Hey I'm writing a first draft for a paper in a class entitled "Art on Trial" and this paper is a research paper that examines a controversial piece of art. We've done everything from Serrano's "Piss Christ" to the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe to James Joyce's Ulysses to Ice-T's "Cop Killa". I'm choosing to do the controversy that 2pac's 2pacalypse Now created (i.e. C. Delores Tucker and Dan Quayle), but I can't find any direct quotes with sources or full transcripts of an attack of the record. I've literally searched google up and down, as well as 6 scholarly article databases. If anyone could link me up to helpful websites I would greatly, greatly appreciate it!!!
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You should probably look for the history of lawsuits for reference as the lawsuits will have a permanent history - though you may have to go beyond google for them.
You should probably look for the history of lawsuits for reference as the lawsuits will have a permanent history - though you may have to go beyond google for them.
I'll upload a RAR with some various things that might help you. Here's some additional information:
A little under one month before the release of 2Pacalypse Now, 2Pac was stopped for jaywalking. Tupac's story is highlighted in Tupac: Resurrection. The allegation is that the officers who arrested him brutalized him in the process, and 2Pac actually took photos of what he looked like after the incident, which were used as evidence in the lawsuit that followed. You have probably seen these pictures before, and they have been used as sliding pictures over the screen in pretty much every 2Pac documentary ever made.
The day of the release of 2Pacalypse Now, 2Pac also held a press conference addressing the specific details of his police brutality incident. This is also partially included on Tupac: Resurrection. I remember it particularly because his lawyer says he represents the group known as Digital Underground, "as well as a RAP group named Digital Underground" as he turns to look at Pac and Shock in a confused manner. The lawsuit was also discussed in the official 2Pac Fanclub Newsletter. A picture of this is included in the rar, but difficult to read due to the small size.
The day after the release of the album, 2Pac filed the $10,000,000 lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department. Here is an article related to that, that unfortunately, I cannot source directly:
The San Francisco Chronicle
NOVEMBER 14, 1991, THURSDAY, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A21; BAY AREA REPORT
HEADLINE: EAST BAY Rap Group Member Files Brutality Claim
Oakland -- A member of the rap group Digital Underground yesterday filed a $ 10 million claim against two police officers who allegedly brutalized him after a jaywalking incident last month.
Tupac Amaru Shakur, 20, admitted Tuesday that he jaywalked near a downtown intersection on October 17. Shakur said officers Alex Boyovich and Kevin Rogers choked him, threw him to the ground and slammed his head several times on the sidewalk. He said he was handcuffed, arrested for resisting arrest and taken to the city jail, where he remained for seven hours before his release.
Oakland Police Chief George Hart refused to comment on the incident.
Attorney John Burris, representing Shakur, is alleging false arrest and imprisonment. Shakur is known in the entertainment world as ''2Pac.''
On April 24th 1992, Ronald Ray Howard, age 19, shoots a Texas State Trooper while allegedly listening to 2Pacalypse Now. His attorney angled it in a way that put some of the guilt over on 2Pac. Nothing ever happened to Pac beyond negative publicity, but I like to think people in that time didn't buy it.
On the 13th of August 1992, the Texas State Trooper's widow files a lawsuit against 2Pac and Time Warner, suggesting that his music was indeed what made Howard kill the Trooper.
Tupac attends the Marin City Music Festival only days later, on the 22nd of August, and after an altercation, six-year-old Qaid Walker-Teal ends up killed by a gunshot to the head. 2Pac was only detained for questioning whereas Mopreme was actually arrested, but later released. There were no charges filed due to lack of evidence.
September 29th 1992, Dan Quayle meets with the daughter of the murdered State Trooper, and there is a public gathering in this event. This is where he made the infamous comment that "There is absolutely no reason for a record like this to be published in our society."
Some time during June 1993, Ronald Ray Howard is convicted of murder. On the 14th of July he is sentenced to death for the murder of Texas State Trooper Bill Davidson. Earlier that same year he is involved in an altercation with a limo driver, and in the same year he was also arrested for trying to hit another rapper (Chauncey Wynn) with a bat during a concert. In February of 1993, the parents of the six-year-old boy filed a wrongful death lawsuit against 2Pac, Mopreme, Marin City, as well as other unspecified parties. The amount is also unspecified.
Fast-forward a few months. On the 31st of October, 2Pac performs a concert at an Atlanta University. I included the article that tells the story of how Tupac was instructed as to the no-drugs policy, but that during the concert he held up a joint and asked "If I light this joint, will you let them take me to jail?" althought not actually smoking the joint until after the concert. I assuming he barely got to finish the joint in the car after the concert until they stopped because two white people were harassing a black motorist. Turns out they were cops, and Pac shoots them. One of the officers releases a statement later on that day. A soundclip of this statement is included in the RAR. On the first of November, the following day, charges are brought against 2Pac. Just a funny note, it was in this same month he met the girl that eventually landed him in jail on sexual harrassment. Looking through all this information again, I forgot just about how fast all the events in Pac's life unfolded. This was a mere year and a half to two years after the release of 2Pacalypse Now.
