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Fives x ofc!reader

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Rating: 18+

Word Count: 3.6k

Warnings: mentions of lust? is that a warning? otherwise, nothing yet ;)

chapter summary: Renna (you), an intern who spent the entirety of her internship thus far filing paperwork in the archives of Tipoca City’s medical wing, finally is able to work with a real patient - that patient just so happens to be Fives.

note: Renna will basically be taking the place of AZI-3 in the Conspiracy arc. A lot of the dialogue I wrote is from the episode, and of course I added more to dig deeper into Renna and Fives as characters. When this idea came in my head I was only planning on writing it as a oneshot. As I starting writing this, however, I realized there was so much more that could be done with it since this arc is both a good one and a sad one. If you’re ready to go on this journey with me, then keep going under the cut! <3 Also, I wanted to add that there will be POV changes in this chapter. I don’t know if I’ll stick with that going forward, but we’ll see.

* tbh special thanks to @bvcketfvcker for coming up with the series title and being da Best™

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The archives of the medical wing in Tipoca City, the capital of the watery planet Kamino, were always so cold and lonely. Every single day of your internship thus far has included you being nearly drowned in paperwork, no real field experience to show for it.

You’ve been on Kamino for your medical internship for what, close to six months now? You were still stuck doing paperwork. Maybe at the six month mark you’d be moved up to sterilizing all the medical equipment, which would seem terrible to anyone else, but at least you’d be in proximity to anything remotely “medical”. You were longing to get your hands dirty, to start real field experience, to learn how to heal. You wanted to help people, to help anyone in need. You wanted to learn the practices for saving someone’s life. Everything you wanted, you could not get if you were stuck in the archives with paperwork as your only companion.

You decided within your first month that you would not let the paperwork and lack of real purpose get to you. So, you made your situation better by wearing - to the best of your ability - a positive attitude. On the day that marked the end of your first month here, the Kaminoans told you that music can be played in the archives as long as it’s not too loud, so you brought in a small radio the very next day. The start of your second month was a little better than the day before. You hummed to the music playing on the radio as you tried to make a game out of filing the paperwork. Turns out, not even a simple game could be made out of something so boring and tedious as filing paperwork.

You lost count of the days you’ve been in Tipoca City, within the archives shelled by the stilted dome structures, after your second month. Every day was exactly the same; you filed and shredded paperwork, organized reports, and finished filling out medical reports that the Kaminoan doctors didn't even want to bother with. Every day you woke up early, headed to the archives, and spent your entire day there in solitude until it was time to head back to your quarters for the night. Lunch was always dropped off to you by a couple of guards from the Kamino Security Team. The guards were always in full grey and white armor but you already knew what they looked like; they were clones, and you’ve seen their face in every file. They were handsome, sure, but there were literally hundreds of thousands of them out there.

You were pretty sure you were coming up on month six of your monotonous internship. Waking up and getting ready was a routine ingrained in your bones. You were taking the regular route to the archives from your quarters when you were stopped by a couple Kaminoan doctors on the way. To your surprise, they asked you to follow them, which you were hoping translated to you not having to work in the archives anymore. Maybe month six was the lucky number.

You walked behind the tall and slender creatures through unfamiliar halls. You had no idea where you were following them to, but anywhere was better than where you were originally heading.

They kept walking, with you in tow, when you passed by the only Jedi you’ve ever really spoken to - Master Shaak Ti, a calm and collected Togruta who was known to have a soft spot for the clones here on Kamino. The Jedi nodded in greeting to the Kaminoans in front of you, then over at you. With no words spoken, you were now following the Jedi through the halls, still unsure of the destination.

Just around the corner, you saw two very decorated troopers coming towards you. They donned blue and white armor with a ton of other accessories. As they got closer, the one trooper removed his helmet and carried it at his side. This trooper had the usual dark brown hair and kept the common clone cut style. The way this clone walked with his helmet pressed to his hip had awoken something in you, though you couldn't put your finger on exactly what that something was.

“General Shaak Ti.” The other clone removed his helmet as he greeted the Jedi. He was blonde and sported a closely shaved cut; despite having the same face and body, the two clone troopers looked completely different. They were unlike any clones you’ve ever seen.

That’s when you noticed another trooper laying on a stretcher behind them; his hair was long enough to be worn in a bun, a tear drop was inked underneath one of his closed eyes. He was also unlike any clone you’ve ever seen - especially since he appeared to be unconscious, He was hooked up to oxygen, you also noticed, as two guards pushed his floating stretcher right by you and around the corner, out of sight once they went down the hall.

You realized how zoned out you were and quickly snapped back to reality - only for only a second, though - as you became transfixed on the clone in front of you on the right, the one with dark hair. You scanned his features a little more now that he was closer; he had a dark goatee that framed his chin and his right temple had the number “5″ inked on the skin. His armor was crazy different from the armor the guards here wore. He looked... good. Uh oh.

For just a brief moment, the “good looking” trooper’s eyes broke away from his conversation with the Jedi and met yours. Slightly embarrassed, you snapped your head forward and glued your eyes to the Kaminoan’s ankles in front of you.

Just as you started listening in on the conversation, the two clones, the Jedi General, and Dr. Nala Se broke away and turned the corner in the same direction they took the unconscious trooper.

Kriff. You missed the entire conversation. The Kaminoans started moving forward, and you assumed you were still supposed to follow them, so you did. You still had no clue where you were going, but you’ll get there eventually.

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Fives’ POV

Fives walked to the left of Rex, a long-neck doctor in between them, while Tup’s unconscious body was guided by two Kamino guards behind them.

“You will have to say goodbye to your friend now.” The long-neck broke the silence. Fives was worried for his friend. No one, not even Kix, could figure out what was wrong with him. Why would Tup shoot and kill General Tiplar? Fives noticed Tup was acting somewhat strange right before it all happened, but didn’t think too much of it at the time, Now, he’s racking his brain, trying to understand what set Tup off. He’s a good soldier, a good man. He’d never do such a thing in his right mind.

It was suggested that Tup be sent to Tipoca City, to Kamino, back to his roots, for a better chance of figuring out what was wrong with him. Fives gladly accepted the offer to escort his friend there, and was overjoyed that Rex came along with them.

General Shaak Ti came into view, and the troopers came to a halt. Captain Rex greeted the General, and she turned her attention over to Fives.

“Fives, am I correct?” He nodded. Tup was being pushed from behind them and then around the corner in front of them, quickly going out of view. The General spoke again, her eyes glued on the unconscious trooper being led down the hall. “You’ve served with Tup?”

Fives was desperate to be by his friend’s side right now. “Yes.”

Then he saw you. You, a foreign species to Kamino. What were you doing here? It had been a while since Fives was last on Kamino, but he was sure there weren’t any others like you here before unless they were Jedi - but the only Jedi known to hang around Kamino was General Shaak Ti.

He had noticed you tailing the long-necks before you had even come entirely into view. Fives let his eyes flicker over to you as Tup was being taken away, only to have locked eyes with you for but a second. He noticed you blushed right before you snapped your head forward, obviously embarrassed that you’d been caught staring. General Shaak Ti’s voice broke Fives’ trance - didn’t even notice he was losing focus once he caught your eyes - and it was all over in less than five seconds.

“You must come with me.”

Fives quickly snapped his attention back to General Shaak Ti, “with... all due respect, General, I can’t just abandon him now.” The Jedi General smiled reassuringly, and turned to lead Fives and Rex down the hall in the same direction Tup was taken.

Fives knew where his undivided attention should be, and that was on Tup - his friend - his friend that for some reason just gunned down a Jedi in the heat of battle in the space station just outside of Ringo Vinda, only to come to with no memory of what he had done. Fives cursed himself for thinking of you when his friend was about to be strapped to an exam table, being poked and prodded like some kind of lab scurrier.

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Renna’s POV

Dr. Nala Se, the Chief Medical Scientist on Kamino, approached you once you had gotten to the head medical lab and informed you that you’d be the one who would start procedures on a clone trooper who had potentially been exposed to a virus of some kind. You nodded, all too giddy as you gladly accepted the task.

You were escorted by two guards to where you’d be working with the patient. When the door whisked open, you slowly made your way into the quiet room, the door shutting quickly behind you. You glanced to the right, noticing the window that would normally allow you to see into the room next door was blacked out - put into the privacy setting. Strange.

“You?” The deep voice - a voice that sounded like honey in your ears - put a halt on your thoughts about the darkened window. You knew it was the voice of a clone; the only voices you ever heard were either the slow, drawn out words of the Kaminoans or the clones’. Of course a clone would be in that room, of course a clone would be the subject of your testing.

Who you didn’t expect to see was the clone trooper you saw in passing not even a half hour ago - the one with the dark goatee and number 5 tattooed on his temple - the one who made you blush when he caught you staring.

