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The album included thirteen tracks.ĭespite the release, the tracks did not garner any airplay due to explicit and tricky lyrics.

Recording for the album took place at Starlight Sound Studios in Richmond, California.

Tupac had signed with Interscope Records in order to help finance the recording timeframe and release of the album. Tupac released his first studio album, 2Pacalypse Now, on November 12, 1991. He helped collaborate with Digital Underground for the single "Same Song", which would later be put in the film Nothing but Trouble. In January 1991, Tupac used the alias 2Pac for short due to his experience with rapping. In nearby Mill Valley, he attended Tamalpais High School, where he performed in several theater productions. In 1988, Tupac and his family moved to the small and impoverished Marin City, California. While at the Baltimore School for the Arts, Tupac met Jada Pinkett, who became influenced by some of his poems.Īfter connecting with the Young Communist League USA, Tupac dated the daughter of the director of the local chapter of the Communist Party USA. He then transferred to the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet. He attended Roland Park Middle School to finish his middle school run and later went to Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. In 1984, Tupac and his family relocated in Baltimore, Maryland. Pratt died of a heart attack in Tanzania, on June 3, 2011. Pratt was also a Sargant in the Army during the Vietnam War. Tupac's grandfather, Geronimo Pratt, a high-ranking Black Panther, was convicted of murdering a school teacher during a 1968 robbery, although his sentence was overturned. Tupac's stepfather, Mutulu Shakur, whose real name is Jeral Wayne Williams, was a member of the Black Panthers' Black Liberation Army until being sentenced to 60 years in prison for his role in the 1981 Brink's robbery and murder of two police officers. Only a month before Crooks was born, his mother Afeni, whose real name is Alice Faye Williams, was tried in New York City as part of the Panther 21 criminal trial. At one year of age, he was renamed after José Gabriel Túpac Amaru, a Peru-born rebellion leader who was executed on May 18, 1781. Before living up to his celebrity name Tupac Shakur (or simply 2Pac), Lesane Parish Crooks was born in the East Harlem section of Manhattan, New York City, New York on June 16, 1971.