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THESE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT 2 PAC YOU MAY NOT KNOW!!!
Tupac's given name was Lesane Parish Crooks.
Tupac studied drama at Baltimore's School Of The Arts.
At the Baltimore School Of The Arts, Tupac met Jada Pinkett, who would become a close friend of his.
Tupac was planned to act in the movies Cool Running, Higher Learning, Menace II Society and How To Be A Player.
As a young man, Tupac also studied ballet and dance.
Tupac Amaru Shakur was named after an Inca Indian chief, "Tupac Amaru" means "Shining serpent" and "Shakur" means "thankfukl to god" in Arabic.
When Tupac was 12 years old, his mother enrolled him in Harlem's 127th St Ensemble. He played Travis in A Raisin in The Sun in his first acting role.
While he was with Digital Underground, someone once shoved a 12 gauge shotgun in Tupac's face because of a dispute over a woman at a Martin Luther King Jr festival.
The parents of a dying boy wrote to Tupac telling him their kid's last wish was to meet him. Tupac flew to his side in Maryland, and after the boy died, he renamed his publishing company to Joshua's Dream. (The boy's name was Joshua)
Tupac said the individual letters in his THUG LIFE tattoo stood for "The Hate U Give Little Infants Fuck Everybody."
Tupac said that because of his moms ties with the Black Panthers, the FBI was always after him and his family.
When Tupac went to prison he was going to give up rap, he said he didn't get a thrill out of rapping anymore and he was even starting to forget his lyrics.
Tupacs first appearance ever was on Digital Underground's Same Song where he raps wearing West African war clothes in the video.
Kidada Jones, daughter of Quincy Jones and fiancé of Tupac, has a tattoo of Tupac on her arm.
Porn Star Spontaneous XXX Stacy, whose been in magazines like Portfolio and Players has a tattoo on her arm with Tupacs name and the title of the song Keep Ya Head Up.
Tupac has a huge cross on his back that says Exodus 18:11 a reference to where the bible says "Now I know That the Lord is Greater Than All Gods because he delivered the people from the hands of the Egyptians when they dealt with them arrogantly."
Tupac started his career on Tommy Boy Records with Digital Underground.
Tupac was first inspired to rap when a friend of his was killed while he was playing with a gun. His first rap was about gun control.
When he first moved to California, Tupac was homeless for 2 years.
Tupac helped pass out 850 toys to kids at Foster Elementary School in Compton.
On Thanksgiving, Death Row paid for free food to be passed out on the block of a South Central L.A. community center at 11 a.m. Tupac helped pass out $400,000 worth of turkeys.
Tupac went to the House of Blues and noticed there was nobody dancing with a woman in a wheelchair. He danced with her for four hours.
In the movie Juice, Tupac plays Bishop and said the now famous line "Yeah I'm crazy, but you know what? I don't give a fuck."
Tupac wanted to name his first child Star if it was a girl and Michelangelo if it was a boy.
Just before Tupac went to jail he tried for a baby with his wife Keisha Morris. According to Keisha she didn't get pregnant because Tupac smoked too much weed.
In the song Me And My Girlfriend, Tupac is actually talking about his gun, not his girlfriend.
Tupac's album All Eyez On Me was the first 2CD rap album in history and has been certified diamond.
Tupac was the first artist in history to hit #1 on the billboards while in jail.
The song California Love was planned by Dr Dre and he had planned to do it as his song but Suge Knight convinced him that it wouldn't be complete without Tupac.
Tupac had 2 dogs and they were called Bonnie & Clyde.
Tupac's favorite food was Chicken Wings.
Tupac's favorite cooked meal was Macaroni and Cheese.
Tupac's favorite drink was Orange Soda.
Tupac's favorite actor was Jim Carey.
Suge Knight's favorite song is How Do U Want It. He chose this because when Tupac recorded the song he did all the singing but they knew it needed RnB so they got Kci & JoJo on the track and Tupac was really happy with it and had a big smile on his face and they had a big party.
White rapper Eminem said that his 2nd and 3rd favorite songs are Tupac's Str8 Ballin' and If I Die 2Nite.
British R&B artist Gabrielle said that Tupac is her favorite artist and her favorite song is Dear Mama. | 