On November 18th 1993, Tupac is arrested for the sexual assault allegations. Two days later he was released on a $50K bail. After this, there were a series of hearings on the various cases he was involved with. In that period you also had the Hughes Brothers incident which had following court cases in 1994. Apparently there was also a second incident where 2Pac allegedly assaulted a limo driver, or he wasn't charged with it, or convicted, until 1994. I am a bit unsure about that detail. At this point I am tired of typing and will just copy my reference. I included a lot of articles spanning into 1994 for the simple fact that the majority of Tupac's legal problems caught up with him that year. Look at this (sorry for the bad format):
01.04.94 2Pac is nominated for an NAACP Image award for his role in Poetic Justice. He does not win , however, and the award goes to Denzel Washington.
01.31.94 2Pac records at the Blue Palms Recording Studio in Burbank, CA.
02.01.94 2Pac attends a hearing in Los Angeles on charges that he assaulted Allen Hughes. Before entering the courtroom, 2Pac nearly gets into a fight with Hughes, who had hired members of The Fruit of Islam for security.
02.10.94 2Pac is found guilty of assaulting Allan Hughes with a lead pipe. He is later interviewed by the Source.
02.27.94 2Pac performs with Thug Life at the New Regal Theater in Chicago, IL ( 1 2 3 ). He reportedly performs about six songs, among them Out on Bail and Keep Ya Head Up. MC Lyte co-headlines the performance and 2Pac attends an after party.
03.01.94 2Pac parties at Club USA
03.07.94 The Above the Rim Soundtrack is released.
03.08.94 2Pac is a guest on the Arsenio Hall Show. He is interviewed and performs the song "Pain" ( 1 2 3 4 ) with Stretch.
03.09.94 2Pac is attacked by a Los Angeles Crip at a Shell gas station on Sunset Boulevard. Later, MTV conducts an interview with 2Pac at which Madonna attends and watches from off camera ( 1 2 3 4 ).
03.10.94 2Pac appears in a Los Angeles courtroom ( 1 2 3 4 ) to be sentenced for his assault conviction against Allen Hughes. He recieves a 15-day jail sentence.
03.13.94 2Pac is arrested for assaulting a limo driver in California.
03.15.94 2Pac attends the Above the Rim soundtrack release party in Los Angeles, CA ( 1 2 3 4 ).
03.2?.94 2Pac is interviewed by James T. Jones ( 1 2 ) for USA Today.
03.23.94 Early in the Day, 2Pac is interviewed by Benjamin Svetkey for Entertainment Weekly ( 1 2 3 4 ). That evening, 2Pac attends the premier of Above the Rim ( 1 2 3 ) at Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA.
04.02.94 2Pac and Madonna attend an episode of Saturday Night Live to watch Snoop Doggy Dogg perform. Later that evening 2Pac attends a party for cowboy noir thriller "Red Rock West" ( 1 2 ).
04.04.94 Biggie and 2Pac hang out in 2Pac's room at the Royalton Hotel. The two friends smoke, drink and rap. The meeting is recorded on 2Pac's new video camera by Dream Hampton.
04.14.94 2Pac is a presenter at The A-Town Music Awards at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, GA.
04.16.94 Several attorneys attempt to get witnesses from the 08.22.92 shooting of Qaid Walker Teal to come forward. None show up.
04.25.94 2Pac attends the 1st Source Awards. He performs "Out on Bail" ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) but due to a miscue he starts his performance while A Tribe Called Quest is onstage receiving an award.
04.29.94 2Pac is arrested ( 1 2 ) on concealed weapon (a 9mm semi-auto Firestar pistol) and a possesion of marijuana charges after being stopped for speeding on Hollywood Boulevard. Maurice "Mopreme" Harding is arrested in the incident as well.
05.10.94 2Pac attends a court hearing in Los Angeles, CA ( 1 2 3 4 ) and begins serving his 15 day sentence in a Los Angeles jail for assaulting Allen Hughes.
05.11.94 2Pac pleads innocent to charges in his April 29, 1994 arrest.
05.16.94 A hearing is held in New York City concerning 2Pac's sexual assault and sodomy charges. 2Pac is not required to attened the hearing.
05.17.94 2Pac is released from a Los Angeles jail after serving 7 days of his 15 day sentence.
05.26.94 2Pac attends the Arsenio Hall Show and watches from the audience. The Isley Brothers are the musical guests, and Stevie Wonder makes a surprise appearance.
06.28.94 Philadelphia officials cancel a 2Pac concert, stating that 2Pac is not the kind of family entertainment they want thier city to provide.
07.05.94 2Pac spits at reporters and cameras and taunts reporters as he leaves the state Supreme Court in New York.
07.07.94 A judge removes the $25 million figure from the case of De Leon V. Shakur, in which 2Pac was accused of assaulting a limo driver on 03.13.93.
07.31.94 2Pac attends Wesley Snipes' 32nd birthday party ( 1 2 ).
08.??.94 2Pac, Notorious BIG and Stretch record the Easy Mo Bee produced "Runnin".
09.03.94 2Pac performs a concert at the Mecca Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ( 1 2 3 4 5 ). Opening acts include BOSS, Big Mike, Xscape and Spice 1. Reportedly, halfway through the opening song ("Bury Me a G") 2Pac loses his temper and a near riot breaks out. A member of Thug Life pulls a gun onstage and fires it, hitting no one. The show ends with security guiding people out and the police responding to the incident ( 1 2 3 ). It should be noted that upon attempting to research this incident further, the only event that could be found that might have taken place at the Mecca Arena on this date is a cat show. It is quite possible, however, that the date is erroneous.
