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Tupac Amaru Shakur, born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and briefly as Makaveli, was an Americanrapper, songwriter, and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His double disc albums All Eyez on Me and his Greatest Hits are among thebest selling albums in the United States. He has been listed and ranked as one of the greatest artists of all time by many magazines, including Rolling Stone which ranked him 86th on its list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Consistently ranked as one of the greatest rappers ever, he was ranked number 2 by MTV in their list of The Greatest MCs of All-Time in 2006. 2Pac is also ranked as the most influential rapper of all time. Shakur began his career as a roadie, backup dancer, and MC for the alternative hip hop group Digital Underground, eventually branching off as a solo artist. The themes of 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.
During the latter part of his career, Shakur was a vocal participant in the so-called East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry, becoming involved in conflicts with other rappers, producers and record-label staff members, most notably The Notorious B.I.G. and the label Bad Boy Records.
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.
MUSIC VIDEOS: 17
PHOTOS: 15
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2Pac featuring The Outlawz - Hit 'Em Up
2Pac - All Bout U (featuring Nate Dogg, Outlawz & Top Dogg)
2Pac - Unconditional Love
Makaveli featuring Val Young - To Live & Die In L.A.
2Pac - Brenda's Got A Baby
The Outlawz featuring Tupac Shakur - Made Figgaz
2Pac - Do For Love
Thug Life - Cradle To The Grave
Makaveli featuring Danny Boy, Aaron Hall, K-Ci & Jojo - Toss It Up
2Pac - Papa'z Song
2Pac featuring Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman - California Love
2Pac featuring Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman - California Love (Remix U.S. Version)
2Pac - Keep Ya Head Up
Digital Underground featuring 2Pac - Same Song
2Pac featuring Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman - California Love (Remix U.K. Version)
2Pac featuring Snoop Dogg - Wanted Dead Or Alive
2Pac - Trapped
PHOTOS
MUSIC VIDEOS
2Pac featuring The Outlawz - Hit Em Up
© 1996 Death Row Records. "Hit 'Em Up" is a diss song by rap artist 2Pac (Tupac Shakur), featuring his group the Outlawz. It is the B-side to the single "How Do U Want It", released on June 4, 1996, from the album All Eyez on Me. The song's lyrics contain vicious insults to several East Coast rappers, chiefly among them, Shakur's former friend and rival, The Notorious B.I.G., also known as Biggie Smalls. The song was produced by long-time collaborator Johnny "J" and samples the bassline from "Don't Look Any Further" by Dennis Edwards. The video, itself described as infamous, includes impersonations of Biggie, Puffy and Lil' Kim.
"Hit 'Em Up" is said to have played a part in exacerbating the East Coast--West Coast hip hop rivalry. Following its release, the East Coast rappers insulted in the song responded through tracks of their own. The controversy surrounding the song is due in part to Shakur's murder only a few months after its release.
Music Video :
The music video for "Hit 'Em Up" was filmed in a warehouse off Slauson Avenue near Fox Hills Mall in Los Angeles in May 1996.[28][33] It was filmed by the production company Look Hear Productions. Shakur raps in a white room with The Outlawz, as well as in purple-caged room and a black room with bullet holes in the background. TV monitors in the background show clips of Shakur, Puffy, and Biggie Smalls, and even clips from the video "Made Niggaz." The video featured actors who were recalled from their prior roles in the music video for "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" to impersonate some of those who were attacked in "Hit 'Em Up."[34] This included Biggie, whose stand-in stares dully into the camera and sports a Kangol and jacket, similar to one Biggie would wear. During the moments where Shakur raps about his claimed affair with Evans, Biggie crouches near the camera while Shakur yells in his face. Puffy is also impersonated, appearing with a high-top fade and leaning towards the camera, lowering and raising his sunglasses.
During the shooting of the video, Shakur was engaged in an argument with someone, who was heard telling him "You'll get shot." His armed bodyguard ensured that he had nothing to worry about.Shakur had also broken up a fight his friend Muta had gotten into during the filming,and fired a production assistant on set.The assistant was answering Shakur's pager and returning his personal calls without his consent. Some of those calls were to women who became either confused or angry that a female assistant was answering Shakur's calls. The assistant had even mistakenly lost the pager, but by the time she found it Shakur had grown wary of her, so he fired her.