You felt yet another blush heat your cheeks before you even registered it was happening. What the hell were you blushing for? He’s a clone, and you’re here to take blood samples and body scans to make sure he’s okay. You knew you were staring at him like a fool, and for way too long. You shook your head slightly in an attempt to reorganize your thoughts.

“You ok, Miss... miss?” He stood up from his seating position on the cot, and cocked his head to the side with his arms folded across his chest. You nodded your head slowly.

“Renna,” you nearly whispered your name to him - the words almost came out choked - for some reason you had forgotten how to speak in Basic for a moment.

“Look, Miss Renna, I am not a threat. Neither is Tup.”

Your brow raised as you studied the clone’s expression. It was hard; his eyes were piercing and his brows were furrowed. Crossed arms flew to his sides, hands tightening into fists. No doubt he was feeling angry and confused.

“T- Tup?” Was that the name of CT-5385? “You’re referring to CT-5385?”

“Tup! The trooper in that room right there?” He pointed over to the darkened window, “He’s a good soldier, my friend, and he’s in the room next door getting - getting tortured by those long-necks.” A beat. “None of us clones go by numbers anymore, by the way.” You closed your eyes for just a moment, trying to think about what to say next. You inhaled deep through your nose, then slowly out through parted lips, watching as his expression went from angry to more... afraid? Worried?

“Trooper, I promise Tup is in good hands. I’ve been briefed on his- his condition... they - we - just want to find out what made him kill Jedi General Tiplar, that’s all. They’ve asked me to do a couple of procedures on you, take some notes, since you were close with Tup. Maybe we can find something in you that will help your friend.”

The trooper’s expression changed again, softening as his fists unclenched at his sides. Surely he had to understand the gravity of the situation; when you were briefed, it was mentioned that no one on Kamino had any idea why CT-53 - Tup - shot a Jedi General in cold blood, or why he keeps floating in and out of consciousness, murmuring things like “kill Jedi”. Clone trooper Tup seemed to have no memory of what he had done; and so far, no scans were showing anything wrong with him, though his health was deteriorating.

You walked over to the counter where the sterilized needles and scanners resided and started to prep the equipment, reading over notes to see what it is you needed and what you were supposed to be testing him for. Reading through the notes, you realized this trooper’s designation was ARC-5555, and the tattoo “5″ on his temple made sense now. It was actually kind of... cute.

It was silent for a couple minutes while you were getting everything ready when a loud, airy sigh coming from behind you made you turn around to face ARC-5555.

“The name’s Fives.”

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Fives’ POV

Fives was getting more worried for Tup by the minute. His rising frustration didn’t help, either. General Shaak Ti had engaged the privacy setting on Fives’ only view of his unconscious friend, leaving him in the dark as to what the long-necks were doing to Tup in the room next door.

Fives sat in the room in silence, alone with his worries and doubts. You were out of his thoughts at this point; the worry and fear he felt for Tup swallowed him whole - until you were the one walking through the door. It could have been any Kaminoan, any droid, yet you were the one they had sent.

His eyes wide, he watched you slowly walk in as you immediately set your attention to the darkened window to the right side of the room. Fives wanted to know if you knew what they were doing to Tup, why they were hurting him, why Fives wasn’t able to be there by his side. He had a million questions, almost all of them relating to Tup, except for the ones he had about you.

Fives was sitting on a cot on the other side of the room, and you hadn’t noticed him yet. What is she doing here? Who is she? She definitely isn’t a long-neck. He wanted to ask you all kinds of questions, a mix between wanting to know more about Tup and wanting to know more about you, but all he could muscle out was one word.

“You?” Fives shook his head in disbelief as the first word he said to you left his lips. It did manage to get your attention, though, because you turned away from the dark window and were now staring directly at him. Fives felt his heart beat just a little harder when he could finally take in your whole figure in more than just a quick glance. You were beautiful - more beautiful than anything he’d ever seen, and wearing the same thing he saw you in earlier; a tucked-in dark grey skin-tight top that came up your neck like clone under-armor blacks did, a white lab coat that came down to your ankles, hugging your curves in all the right ways along the way. The coat was open in the front, save for the one buttoned part right at your waist, just barely keeping the coat together. Your black boots were knee-high, your black leggings tucked into them. You stepped closer to Fives and his heart started racing; he was completely in awe of you, but there was something else, and it made warmth head straight to his groin.

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Renna’s POV

Fives. That was his name. Not ARC-5555 , just like Tup wasn’t CT-5385. “No clones go by numbers anymore,” he had informed you. Being waist-deep in paperwork all the time never gave you an opportunity to actually work with the clones. All you knew about the clones were their designations, along with whatever the paperwork was filed for. It didn’t occur to you that they had names.

“Look, is Tup gonna be alright? Have they found anything out?” Fives’ eyes were pleading, begging for some kind of reassurance.

“Please, sit down.” He huffed, but obeyed. “We’re using hyper level tests, so we should get the results fairly quickly.” He nodded his head, thankful for any little crumb you could give him. “I’m gonna need to get started now, okay?”

Needle in hand and ready to go, you preemptively apologized.

“Wh- ow!” You jabbed the needle into the side of his neck, a sympathetic smile on your lips.

“I said I was sorry!” You chuckled quietly. Fives rubbed at his neck and you made you way back over to the counter, inserting the needle into the port next to the computer.

“Well?” His hand still rubbing at his neck, you squinted your eyes to read the results displayed on the screen.

“Everything... seems normal.” You weren’t exactly sure what to expect, but you were happy your very first patient wasn’t immediately dying on you.

“Oh, great! That means you can let me out, right?” The excited tone in his voice made it quite difficult to relay the next part to him.

With an apologetic smile, you walked back over and sat on the cot across from him.

“Actually... I’m afraid that’s not possible right now, Fives. I was instructed to keep you in quarantine until we’ve pinpointed the exact cause of Tup’s breakdown. We can’t risk any further casualties.” You couldn't bear to look at him now, so you glued your eyes to a fresh scuff mark on the toe of your boot.

“Like I told you before, I am not a threat, and neither is Tup!” You looked back up at him when his voice raised. Fives wasn’t angry, or at least it didn’t appear that way. He was worried for his friend.

“I- I believe you, Fives. Unfortunately, I’m not the one to make those kinds of calls. I’m just- just an intern. This is my first day not filing paperwork in the archives. I don’t- I don’t want to mess this up. You’re my first real patient.” You stood up to leave the room, letting your hand rest on his shoulder for just a moment in an attempt to comfort him. Something you never thought you’d be doing - comforting a clone. You told him you’d be back later to check up on him and to perform any tests the doctors deemed necessary. Then you left.

***

As you headed for your quarters for the night, you couldn’t help but think back on your introductory meeting with your very first patient. You replayed your short conversation over and over in your head; you transfixed on his voice, the raw emotion in it that went straight to his facial expressions, and the way he looked at you. You’ve seen his face many, many times in the files you were doused with daily, but most of the clones on Kamino didn’t have anything significant to mark them apart from one another - no scars, tattoos, different hair styles, and were generally clean-shaven. When you first saw Fives, his tattoo and facial hair was what did it for you. You hated to admit it, but you may have just accidentally gotten a crush on the ARC Trooper.

This was all new to you. You never realized clones had such... emotion. Or capable of such emotion, for that matter. You were kept in the dark for the entirety of your internship on Kamino, and now you understood why. You weren’t Kaminoan, you weren’t a Jedi, you were just an intern. In their eyes, there was no reason as to why you should engage the clones, so they kept you busy with paperwork every day. You wondered if you were physically kept away from the clones because you were also human, and therefore were able to share the same emotion and ideals as them. That idea wouldn’t have made sense to you if you thought about it earlier today, but now that you met Fives, it made sense.

Maybe the Kaminoans were fearful that you would be a distraction to them, or them to you.

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deviantartdramanow · 4 years

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Hope your sorry ass gets banned again. You’re no different from thundersnowolf with the toxicity and ban evading. At least Thundersnowolf knew when to leave

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brooklynislandgirl · 5 years

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🎥 Who is my muse’s celebrity crush?

Open Hearts || Accepting

The questions don’t come easier, though and Caity’s stubborn on this one. Beth almost wonders if the wee…{okay, way taller} Irish woman’s got a plot in the works. But like a trooper, she tries to narrow it down in her own terms.

“Like…Keanu Reeves. He’s Hawai’ian ya know. From his dad side. An’ a really really nice person, everyone say. Mebbe like Bono? He’s also really charitable an’ works as an activist.

“But see.. I t’ink… da problem is…a crush imply…desire f’ someone ya find very attractive in dat way….someone extremely special…when ya go’ no chance a’ ‘em a’all. I don’ really…f’ me, I goddah know someone really well. Like dey already a part of me…an’ dat almos’ nevah happen. Only person I’m dat close to is my braddah.”

She realises how that sounds and makes the same face a five-year-old does when they taste something new for the first time and immediately do not like it.