09.07.94 Two Milwaukee teens murder a police officer and claim "Souljah's Story" was the inspiration.
09.??.94 2Pac attends a court hearing in Los Angeles, CA .
09.26.94 Thug Life's Thug Life Volume 1 is released ( 1 2 ).
10.07.94 Filming of Bullet begins.
10.??.94 2Pac films parts of Bullet in New York, and he is interviewed ( 1 2 ) on the set.
10.25.94 2Pac is interviewed by Ed Gordon ( 1 2 ). That night, 2Pac is interviewed on a street corner while filming Bullet ( 1 2 3 ).
11.04.94 2Pac attends Puff Daddy's 24th Birthday Party ( 1 2 ) at the Roseland Ballroom an New York.
11.12.94 2Pac attends a benefit auction for the Intercambios Culturales Project For El Salvador.
11.13.94 2Pac attends the premiere of "I Like It Like That" to benefit women In need.
11.??.94 2Pac attends an "Evening in Honour of Mickey Rourke" in New York ( 1 2 3 4 ).
11.28.94 2Pac's trial continues in New York. After exiting the courtroom, he is interviewed by NY-1 ( 1 2 3 ), to whom he states, "I went through this and I ain't blow my brains out like Kurt Cobain," .
11.29.94 The jury in 2Pac's case convenes to deliberate on sexual assault, sodomy and weapons possesions charges. 2Pac is interviewed as he exits the courtroom .
11.30.94 2Pac records the song "Representing for Ron G". Later that evening, 2Pac is shot ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) in the lobby of Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan.
12.01.94 2Pac checks himself out of Bellvue Hospital ( 1 2 3 ) and attends the closing of his trial. He is convicted of felony sexual abuse charges ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) , but he is aquitted of sodomy and weapons possesions charges. After the hearing ( 1 2 ), 2Pac checks himself into the Metropolitan Hospital Center under the name Bob Day.
12.02.94 2Pac is discharged from the Metropolitan Hospital Center and moved to a secret location in Manhattan (Jasmine Guy's house).
12.05.94 2Pac misses a hearing in Manhattan due to health concerns, the hearing is rescheuled for nine days later.
12.14.94 2Pac misses a hearing in Manhattan. The judge issuse a one week stay on his warrant after 2Pac's personal physician states that moving him could be dangerous.
12.23.94 2Pac surrenders at 2am and spends the weekend at the Bellvue Hospital Prison Ward. His bail is set at $3 Million, and his sentancing is set for 01.17.95. Upon release, 2Pac is held at Rikers Island to await sentancing.
If you want to thank someone for this information and these images, thank Dante.
It is interesting and important to note that some of these articles are somewhat flawed. There was no intarwebz. One of them refers to Tupac's mother as being Assata Shakur.
Random Tupac fact: Oprah Winfrey was on the set of Poetic Justice and did a special on it. Too bad she's made like two hundred billion episodes of her show. Anyone happen to have fifteen years worth of Oprah Winfrey tapes?
A little under one month before the release of 2Pacalypse Now, 2Pac was stopped for jaywalking. Tupac's story is highlighted in Tupac: Resurrection. The allegation is that the officers who arrested him brutalized him in the process, and 2Pac actually took photos of what he looked like after the incident, which were used as evidence in the lawsuit that followed. You have probably seen these pictures before, and they have been used as sliding pictures over the screen in pretty much every 2Pac documentary ever made.
The day of the release of 2Pacalypse Now, 2Pac also held a press conference addressing the specific details of his police brutality incident. This is also partially included on Tupac: Resurrection. I remember it particularly because his lawyer says he represents the group known as Digital Underground, "as well as a RAP group named Digital Underground" as he turns to look at Pac and Shock in a confused manner. The lawsuit was also discussed in the official 2Pac Fanclub Newsletter. A picture of this is included in the rar, but difficult to read due to the small size.
The day after the release of the album, 2Pac filed the $10,000,000 lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department. Here is an article related to that, that unfortunately, I cannot source directly:
The San Francisco Chronicle
NOVEMBER 14, 1991, THURSDAY, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A21; BAY AREA REPORT
HEADLINE: EAST BAY Rap Group Member Files Brutality Claim
Oakland -- A member of the rap group Digital Underground yesterday filed a $ 10 million claim against two police officers who allegedly brutalized him after a jaywalking incident last month.
Tupac Amaru Shakur, 20, admitted Tuesday that he jaywalked near a downtown intersection on October 17. Shakur said officers Alex Boyovich and Kevin Rogers choked him, threw him to the ground and slammed his head several times on the sidewalk. He said he was handcuffed, arrested for resisting arrest and taken to the city jail, where he remained for seven hours before his release.
Oakland Police Chief George Hart refused to comment on the incident.
Attorney John Burris, representing Shakur, is alleging false arrest and imprisonment. Shakur is known in the entertainment world as ''2Pac.''
On April 24th 1992, Ronald Ray Howard, age 19, shoots a Texas State Trooper while allegedly listening to 2Pacalypse Now. His attorney angled it in a way that put some of the guilt over on 2Pac. Nothing ever happened to Pac beyond negative publicity, but I like to think people in that time didn't buy it.
On the 13th of August 1992, the Texas State Trooper's widow files a lawsuit against 2Pac and Time Warner, suggesting that his music was indeed what made Howard kill the Trooper.
