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Demetrius Shipp Jr.
Born: November 20, 1988 Birthplace: USA | Tupac Shakur
Born: June 16, 1971 Birthplace: East Harlem, New York, USA Death: September 13, 1996, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (shooting) |
Danai Gurira
Born: February 14, 1978 Birthplace: Grinnell, Iowa, USA | Afeni Shakur
Born: January 10, 1947 Birthplace: Lumberton, North Carolina, USA Death: May 2, 2016, Sausalito, California, USA Tupac's mom |
Dominic L. Santana
Birthplace: Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA | Suge Knight
Born: April 19, 1966 Birthplace: Compton, California, USA Former CEO of Death Row Records |
Kat Graham
Born: September 5, 1989 Birthplace: Geneva, Switzerland | Jada Pinkett
Born: September 18, 1971 Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, USA Actress and lifelong friend of Tupac Shakur |
Jamal Woolard
Born: July 8, 1975 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA | The Notorious B.I.G.
Born: May 21, 1972 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA East Coast rapper turned rival of Shakur |
Annie Ilonzeh
Born: August 23, 1983 Birthplace: Grapevine, Texas, USA | Kidada Jones
Born: March 22, 1974 Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA Former fiancée of Tupac and daughter of Quincy Jones |
Lauren Cohan
Born: January 7, 1982 Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | Leila Steinberg
Born: December 18, 1961 Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA Tupac's first manager |
Harold House Moore
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, USA | Dr. Dre
Born: February 18, 1965 Birthplace: Compton, California, USA Collaborated on and produced Tupac's hit 1995 single 'California Love' |
Jarrett Ellis
| Snoop Dogg
Born: October 20, 1971 Birthplace: Long Beach, California, USA Rapper discovered by Dr. Dre. Collaborated with Tupac |
Rayan Lawrence
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA | Treach
Born: December 2, 1970 Birthplace: East Orange, New Jersey, USA Lead singer of Naughty by Nature |
Jamie Hector
Born: October 7, 1975 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA | Mutulu Shakur
Born: August 8, 1950 Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, USA Tupac's Stepfather |
Robin Young
| Madonna
Born: August 16, 1958 Birthplace: Bay City, Michigan, USA Dated Tupac briefly |
Keith Robinson
Born: January 17, 1976 Birthplace: Louisville, Kentucky, USA | Atron Gregory
Born: January 27, 1959 Birthplace: California, USA Early manager of Tupac and the president of TNT Records |
Khadija Copeland
| Queen Latifah
Born: March 18, 1970 Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, USA Friend of Tupac |
Chris Clarke
| Shock G (aka Humpty Hump)
Born: August 25, 1963 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA Tupac was once a member of his group Digital Underground |
Stefon Washington
Birthplace: USA | Puff Daddy
Born: November 4, 1969 Birthplace: Harlem, New York City, USA Pac believed Puffy was involved in the 1994 shooting |
Cory Hardrict
Born: November 9, 1979 Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA | Haitian Jack
Birthplace: Haiti Violent music manager allegedly involved in 1994 Tupac shooting |
Deshawn Wayne
| Frank 'Big Frank' Alexander
Tupac's bodyguard |
No. In researching the All Eyez on Me true story, we discovered that Amaru Entertainment, which was founded by Tupac's late mother Afeni Shakur, has not come out in support of the movie. In fact, the movie's production company, Morgan Creek, sued Amaru Entertainment in 2009 in relation to a dispute regarding Tupac's life rights. Morgan Creek was awarded the go-ahead to proceed. This upset Tupac's heirs, who had surely wanted to retain the rights to make their own version.