#mahalo!Caity #Treasures Untold|Caity Sweeney #Bright Young Women|Caity and Beth #Boston in the Fall|Massachusetts #Sealed in Blood|Modern Mob AU #croinagreine

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Tupac Shakur

Tupac Amaru Shakur (/ˈtuːpɑːk ʃəˈkʊər/ TOO-pahk shə-KOOR; born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and briefly as Makaveli, was an American rapper, songwriter, and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His double disc albums All Eyez on Me and his Greatest Hits are among the best selling albums in the United States. He has been listed and ranked as one of the greatest artists of all time by many magazines, including Rolling Stone which ranked him 86th on its list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Consistently ranked as one of the greatest rappers ever, he was ranked number 2 by MTV in their list of The Greatest MCs of All-Time in 2006. 2Pac is also ranked as the most influential rapper of all time.

Shakur began his career as a roadie, backup dancer, and MC for the alternative hip hop group Digital Underground, eventually branching off as a solo artist. The themes of most of Shakur's songs revolved around the violence and hardship in inner cities, racism and other social problems. Both of his parents and several other of his family were members of the Black Panther Party, whose ideals were reflected in his songs.

During the latter part of his career, Shakur was a vocal participant in the so-called East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry, becoming involved in conflicts with other rappers, producers and record-label staff members, most notably The Notorious B.I.G. and the label Bad Boy Records.

On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was taken to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, where he died six days later.

Early life

Shakur, whose birth name according to relatives was Lesane Parish Crooks, was born on June 16, 1971, in the East Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City. He was named after Túpac Amaru II, the 18th-century Peruvian revolutionary who was executed after leading an indigenous uprising against Spanish rule.

His mother, Afeni Shakur (born Alice Faye Williams), and his father, Billy Garland, were active members of the Black Panther Party in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The infant was born a month after his mother was acquitted of more than 150 charges of "Conspiracy against the United States government and New York landmarks" in the New York "Panther 21" court case.

Shakur lived from an early age with people who were involved with the Black Liberation Army and convicted of serious criminal offenses and who were imprisoned. His godfather, Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, a high-ranking Black Panther, was convicted of murdering a school teacher during a 1968 robbery, although his sentence was later overturned. His stepfather, Mutulu, spent four years at large on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list beginning in 1982. Mutulu was wanted for having helped his sister Assata Shakur (also known as Joanne Chesimard) to escape from a penitentiary in New Jersey. She had been imprisoned for killing a state trooper in 1973. Mutulu was caught in 1986 and imprisoned for the robbery of a Brinks armored truck in which two police officers and a guard were killed. Shakur had a half-sister, Sekyiwa, two years his junior, and an older stepbrother, Mopreme "Komani" Shakur, who appeared in many of his recordings.

At the age of twelve, Shakur enrolled in Harlem's 127th Street Repertory Ensemble and was cast as the Travis Younger character in the play A Raisin in the Sun, which was performed at the Apollo Theater. In 1986, the family relocated to Baltimore, Maryland. After completing his second year at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, he transferred to the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet. He performed in Shakespeare plays, and in the role of the Mouse King in the ballet The Nutcracker. Shakur, accompanied by one of his friends, Dana "Mouse" Smith, as his beatbox, won many rap competitions and was considered to be the best rapper in his school. He was remembered as one of the most popular kids in his school because of his sense of humor, superior rapping skills, and ability to mix with all crowds. He developed a close friendship with a young Jada Pinkett (later Jada Pinkett Smith) that lasted until his death.

In the documentary Tupac: Resurrection, Shakur says, "Jada is my heart. She will be my friend for my whole life." Pinkett Smith calls him "one of my best friends. He was like a brother. It was beyond friendship for us. The type of relationship we had, you only get that once in a lifetime." A poem written by Shakur titled "Jada" appears in his book, The Rose That Grew from Concrete, which also includes a poem dedicated to Pinkett Smith called "The Tears in Cupid's Eyes". During his time in art school, Shakur became affiliated with the Baltimore Young Communist League USA, and began dating the daughter of the director of the local chapter of the Communist Party USA.

In June 1988, Shakur, then 17, and his family moved to Marin City, California, a residential community located 5 miles (8.0 km) north of San Francisco, where he attended Tamalpais High School in nearby Mill Valley. Shakur contributed to the school's drama department by performing in several productions. In an English class, Shakur wrote a paper "Conquering All Obstacles" where he said, "our raps not the sorry-story raps everyone is so tired of. They are about what happens in the real world. Our goal is [to] have people relate to our raps, making it easier to see what really is happening out there. Even more important, what we may do to better our world." He began attending the poetry classes of Leila Steinberg in 1989. That same year, Steinberg organized a concert with a former group of Shakur's, "Strictly Dope"; the concert led to him being signed with Atron Gregory. He set him up as a roadie and backup dancer with the hip hop group Digital Underground in 1990.

Career

1991–93: Beginnings and rise to fame

Shakur's professional entertainment career began in the early 1990s, when he debuted his rapping skills in a vocal turn in Digital Underground's "Same Song" from the soundtrack to the 1991 film Nothing but Trouble and also appeared with the group in the film of the same name. The song was later released as the lead song of the Digital Underground extended play (EP) This is an EP Release, the follow-up to their debut hit album Sex Packets. Shakur appeared in the accompanying music video. After his rap debut, he performed with Digital Underground again on the album Sons of the P. Later, he released his first solo album, 2Pacalypse Now. Though the album did not generate any "Top Ten" hits, 2Pacalypse Now is hailed by many critics and fans for its underground feel, with many rappers such as Nas, Eminem, Game, and Talib Kweli having pointed to it as inspiration. Although the album was originally released on Interscope Records, rights of it are now owned by Amaru Entertainment. The album's name is a reference to the 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

The album generated significant controversy. Dan Quayle criticized it after a Texas youth's defense attorney claimed he was influenced by 2Pacalypse Now and its strong theme of police brutality before shooting a state trooper. Quayle said, "There's no reason for a record like this to be released. It has no place in our society." Shakur stated that he felt he had been misunderstood. He said, "I started out saying I was down for the young black male, you know, and that was gonna be my thang," Shakur said. "I just wanted to rap about things that affected young black males. When I said that, I didn't know that I was gonna tie myself down to just take all the blunts and hits for all the young black males, to be the media's kicking post for young black males. I just figured since I lived that life I could do that, I could rap about that." The record was important in showcasing Shakur's political conviction and his focus on lyrical prowess. On MTV's Greatest Rappers of All Time list, 2Pacalypse Now was listed as one of Shakur's "certified classic" albums, along with Me Against the World, All Eyez on Me and The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. 2Pacalypse Now went on to be certified Gold by the RIAA. It featured three singles; "Brenda's Got a Baby", "Trapped", and "If My Homie Calls".

His second studio album, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., was released in February 1993. The album did better than the previous one debuting on number 24 on the Billboard 200. The album contains many tracks emphasizing Shakur's political and social views. This album had more commercial success than its predecessor, and there were noticeable differences in production. While Shakur's first effort had an indie-rap-oriented sound, this album was considered his "breakout" album. It spawned the hits "Keep Ya Head Up" and "I Get Around" and reached platinum status. On vinyl, Side A (tracks 1–8) was labeled the "Black Side" and Side B (tracks 9–16) the "Dark Side". It is his tenth-biggest selling album, with 1,366,000 units moved as of 2004.

1994–95: Acting and rise to prominence

In late 1993, Shakur formed the group Thug Life with a number of his friends, including Big Syke, Macadoshis, his stepbrother Mopreme Shakur, and Rated R. The group released their only album Thug Life: Volume 1 on September 26, 1994, which went gold. The album featured the single "Pour Out a Little Liquor", produced by Johnny "J" Jackson, who went on to produce a large part of Shakur's album All Eyez on Me. The group usually performed their concerts without Shakur. The album was originally released by Shakur's label Out Da Gutta Records. Due to criticism about gangsta rap at the time, the original version of the album was scrapped and re-recorded with many of the original songs being cut. Among the notable tracks on the album are "Bury Me a G", "Cradle to the Grave", "Pour Out a Little Liquor" (which also appears in the soundtrack to the 1994 film Above the Rim), "How Long Will They Mourn Me?" and "Str8 Ballin'". The album contains ten tracks because Interscope Records felt many of the other recorded songs were too controversial to release. Although the original version of the album was not completed, Shakur performed the planned first single from the album, "Out on Bail" at the 1994 Source Awards. Although the album was originally released on Shakur's label Out Da Gutta, Amaru Entertainment, the label owned by Shakur's mother, has since gained the rights to it. Thug Life: Volume 1 was certified Gold. The track "How Long Will They Mourn Me?" appeared later in 1998 from 2Pac's Greatest Hits album.

His third album, Me Against The World, was very well received, with many calling it the magnum opus of his career. It is considered one of the greatest and most influential hip hop albums of all-time. It is his fourth biggest selling album with 3,524,567 copies in the United States as of 2011.Me Against the World won best rap album at the 1996 Soul Train Music Awards.