Tupac attends the Marin City Music Festival only days later, on the 22nd of August, and after an altercation, six-year-old Qaid Walker-Teal ends up killed by a gunshot to the head. 2Pac was only detained for questioning whereas Mopreme was actually arrested, but later released. There were no charges filed due to lack of evidence.
September 29th 1992, Dan Quayle meets with the daughter of the murdered State Trooper, and there is a public gathering in this event. This is where he made the infamous comment that "There is absolutely no reason for a record like this to be published in our society."
Some time during June 1993, Ronald Ray Howard is convicted of murder. On the 14th of July he is sentenced to death for the murder of Texas State Trooper Bill Davidson. Earlier that same year he is involved in an altercation with a limo driver, and in the same year he was also arrested for trying to hit another rapper (Chauncey Wynn) with a bat during a concert. In February of 1993, the parents of the six-year-old boy filed a wrongful death lawsuit against 2Pac, Mopreme, Marin City, as well as other unspecified parties. The amount is also unspecified.
Fast-forward a few months. On the 31st of October, 2Pac performs a concert at an Atlanta University. I included the article that tells the story of how Tupac was instructed as to the no-drugs policy, but that during the concert he held up a joint and asked "If I light this joint, will you let them take me to jail?" althought not actually smoking the joint until after the concert. I assuming he barely got to finish the joint in the car after the concert until they stopped because two white people were harassing a black motorist. Turns out they were cops, and Pac shoots them. One of the officers releases a statement later on that day. A soundclip of this statement is included in the RAR. On the first of November, the following day, charges are brought against 2Pac. Just a funny note, it was in this same month he met the girl that eventually landed him in jail on sexual harrassment. Looking through all this information again, I forgot just about how fast all the events in Pac's life unfolded. This was a mere year and a half to two years after the release of 2Pacalypse Now.
On November 18th 1993, Tupac is arrested for the sexual assault allegations. Two days later he was released on a $50K bail. After this, there were a series of hearings on the various cases he was involved with. In that period you also had the Hughes Brothers incident which had following court cases in 1994. Apparently there was also a second incident where 2Pac allegedly assaulted a limo driver, or he wasn't charged with it, or convicted, until 1994. I am a bit unsure about that detail. At this point I am tired of typing and will just copy my reference. I included a lot of articles spanning into 1994 for the simple fact that the majority of Tupac's legal problems caught up with him that year. Look at this (sorry for the bad format):
01.04.94 2Pac is nominated for an NAACP Image award for his role in Poetic Justice. He does not win , however, and the award goes to Denzel Washington.
01.31.94 2Pac records at the Blue Palms Recording Studio in Burbank, CA.
02.01.94 2Pac attends a hearing in Los Angeles on charges that he assaulted Allen Hughes. Before entering the courtroom, 2Pac nearly gets into a fight with Hughes, who had hired members of The Fruit of Islam for security.
02.10.94 2Pac is found guilty of assaulting Allan Hughes with a lead pipe. He is later interviewed by the Source.
02.27.94 2Pac performs with Thug Life at the New Regal Theater in Chicago, IL ( 1 2 3 ). He reportedly performs about six songs, among them Out on Bail and Keep Ya Head Up. MC Lyte co-headlines the performance and 2Pac attends an after party.
03.01.94 2Pac parties at Club USA
03.07.94 The Above the Rim Soundtrack is released.
03.08.94 2Pac is a guest on the Arsenio Hall Show. He is interviewed and performs the song "Pain" ( 1 2 3 4 ) with Stretch.
03.09.94 2Pac is attacked by a Los Angeles Crip at a Shell gas station on Sunset Boulevard. Later, MTV conducts an interview with 2Pac at which Madonna attends and watches from off camera ( 1 2 3 4 ).
03.10.94 2Pac appears in a Los Angeles courtroom ( 1 2 3 4 ) to be sentenced for his assault conviction against Allen Hughes. He recieves a 15-day jail sentence.
03.13.94 2Pac is arrested for assaulting a limo driver in California.
03.15.94 2Pac attends the Above the Rim soundtrack release party in Los Angeles, CA ( 1 2 3 4 ).
03.2?.94 2Pac is interviewed by James T. Jones ( 1 2 ) for USA Today.
03.23.94 Early in the Day, 2Pac is interviewed by Benjamin Svetkey for Entertainment Weekly ( 1 2 3 4 ). That evening, 2Pac attends the premier of Above the Rim ( 1 2 3 ) at Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA.
04.02.94 2Pac and Madonna attend an episode of Saturday Night Live to watch Snoop Doggy Dogg perform. Later that evening 2Pac attends a party for cowboy noir thriller "Red Rock West" ( 1 2 ).
04.04.94 Biggie and 2Pac hang out in 2Pac's room at the Royalton Hotel. The two friends smoke, drink and rap. The meeting is recorded on 2Pac's new video camera by Dream Hampton.
04.14.94 2Pac is a presenter at The A-Town Music Awards at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, GA.
04.16.94 Several attorneys attempt to get witnesses from the 08.22.92 shooting of Qaid Walker Teal to come forward. None show up.
04.25.94 2Pac attends the 1st Source Awards. He performs "Out on Bail" ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) but due to a miscue he starts his performance while A Tribe Called Quest is onstage receiving an award.
