Essay/Term paper: The life and death of tupac amaru shakur

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The Life and Death of Tupac Amaru Shakur

"It aint about east or west.. Its about ni**az and bit*hez.. Power and Money.. Ridaz and Punkz.. Which side are you on?"
Tupac Shakur aka Makavelli "1996"


This phrase comes from the famous deceit rap artist Tupac Amaru Shakur who was previously killed in a drive by after the Mike Tyson fight at Caesar"s Palace. Why was he killed? We may never know. But many things point to his death. For instance, in his famous song "Hit Em Up" he continually knocks on eastcoast rival Notorious B.I.G aka Biggie Smalls. "That"s why I fu**ed your bit*h you fat mother fu**a." is the beginning of the song. It goes about dogging on B.I.G. Could this spark a rival war? Well we won"t know yet. Also in account to this, at Caesar"s Palace earlier before the fight Tupac had given one punch to another rap artist Nas. Nas did something to spark the blow that Tupac gave, but reports are unclear why. That is another motive people haven"t figured out.
In the rap game there is an ego thing that people would like to call the "Eastcoast/Westcoast War". If you are from cities like Washington DC, New York, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia or Baltimore you are considered eastcoast. If you are from Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, Portland, Compton, Watts, Fresno, Long Beach or Sacramento you are considered westcoast. Why people talk bad bout each other because of their preference on where to live will never be defined. Just prejudice acts among people. Tupac was raised in the city of New York before he had rape charges against him. Then after that he was shot 6 times, somehow living. After that happened he moved off to the westcoast and signed a deal with Death Row Records. Suge Knight signed him hoping to make multi millions of dollars off him. Death Row produces such artists as Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tupac, Dogg Pound, DJ Quik, Nate Dogg, Danny Boy, and Young Soldierz. All of them have been up on the top money makers in the rap business. Dr. Dre came out with Death Row and made his first album "The Chronic" which sold over 6 million copies. Then he helped out on the Snoop Doggy Dogg album "Doggystyle" which sold over 5 million. Death Row began to slide downhill for a while only coming out with albums by Dogg Pound "Dogg Food", Above The Rim Soundtrack, and Murder Was the Case Soundtrack. None being able to top previous hits. But then Tupac came over to Death Row and made his double album "All Eyez On Me" which sold 6 million records. But then when Tupac hit his high point in life, all went downhill when he was shot 3 times in the chest after the Tyson fight. He was in the hospital for a matter of days before he passed on. The odd things that have happened since then are things to question. Like the fact after he died, they began using his name Makavelli which was given to him earlier. But if you look in the past, Makavelli was a man who faked his own death to gain popularity and money. People begin wondering if Tupac then is really dead or not. Why did he all of a sudden change his name to Makavelli? Why did they make an album of totally new songs AFTER he died? Why did he mention himself dying in most of his songs on "All Eyez on Me"? Why won"t Executive Producer Suge Knight comment on Tupac"s death? As is no one will know for sure. One of the witness" to the crime was also shot before testimony. No one knows if it was related to the Tupac shooting, but what else would cause it? Many questions have to be answered. Death Row has said Tupac has enough songs recorded from the past with them that they could make a good 3 more albums from him. If so, how can they make the 100 songs they supposedly have already when they only had him contracted for 9 months. That would be a bit too much work. Well this case will hopefully be solved so we won"t have "Tupac Sightings" and "Tupac is hibernating on Mars" kind of popularity as did Elvis.

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R.I.P. 1971-1996 Tupac Amaru Shakur aka Makavelli

Famous Sayings and obnoxious sayings by Tupac Amaru Shakur:
"How many bruthaz fell victim to da streets, rest in peace young ni**a, there"s a heaven for a G. Be a lie if I told you I never thought of death, my ni**az, we da last ones left."

"Lil kid don"t fu** around wit real G"z. Cause we snatch yo ugly ass of da streets, so fu** peace"

"Badboy murdered on wax and killed, fu** wit me and get your caps pealed"

"Who shot me but you punks didn"t finish, now you bout to feel the wrath of a menace"

"5 shots couldn"t drop me, I took it and smiled"

"Killin ain"t fair but someone got to do it"

"Well this is how we going to do this… Fu** Mobb Deep, Fu** Biggie, Fu** Badboy as staff, record label, and as a mutha fu**in crew, and if you wanna be down wit Badboys, then fu** you too, Chino XL, fu** you too, all you mutha fu**az, fu** you too… All ya"ll mutha fu**az fu** you die slow mutha fu**a, my 44 make sure all ya"ll kids don"t grow. You mutha fu**az can"t be us or see us. We mutha fu**in ridaz Westside till we die."