Who is he?
What is Tupac Shakur's REAL name?
Lesane Parish Crooks
What school did he attend where he studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet?
Baltimore School for the Arts
What is the one song that Tupac did perform with his group "Thug Life"?
"Pour Out a Little Liquor"
Who did he take poetry classes from? And soon became his manager?
Leila Steinburg
Who was Tupac good friends with before they fell out? What songs did they record together?
Biggie Smalls a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G.
"Running from the Police" and "House of Pain"
Where was he born?
Harlem, New York
What kind of plays did he act in while he was in high school?
Shakespeare plays
What album did he leave out his political messages?
"All Eyez on Me"
What poet and activist did Tupac get the opportunity to work with? What movie were they working on?
Maya Angelou; Poetic Justice
Who all was involved in the East Coast vs West Coast beef?
East Coast= Bad Boy Records (Diddy & Biggie)
West Coast= Death Row Records (Suge Knight & Tupac)
When is his birthday?
June 16, 1971
He played what character in what play?
Mouse King in the Nutcracker
Who all was in the group "Thug Life"?
Tyrus Hymes, Diron Rivers, his step brother Mopreme Shakur & Walter Burns
What is the second movie he appeared in? What character did he play?
"Juice" & Roland Bishop
Jimmy Henchman; He offered him $7,000 to record a song for another client; He showed up with Stretch and two others; he ended up getting shot and robbed.
Both of his parents were apart of what?
The Black Panther Party
What was his beat-boxing friend's name that helped him win competitions in high school?
Dana "Mouse" Smith
Why did the U.S. Vice President have a problem with 2Pacalypse Now? What was Tupac's response?
He thought that Tupac was being "too real" and "too gangsta" and thought the album had no place in society.
Tupac's response was "I just wanted to rap about things that affected young black males."
After appearing in his first two movies he was known as what?
"The films most magnetic figure"
Who all did he name in his interview with VIBE? Who all did he name in "Hit Em Up"?
Vibe= Sean Combs, Jimmy Henchman; Biggie
"Hit Em Up"= Biggie, Combs, Bad Boy Records, & Junior M.A.F.I.A.
When did he die?
September 13, 1996
Did he graduate from high school?
No he did not but he did later earn his GED.
What album was certified platinum & released while Shakur was incarcerated? How many copies did it sell its first week? How many copies did it sell in total?
"Me Against the World"; 240,000 copies its first week; 3 million copies in the U.S.
How much were his handwritten poems originally on sale for? How much did they end up selling them for? Why were they so expensive?
Originally worth $300,000 but sold for $90,000.
They were so expensive because at his very young age (eleven) he was writing about black liberation, mass incarceration, race, and masculinity.
11pm- Got stopped by the police for loud music and lack of license plates (they were let go because plates were found in the trunk)
11:15pm- White Cadillac sedan pulled up and starts firing into the car.
Tupac got shot four times; only shards hit Knight's head
Shakur's actual cause of death is internal bleeding; he died at 4:03 p.m.