Tupac Amaru Shakur (born Lesane Parish Crooks, June 16, 1971 – September 13… Read Full Bio ↴Tupac Amaru Shakur (born Lesane Parish Crooks, June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), better known by his stage name 2Pac and later by his alias Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Considered one of the most influential rappers of all time, Shakur is among the best-selling music artists, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Much of Shakur's music has been noted for addressing contemporary social issues that plagued inner cities, and he is considered a symbol of activism against inequality.
Shakur was born in New York City to parents who were both political activists and Black Panther Party members. Raised by his mother, he relocated to Baltimore in 1984 and to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1988. With the release of his debut album 2Pacalypse Now in 1991, he became a central figure in West Coast hip-hop for his conscious rap lyrics. Shakur achieved further critical and commercial success with his follow-up albums Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... (1993) and Me Against the World (1995). His Diamond certified album All Eyez on Me (1996), the first double-length album in hip-hop history, abandoned his introspective lyrics for volatile gangsta rap. In addition to his music career, Shakur also found considerable success as an actor, with his starring roles in Juice (1992), Poetic Justice (1993), Above the Rim (1994), Bullet (1996), Gridlock'd (1997), and Gang Related (1997).
During the later part of his career, Shakur was shot five times in the lobby of a New York recording studio and experienced legal troubles, including incarceration. In 1995, Shakur served eight months in prison on sexual abuse charges, but was released pending an appeal of his conviction. Following his release, he signed to Marion "Suge" Knight's label Death Row Records and became heavily involved in the growing East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry. On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot four times by an unidentified assailant in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas; he died six days later. Following his murder, Shakur's friend-turned-rival, the Notorious B.I.G., was at first considered a suspect due to their public feud, but was also murdered in another drive-by shooting six months later in March 1997 while visiting Los Angeles.
Five more albums have been released since Shakur's death, all of which have been certified Platinum in the United States. In 2002, Shakur was inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame. In 2017, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Shakur among the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Shakur was born on June 16, 1971, in the East Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City. While born Lesane Parish Crooks, at age one he was renamed Tupac Amaru Shakur. He was named after Túpac Amaru II, the descendant of the last Incan ruler, Túpac Amaru, who was executed in Peru in 1781 after his failed revolt against Spanish rule. Shakur's mother explained, "I wanted him to have the name of revolutionary, indigenous people in the world. I wanted him to know he was part of a world culture and not just from a neighborhood."
Shakur had an older stepbrother, Mopreme "Komani" Shakur, and a half-sister, Sekyiwa Shakur, two years his junior.
Shakur was born in New York City to parents who were both political activists and Black Panther Party members. Raised by his mother, he relocated to Baltimore in 1984 and to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1988. With the release of his debut album 2Pacalypse Now in 1991, he became a central figure in West Coast hip-hop for his conscious rap lyrics. Shakur achieved further critical and commercial success with his follow-up albums Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... (1993) and Me Against the World (1995). His Diamond certified album All Eyez on Me (1996), the first double-length album in hip-hop history, abandoned his introspective lyrics for volatile gangsta rap. In addition to his music career, Shakur also found considerable success as an actor, with his starring roles in Juice (1992), Poetic Justice (1993), Above the Rim (1994), Bullet (1996), Gridlock'd (1997), and Gang Related (1997).
During the later part of his career, Shakur was shot five times in the lobby of a New York recording studio and experienced legal troubles, including incarceration. In 1995, Shakur served eight months in prison on sexual abuse charges, but was released pending an appeal of his conviction. Following his release, he signed to Marion "Suge" Knight's label Death Row Records and became heavily involved in the growing East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry. On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot four times by an unidentified assailant in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas; he died six days later. Following his murder, Shakur's friend-turned-rival, the Notorious B.I.G., was at first considered a suspect due to their public feud, but was also murdered in another drive-by shooting six months later in March 1997 while visiting Los Angeles.
