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Tupac is still alive

TMZ already confirmed it. Tupac is Alive

Backwards Bandanna?

I think it should me mentioned somewhere in the article. He popularised it, and people identify it with him. --Trevorrrj (talk) 17:43, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

We need one.--Louis Taylor (talk) 18:37, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Blood

Tupac was a Blood and Suge Knight was affilated with the Bloods, that's why the Crips killed pac--BubbleBabis (talk) 14:41, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Right... Source? SE KinG. ^{User page.} _Talk. 17:27, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's not true. He was affiliated with Suge Knight, who is a Blood. But he is not a Blood. He couldn't be. Why would he wear a multitude of different color bandannas including blue ones if he was a Blood all his life?

Early life

When did he move from New York to California? Qzm (talk) 13:10, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

1988

Really Poorly Written

The entire article reads as if it were written by 12 year-olds. I'm amazed that someone as well-known as Shakur has a wiki article of such low quality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonny Quick (talk • contribs) 07:04, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ameen Said Actually a few of us got together and spent nearly 4 weeks completely rewriting this article from scratch about 3 years ago. Our goal was to get this article up to FA status, which we actually almost achieved. We verified all sources in the article, added new verifiable sources where appropriate, wiped off all the fan-boy slobber, reorganized and rewrote large portions using proper spelling, grammar and punctuation, and just generally got the article up to a decent level of quality. A week later it was destroyed again with a huge influx of unverifiable claims, conspiracy theories, and it was completely soaked in fan-boy slobber. Trying to fix this article is a serious losing battle--it's a constant tug-of-war between writers who want to gather quality verifiable information, conspiracy theorists, rabid fans. My favorites are the people who "heard something from cousin Pookie and 'em", but can't be bothered to find a verifiable source :) SqlPac (talk) 06:37, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Per'd, also what the hell is up with the pic? What happened to the other one? It was WAY better, and suited the infobox better. Yoshi 7 (talk)

Why isn't there a picture as good as Biggie's page? This is stupid. Get that statue out of there!

yeh i dont understand why people would want the first picture in the article to be a bronze statue rather then a clear picture of the man —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.214.60.207 (talk) 17:06, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

News articles to use as sources

CNN has:

Both news articles are from 1996 and are about Tupac Shakur's death. WhisperToMe (talk) 15:45, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Killuminati explanation

^[1]It should be noted, either in discussion of the Makavelli: Don Killuminati album are, the section on his incarceration referencing his reading The Prince, or in his Influences section - that he was greatly influenced in his latter time of his career by learning from inmates about the Illuminati. The Vibe Interview Lost Footage shows 2Pac's own mouth saying why he added the K on it because "I'm killing that [expletive]." This influenced him enough to create an entire album around the theme, and is a re-occurring them in his music. People should know what properly influenced 2Pac's words, actions, and fate. Time and source for the interview would help this argument.

Death

Tupac died *7* days after the drive by shooting. Not 6. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.161.126.27 (talk • contribs) 02:34, 31 January 2010

Do you have any references? Wouldn't the 13th be 6 days after the 7th? Gimmetrow 02:41, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

Picture is missing from the page. 96.40.147.134 (talk) 21:21, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2pac died 7 days after being shot 4 times on september 6 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thug4lyfe786 (talk • contribs) 15:51, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Put a real picture of 2Pac and not some damn wax figure or drawing please and thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.65.50.143 (talk) 17:25, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I couldn't agree with you more. I have removed the picture, so if anyone can find a free Tupac picture, it would be very much appreciated. SE KinG. ^{User page.} _Talk. 17:38, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Religion

Tupac seemed to be a philosophical individual. I thought he might be a Muslim, and heard this mentioned in his music. Most biographical articles mention a religous background. This may help draw more pieces together about him, and give a more full encyclopedic entry if his faith upbriging is mentioned. After all many of his pieces speak poetically about god, life, and death. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.64.176.126 (talk) 04:30, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Hm1ROmlEk

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+== Tupac is still alive ==
+TMZ already confirmed it. [http://www.tmz.com/2009/04/29/tupac-is-alive Tupac is Alive]
 ==Backwards Bandanna?==