Like the song, the video for "Hit 'Em Up" has also been called "infamous".It surpassed the song and video for "New York, New York" in popularity,which was a pro-West Coast track by Tha Dogg Pound whose video featured the members crushing buildings in Manhattan.
(the song is Clean)
MORE INFORMATION : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_%27Em_Up
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2Pac - All Bout U (featuring Nate Dogg, Outlawz & Top Dogg
© 1996 Death Row Records. "All Bout U" was a single released by American Rapper Tupac Shakur from his album All Eyez On Me. The song features Dru Down ad-libbing the intro, labelmate Nate Dogg singing the Chorus, as well as Snoop Doggy Dogg, & Outlawz members Yaki Kadafi, and Hussein Fatal. The song focuses on how each of the artists seem to keep seeing the same woman in each of their music videos and parties, assuming that she is a goldigger and Groupie, only wanting to be around them because of their wealth and status. It was released exactly one month before Shakur's death. The song was also performed live at the House of Blues during Shakur's last concert on July 4, 1996.
Music Video: The music video shows 2Pac in his room alone watching television and starts to notice that the same girl is on every channel he changes it to. He goes to a Fashion Runway show where models are walking the runway with "All Bout U" seen in the background in big letters. Then there are scenes that cut to Shakur rapping while he's sitting on a toilet naked, reading a magazine, him wearing black leather on top of a motorcycle in the middle of the fashion runway, and being arrested near his limo by a model-like female cop. At the end of the video, kids come to the center of the runway and start dancing while shakur stays on the motorcycle with camera's flashing on him.
The Greatest Hits version of the song removes Snoop Dogg's outro and replaces it with a fourth verse rapped by Rapper Top Dogg. Top Dogg is also featured in the music video.
In Music Video Version featured is Nate Dogg, Hussein Fatal, Yaki Kadafi & Top Dogg
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2Pac - Unconditional Love
© 1999 Interscope/Amaru/Death Row. "Unconditional Love" is a song by Tupac Shakur, released as the second posthumous single from his Greatest Hits album. The CD single is rare and, as many other Tupac Shakur CD and vinyl singles, it is known as a collector's item among fans. It was never officially released in an uncensored version.
The song was originally written for M.C. Hammer by 2Pac (who were both friends) to revitalize his image when he signed to Death Row. However, 2Pac recorded a demo of it himself before giving the song to Hammer to record. Hammer's version was first released on Family Affair in 1998. Hammer would later dance and read the lyrics to this song on the first Vh1 Hip Hop Honors in 2004.
According to the Family Affair album insert/bio, "Unconditional Love" lyrics were written and arranged by Tupac Shakur (and Johnny Jackson on M.C. Hammer's version). Hammer wrote this about the song: "This song was given to me as a gift from the late Tupac Shakur. He told me this was a song about how true love is unconditional. He wanted me to rap it because it reflected what I stand for. The secret is this is also what he stood for. More details in time. Maybe a chat about it. We know that our Bible says that God's love is unconditional. Thank you Tupac for this beautiful, spiritual song." Hammer would later go on to mention his friendship with Tupac and the gift of this song to him in a TBN interview.
There is also a video for "Unconditional Love" which was filmed between January 11-12, 1999. It features Tha Realest (looking and sounding like 2Pac) recording this song in the studio.
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Makaveli featuring Val Young - To Live & Die In L.A.
© 1996 Death Row/Makaveli/Interscope. "To Live & Die in L.A." is the second single from Tupac Shakur's final album he worked on during his life, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. It was recorded July 17, 1996 and was produced by QD3, son of producer Quincy Jones. The radio edit was recorded the same day and a video was shot. The album version contains a Dr. Dre diss at the end of the song. The clean version has altered lyrics and is longer.
"To Live & Die in L.A." is the second single from Tupac Shakur's final album he worked on during his life, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. It was recorded July 17, 1996 and was produced by QD3, son of producer Quincy Jones. The radio edit was recorded the same day and a video was shot. The album version contains a Dr. Dre diss at the end of the song. The clean version has altered lyrics and is longer.
