" All Bout U" (featuring Nate Dogg, Hussein Fatal & Yaki Kadafi) " 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" (featuring Snoop Dogg) A " How Do U Want It" (featuring K-Ci and JoJo) 1 " Runnin' (Dying to Live)" (featuring The Notorious B.I.G. " How Long Will They Mourn Me?" (featuring Thug Life) " Pour Out a Little Liquor" (featuring Thug Life) " Cradle to the Grave" (featuring Thug Life) " I Get Around" (featuring Digital Underground) "Runnin' (Dying to Live)", "One Day at a Time", "Ghost", "The Realist Killaz" "Life So Hard", "Starin' Through My Rear View", "Made Niggaz", "Lost Souls" "Wanted Dead or Alive", "Out the Moon (Boom, Boom, Boom)", "Never Had a Friend Like Me", "Life's a Traffic Jam" Posthumous ReleasedĬollaboration Album ArtistĬompilations Releasedġ0x Diamond. The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (as Makaveli)ĩx Platinum. His work of music had very big influences on the Hip-Hop/Rap industry in the US and is still loved by lots of people around the world.ĭiscography Studio albums Releasedġ0x Diamond. Shakur was convicted of assault and sexual assault in separate incidents. He also holds the Guinness World Record for the highest selling rap/hip hop artist, selling 165 million worldwide and 43 million in the US alone. He was also called 2Pac, Pac, Makaveli and also called himself The Don Killuminati. He died six days later at the Southern Nevada University Medical Center. On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot several times in a drive-by shooting at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada. They moved homes often, sometimes they even had to stay in shelters. She had just been released from jail a month before his birth. He was the son of Afeni Shakur, who was a member of the Black Panther party. Later in his music career, this experience in school becomes his personality of his own music style. Tupac went to Baltimore school for Arts, where he found it interesting to read Shakespeare's poems which he got very affected by the beauty of rhyming, choosing the word and expression. Shakur began his career as a roadie, backup dancer, and MC for the alternative hip hop group Digital Underground as "MC New York", eventually branching off as a solo artist. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2010. Tupac Amaru Shakur (JSeptember 13, 1996) was an American rapper and actor who sold many records.