Nas and 2Pac squashed their beef at the 1996 MTV Video Awards on September 4, 1996, just 9 days before Tupac died on September 13, 1996. Nas dissed Biggie on ‘The Message’, the second song on his second album ‘It was Written.’ 2Pac thought the diss was for him so he recorded “Against All Odds.”

Tupac’s All Eyez On Me is the fourth studio album he released during his lifetime. Released under Death Row and Interscope Records, Tupac came home from jail and got right in the studio. All Eyez On Me was released on February 13, 1996. Before releasing the album, Tupac had three other potential titles, other than

Update Dec 30, 2019: Hasbro Toy Company has officially bought Death Row Records after they finished the acquisition today. Maybe some Tupac action figures on the way. This would also make it a fact that.. Hasbro Toy Company owns Death Row Records. Hasbro, the company that owns classic toys and games such as Mr. Potato

On the night of September 9, 1999, while presenting the Best Rap Video award at the MTV Video Music Awards, Will Smith introduced Afeni Shakur and Voletta Wallace, Tupac and Biggie’s moms, for the first time ever. Roughly three years after the tragic deaths of their sons, the two grieving mothers hugged on the Metropolitan

While 2Pac was incarcerated at Rikers Island for first-degree sexual abuse, on March 14, 1995, he released his third album Me Against the World. The album was released by Out Da Gutta and Interscope Records and debuted No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Top 200 albums chart. 2Pac’s Me Against the World album which featured

2Pac was the first rapper to have two No. 1 albums in the same year with his album, All Eyes on Me (1996) and The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (1996). After his release from Clinton Correctional Facility in 1995 and signing to Suge Knight’s Death Row Records, 2Pac was spending a lot of time

Tupac was once a ballet dancer, he attended Baltimore School for the Arts, where he took ballet classes and played the role of the Mouse King in The Nutcracker. In 1986, Tupac and his family moved from Harlem, New York to Baltimore. He began his sophomore year at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School before he

During a 2012 interview with WGCI’s “The Morning Riot”, Kendrick Lamar revealed seeing Tupac and Dr. Dre shoot the music video for ‘California Love’ in Compton inspired the then 7-year-old K. Dot to pursue a career in hip-hop. The music video for Tupac and Dr Dre‘s collaboration ‘California Love’ was shot near Kendrick Lamar’s house.