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2Pac - Brenda's Got A Baby
© 1991 Interscope Records. "Brenda's Got a Baby" is the solo debut single by Tupac Shakur, and tenth track from his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now. The song, which features R&B singer Dave Hollister, is about a twelve-year-old girl named Brenda who lives in a ghetto, has a baby, and is incapable of supporting it. The song explores the issue of teen pregnancy and its effect on young mothers and their families. Like many of Shakur's songs, "Brenda's Got a Baby" draws from the plight of the impoverished. Using Brenda to represent young mothers in general, Shakur criticises the low level of support from the baby's father, the government, and society in general. Shakur wrote the song when he read a newspaper article about a twelve-year-old girl who became pregnant from her cousin and threw the baby in a trash compactor.
The video of the song is in black-and-white. It was made to visualize what Shakur narrates. The first part shows Shakur and Money-B talking about Brenda, and then the actual story starts.
The video begins with "based on a true story," although the characters themselves are fictitious, Shakur wrote the song after reading a story in the newspaper of a twelve-year-old girl getting pregnant from her cousin and trying to dispose of the baby in a trash can.
Parts of the video were included in Tupac: Resurrection, a 2003 documentary on 2Pac's life, in a television show later in the music video of Ghetto Gospel, in the music video of Changes and appears as a bonus in its entirety on the film's DVD.
The video was directed by the Hughes Brothers.
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The Outlawz featuring Tupac Shakur - Made Figgaz
© 1996/1997 Untouchable Death Row Records. "Made Figgaz" is the last single for which Makaveli made an official video before he died. It features on the Supercop (soundtrack) and Gang Related (soundtrack) with additional vocals from Outlawz. It was released in 1997 to support the release of the film. It was also on the soundtrack of the 1996 film Supercop starring Jackie Chan.
The official version of the video contains footage from Gang Related as well as Makaveli and the Outlawz rapping in front of a 360° camera.
2nd version is the explicit one with Makaveli and the Outlawz dressed as cops shooting at Biggie & Puffy, killing other parties meeting with Biggie while the former two make it out alive. Half of it was officially released on Death Row Uncut DVD. The video uses the same actors to portray Puff Daddy & Biggie as the same as Hit Em Up. Puff Daddy is called "Buff" & Biggie is called "Pig" & "Piggie". During the music video Biggie begs Puff to pull over to buy food but Puff refuses. The music video was directed by Gobi Nejad.
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2Pac - Do For Love
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© 1997/1998 Interscope/Jive/Amaru Records. "Do for Love" (originally titled 'Sucka 4 Luv' in its unreleased form) was the second posthumously released single by Tupac Shakur from his second posthumous album R U Still Down? (Remember Me). The vocal sample is from "What You Won't Do for Love" by Bobby Caldwell. It charted at #21 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #12 in the UK.
The music video was shot from August 28–29, 1997 and it contained Tupac as a clay and animated figure.
Featuring Eric Williams. (vocals)
Thug Life - Cradle To The Grave
© 1994 Interscope Records. "Cradle to the Grave" (referred as: Cradle 2 the Grave) is a song on Thug Life (the first group of 2Pac) album, Thug Life Volume 1. It is the only song from the album to hit the singles charts, peaking at #25 on the Billboard Hot Rap Singles chart and #91 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart.
Thug Life: Volume 1 is the first and only album by the group Thug Life, started by rapper Tupac Shakur, and was released on September 26, 1994. The album was originally released by Shakur's label Out Da Gutta Records. Due to heavy criticism on gangsta rap at the time, the original version of the album was scrapped and re-recorded with many of the original songs being cut. It has been said that 2Pac created two other versions of this album, with many of the songs still remaining unreleased
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Makaveli featuring Danny Boy, Aaron Hall, K-Ci & Jojo - Toss It Up
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© 1996 Death Row/Interscope Records. "Toss It Up" is a song by rapper Tupac Shakur under the new stage name, Makaveli, hence making it the first song released under this name. It released as the lead single from the album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. It was released just under 2 weeks after his death.There are 3 versions of this song (Album version, Radio cut, and video versions). The song contains a diss to Dr.Dre questioning his sexuality and calling him gay. The phrase “Toss it up” (used to refer to sex in verse 1 and violence in verse 2) represents the love/death nexus. The song features vocals and singing from Aaron Hall, Danny Boy, K-Ci & JoJo. The song contains samples from No Diggity which both came out close to each other.