04.29.94 2Pac is arrested ( 1 2 ) on concealed weapon (a 9mm semi-auto Firestar pistol) and a possesion of marijuana charges after being stopped for speeding on Hollywood Boulevard. Maurice "Mopreme" Harding is arrested in the incident as well.
05.10.94 2Pac attends a court hearing in Los Angeles, CA ( 1 2 3 4 ) and begins serving his 15 day sentence in a Los Angeles jail for assaulting Allen Hughes.
05.11.94 2Pac pleads innocent to charges in his April 29, 1994 arrest.
05.16.94 A hearing is held in New York City concerning 2Pac's sexual assault and sodomy charges. 2Pac is not required to attened the hearing.
05.17.94 2Pac is released from a Los Angeles jail after serving 7 days of his 15 day sentence.
05.26.94 2Pac attends the Arsenio Hall Show and watches from the audience. The Isley Brothers are the musical guests, and Stevie Wonder makes a surprise appearance.
06.28.94 Philadelphia officials cancel a 2Pac concert, stating that 2Pac is not the kind of family entertainment they want thier city to provide.
07.05.94 2Pac spits at reporters and cameras and taunts reporters as he leaves the state Supreme Court in New York.
07.07.94 A judge removes the $25 million figure from the case of De Leon V. Shakur, in which 2Pac was accused of assaulting a limo driver on 03.13.93.
07.31.94 2Pac attends Wesley Snipes' 32nd birthday party ( 1 2 ).
08.??.94 2Pac, Notorious BIG and Stretch record the Easy Mo Bee produced "Runnin".
09.03.94 2Pac performs a concert at the Mecca Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ( 1 2 3 4 5 ). Opening acts include BOSS, Big Mike, Xscape and Spice 1. Reportedly, halfway through the opening song ("Bury Me a G") 2Pac loses his temper and a near riot breaks out. A member of Thug Life pulls a gun onstage and fires it, hitting no one. The show ends with security guiding people out and the police responding to the incident ( 1 2 3 ). It should be noted that upon attempting to research this incident further, the only event that could be found that might have taken place at the Mecca Arena on this date is a cat show. It is quite possible, however, that the date is erroneous.
09.07.94 Two Milwaukee teens murder a police officer and claim "Souljah's Story" was the inspiration.
09.??.94 2Pac attends a court hearing in Los Angeles, CA .
09.26.94 Thug Life's Thug Life Volume 1 is released ( 1 2 ).
10.07.94 Filming of Bullet begins.
10.??.94 2Pac films parts of Bullet in New York, and he is interviewed ( 1 2 ) on the set.
10.25.94 2Pac is interviewed by Ed Gordon ( 1 2 ). That night, 2Pac is interviewed on a street corner while filming Bullet ( 1 2 3 ).
11.04.94 2Pac attends Puff Daddy's 24th Birthday Party ( 1 2 ) at the Roseland Ballroom an New York.
11.12.94 2Pac attends a benefit auction for the Intercambios Culturales Project For El Salvador.
11.13.94 2Pac attends the premiere of "I Like It Like That" to benefit women In need.
11.??.94 2Pac attends an "Evening in Honour of Mickey Rourke" in New York ( 1 2 3 4 ).
11.28.94 2Pac's trial continues in New York. After exiting the courtroom, he is interviewed by NY-1 ( 1 2 3 ), to whom he states, "I went through this and I ain't blow my brains out like Kurt Cobain," .
11.29.94 The jury in 2Pac's case convenes to deliberate on sexual assault, sodomy and weapons possesions charges. 2Pac is interviewed as he exits the courtroom .
11.30.94 2Pac records the song "Representing for Ron G". Later that evening, 2Pac is shot ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) in the lobby of Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan.
12.01.94 2Pac checks himself out of Bellvue Hospital ( 1 2 3 ) and attends the closing of his trial. He is convicted of felony sexual abuse charges ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) , but he is aquitted of sodomy and weapons possesions charges. After the hearing ( 1 2 ), 2Pac checks himself into the Metropolitan Hospital Center under the name Bob Day.
12.02.94 2Pac is discharged from the Metropolitan Hospital Center and moved to a secret location in Manhattan (Jasmine Guy's house).
12.05.94 2Pac misses a hearing in Manhattan due to health concerns, the hearing is rescheuled for nine days later.
12.14.94 2Pac misses a hearing in Manhattan. The judge issuse a one week stay on his warrant after 2Pac's personal physician states that moving him could be dangerous.
12.23.94 2Pac surrenders at 2am and spends the weekend at the Bellvue Hospital Prison Ward. His bail is set at $3 Million, and his sentancing is set for 01.17.95. Upon release, 2Pac is held at Rikers Island to await sentancing.
If you want to thank someone for this information and these images, thank Dante.
It is interesting and important to note that some of these articles are somewhat flawed. There was no intarwebz. One of them refers to Tupac's mother as being Assata Shakur.
Random Tupac fact: Oprah Winfrey was on the set of Poetic Justice and did a special on it. Too bad she's made like two hundred billion episodes of her show. Anyone happen to have fifteen years worth of Oprah Winfrey tapes?
1995:
01.??.95 Kevin Powell interviews 2Pac in the Rikers Island penetetiary. 2Pac renounces Thug Life and commits to positivity. The interview would be published by Vibe Magazine in April.
01.??.95 Jada Pinkett reportedly contributes $100,000 to 2Pac's then $3,000,000 bail.