"Dear Mama" was released as the album's first single in February 1995, along with the track "Old School" as the B-side. "Dear Mama" would be the album's most successful single, topping the Hot Rap Singles chart, and peaking at the ninth spot on the Billboard Hot 100. The single was certified platinum in July 1995, and later placed at #51 on the year-end charts. The second single, "So Many Tears", was released in June, four months after the first single. The single would reach the number six on the Hot Rap Singles chart, and number 44 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Temptations", released in August, was the third and final single from the album. The single would be the least successful of the three released, but still did fairly well on the charts, reaching number 68 on the Billboard Hot 100, 35 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, and 13 on the Hot Rap Singles charts.

1996: Final recordings

All Eyez on Me was the fourth studio album by 2Pac, released on February 13, 1996 by Death Row Records and Interscope Records. The album is frequently recognized as one of the crowning achievements of 1990s rap music. It has been said that "despite some undeniable filler, it is easily the best production 2Pac's ever had on record". It was certified 5× Platinum after just 2 months in April 1996 and 9× platinum in 1998. The album featured the Billboard Hot 100 number one singles "How Do U Want It" and "California Love". It featured 5 singles in all, the most of any 2Pac album. Moreover, All Eyez on Me (which was the only Death Row release to be distributed through PolyGram by way of Island Records) made history as the first double-full-length hip-hop solo studio album released for mass consumption. It was issued on two compact discs and four LPs. Chartwise, All Eyez on Me was the second album from 2Pac to hit number-one on both the Billboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. It sold 566,000 copies in the first week of its release, and was charted on the top 100 with the top one-week Soundscan sales since 1991. The album won the 1997 Soul Train R&B/Soul or Rap Album of the Year Award. Shakur also won the Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist at the 24th Annual American Music Awards.

Makaveli – The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, commonly shortened to The 7 Day Theory, is his fifth and final studio album and was released under the new stage name Makaveli. The album was completely finished in a total of seven days during the month of August 1996. The lyrics were written and recorded in three days and mixing took an additional four days. In 2005, MTV.com rankedKilluminati: The 7 Day Theory at #9 on their greatest hip hop albums of all time list and, in 2006, recognized it as a classic. The emotion and anger showcased on the album has been admired by a large part of the hip-hop community, including other rappers.

George "Papa G" Pryce, former Head of Publicity for Death Row, claimed that "Makaveli, which we did was sort of tongue-in-cheek and it was not really to come out and after Tupac was murdered, it did come out. But before that it was going to be a sort of an underground [record]." The album peaked at number one on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and the Billboard 200. The album generated the second-highest debut-week sales total of any album that year, was certified 4× Platinum on June 15, 1999.

Other ventures

Death Row Records

Upon his release from Clinton Correctional Facility in 1995, Shakur immediately went back to song recording. He began a new group called Outlaw Immortalz. Shakur began recording his first album with Death Row and released the single "California Love" soon after.

On February 13, 1996, Shakur released his fourth solo album, All Eyez on Me. This double album was the first and second of his three-album commitment to Death Row Records. It sold over nine million copies. The record was a general departure from the introspective subject matter of Me Against the World, being more oriented toward a thug and gangsta mentality. Shakur continued his recordings despite increasing problems at the Death Row label. Dr. Dre left his post as house producer to form his own label, Aftermath. Shakur continued to produce hundreds of tracks during his time at Death Row, most of which would be released on his posthumous albums Still I Rise, Until the End of Time, Better Dayz, Loyal to the Game and Pac's Life. He also began the process of recording an album with the Boot Camp Clik and their label Duck Down Records, both New York – based, entitled One Nation.

On June 4, 1996, he and Outlawz released the diss track "Hit 'Em Up", a scathing lyrical assault on Biggie and others associated with him. In the track, Shakur claimed to have had sexual intercourse with Faith Evans, Biggie's wife at the time, and attacked Bad Boy's street credibility. Shakur was convinced that some members associated with Bad Boy had known about the '94 attack on him beforehand due to their behavior that night and what his sources told him. After the attack, Shakur immediately accused Jimmy Henchman (an associate of Bad Boy CEO Sean Combs) of orchestrating the attack, according to a 2005 interview with Henchman inVibe magazine. After the attack, Shakur therefore aligned himself with Suge, Death Row's CEO, who was already bitter toward Combs over a 1995 incident at the Platinum Club in Atlanta, Georgia, which culminated in the death of Suge Knight's friend and bodyguard, Jake Robles; Knight was adamant in voicing his suspicions of Combs' involvement.

Collaborator Buckshot claimed in 2015 that Shakur defended him against Suge Knight, who had insisted that the East Coast rapper could not come with him to Las Vegas on the grounds of the ongoing hip hop rivalry. Shakur asserted that he would not board the plane unless accompanied by Buckshot and was described by the fellow rapper as looking "discomforted" while they recorded a song together in a studio after Shakur "tore up the plane tickets".

Outlawz

When Shakur recorded "Hit 'Em Up," a diss song towards his former friend and rival The Notorious B.I.G. (also known as Biggie Smalls), he recruited three members from the former group Dramacydal with whom he had worked previously and was eager to do so again. Together with the three New Jersey rappers and other associates, they formed the original lineup of the Outlawz. When 2Pac signed to Death Row upon his release from prison, he recruited his step brother Mopreme Shakur and Big Syke from Thug Life. Hussein Fatal, Napoleon, E.D.I. Mean, Kastro, Yaki Kadafi, and Storm (the only female Outlaw) were also added, and together they formed the original lineup of the Outlaw Immortalz that debuted on 2Pac's multi-platinum smash All Eyez on Me. They later dropped the Immortal part of their name after the untimely deaths of 2Pac and Yaki Kadafi and moved on as Outlawz without the members of Thug Life. Young Noble was later added and appeared on 2Pac's second Death Row release The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. It was on 2Pac's Makaveli album that Outlawz first came to the greater rap community's notice, appearing on a few songs. The idea behind the group was for each member to have a rap name coinciding with the names of various tyrants or enemies of America, past and present. Outlawz chose in later years to make a backronym out of the letters of their group name Operating Under Thug Laws as Warriorz although it does not stand for the group's name and is used infrequently.

On forming the Outlawz, Shakur gave each of them a name of a dictator/military leader or an enemy of America.

Yaki Kadafi, after Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi

Hussein Fatal, after Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein

Mussolini (formerly Big Syke), after Italian dictator Benito Mussolini

Komani (Shakur's half brother Mopreme Shakur), after Iranian Islamic Revolution leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Kastro, after Cuban leader Fidel Castro

E.D.I. Mean, after Ugandan dictator Idi Amin

Napoleon, after military strategist and leader Napoleon Bonaparte

For himself, Shakur created the alias "Makaveli" from Renaissance Italian philosopher and strategist Niccolò Machiavelli, whose writings inspired Shakur in prison, but who also preached that a leader could eliminate his enemies by all means necessary. He mentioned Makaveli Records a few times before his death. This was supposed to be a music label for up and coming artists that Shakur had an interest in developing or potentially signing, and his own future projects would have also been published through it as well.

Acting career

In addition to rapping and hip hop music, Shakur acted in films. He made his first film appearance in the motion picture Nothing but Trouble, as part of a cameo by the Digital Underground. His first starring role was in the film Juice. In this film, he played Roland Bishop, a violent member of the Wrecking Crew, for which he was hailed by Rolling Stone's Peter Travers as "the film's most magnetic figure". He then went on to star in Poetic Justice and Above the Rim. After his death, three of his completed films were released:Bullet, Gridlock'd, and Gang Related.

Shakur had been slated to star in the Hughes brothers' film Menace II Society, but was replaced by Larenz Tate after assaulting Allen Hughes as a result of a quarrel. Director John Singleton mentioned that he wrote the script for Baby Boy with Shakur in mind for the lead role. It was eventually filmed with Tyrese Gibson in his place and released in 2001, five years after Shakur's death. The film features a mural of Shakur in the protagonist's bedroom, as well as featuring the song "Hail Mary" in the film's score.

Artistry

Shakur's music and philosophy is rooted in many American, African-American, and world entities, including the Black Panther Party, Black nationalism, egalitarianism, and liberty.

Shakur's love of theater and Shakespeare also influenced his work. A student of the Baltimore School for the Arts where he studied theater, Shakur understood the Shakespearian psychology of inter-gang wars and inter-cultural conflict. During a 1995 interview, Shakur stated:

In a European interview music journalist Chuck Philips said that what impressed him the most about Shakur was that he was a poet. Philips said "I like sacred texts, myths, proverbs and scriptures. ... When Tupac came along, I thought he was quite the poet... It wasn't just how cleverly they rhymed. It wasn't just the rhythm or the cadence. I liked their attitude. It was protest music in a way nobody had ever thought about before. ...These artists were brave, wise and smart – wickedly smart. The thing about Tupac was he had so many sides. He was unafraid to write about his vulnerabilities."

