'With an unapologetic rawness, Pac embraced those contradictions that prove we ain't just a character out of someone else's storybook,' label-mate Snoop Dogg said, at Shakur's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, calling him 'strong and vulnerable, hard-headed and intellectual, courageous and afraid, loving and vengeful, revolutionary, and - oh, yeah, don't get it fucked up - gangsta.' Shakur died in 1996, at the age of 25, in a Las Vegas hospital, six days after sustaining four gunshot wounds from a drive-by shooting near the Strip. He shot to stardom with such vivid albums as 2Pacalypse Now and All Eyez on Me, and found on-screen success with roles in Juice, Above the Rim, and Poetic Justice. Marcc Rose as Tupac Shakur Who was Tupac? The influential poet, rapper, and actor, who, before his death, loomed large as an icon of West Coast hip-hop.