02.07.95 2Pac is sentenced ( 1 2 ) to one-and-a-half to four-and-a-half years in prison. Charles Fuller receives four months in jail and five years probation.
02.28.95 Me Against the World ( 1 2 ) is released.
03.08.95 2Pac is issued a State of New York Deptartment of Correctional Services Inmate Identification Card. He is inmate # 95-A-1140.
03.??.95 2Pac is moved from Riker's Island to Clinton Correctional Facility.
04.01.95 Me Against the World debuts at number one ( 1 2 3 ) on the Billboard charts.
04.04.95 2Pac is served with a lawsuit filed by Mark Whitwell for damages caused by the October 31, 1993 shooting in Atlanta, GA.
04.29.95 2Pac marries Kiesha Morris . The marriage is later anulled.
05.01.95 2Pac writes a letter to prison authorities, requesting his gold wedding band be returned to him.
05.09.95 2Pac's bail is set at $1.4 Million . The original agreement for payment is: $850,000 from Atlantic recording corporation, a $250,000 treasury bill from Bert Padell, and $300,000 cash or bond from an insurance company. The Manhattan District Attorney challeges the ruling to grant 2Pac bail, thus delaying the process of freeing him.
05.??.95 The law office of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen draft a fee agreement that would grant them the rights to any book or movie based on the shooting of 6-year old Qaid Walker-Teal.
05.25.95 2Pac fails a drug test while in prison . As punishment, he receives 60 days of 23 hour per day solitary confinement and loses two months of good behavior time and certain privilages .
05.28.95 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution publishes an interview with Afeni Shakur ( 1 2 ).
06.??.95 2Pac is found liable by default for damages in the case against Mark Whitwell.
06.??.95 The woman who was allegedly assaulted by 2Pac writes a letter to Vibe Magazine denying the case was a setup and insisting that she was "gang-raped."
06.25.95 2Pac is visited by friends.
07.??.95 2Pac allegedly threatens to kill a prison guard who complains that Keisha Morris' dress is too revealing .
07.??.95 "So Many Tears" video is released.
07.12.95 Scott Whitwell files a lawsuit against 2Pac, seeking compensation for his injuries, medical expenses, lost wages and pain and suffering.
07.24.95 The New York Appellate Division splits a vote 3-2 in the matter of granting 2Pac bail. The vote goes in favor of granting 2Pac's bail, but the District Attorney filed an appeal immediately after the vote, meaning that 2Pac had to remain incarcerated in the Clinton State Prison in Dannemora, NY.
09.02.95 Jasmine Guy visits 2Pac in jail.
09.03.95 Jasmine Guy visits 2Pac in jail.
09.16.95 2Pac signs his Death Row contract.
09.21.95 The Court of Appeals again upholds an order granting bail to 2Pac.
09.25.95 2Pac writes a letter to Chuck D, telling him of his impending release from prison and asking him to appear on a song called "Da Struggle Continuez." He writes that Sista Souljah is supposed to perform on the track also, and it will appear on his next album Euthanasia.
09.??.95 "Temptations" video is released ( 1 2 ).
10.07.95 Big Syke visits 2Pac in jail.
10.12.95 2Pac is released from prison on $1.4 million bail, which was put up by Death Row Records ( 1 2 3 4 ). Later that day he records "Ambitionz Az A Ridah."
10.1?.95 2Pac meets Faith Evans ( 1 2 ) for the first time in Los Angeles, CA. She records a rough vocal track for All Eyez on Me (Reportedly for "Wonda Why They Call U Bytch").
10.18.95 2Pac records "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" with Snoop Doggy Dogg. Chuck Philips interviews 2Pac ( 1 2 3 ) for the Los Angeles Times.
10.??.95 2Pac spends much of two weeks recording tracks for All Eyez on Me.
10.26.95 2Pac is interviewed at Venice Beach by Tabitha Soren for The MTV Interview.
10.27.95 2Pac is interviewed at a studio ( 1 2 ) in Los Angeles, CA by Tabitha Soren for The MTV Interview .
11.05.95 2Pac attends the Holyfield/Bowe fight in Las Vegas. Afterwards he performs at Club 662 ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) for the Dogg Food release party. He is also interviewed by Street Heat prior to performing.
11.07.95 2Pac settles a civil suit with the parents of Qaid Walker Teal. He agrees to pay the boy's parents an amount between $300,000 and $500,000 to settle the case.
worth noting from 1996:
01.22.96 At a hearing in Los Angeles, a judge orders that 2Pac be jailed for not completing a work crew assignment handed down in his assault conviction against Allen Hughes. 2Pac bails out on $52,000 bail immediately after leaving court.
04.04.96 2Pac is sentenced to 120 days in jail for not serving 15 days with a freeway cleanup crew as part of his probation for assaulting Allen Hughes. He is given until June 7, 1996 to surrender, but he is allowed to remain free awaiting appeal.
04.30.96 Oakland city officials turn down a permit for 2Pac to perform a concert in Oakland.
05.01.96 2Pac's attempt to have his sexual assault conviction thrown out fails.
05.06.96 2Pac appears in court to answer for his April 29, 1994 arrest. He pleads guilty and promises the judge that he will organize a benefit concert with Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, Nate Dogg, Danny Boy and E-40 for underprivilaged children. His sentencing date is set for September 12, 1996.