Shakur's debut album, 2Pacalypse Now, revealed the socially conscious side of Shakur. On this album, Shakur attacked social injustice, poverty and police brutality on songs "Brenda's Got a Baby", "Trapped" and "Part Time Mutha". His style on this album was highly influenced by the social consciousness and Afrocentrism pervading hip hop in the late 1980s and early 1990s. On this initial release, Shakur helped extend the success of such rap groups as Boogie Down Productions, Public Enemy, X-Clan, and Grandmaster Flash, as he became one of the first major socially conscious rappers from the West Coast.

On his second record, Shakur continued to rap about the social ills facing African-Americans, with songs like "The Streetz R Deathrow" and "Last Wordz". He also showed his compassionate side with the anthem "Keep Ya Head Up", while simultaneously putting his legendary aggressiveness on display with the title track from the album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. He added a salute to his former group Digital Underground by including them on the playful track "I Get Around". Throughout his career, an increasingly aggressive attitude can be seen pervading Shakur's subsequent albums.

The contradictory themes of social inequality and injustice, unbridled aggression, compassion, playfulness, and hope all continued to shape Shakur's work, as witnessed with the release of his incendiary 1995 album Me Against the World. In 1996, Shakur released All Eyez on Me. Many of these tracks are considered by many critics to be classics, including "Ambitionz Az a Ridah", "I Ain't Mad at Cha", "California Love", "Life Goes On" and "Picture Me Rollin". All Eyez on Me was a change of style from his earlier works; while still containing socially conscious songs and themes, Shakur's album was heavily influenced by party tracks and tended to have a more "feel good" vibe than his first albums. Shakur described it as a celebration of life, and the record was critically and commercially successful.

He had enjoyed and had been influenced by the work of contemporary English and Irish pop musicians as a teenager such as Kate Bush, Culture Club, Sinéad O'Connor and U2.

Personal life

Shakur never professed following a particular religion, but his lyrics in singles such as "Only God Can Judge Me" and poems such asThe Rose That Grew from Concrete suggest he believed in God. This means many analysts currently describe him as a deist. He believed in Karma, but rejected a literal afterlife and organized religion. Shakur has had several family members who were members of the Black Panthers; Mutulu Shakur, his step-father; Assata Shakur, his step-aunt; Billy Garland, his biological father; and Afeni Shakur, his mother. Shakur publicly spoke out against interracial marriage in an interview with Source magazine in 1994, but later retracted these comments.

His bandana tied into rabbit ears struck mythic chords and remains one of hip-hop's most recognizable style flourishes to date.

He was also engaged to Kidada Jones.

Legal issues

In October 1991, Shakur filed a $10 million civil suit against the Oakland Police Department, alleging they brutally beat him for jaywalking. Shakur received approximately $43,000 in settlement money, much of which went to pay his lawyer.

On April 5, 1993, Shakur was charged with one count of felonious assault. He was accused of attempting to hit rapper Chauncey Wynn from the group M.A.D. with a baseball bat at a concert at Michigan State University. The incident reportedly began when Shakur became angry and threw a microphone. Shakur pleaded guilty on September 14, 1994 to a misdemeanor in exchange for the dropping of felony assault charges. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 20 of which were suspended, and ordered to perform 35 hours of community service.

In October 1993, in Atlanta, two brothers and off-duty police officers, Mark and Scott Whitwell, were with their wives celebrating Mrs. Whitwell's passing of the state bar examination. The officers were drunk and in possession of stolen guns. As they crossed the street, a car with Shakur inside passed by them or "almost struck them". The Whitwells argued with the driver, Shakur and the other passengers, which was joined by a second passing car. Shakur shot one officer in the buttocks and the other in the leg, back or abdomen, according to varying news reports. Mark Whitwell was charged with firing at Shakur's car and later lying to the police during the investigation. Shakur was charged with the shooting. Prosecutors dropped all charges against the parties.

In early 1994, he was found guilty of assault on Menace II Society co-director Allen Hughes and served 15 days in jail.

1992 shooting

On August 22, 1992, in Marin City, Shakur performed at an outdoor festival, and stayed for an hour afterwards signing autographs and pictures. A confrontation occurred and Shakur drew a legally registered Colt Mustang, and allegedly dropped it. As it was picked up by a member of his entourage, a bullet discharged. About 100 yards away, Qa'id Walker-Teal, a 6-year-old, was pedaling his bicycle at a school playground nearby when a bullet struck him in the forehead and killed him. Although the gun was matched by police to a .38-caliber pistol registered to Shakur, and his stepbrother Maurice Harding was initially arrested on suspicion of firing the weapon, no charges were filed. Marin County prosecutors have said they were stymied by a lack of witnesses. Charges were dropped when Shakur agreed to pay a $300,000–$500,000 settlement to the parents. The police "rescued" them and took the two into custody, who were soon released without charge for lack of evidence.

In 1995, a wrongful death suit was brought against Shakur by Qa'id's mother. The defense attorney acknowledged that the bullet that killed Qa'id was traced by authorities to a gun registered to Shakur. Shakur's record company settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount, reportedly between $300,000 and $500,000.

1993 Sexual assault case

In November 1993, Shakur and others were charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a hotel room. Shakur denied the charges. According to Shakur, he had prior relations days earlier with the woman that were consensual (the woman admitted she performed oral sex on Shakur). The complainant claimed sexual assault after her second visit to Shakur's hotel room; she alleged that Shakur and his entourage raped her. As a result of the trial, Shakur was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse, and acquitted of the weapons and sodomy charges. The judge described the crimes during the sentencing of Shakur to 1½–4½ years in prison, as "an act of brutal violence against a helpless woman." While appearing on the Arsenio Hall Show, Shakur stated he was innocent of all charges and he was hurt that "a woman would accuse me of taking something from her" when he was raised by and was surrounded by females. Shakur, did however, admit that he should have been more responsible with the people he surrounded himself with.

In October 1995, Shakur's case was on appeal but due to his considerable legal fees he could not raise the $1.4 million bail. After serving nine months of his sentence, Shakur was released from the Clinton Correctional Facility due in large part to the help and influence of Suge Knight, the CEO of Death Row Records, who posted a $1.4 million bail pending appeal of the conviction in exchange for Shakur to release three albums under the Death Row label.

On April 5, 1996, a judge sentenced him to serve 120 days in jail for violating terms of his release on bail.

1994 Attack at Quad Recording Studios

On the night of November 30, 1994, the day before the verdict in his sexual abuse trial was to be announced, Shakur was robbed and shot five times by three men in the lobby of Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan. Shakur stated that he believed the robbery to be a setup for the attack wondering why they would take jewelry and leave his Rolex watch.

Shakur checked out of the Bellevue Hospital Center against doctor's orders, three hours after surgery. In the day that followed, he entered the courthouse in a wheelchair and was found guilty of three counts of molestation and not guilty of six others, including sodomy, stemming from his 1993 arrest for sexual assault. On February 6, 1995, he was sentenced to one-and-a-half to four-and-a-half years in prison on the sexual assault charges.

In a 1995 interview with Vibe magazine. Shakur accused Sean Combs, an associate of Combs named Jimmy Henchman and Biggie among others of setting up the Quad Recording Studios attack. Vibe changed the names of the accused assailants upon publication. Later evidence did not implicate Biggie in the studio assault. When Biggie's entourage went downstairs to check on the incident, Shakur was being taken out on a stretcher, giving the finger to those around.

On March 17, 2008, Chuck Philips wrote in the Los Angeles Times about an alleged order for an attack on Shakur. The article was retracted by the LA Times because it partially relied on FBI documents supplied by a man convicted of fraud which turned out to be forged. In 2011 Dexter Isaac admitted to attacking Shakur. Following Isaac’s public confession, Philips named Isaac as one of his unnamed sources for the retracted article.

1995 Prison sentence

Shakur began serving his prison sentence on sexual assault charges at Clinton Correctional Facility on February 14, 1995. Shortly afterward, he released his multi-platinum album Me Against the World. Shakur became the first artist to have an album at number one on the Billboard 200 while serving a prison sentence. Me Against the World made its debut on the Billboard 200 and stayed at the top of the charts for four weeks. The album sold 240,000 copies in its first week, setting a record for highest first week sales for a solo male rap artist at the time. While serving his sentence, he married his long-time girlfriend, Keisha Morris, on April 4, 1995; the couple divorced in 1996. Shakur stated he married her "for the wrong reasons".

While imprisoned, Shakur read many books by Niccolò Machiavelli, Sun Tzu's The Art of War and other works of political philosophy and strategy. The works inspired his pseudonym "Makaveli" under which he released the album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. The album presents a stark contrast to previous works. Throughout the album, Shakur continues to focus on the themes of pain and aggression, making this album one of the emotionally darker works of his career. Shakur wrote and recorded all the lyrics in only three days and the production took another four days, combining for a total of seven days to complete the album (hence the name).