Five more albums have been released since Shakur's death, all of which have been certified Platinum in the United States. In 2002, Shakur was inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame. In 2017, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Shakur among the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Shakur was born on June 16, 1971, in the East Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City. While born Lesane Parish Crooks, at age one he was renamed Tupac Amaru Shakur. He was named after Túpac Amaru II, the descendant of the last Incan ruler, Túpac Amaru, who was executed in Peru in 1781 after his failed revolt against Spanish rule. Shakur's mother explained, "I wanted him to have the name of revolutionary, indigenous people in the world. I wanted him to know he was part of a world culture and not just from a neighborhood."
Shakur had an older stepbrother, Mopreme "Komani" Shakur, and a half-sister, Sekyiwa Shakur, two years his junior.
Danger Time
2Pac Lyrics
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Danger times, danger times, danger times
Danger times
Danger times, danger times, danger times
Danger times
It's on
A dead body found wrapped in the carpet
A healthy pretty baby found
Cryin' in the garbage
Walk your dog, she pees on the sidewalk
No movies no clubs
'cause you're bound to get caught
In the mix, runnin' for your life
Time to get home see somebody fool caught a
Straight to the dome
For no reason, death is still the season
Everybody's scared, leave the body bleedin'
People runnin' frantic
'cause the shots are still ringin'
These damn thugs
Just won't stop the gun slingin'
Havin' fun in these days
You gotta wear a vest
1-2-5 in the summer's like the Wild West
Something jump off a nigga cap, everybody cap
Worst about it is every
Fuckin' body's strapped
All you can do is cross your
Fingers and hope you're lucky
I see you used ta wear a
Laugh or grab her asses chokin'
But if I'm ok when the shots stop
Not layin' in blood hop in my ride
Tryin' to slide with these scared thugs
Dangerous times, dangerous days
Dangerous nights
Everywhere we go the danger's
Never out of sight
Junior high school in '86 and '87
They had 38's, in '94 is Mack 11's
What the hell is goin' on God? Pass the indo
What the hell they killin' over Nintendo?
I think the world is endin'
And AIDS is the plague
So you can die later if you don't die today
Mothers cryin', can't understand it
Their kids gone and even reach a man yet
I try to free the hip
Hop when I rapping lines
But every time I try
It ends up being crime time
Go to school, go to the
Movies, go to the club, go to the store
Turn on the news
It's like were livin' in a war
No one to trust
The cops are the fuckin' crooks
In these days, they ain't goin' by the books
Proceed with caution, if you're not
You're lost in these fucked up times they
Have no remorse in
Get twisted, the last thing on your mind
You got caught kid
Livin' in these danger times
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
Yo I'm ridin' through the back streets
Bumpin' black beats
Stop where the niggas sellin' crack be
Say what up to my neighbourhood dealers
Niggas rollin' cee-lo, local car stealers
Narcs cruisin' by
They wanna lock us on the way
No eye contact, we wanna lead them astray
But the niggas in the backseat
Lookin' like a snitch though
Cops hookin' up
Lookin' like a little bitch yo
So you know I'm back dro
Can't get caught in the mix
By these fake trouble cops and
They crooked ass tricks
And uh, hold up yo, niggas rollin' up
For what? I don't know
But they was busters so I gives a fuck
Pop a man in his fuckin' dome
Had to yank for chrome
I forgot it, I was lurkin' in the red zone
When the smoke cleared, I see my man was dead
And the cops on the corner
Then a muthafucka fled the scene
It's gotta be a dream yo I'm buggin'
I stood up the scene
Lookin' mean mad muggin' muthafucka
That I be from the streets
For the first thing jump
I got my hand on my heat yo it's danger time
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
Yo, will I, live or die?