The song was also included in Greatest Hits (Tupac Shakur album) with a new mix and some altered lyrics.
The music video features both features Makaveli himself, Aaron Hall, Danny Boy, JoJo & KC. There are 2 version of the music videos for this song one being the standard one and the other being the Beach Party version which is rare but can be found on YouTube In the music video 2Pac at some points dances and raps to the lady, there are also expensive cars shown in the video.The first verse Makaveli raps with a Bunsen burner and the second verse he raps with a baseball bat where he finally smashes a mirror with it. The music features video model LisaRaye. All 3 singers sing with a bunsen burner as if it is a microphone. Makaveli is also seen at the end smoking a Cuban cigar.
According to Death Row Records this is the last music video he made.
2Pac - Papa'z Song
© 1994 Interscope Records. "Papa'z Song" is a song on 2Pac's second solo album, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. A video was made for the single. The song peaked at #24 on the U.S. Rap chart, #82 on the Hip Hop/R&B chart and #87 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The song featured Mopreme Shakur, Tupac Shakur's older stepbrother and son of Mutulu Shakur. There a music video for this song; some of it is in black and white.
Both Mopreme Shakur and 2Pac are in the video. Actress Vivica A. Fox plays the mother in the story off the music video. There are scenes of a husband and women arguing. They also act in front of the jail cell.
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2Pac featuring Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman - California Love
© 1996 Death Row/Interscope Records. "California Love" is a hip hop song by 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman. The song was released as 2Pac's comeback single after his release from prison in 1995 and was his first single as a Death Row Records artist. This is perhaps 2Pac's best-known song and his most successful, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks (as a double-A side single with "How Do U Want It") and 5 weeks at number one in New Zealand. The song was nominated for a posthumous Grammy Award as a Best Rap Solo Performance and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (with Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman) in 1997.
The original version of the track was not available on any of Shakur's studio albums due to it being intended for Dr. Dre's shelved album The Chronic II: A New World Odor (Poppa's Got A Brand New Funk). But it can now be found on Shakur's compilation of Greatest Hits and on the United Kingdom version of All Eyez on Me. The original version also exists in extended form and is 6:29 in length. This particular version was never released to the public and is now only available on 12" promo vinyl records. Aside from the extended track being on limited quantities of vinyl promo records, very few uploads to YouTube exist of the original, 6:29-length extended song.
Two versions of music video exist. The first video (directed by Hype Williams) was inspired by the film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, and takes place in a desert in the year 2095. The casting includes actor Chris Tucker (then-known only for his role in the 1995 film Friday) playing the evil tribal chief's yes-man, Tony Cox as the dwarf soldier and Roger Troutman (formerly with the band Zapp) carrying a talk box. The shooting took place in the Thunderdome set known from the movie. It ends with a cliffhanger cut by a "To Be Continued" closing. An alternative version, featuring the remix song re-cut, removes the final caption and features 2Pac and Dr. Dre naming West Coast towns.
The first video can be found on the DualDisc of All Eyez on Me and the second video can be found on Tupac: Live at the House of Blues DVD. The first music video of California Love was shot November 10, 1995 and the second video of California Love was shot 18 days after the first California Love video was shot. It also won the 1996 MOBO Award for Best Video.
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2Pac featuring Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman - California Love (Remix U.S. Version)
© 1996 Death Row/Interscope Records. "California Love" is a hip hop song by 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman.
The second video is based on the remix version of the song from the album All Eyez on Me and is a continuation of the video's story. The premise is that the desert scenes of the previous videos were merely a nightmare 2Pac was having. When he wakes up, he finds himself in his bed beside a woman. He calls Dr. Dre, who tells him to get over to his summer house because he's throwing a house party. The rest of the music video takes place as if it were a home video celebrating 2Pac's welcome to Death Row and features several cameos, notably Roger Troutman who is now playing the piano, and guest appearances from DJ Quik, Big Syke, Deion Sanders, Danny Boy, Jodeci, B-Legit and E-40.
This is U.S. Video Version, censoring only nudity, only version on R1Ch, other version is U.K. now available on this channel:
Both versions are cleaned and censored/blurred audio & video.
