear Mama" "a moving and
eloquent homage to both the murdered rapper's own mother and all mothers
struggling to maintain a family in the face of addiction, poverty and
societal indifference." The honor came seven days after what would have
been Shakur's 39th birthday. Shakur is the third rapper to enter the
library, outside of the copyright office, behind Grandmaster Flash and Public Enemy.
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