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The rapper Tupac Shakur has sold over 75 million records making him one of the most successful artists of all time.
Shakur sold over 75 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
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Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur ( ) (born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper, poet and actor. Shakur 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" (1996) and his "Greatest Hits" (1998) are among the best-selling albums in the United States. Shakur is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all time and he has been listed and ranked as one of the greatest artists of any genre by many publications, including "Rolling Stone", which ranked him 86th on its list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry
The East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry was a feud between artists and fans of the East Coast hip hop and West Coast hip hop scenes in the United States, especially from the mid to late 1990s. Focal points of the feud were West Coast-based rapper Tupac Shakur (and his Los Angeles-based label, Death Row Records), and East Coast-based rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (and his New York-based label, Bad Boy Records), who were both fatally shot following drive-by shootings by unknown assailants in 1996 and 1997, respectively. Hip hop emerged in the 1970s on the streets of South Bronx. Powered by DJs such as Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and Afrika Bambaataa, the new genre became popular throughout the city's neighborhoods.
Orlando Anderson
Orlando Tive "Baby Lane" Anderson (August 13, 1974 – May 29, 1998) was a Crips gang member, and a person of interest in the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. Detective Tim Brennan from Compton, California filed an affidavit naming Anderson as a suspect, although fans and others have speculated as to Anderson's involvement in the killing. He was never charged with the murder. In 2002, "The Los Angeles Times" published a two-part series by reporter Chuck Philips titled "Who Killed Tupac Shakur?" based on a series that looked into the events leading to the crime. The series indicated that "the shooting was carried out by a Compton gang called the Southside Crips to avenge the beating of one of its members by Shakur a few hours earlier.
Tupac: Assassination
Tupac Assassination: Conspiracy or Revenge is a documentary film about the unsolved murder of rapper Tupac Shakur produced by Frank Alexander, a Shakur bodyguard who was with the rapper at the time of the shooting, produced and directed by Richard Bond. The film was released October 23, 2007 on DVD. The film is a series of interviews with key players and witnesses, as well as what the producer told "Rolling Stone" magazine were experts in the fields of law enforcement and rap. Suge Knight owed artists over $104 million and Shakur was threatening to take his masters and leave Death Row after the last album, .
Suge Knight
Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight Jr. (; born April 19, 1965) is an American record producer, music executive, and a former replacement player as an American football defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He is the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records. Death Row Records rose to dominate the rap charts after Dr. Dre's breakthrough album "The Chronic" in 1992. After several years of chart successes for artists including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Outlawz and Tha Dogg Pound, Death Row Records stagnated after Knight's incarceration on probation violation charges in September 1996 and went bankrupt in 2006.
'03 Bonnie &amp; Clyde
"03 Bonnie & Clyde" is a song recorded by American rapper Jay-Z featuring his then-girlfriend, American singer Beyoncé. It was composed by Shawn Carter, Kanye West, Prince Nelson, Tupac Shakur, Darryl Harper, Ricky Rouse and Tyrone Wrice for Jay-Z's seventh studio album "" (2002). The song was released as the album's lead single on October 10, 2002. An East Coast hip hop and R&B song, "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" sampled its beat, lyrics, and theme from American rapper Tupac Shakur's 1996 song "Me and My Girlfriend", and was inspired by the crime film "Bonnie and Clyde". The instrumentation is based on programmed drums, bass instruments, and a flamenco guitar.
Gangsta rap
Gangsta rap or gangster rap consists with themes and lyrics that generally emphasize the "gangsta" lifestyle. The genre evolved from hardcore rap into a distinct form, pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Schoolly D and Ice-T, and was popularized in the later part of the 1980s by groups like N.W.A. After the national attention that Ice-T and N.W.A attracted in the late 1980s and early 1990s, gangsta rap became the most commercially lucrative subgenre of hip hop. Many (if not most) gangsta rap artists openly boast of their associations with various active street gangs as part of their artistic image, with the Bloods and Crips being the most commonly represented.
1_Apprentice
That's amazing! I don't think I have heard his music
0_Wizard
His music most revolves around racial, social, and inner city issies.
Most of the themes in Shakur's songs revolved around the violence and hardship in inner cities, racism, and other social issues.