06.01.96 2Pac settles his lawsuit with limo driver David De Leon. The terms were not disclosed.
09.24.96 Mark and Scott Whitwell announce that thier lawsuits against 2Pac are ongoing, and they "feel it is appropriate to punish someone even after their death."
02.23.97 A U.S. District Judge rules that C. Delores Tucker should not be able to collect any money from the Estate of Tupac Shakur, because Tucker did not file a claim with the Estate after 2Pac's death. In a seprate case, however, Tucker may still collect from her suits against Newsweek and Time Magazine, which were a result of thier stories on her case against 2Pac.
03.28.97 United States District Judge John D. Rainey enters a final judgment in in the case of Davidson V. Shakur, et. al. The Judge finds that Time Warner, Shakur, Interscope Records, East West Records America, and Atlantic Recording Corporation cannot be held responsible for the actions of Ronald Ray Howard, the Texas teen who killed Texas State Trooper Bill Davidson.
07.14.98 Scott Whitwell is awarded $210,000 in his case against the Shakur Estate.
02.??.99 A federal judge clears both Newsweek and Time Magazine in C. Delores Tucker's lawsuit.
01.19.03 C. Deloris Tucker's appeal of her lawsuit against the Shakur Estate claiming defamation is thrown out.
As you see, most of the legal drama that surrounded Pac arose in the later years of his career, and most of them were never resolved until long after his death.
01.??.95 Kevin Powell interviews 2Pac in the Rikers Island penetetiary. 2Pac renounces Thug Life and commits to positivity. The interview would be published by Vibe Magazine in April.
01.??.95 Jada Pinkett reportedly contributes $100,000 to 2Pac's then $3,000,000 bail.
02.07.95 2Pac is sentenced ( 1 2 ) to one-and-a-half to four-and-a-half years in prison. Charles Fuller receives four months in jail and five years probation.
02.28.95 Me Against the World ( 1 2 ) is released.
03.08.95 2Pac is issued a State of New York Deptartment of Correctional Services Inmate Identification Card. He is inmate # 95-A-1140.
03.??.95 2Pac is moved from Riker's Island to Clinton Correctional Facility.
04.01.95 Me Against the World debuts at number one ( 1 2 3 ) on the Billboard charts.
04.04.95 2Pac is served with a lawsuit filed by Mark Whitwell for damages caused by the October 31, 1993 shooting in Atlanta, GA.
04.29.95 2Pac marries Kiesha Morris . The marriage is later anulled.
05.01.95 2Pac writes a letter to prison authorities, requesting his gold wedding band be returned to him.
05.09.95 2Pac's bail is set at $1.4 Million . The original agreement for payment is: $850,000 from Atlantic recording corporation, a $250,000 treasury bill from Bert Padell, and $300,000 cash or bond from an insurance company. The Manhattan District Attorney challeges the ruling to grant 2Pac bail, thus delaying the process of freeing him.
05.??.95 The law office of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen draft a fee agreement that would grant them the rights to any book or movie based on the shooting of 6-year old Qaid Walker-Teal.
05.25.95 2Pac fails a drug test while in prison . As punishment, he receives 60 days of 23 hour per day solitary confinement and loses two months of good behavior time and certain privilages .
05.28.95 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution publishes an interview with Afeni Shakur ( 1 2 ).
06.??.95 2Pac is found liable by default for damages in the case against Mark Whitwell.
06.??.95 The woman who was allegedly assaulted by 2Pac writes a letter to Vibe Magazine denying the case was a setup and insisting that she was "gang-raped."
06.25.95 2Pac is visited by friends.
07.??.95 2Pac allegedly threatens to kill a prison guard who complains that Keisha Morris' dress is too revealing .
07.??.95 "So Many Tears" video is released.
07.12.95 Scott Whitwell files a lawsuit against 2Pac, seeking compensation for his injuries, medical expenses, lost wages and pain and suffering.
07.24.95 The New York Appellate Division splits a vote 3-2 in the matter of granting 2Pac bail. The vote goes in favor of granting 2Pac's bail, but the District Attorney filed an appeal immediately after the vote, meaning that 2Pac had to remain incarcerated in the Clinton State Prison in Dannemora, NY.
09.02.95 Jasmine Guy visits 2Pac in jail.
09.03.95 Jasmine Guy visits 2Pac in jail.
09.16.95 2Pac signs his Death Row contract.
09.21.95 The Court of Appeals again upholds an order granting bail to 2Pac.
09.25.95 2Pac writes a letter to Chuck D, telling him of his impending release from prison and asking him to appear on a song called "Da Struggle Continuez." He writes that Sista Souljah is supposed to perform on the track also, and it will appear on his next album Euthanasia.
09.??.95 "Temptations" video is released ( 1 2 ).
10.07.95 Big Syke visits 2Pac in jail.
10.12.95 2Pac is released from prison on $1.4 million bail, which was put up by Death Row Records ( 1 2 3 4 ). Later that day he records "Ambitionz Az A Ridah."
10.1?.95 2Pac meets Faith Evans ( 1 2 ) for the first time in Los Angeles, CA. She records a rough vocal track for All Eyez on Me (Reportedly for "Wonda Why They Call U Bytch").
10.18.95 2Pac records "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" with Snoop Doggy Dogg. Chuck Philips interviews 2Pac ( 1 2 3 ) for the Los Angeles Times.
