2Pac, also known as Makaveli ... and released posthumously under the Makaveli alias. It wasn’t a traditional hip-hop album, so it wasn’t the cultural juggernaut that his best work serves ...

Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first began rapping, Shakur spent a few of his formative years in Baltimore ...

In a recording career that spanned barely five years, 2Pac released four solo albums that made him an icon of the burgeoning West Coast rap scene, topping the charts in a blur of controversies ...

The vinyl cover shows a ... roughly two months after 2Pac was fatally shot at 25 years old, Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory was released under his Makaveli alter ego. The album, which has since ...