After gestating in development until 2015, there's little doubt that the success of Universal's N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton added to the urgency to bring All Eyez on Me to the big screen, in addition to the option to the rights set to expire. You likely won't hear comments from Shakur's heirs regarding the movie, mainly because a confidentiality clause in the settlement with Morgan Creek forbids them from voicing their thoughts on the film. The family has instead put their full support behind director Steve McQueen's upcoming untitled Tupac documentary. It will explore his career and offer its own theories as to who shot Tupac. -The Hollywood Reporter
Yes. As to what started the Tupac and Biggie feud, it is believed that the shooting in the lobby of the Quad Recording Studios building in Times Square sparked the rivalry. As stated in the question above, Tupac immediately assumed Biggie and Sean Combs were involved since they were upstairs in the studio at the time.
Yes. While fact-checking All Eyez on Me, we confirmed that Tupac Shakur was convicted of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room in November 1993. Several of Shakur's friends were present in the room at the time and were also charged in the case. The woman said that Shakur and his entourage raped her. Shakur denied the charges. The woman admitted to having had intimate relations with Shakur days earlier, which Shakur said were consensual. He was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse, and acquitted of sodomy and weapons charges. In delivering the sentence, Justice Daniel P. Fitzgerald described Shakur's crime as "an act of brutal violence against a helpless woman" (NYTimes).
Tupac entered the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility on February 14, 1995. He married long-time girlfriend Keisha Morris while incarcerated, but the pair divorced in 1996. He also released his album Me Against the World while in prison, which reached number one on the Billboard 200.
Yes. The true story confirms that Tupac and Madonna dated briefly after actress Rosie Perez introduced them at the 1993 Soul Train Awards in LA. -Vice.com
No, at least not according to Faith Evans. On his diss track "Hit 'Em Up," Tupac implies that he had sexual intercourse with Faith Evans, who was then the wife of The Notorious B.I.G. Evans' scandalous connection to Tupac Shakur began when she joined Pac in the studio to collaborate on his 1996 song "Wonda Why They Call U Bitch." After the recording session, she went to Tupac's hotel room to get paid the $25,000 he agreed to. In her memoir Keep the Faith, Evans claims that Tupac asked for oral sex but she refused. -MTV.com
Former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Officer Chris Carroll (now retired) was on bike patrol and responded to the drive-by shooting. He approached the BMW that was driven by record label boss Marion 'Suge' Knight. Tupac was slumped over in the passenger seat and only moving slightly. After telling him to get out of the vehicle, Officer Carroll opened the door and Tupac fell into the officer's left arm while he was still in the seat. Seeing the blood pouring from multiple bullet holes in Tupac's torso, Officer Carroll realized that the life was quickly fading from Tupac. Believing that the rapper might soon be gone, Officer Carroll asked him, "Who shot you? Who did this? What happened?"
Gasping for air, the 25-year-old Tupac uttered the words, "F*** you." His eyes then rolled back and closed half-way as his body went limp. He was rushed to the hospital, sedated, and put on life-support machines. Eventually, he was placed under a medically induced coma and succumbed to internal bleeding several days later on September 13, 1996. -Daily Mail Online
Yes. Afeni Shakur, a former gang member and political activist, joined the Black Panther Party in her early twenties. She eventually became a mentor to new members and a section leader of the Harlem chapter. Tupac's biological father, Billy Garland, was a member of the Jersey City branch of the Panthers and met Afeni at a strategy officer's meeting in New York City in 1969. Afeni, who was born Alice Faye Williams, changed her name at age 21. Afeni means "lover of people," and in Arabic Shakur means "thankful to God." She passed away of a heart attack on May 2, 2016. -XXLMag.com
Expand your knowledge of the All Eyez on Me true story by watching the Tupac interviews below, including the 1995 prison interview and his 1996 MTV interview with Tabitha Soren.
WATCH Afeni Shakur and Voletta Wallace MeetWatch Tupac's Mom, Afeni Shakur, and
Biggie's mom, Voletta Wallace, meet for
the first time at the 1999 MTV Video Music
Awards. They are introduced to each other
on stage by actor/rapper Will Smith. Their
meeting provided closure to the Biggie
Tupac East Coast West Coast feud. |