Tupac Shakur Biography

Fast Facts

• Worked as a roadie and backup dancer for the hip-hop group Digital Underground
• Was a childhood friend of Jada Pinkett Smith and wrote a poem about her entitled "Jada
• " In February of 1995, became the first artist ever to have the No
• 1 album on the Billboard 200 list while serving a prison sentence
• His album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory was released after his death and reached No
• 1 on the Billboard charts
• His song "Dear Mama" was added to the National Recording Registry in 2010
• Is the subject of more than a dozen documentary films
• Fifteen years after his death, "performed" at the 2012 Coachella Music Festival as a hologram