10.??.95 2Pac spends much of two weeks recording tracks for All Eyez on Me.
10.26.95 2Pac is interviewed at Venice Beach by Tabitha Soren for The MTV Interview.
10.27.95 2Pac is interviewed at a studio ( 1 2 ) in Los Angeles, CA by Tabitha Soren for The MTV Interview .
11.05.95 2Pac attends the Holyfield/Bowe fight in Las Vegas. Afterwards he performs at Club 662 ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) for the Dogg Food release party. He is also interviewed by Street Heat prior to performing.
11.07.95 2Pac settles a civil suit with the parents of Qaid Walker Teal. He agrees to pay the boy's parents an amount between $300,000 and $500,000 to settle the case.
worth noting from 1996:
01.22.96 At a hearing in Los Angeles, a judge orders that 2Pac be jailed for not completing a work crew assignment handed down in his assault conviction against Allen Hughes. 2Pac bails out on $52,000 bail immediately after leaving court.
04.04.96 2Pac is sentenced to 120 days in jail for not serving 15 days with a freeway cleanup crew as part of his probation for assaulting Allen Hughes. He is given until June 7, 1996 to surrender, but he is allowed to remain free awaiting appeal.
04.30.96 Oakland city officials turn down a permit for 2Pac to perform a concert in Oakland.
05.01.96 2Pac's attempt to have his sexual assault conviction thrown out fails.
05.06.96 2Pac appears in court to answer for his April 29, 1994 arrest. He pleads guilty and promises the judge that he will organize a benefit concert with Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, Nate Dogg, Danny Boy and E-40 for underprivilaged children. His sentencing date is set for September 12, 1996.
06.01.96 2Pac settles his lawsuit with limo driver David De Leon. The terms were not disclosed.
09.24.96 Mark and Scott Whitwell announce that thier lawsuits against 2Pac are ongoing, and they "feel it is appropriate to punish someone even after their death."
02.23.97 A U.S. District Judge rules that C. Delores Tucker should not be able to collect any money from the Estate of Tupac Shakur, because Tucker did not file a claim with the Estate after 2Pac's death. In a seprate case, however, Tucker may still collect from her suits against Newsweek and Time Magazine, which were a result of thier stories on her case against 2Pac.
03.28.97 United States District Judge John D. Rainey enters a final judgment in in the case of Davidson V. Shakur, et. al. The Judge finds that Time Warner, Shakur, Interscope Records, East West Records America, and Atlantic Recording Corporation cannot be held responsible for the actions of Ronald Ray Howard, the Texas teen who killed Texas State Trooper Bill Davidson.
07.14.98 Scott Whitwell is awarded $210,000 in his case against the Shakur Estate.
02.??.99 A federal judge clears both Newsweek and Time Magazine in C. Delores Tucker's lawsuit.
01.19.03 C. Deloris Tucker's appeal of her lawsuit against the Shakur Estate claiming defamation is thrown out.
As you see, most of the legal drama that surrounded Pac arose in the later years of his career, and most of them were never resolved until long after his death.
the rar files include newspaper clips. maybe some of them include the name of the newspaper in the corner and from the date it happened it could be possible to maybe source it that way. you turned it in though so no matter.
a lot of pac fans going through that timeline are probably going to get surprised to see how close every major event in his life was. there wasn't much time apart the various things that happened. to me it looked like his schedule was pretty much filled for six years minus the time spent in jail. it brought a sadness in me to think that tupac sowed so much good but never got to reap the benefits of it himself. i don't think he died happy and that, as a long time tupac fan, made me think about his death and all that shit. that's mainly why i bothered to go through all this stuff. as i did, nostalgia and emotions took hold of me
by the way, the rar also includes a few articles that i'm not sure where are from. they all have the same formatting in the way they look, and what they all have in common is that they were articles written about an incident involving Tupac, written by someone that was actually there in the incident. Maybe they are excerpts from a book, but most of the incidents I had either forgotten or never heard about. I know very few people visited Dante's site back when he had the timeline. I also know a person known as Neil and a few others contributed to the timeline. You guys should download the rar and read the shit in it.
a lot of pac fans going through that timeline are probably going to get surprised to see how close every major event in his life was. there wasn't much time apart the various things that happened. to me it looked like his schedule was pretty much filled for six years minus the time spent in jail. it brought a sadness in me to think that tupac sowed so much good but never got to reap the benefits of it himself. i don't think he died happy and that, as a long time tupac fan, made me think about his death and all that shit. that's mainly why i bothered to go through all this stuff. as i did, nostalgia and emotions took hold of me
by the way, the rar also includes a few articles that i'm not sure where are from. they all have the same formatting in the way they look, and what they all have in common is that they were articles written about an incident involving Tupac, written by someone that was actually there in the incident. Maybe they are excerpts from a book, but most of the incidents I had either forgotten or never heard about. I know very few people visited Dante's site back when he had the timeline. I also know a person known as Neil and a few others contributed to the timeline. You guys should download the rar and read the shit in it.
You guys should look into this a little more in depth and compare it to other art controversies. It's extremely interesting. We learned early on in the class that most art controversies revolve around the same arguments/worldviews and the 2pac controversy fit perfectly. Being (basically) a lifelong 2pac fan, it's really cool to view his music as high art and to reevaluate his first album from a literary perspective.
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