Death

September 1996 shooting

On the night of September 7, 1996, Shakur attended the Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson boxing match with Suge Knight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. After leaving the match, one of Knight's associates spotted Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, an alleged Crips gang member from Compton, California, in the MGM Grand lobby. Earlier that year, Anderson and a group of Crips had robbed a member of Death Row's entourage in a Foot Locker store. Knight's associate told Shakur, who attacked Anderson. Shakur's entourage, as well as Knight and his followers, assisted in assaulting Anderson. The fight was captured on the hotel's video surveillance. After the brawl, Shakur went with Knight to go to Death Row-owned Club 662 (now known as restaurant/club Seven). He rode in Knight's 1996 black BMW 750iL sedan as part of a larger convoy, including many in Shakur's entourage.

At around 11:00–11:05 pm (PDT), they were halted on Las Vegas Boulevard by Metro bicycle police for playing the car stereo too loudly and not having license plates. The plates were found in the trunk of Knight's car; the party was released a few minutes later without being fined. At about 11:10 pm (PDT), while they were stopped at a red light at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in front of the Maxim Hotel, a vehicle occupied by two women pulled up on their left side. Shakur, who was standing up through the sunroof, exchanged words with the two women, and invited them to go to Club 662. At approximately 11:15 pm (PDT), a white, four-door, late-model Cadillac with an unknown number of occupants pulled up to the sedan's right side, rolled down a window, and rapidly fired gunshots at Shakur. He was hit in the chest, pelvis, and his right hand and thigh. One of the rounds went into Shakur's right lung. Knight was hit in the head by fragmentation, though it is thought that a bullet grazed him. The bodyguard, Frank Alexander, stated that when he was about to ride along with the rapper in Knight's car, Shakur asked him to drive the car of Shakur's fiancée Kidada Jones instead, in case they needed additional vehicles from Club 662 back to the hotel. The bodyguard reported in his documentary, Before I Wake, that shortly after the assault, one of the convoy's cars drove off after the assailant but he never heard from the occupants. After arriving at the scene, police and paramedics took Knight and a wounded Shakur to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. According to an interview with the music video director Gobi, while at the hospital, he received news from a Death Row marketing employee that the shooters had called the record label and threatened Shakur. Gobi told the Las Vegas police, but said they claimed to be understaffed. No attackers came. At the hospital, Shakur was heavily sedated, was placed on life support machines, and was ultimately put under a barbiturate-induced coma after repeatedly trying to get out of the bed. While in the critical care unit, on the afternoon of Friday, September 13, 1996, Shakur died of internal bleeding; doctors attempted to revive him but could not stop the hemorrhaging. His mother, Afeni, made the decision to tell the doctors to stop. He was pronounced dead at 4:03 pm (PDT). The official cause of death was noted as respiratory failure and cardiopulmonary arrest in connection with multiple gunshot wounds. Shakur's body was cremated the next day and some of his ashes were later mixed with marijuana and smoked by members of the Outlawz. However, E.D.I. Mean claimed in an interview in 2014 that despite believing that the ashes were those of Shakur at the time, he later found that the ashes did not in fact belong to Shakur. His fifth album, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory was released two months later.

Aftermath

In 2002, the LA Times published a two-part story by investigative reporter Chuck Philips, titled "Who Killed Tupac Shakur?", based on yearlong research that reconstructed the crime and the events leading up to it. Information gathered by the paper indicated that: "the shooting was carried out by a Compton gang called the Southside Crips to avenge the beating of one of its members by Shakur a few hours earlier. Orlando Anderson, the Crip whom Shakur had attacked, fired the fatal shots. Las Vegas police discounted Anderson as a suspect and interviewed him only once, briefly. He was later killed in an unrelated gang shooting." The article also reported the involvement of East Coast rapper Biggie, Shakur's rival at the time, and several New York criminals.

Before they died, The Notorious B.I.G. and Anderson denied any role in the murder. In support of their claims, Biggie's family produced computerized invoices suggesting that Biggie was working in a New York recording studio the night of the drive-by shooting. His manager Wayne Barrow and fellow rapper James "Lil' Cease" Lloyd made public announcements denying Biggie's role in the crime and claimed further that they were with him in the recording studio the night of the event. The New York Times called the evidence "inconclusive", noting:

The pages purport to be three computer printouts from Daddy's House, indicating that Wallace was in the studio recording a song called Nasty Boy on the afternoon Shakur was shot. They indicate that Wallace wrote half the session, was In and out/sat around and laid down a ref, shorthand for a reference vocal, the equivalent of a first take. But nothing indicates when the documents were created. And Louis Alfred, the recording engineer listed on the sheets, said in an interview that he remembered recording the song with Wallace in a late-night session, not during the day. He could not recall the date of the session but said it was likely not the night Shakur was shot. 'We would have heard about it,' Mr. Alfred said."

In 2011, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI released documents revealing its investigation of the Jewish Defense League for making death threats against Shakur and other rappers.