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Beijing city fortifications
The Beijing city fortifications were built between the early 15th century and 1553. The Inner city wall was long and high, with a thickness of at ground level and at the top. It had nine gates. This wall stood for nearly 530 years, but in 1965 was removed to allow construction of the 2nd Ring Road and Line 2 of the Beijing Subway. Only one part of the original wall exists, in the southeast, just south of the Beijing Railway Station. The Outer city walls had a perimeter of approximately . The entire enclosure of the Inner and Outer cities formed a "凸" shape with a perimeter of nearly . Beijing was the location of the capital during the last three Chinese imperial dynasties (the Yuan, Ming, and Qing).
Gentrification
Gentrification is a process of renovation of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of the influx of more affluent residents. This is a common and controversial topic in politics and in urban planning. Gentrification can improve the quality of a neighborhood, while also potentially forcing relocation of current, established residents and businesses, causing them to move from a gentrified area, seeking lower cost housing and stores. Gentrification often shifts a neighborhood’s racial/ethnic composition and average household income by developing new, more expensive housing, businesses and improved resources.
Racial segregation in the United States
Racial segregation in the United States, as a general term, includes the segregation or separation of access to facilities, services, and opportunities such as housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation along racial lines. The expression most often refers to the legally or socially enforced separation of African Americans from other races, but also applies to the general discrimination against people of color by white communities. The term refers to the physical separation and provision of so-called "separate but equal" facilities, which were separate but rarely equal, as well as to other manifestations of racial discrimination, such as separation of roles within an institution: for example, in the United States Armed Forces before the 1950s, black units were typically separated from white units but were led by white officers.
Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation
Created in 1981, the Eisenhower Foundation is the private sector continuation of two Presidential Commissions – the 1967-1968 bipartisan National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Riot Commission, after the big city protests in Detroit, Newark, Los Angeles and many other cities) and the 1968-1969 bipartisan National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (the National Violence Commission, after the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Senator Robert F. Kennedy). The Kerner Riot Commission. The Kerner Riot Commission famously concluded, "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white – separate and unequal."
Earl Pastko
Earl Pastko (born 10 December 1965) is an American-Canadian film and television actor. He was born in Chicago and moved to Canada in 1985. Pastko is a founding member of Chicago's Remains Theater Company. He has worked extensively in theatre with noted directors Ken McDougall, Paul Bettis, Alexander Hausvater, Brian Quirt, Vikki Anderson and Morris Panych, among others. Pastko received a Dora nomination for his performance in 'La Ronde' and a Jessie nomination for 'The Ends of The Earth'. His most recent stage appearances were as Lars in The Company Theatre's highly praised production of 'Festen' and as Alexander Stern in 'The Rant', presented by Chicago's Mary Arrcher Theatre Co.  His best known film roles are as Satan in Bruce McDonald's 'Highway 61'; as Harley Otis in Atom Egoyan's 'The Sweet Hereafter'; as the artist in Jeremy Podeswa's 'Eclipse'; and the hotel detective in David Weaver's 'Century Hotel'.
Shrinking cities
Shrinking cities or urban depopulation are dense cities that have experienced notable population loss. Emigration (migration from a place) is a common reason for city shrinkage. Since the infrastructure of such cities was built to support a larger population, its maintenance can become a serious concern. A related phenomenon is counter urbanization. The phenomenon of shrinking cities generally refers to a metropolitan area that experiences significant population loss in a short period of time. The theory is also known as counterurbanization, metropolitan deconcentration, and metropolitan turnaround.
Inner City Press
Inner City Press is a public interest organization founded by Matthew Lee, who serves as Executive Director. Inner City Press is best known for its investigations of the banking industry's treatment of low-income communities of color, at first within the United States and more recently around the world, for example with regard to HSBC, Deutsche Bank and others. In the Spring of 2013, in the US, Inner City Press / Fair Finance Watch has for example raised fair lending issues regarding Investors Bank, see Newark [NJ] Star-Ledger of April 30, 2013, "Investors, Roma bank merger still awaiting regulator's approval," http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2013/04/investors_roma_bank_merger_sti.html   Inner City Press was founded in 1987 in the South Bronx of New York City.