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- According to Ana Martinez, producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame: "Tupac Shakur was a rapper, actor, activist, poet, and revolutionary. This iconic artist has continued to be part of the zeitgeist for decades after his passing and will continue to be an important cultural figure for many years to come.
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May 5, 2023 · In April 1969, she was among the 21 members of the Black Panther Party who were accused of plotting to bomb various buildings and kill police officers in New York City. After defending herself...
- Julian Kimble
According to Ana Martinez, producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame: "Tupac Shakur was a rapper, actor, activist, poet, and revolutionary. This iconic artist has continued to be part of the zeitgeist for decades after his passing and will continue to be an important cultural figure for many years to come.
Sep 14, 2016 · David and I were little kids when Tupac Shakur died. That was 20 years ago. We were stunned by the drive-by in Las Vegas; the four gunshot wounds; Pac's death on Friday the 13th.
- He Was A Master Storyteller
- It's All in The Samples
- The Power of His Voice
- Stacks, Layers and Husk
- The Sense of Urgency
Tupac took a lot of early inspiration from the politically-charged music of Public Enemy and Ice Cube. He also studied theatre as a teenager at the Baltimore School of Performing Arts, and was inspired by Shakespeare. "[Shakespeare] wrote some of the rawest stories, man," he told the LA Times in 1995. Tupac's ability to communicate what was going o...
Tupac sampled a range of artists on his records, such as Herbie Hancock, Pink Floyd, Parliament, Joe Cocker, Public Enemy and Stevie Wonder. Trapped, one of the hit singles from his first record, samples James Brown's The Spank. Brown is one of the most sampled artists in hip hop, along with Curtis Mayfield. They were both powerful, strong figures ...
Singers are able to use different parts of their body to produce different sounds. For example the term "head voice" refers to a person singing high in pitch, and using the part of the voice that resonates from the head. The "chest voice" range resonates from the chest area. In the documentary Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel, one of Tupac's early producer...
Another technique Tupac was known for was stacking or layering his vocals, which added another dimension of warmth and rawness to his voice. This technique is often used by rappers to emphasise certain rhythms, words and phrases. Tupac does it on the track Dear Mama, from his 1995 album Me Against the World. Stacking vocal lines is very difficult t...
In 1995, Tupac served a nine-month sentence on charges of sexual assault, something he strongly denied. The period between his release from prison and his death almost a year later was very intense. He came out of jail firing shots; he had a lot to say and made a huge amount of music in this time. He dived into a world of gangster rap, formed a new...
Jun 7, 2023 · This iconic artist has continued to be part of the zeitgeist for decades after his passing and will continue to be an important cultural figure for many years to come," Ana Martinez, producer of...
- Mekishana Pierre
Jun 16, 2017 · A personification of hip-hop’s ascendance and the vexing forces that shaped it, Tupac was born in 1971 at the dawn of the post-civil rights era. His life would span the war on drugs, the rapid expansion of the prison-industrial complex, a black power reprise, the mainstream recognition of hip-hop – and all the pitfalls therein. Enemies of the state
Sep 13, 2016 · On Sept. 13, 1996, Tupac Shakur died, six days after he was targeted in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. Twenty years later, Tupac has become a celebrated figure around the world. He's not...