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„Viva Rest in Peace 1993–2018“. Mola Adebisi beim offiziellen Wiegen fürs Promiboxen 2013 VIVA Deutschland ( Videoverwertungsanstalt) war ein deutscher Fernsehsender mit Sitz in Berlin, der hauptsächlich Musikvideos sendete. Laut Eigendarstellung war der Sender ein „Jugend- und Musiksender für Pop und Fun“. Seit 2005 waren alle VIVA-Sender in Europa über die VIVA Media GmbH im Besitz des amerikanischen Medienkonzerns Viacom. VIVA ging 1993 in Köln als Musikfernsehsender auf Sendung und wurde am 31. Dezember 2018 eingestellt. Sitz: 1993–2005: Köln 2005–2018: Berlin, Deutschland Sprache: Deutsch Eigentümer: Viacom Auflösung: 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) Geschäftsführer: Mark Specht Raffaele Annechinno Thomas Göller Till Weidemüller (stellvertr.) Sendebeginn: 1. Dezember 1993 Sendeschluss: 31. Dezember 2018 Programmtyp: Spartenprogramm (Unterhaltung, Musik) Marktanteil: 0,1 % (Januar 2018) Website: www.viva.tv Das Sendestudio befand sich in den angemieteten Räumen von Bertelsmanns VOX-Studios in Köln-Ossendorf. Ursprünglich wurde VIVA vom Medienriesen Time Warner gestartet, um die deutschen Geschäfte seines Unternehmens Warner Music Group anzukurbeln. Die Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) lehnte eine Einladung, an VIVA teilzunehmen, ab, da man mögliche Repressalien seitens des Konkurrenten MTV Europe befürchtete und nicht der Überzeugung war, dass sich ein deutschsprachiger Musiksender gegen MTV durchsetzen könne. Die Time-Warner-Führungskräfte Tom McGrath und Peter Bogner ließen sich jedoch davon nicht irritieren und gründeten zusammen mit ihren Konkurrenten Sony, PolyGram und EMI Music, sowie dem Medienmanager Michael Oplesch (VIVA GF, MTV GF, MME GF), den Produzenten Rudi Dolezal und Hannes Rossacher, den Gründern des TV-Produktionsunternehmens Me, Myself & Eye (MME), Christoph Post, Jörg A. Hoppe und Marcus O. Rosenmüller, und dem Medienanwalt Helge Sasse die Viva Medien GmbH. Am 1. Dezember 1993 nahm VIVA den Sendebetrieb in Köln auf. Die Studios befanden sich die meisten Jahre in Köln-Mülheim, im gleichen Gebäude mit Brainpool. Das erste (und 2018 auch letzte) gespielte Musikvideo war Zu geil für diese Welt der Fantastischen Vier. Das Profil des Senders wurde maßgeblich von Rudi Dolezal und Hannes Rossacher (DoRo Produktion) definiert. Seit 1995 vergab der Sender den Musikpreis Comet. Bereits 2002 gab es Pläne einer Übernahme, wobei auch der US-amerikanische Medienkonzern Viacom unter den Bietern war. Anteilseigner wurde schließlich jedoch AOL Time Warner. Nachdem bekannt wurde, dass AOL Time Warner seine Sparte Warner Music verkauft hatte, stand auch der Verkauf von VIVA zur Disposition. Unter den Bietern befanden sich Viacom, ProSiebenSat.1 und die RTL Group. Am 24. Juni 2004 wurde schließlich bekannt, dass VIVA von dem amerikanischen Medienkonzern Viacom übernommen wurde, zu dem auch die internationale MTV Group gehört. Der Kaufpreis lag bei gut 310 Millionen Euro. Seit Januar 2005 ist Viacom alleiniger Anteilseigner und übernahm die komplette Führung bei VIVA. In den Folgejahren folgten eine Ausdünnung des Eigenproduktionsanteils im Programm zugunsten eingekaufter Ware sowie Massenentlassungen. Im Juni 2018 gab Viacom bekannt, dass VIVA am 31. Dezember 2018 eingestellt wird. Der Sendeplatz wurde von Comedy Central übernommen, sodass dieser jetzt wieder 24 Stunden sendet. Viacom-Chef Mark Specht sagte in einem Interview mit Horizont, der Sender sei zwar profitabel gewesen, Viacom wolle sich aber auf seine drei Kernmarken MTV, Comedy Central und Nickelodeon konzentrieren und sehe bei ihnen stärkere Wachstumschancen. Ein weiterer Grund für die Einstellung waren laut Meinung mancher die zuletzt ungünstigen Sendezeiten, mit denen die Zielgruppe kaum noch erreicht wurde. Am 31. Dezember 2018 sendete VIVA mit der Sendung VIVA Forever das letzte Mal. In dieser speziellen Sendung gaben zahlreiche prominente Musiker und Entertainer sowie ehemalige Moderatoren (u. a. DJ Bobo, Mola Adebisi, Samy Deluxe, Udo Lindenberg, Alex Christensen, Oliver Pocher, Matthias Opdenhövel und die Lochis) Abschiedsgrüße in die Kamera, unterlegt mit dem Song Viva Forever von den Spice Girls, ehe sich die Moderatoren und Gäste mit dem Gruß „auf Vivasehen“ verabschiedeten. Als letztes Video wurde anschließend Zu geil für diese Welt der Fantastischen Vier gespielt, was vor 25 Jahren das erste Video auf dem Sender war. In den letzten Sendeminuten wurde das aktuelle Senderlogo noch einmal durch das ursprüngliche, blau-gelbe ersetzt. Anschließend wurde ein schwarzer Bildschirm gezeigt, auf dem das blau-gelbe Logo zu sehen war, sowie im Stile eines Grabsteins „Viva Rest in Peace 1993–2018“. Pünktlich um 14:00 Uhr wurde dann zu Comedy Central gewechselt. Zu den ersten VJs zählten die damals noch unbekannten Moderatoren Stefan Raab und Heike Makatsch, die nach ihrer Zeit bei VIVA zu erfolgreichen Film- und Fernsehpersönlichkeiten in Deutschland aufstiegen. Heike Makatsch (* 13. August 1971 in Düsseldorf) ist eine deutsche Schauspielerin, Sängerin, Synchronsprecherin, Autorin, Hörbuchsprecherin und Fernsehmoderatorin. Nach einer erfolgreichen Laufbahn als Moderatorin für Jugendsendungen konnte sie sich als mehrfach ausgezeichnete Schauspielerin etablieren. Stefan Konrad Raab (* 20. Oktober 1966 in Köln) ist ein deutscher Fernsehmoderator, Entertainer, Unternehmer, Singer-Songwriter, Komponist sowie Fernseh- und Musikproduzent. Im Jahr 2015 beendete er seine regelmäßige Fernsehkarriere. Adebisi wurde im deutschsprachigen Raum bekannt durch seine Moderation beim Musik-Fernsehsender VIVA, bei dem er von 1993 bis 2004 angestellt war. Sein Spitzname dort war Käpt’n Mola. Er gehörte zu den am längsten aktiven und ältesten Moderatoren des Senders, bei dem er zahlreiche Sendungen präsentierte wie die Live-Show „Interaktiv“ oder auch die Viva-Chartsendungen. 1996 kam er mit der Solo-Single Shake That Body in die deutschen Musikcharts, die er während seines Engagements bei der Seifenoper Marienhof aufnahm. Dies konnte er 1997 wiederholen, als er zusammen mit Bed & Breakfast und Sqeezer den Titel Get It Right veröffentlichte. 1997 erschien seine bislang letzte Solo-Single Don’t Give Up. Von 2001 bis 2006 moderierte Adebisi zudem verschiedene Formate für RTL II (u. a. „The Dome-Backstage“ und „Die dümmsten … der Welt“) und DSF (u. a. die Thai-Kickbox Gala „Superleague“ Live oder die Castingshow „Martial Arts X-treme“). Seit 2003 besitzt Adebisi die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft. Im gleichen Jahr saß Adebisi neben Kelly Trump in der von Beate-Uhse.TV produzierten Castingshow „Erotikstar sucht die Popp-Stars 2003“. Im Jahr 2004 produzierte Adebisi für den Kölner Musiksender Onyx.tv das Format R&B Club, welches vom Rapper Trooper Da Don moderiert wurde. Zudem schloss er im gleichen Jahr sein BWL-Studium mit Schwerpunkt Marketing an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf mit einem Bachelor-Abschluss ab.

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Noticias de series de la semana: El futuro de Phoebe

Renovaciones

Showtime ha renovado On Becoming a God in Central Florida por una segunda temporada

Amazon ha renovado Absentia por una tercera temporada

Cancelaciones

Freeform ha cancelado The Perfectionists tras su primera temporada

La sexta temporada de BoJack Horseman (Netflix) será la última

BET ha cancelado In Contempt tras su primera temporada

Noticias cortas

Chuku Modu (Gabriel Santiago) será regular en la séptima y última temporada de The 100.

Griffin Dunne (Nicky) será regular en la cuarta temporada de This Is Us.

Karla Souza (Laurel) no volverá como regular a la sexta y última temporada de How to Get Away with Murder.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) ha firmado un contrato en exclusiva con Amazon por veinte millones de dólares al año.

La directora Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman, I Am the Night) ha firmado un acuerdo con Netflix para crear, desarrollar y producir nuevas series durante tres años.

Incorporaciones y fichajes

Christine Baranski (The Good Fight, The Good Wife), Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City, The Big C), Amanda Peet (Brockmire, Togetherness) y Morgan Spector (Homeland, Person of Interest) protagonizarán The Gilded Age, drama de Julian Fellowes para HBO. Serán Agnes van Rhijn, que se las apañó para pescar un marido cuando la plantación familiar dejaba de tener futuro; su hermana Ava Brook, que se ve obligada a depender de la caridad de Agnes; Bertha Russell, que usa el éxito del negocio de su marido para infiltrarse en la alta sociedad; y George Russell, un hombre de negocios sin escrúpulos.

John Malkovich (Being John Malkovich, The New Pope), Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation, House of Lies), Diana Silvers (Booksmart, Ma) y Tawny Newsome (Brockmire, Bajillion Dollar Propertie$) protagonizarán Space Force junto a Steve Carell. Serán Adrian Mallory, brillante y arrogante consejero que espera evitar que el espacio se convierta en el próximo gran campo de batalla; F. Tony Scarapiducci, consultor de medios con metas maquiavélicas; Erin Naird, popular y brillante hija de Mark (Carell); y Angela Ali, una ambiciosa piloto de helicópteros. Jimmy O. Yang (Silicon Valley, Crazy Rich Asians) y Alex Sparrow (UnREAL, The Vatican Tapes) serán recurrentes como Chan Kaifang, brillante astrofísico, ingeniero aeroespacial y mano derecha de Mark; y Yuri "Bobby" Telatovich, observador del gobierno ruso.

Will Arnett (Arrested Development, BoJack Horseman), Chris Geere (You're the Worst, Modern Family), Shaquille Ali-Yebuah (The Feed, The Children Act), Jack McMullen (The Souvenir, Ford v Ferrari), Jake Short (SuperCool, This Is the Year), Paolo Sassanelli (The Teacher, Inspector Collandro) y Theo Barklem Biggs (Sliced, White Gold) protagonizarán The First Team, comedia de BBC Two antes conocida como Afternoons que sigue a tres jugadores de fútbol (Ali-Yebuah, McMullen y Short) que lidian con su voluble mánager italiano (Sassanelli), el excéntrico presidente del club (Arnett) o el ineficaz entrenador (Geere). Completan el cast Tamla Kari, Vadhir Derbez, Phil Wang, Neil Fitzmaurice y Yetunde Oduwole.

Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory, The Normal Heart), Dylan McDermott (American Horror Story, The Politician), Samara Weaving (SMILF, Picnic at Hanging Rock), Maude Apatow (Euphoria, Girls), Joe Mantello (The Normal Heart), Laura Harrier (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Jake Picking (Patriots Day, Dirty Grandpa), David Corenswet (The Politician) y Jeremy Pope (Choir Boy, Ain't Too Proud) se unen a Hollywood.

Julianne Nicholson (Masters of Sex, Boardwalk Empire), David Denman (The Office, Outcast), Jean Smart (Designing Women, Legion), Angourie Rice (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far from Home), Evan Peters (American Horror Story, Pose) y Cailee Spaeny (Bad Times at the El Royale, On the Basis of Sex) protagonizarán Mare of Easttown junto a Kate Winslet. Serán Lori Ross, amiga de Mare (Winslet) desde que tenían cuatro años; Frank, el exmarido de Mare; Helen, la madre de Mare; Siobhan Sheehank, la hija de Mare y Frank; Colin Zabel, detective del condado; y Erin McMenamin, adolescente solitaria que vive con su padre y su bebé.

Amy Landecker (Transparent, Sneaky Pete) se une como recurrente a Your Honor. Será una detective que se ve involucrada en la familia del juez Desiato (Bryan Cranston).

