The story of Tupac Shakur — the man, the myth, the music - Double J

Tupac Shakur | Still He Rises: How The Harlem Renaissance Gave Birth To Hip-Hop’s Most Indestructible Idol | The Music Origins Project

Tupac became the first artist to top the charts while in prison, and Me Against the World is the album that made it happen. Released on 14 March 1995, just one month after he began his sentence at Clinton Correctional Facility, the project arrived at a moment when the world expected him to fall. Instead, he rose higher than ever. The album is powerful not because of the headlines, but because of the honesty inside it. Pac used the pressure around him to dig deeper into his fears, his mistakes, a

Archive footage from the scene of Tupac's murder