Other "California Love (Re-Mix)" version is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4nFgf-6ekI&feature=youtu.be
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2Pac - Keep Ya Head Up
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© 1993 Interscope Records. "Keep Ya Head Up" is a 1993 hit single by Tupac Shakur. The song features R&B singer Dave Hollister and is dedicated to Latasha Harlins and females.
The video opens up with the words "Dedicated to the memory of Latasha Harlins, it's still on", in reference to the L.A. Riots. The video has a basic format with Shakur rapping in the middle of a circle surrounded by a crowd of people and in some scenes seen holding a young child. His mother Afeni Shakur also appears in the video.
Digital Underground featuring 2Pac - Same Song
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© 1991 Tommy Boy/Warner Bros. Records. "Same Song" is a song by the rap group, Digital Underground featuring 2Pac from the soundtrack from the movie Nothing But Trouble and is from on their EP album, This Is an EP Release. The song was also featured on the Tupac: Resurrection (soundtrack). The song was most notable for being featured on the film, Nothing But Trouble. "Same Song" has an organ solo and improvised organ bits throughout the song, making it one of hip hop's first singles to successfully integrate live instrumentation with music samples. This song is also most famously noted for being 2Pac's first vocal appearance on a song.
The main plot of the music video is for everything to be multicultural. The video starts off with a Limo driving in a drive-in theatre and the video shows clips from the movie, Nothing But Trouble then the whole Digital Underground crew left the limo. Shock G starts off by wearing a wig and a jacket and rap the first verse. For the second verse, Shock G's alter ego, Humpty Hump is seen wearing an ancient Arabian clothing and raps the second verse. Money B comes in and raps the third verse. Money B is also seen wearing black clothes, big glasses, and a fake big beard. Shock g comes back and raps the fourth verse and Tupac Shakur made his debut and portrayed an African king in the video. Dr Dre and Eazy E also makes cameo appearances in the video.
2Pac featuring Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman - California Love (Remix U.K. Version)
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© 1996 Death Row/Interscope Records. "California Love (Re-Mix)" is a single by 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman, from the album "All Eyez On Me".
The second video is based on the remix version of the song from the album All Eyez on Me and is a continuation of the video's story. The premise is that the desert scenes of the previous videos were merely a nightmare 2Pac was having. When he wakes up, he finds himself in his bed beside a woman. He calls Dr. Dre, who tells him to get over to his summer house because he's throwing a house party. The rest of the music video takes place as if it were a home video celebrating 2Pac's welcome to Death Row and features several cameos, notably Roger Troutman who is now playing the piano, and guest appearances from DJ Quik, Big Syke, Deion Sanders, Danny Boy, Jodeci, B-Legit and E-40.
This is U.K. Video Version contain different sequence to US Version.
Both versions are cleaned and censored/blurred audio & video.
Other "California Love (Re-Mix)" version is
2Pac featuring Snoop Dogg - Wanted Dead Or Alive
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© 1997 Death Row/Interscope Records. "Wanted Dead or Alive" is a collaboration song by Tupac Shakur, Snoop Doggy Dogg, & Daz Dillinger released as a single from the Gridlock'd (Original Soundtrack).
It was made into a video. The video showed the police trying to catch Snoop Dogg and clips of the deceased rapper Tupac Shakur. The storyline is similar to "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted". The video is directed by Scott Kalvert and the track samples Dance Floor by Zapp & Roger.
2Pac - Trapped
© 1991/92 Interscope Records. "Trapped" is a song by 2Pac that deals with police brutality. It was a single from his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now. The first verse tells a story of 2Pac being harassed by the police, one even shooting at him. He then fires back and says he did it because he was tired of constantly being profiled and abused by police officers. 2Pac then depicts the police chasing after him and eventually cornering him. He then ends the song with the line "I'd rather die then be trapped in the living hell", implying if forced into a corner he would rather die than live life in a cell.
The music video features Shock G singing part of the song's chorus and depicts 2Pac in jail. It appeared as a bonus on the DVD for Tupac: Resurrection.Around the time the music video was debuting, Tupac was assaulted by the Oakland Police Department after he cussed at them for demeaning his name and prolonging the issuing of a ticket sustained during a jaywalking incident.