Wentworth Miller (Prison Break, Legends of Tomorrow) y Michael Patrick Thornton (The Red Line, Private Practice) serán recurrentes en la sexta y última temporada de Madam Secretary como el senador Mark Hanson y el veterano del ejército Evan Moore.

Justina Machado (One Day at a Time, Jane the Virgin) será recurrente en la quinta temporada de Superstore como Maya, nueva gerente del distrito.

James Purefoy (Altered Carbon, The Following) será Philippe De Clermont, el padrastro de Matthew (Matthew Goode), en la segunda temporada de A Discovery of Witches, a la que también se unen Steven Cree (Outlander, MotherFatherSon), Sheila Hancock (Delicious, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) y Paul Rhys (Da Vinci's Demons, Victoria).

John Stamos (Full House, Scream Queens) y Graham Phillips (The Good Wife, Riverdale) serán el Chef Louis y el príncipe Eric en The Little Mermaid Live!

Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond, Parenthood) será el padre de Hazel (Crisitin Milioti) en Made for Love.

Blythe Danner (Meet the Parents, Will & Grace) y Marilyn Manson (The New Pope, Sons of Anarchy) serán recurrentes en la tercera temporada de American Gods como la diosa Demeter y Johan Wengren, cantante de una banda de viking metal.

Rupert Graves (Sherlock, The Family) se une a la tercera temporada de Riviera.

Ashley Scott (Birds of Prey, UnREAL) volverá a ser Huntress en el crossover del Arrowverse. Osric Chau (Supernatural, Dirk Gently) interpretará a Ryan Choi, profesor de física de la Ivy Town University.

AnnaSophia Robb (The Carrie Diaries, The Act) y Tiffany Boone (The Chi, The Following) serán las versiones jóvenes de Elena (Reese Witherspoon) y Mia (Kerry Washington) en un episodio de Little Fires Everywhere. Anika Noni Rose (Bates Motel, The Good Wife) y Obba Babatundé (Dear White People, I'm Dying Up Here) serán recurrentes como Paula Hawthorne, una fotógrafa y profesora de arte de renombre de Nueva York que se convierte en mentora de Mia en su juventud; y George Wright, el religioso padre de Mia.

Guillermo Diaz (Scandal, Weeds) se une a United We Fall. Será el hermano de Jo (Christina Vidal).

David Alan Grier (The Carmichael Show, Jumanji) será recurrente en la tercera temporada de The Resident como Lamar Broome, el padre biológico de AJ Austin (Malcolm-Jamal Warner). Kearran Giovanni (Black Lightning, Major Crimes), Geoffrey Cantor (Daredevil, Maniac), Michael Paul Chan (Major Crimes, Arrested Development) y Erinn Westbrook (Insatiable, Awkward) serán también recurrentes.

Dina Meyer (Saw, Starship Troopers) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de All American como Gwen, la madre de Asher (Cody Christian)..

Natacha Karam (The Brave), Brian Michael Smith (Queen Sugar), Rafael Silva (Fluidity) y Julian Works (American Crime, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) se unen a 9-1-1: Lone Star. Serán Marjan Marwani, una bombero adicta a la adrenalina; Paul Strickland, bombero transgénero con un don para la investigación; Carlos Reyes, agente de policía de Austin; y Mateo Chavez, bombero novato.

Gemma Arterton (RocknRolla, Clash of the Titans), Alessandro Nivola (Face/Off, American Hustle), Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale, I Know This Much Is True), Diana Rigg (Game of Thrones, Victoria), Jim Broadbent (Harry Potter, Moulin Rouge), Gina McKee (Catherine the Great, Bodyguard), Rosie Cavaliero (Prey, Unforgotten), Patsy Ferran (Tom and Jerry, Jamestown), Karen Bryson (MotherFatherSon, Safe) y Dipika Kunwar protagonizarán Black Narcissus, la adaptación de la novela de Rumer Godden (1939) sobre la represión sexual en el Nepal de los años 30. Serán la hermana Clodagh, líder de las monjas que viajan a Nepal para establecer una rama de la orden de Santa Fe en el palacio de Mopu; Mr. Dean, un colono inglés y veterano de la Primera Guerra Mundial; la hermana Ruth, la madre Dorothea, el padre Roberts, la hermana Adela, la hermana Briony, la hermana Blanche, la hermana Philippa y Kanchi.

Geoff Bell (Kigsman: The Secret Service, Hoolligans) y Josette Simon (Broadchurch, Wonder Woman) se unen a la tercera temporada de Absentia.

Ray Stevenson (Rome, Thor), Sai Bennett (Mr. Selfridge, Close to the Enemy), Andrew Buchan (Broadchurch, The Honourable Woman) y Peter Egan (Downton Abbey, The Unforgotten) se unen a la segunda temporada de The Spanish Princess. Serán Jacobo IV de Escocia, el marido de Margaret (Georgie Henley); María, la hermana de Henry (Ruairi O'Connor) y Margaret; el político y humanista Sir Thomas More, que fue santificado; y el general Howard, leal a los Tudor.

Rachel York (Head Over Heels) será recurrente en Filthy Rich como Tina, la madre de Ginger (Melia Kreiling).

Miriam A. Hyman (The Laundromat, Blue Bloods) será recurrente en la tercera temporada de The Chi como Dre, orientadora de instituto que intervendrá en la vida de Kevin (Alex Hibbert).

Chelsea Rendon (Vida) será recurrente en la décima temporada de Shameless como Anne, nueva compañera de trabajo de Carl (Ethan Cutkosky).

Ken Kirby (Good Trouble, Famous in Love) será recurrente en la tercera temporada de Dynasty como Evan Tate, hermano mayor de Trixie (Jessi Goei).

Mishel Prada (Vida, Fear The Walking Dead: Passage) será recurrente en la cuarta temporada de Riverdale como Hermosa, una investigadora privada nacida y criada en Miami.

Danielle Moné Truitt (Rebel) será Charlie Minnick en Deputy. Sustituye a Siena Goines, que interpretó a Rachel Quinn en el piloto.

Pósters

Nuevas series

Showtime encarga ocho episodios de Ripley, adaptación de las novelas de Patricia Highsmith en las que se basó la película The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). Protagonizada por Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Fleabag), seguirá a Tom Ripley desde Nueva York hasta Italia en los años 60, cuando un hombre adinerado le contrata para recuperar a su hijo vagabundo. Escrita y dirigida por Steven Zaillan (The Night Of, Schindler's List).

Netflix South Korea encarga Move to Heaven, sobre un chico con Asperger que, tras morir su padre, conoce a su tío y decide abrir junto a él un negocio de limpiezas traumáticas, gracias al que experimentarán diferentes emociones y sentimientos hacia la vida, la muerte y la familia mientras descubren las historias de los fallecidos. Inspirada en un ensayo de no ficción titulado 'Things Left Behind', escrito por Kim Sae-byul, un antiguo trabajador de limpieza extrema. Dirigida por Kim Sung-ho (How to Steal a Dog, Notebook From My Mother).

Netflix encarga Notes on Love, antología de Shonda Rhimes (Grey's Anatomy, Scandal) que explorará los lugares inesperados y surrealistas en los que el amor se cruza con nuestras vidas. La primera temporada contará historias sobre el matrimonio.

HBO Max encarga diez episodios de Americanah, adaptación de la novela de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013) en la que una joven de Nigeria se enamora de un compañero de clase pero huye a Estados Unidos y se ve obligada a vivir sin él, que vive indocumentado en Londres. Protagonizada por Lupita Nyong'o (Us, Black Panther). Escrita y producida por la actriz Danai Gurira (The Walking Dead, Black Panther).

CBS TV Studios desarrolla un reboot de Walker, Texas Ranger con Jared Padalecki (Supernatural, Gilmore Girls) al frente. Escrita y producida por Anna Fricke, creadora de Being Human y guionista de Dawson's Creek o Everwood. The CW y CBS estarían interesadas.

The CW desarrolla un spin-off de Arrow protagonizado por Katherine McNamara (Mia Smoak), Katie Cassidy (Laurel Lance) y Juliana Harkavy (Dinah Drake). Un episodio de Arrow servirá como backdoor pilot. Producido por Greg Berlanti (Arrow, The Flash).

Fechas

La segunda temporada de Motherland se estrena en BBC Two el 7 de octubre

La segunda temporada de Zomboat se estrena en ITV2 el 8 de octubre

La segunda temporada de In The Long Run se estrena en Sky One el 16 de octubre

El estreno de The Oval y Sistas en BET se retrasa del 9 al 23 de octubre

La 1ª parte de la 6ª y última temporada de BoJack Horseman llega a Netflix el 25 de octubre

La 2ª parte de la 6ª y última temporada de BoJack Horseman llega a Netflix el 31 de enero

La segunda temporada de Tell Me a Story se estrena en CBS All Access el 5 de diciembre

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