I don't know 'cause it's stranger times
I'm too high to read
The muthafuckin' danger signs
Niggas all on my phone talkin' major shit
And you mad 'cause I don't wanna page you
Bitch now quit being quick to flip
My niggas dyin' over small time triflin' shit
So I ain't got time for these you know whats
On the nuts of a nigga makin' major bucks
I'm more lost, runnin' from the police force
New York's finest, comin' right behind us
Mind flippin' off the Moet
That a nigga's sippin'
Open fire on them bitches if
They get to trippin'
Mob on the scene with the Squad from Queens
Drinkin' Hennessy
Muthafuckin' cops are green
Plus the mini 14 for the punks wit' funk
Drop the trunk on them silly bitches
Blast them punks
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
Danger times
Danger times, danger times, danger times
Danger times
It's on
A dead body found wrapped in the carpet
A healthy pretty baby found
Walk your dog, she pees on the sidewalk
No movies no clubs
'cause you're bound to get caught
In the mix, runnin' for your life
Time to get home see somebody fool caught a
Straight to the dome
For no reason, death is still the season
Everybody's scared, leave the body bleedin'
People runnin' frantic
'cause the shots are still ringin'
These damn thugs
Just won't stop the gun slingin'
Havin' fun in these days
You gotta wear a vest
1-2-5 in the summer's like the Wild West
Something jump off a nigga cap, everybody cap
Worst about it is every
Fuckin' body's strapped
All you can do is cross your
Fingers and hope you're lucky
I see you used ta wear a
Laugh or grab her asses chokin'
But if I'm ok when the shots stop
Not layin' in blood hop in my ride
Tryin' to slide with these scared thugs
Dangerous times, dangerous days
Dangerous nights
Everywhere we go the danger's
Never out of sight
Junior high school in '86 and '87
They had 38's, in '94 is Mack 11's
What the hell is goin' on God? Pass the indo
What the hell they killin' over Nintendo?
I think the world is endin'
And AIDS is the plague
So you can die later if you don't die today
Mothers cryin', can't understand it
Their kids gone and even reach a man yet
I try to free the hip
Hop when I rapping lines
But every time I try
It ends up being crime time
Go to school, go to the
Movies, go to the club, go to the store
Turn on the news
It's like were livin' in a war
No one to trust
The cops are the fuckin' crooks
In these days, they ain't goin' by the books
Proceed with caution, if you're not
You're lost in these fucked up times they
Have no remorse in
Get twisted, the last thing on your mind
You got caught kid
Livin' in these danger times
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
Yo I'm ridin' through the back streets
Bumpin' black beats
Stop where the niggas sellin' crack be
Say what up to my neighbourhood dealers
Niggas rollin' cee-lo, local car stealers
Narcs cruisin' by
They wanna lock us on the way
No eye contact, we wanna lead them astray
But the niggas in the backseat
Lookin' like a snitch though
Cops hookin' up
Lookin' like a little bitch yo
So you know I'm back dro
Can't get caught in the mix
By these fake trouble cops and
They crooked ass tricks
And uh, hold up yo, niggas rollin' up
For what? I don't know
But they was busters so I gives a fuck
Pop a man in his fuckin' dome
Had to yank for chrome
I forgot it, I was lurkin' in the red zone
When the smoke cleared, I see my man was dead
And the cops on the corner
Then a muthafucka fled the scene
It's gotta be a dream yo I'm buggin'
I stood up the scene
Lookin' mean mad muggin' muthafucka
That I be from the streets
For the first thing jump
I got my hand on my heat yo it's danger time
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
Yo, will I, live or die?
I don't know 'cause it's stranger times
I'm too high to read
The muthafuckin' danger signs
Niggas all on my phone talkin' major shit
And you mad 'cause I don't wanna page you
Bitch now quit being quick to flip
My niggas dyin' over small time triflin' shit
So I ain't got time for these you know whats
On the nuts of a nigga makin' major bucks
I'm more lost, runnin' from the police force
New York's finest, comin' right behind us
Mind flippin' off the Moet
That a nigga's sippin'
Open fire on them bitches if
They get to trippin'
Mob on the scene with the Squad from Queens
Drinkin' Hennessy
Muthafuckin' cops are green
Plus the mini 14 for the punks wit' funk
Drop the trunk on them silly bitches
Blast them punks
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
It's that reality (dan danger times)
The lyrics of "Danger Time" by 2Pac feat. Live Squad reflect the harsh realities and dangerous circumstances of the streets. The song depicts a world filled with violence, crime, and fear. It begins by painting a grim picture of a dead body wrapped in a carpet and a baby abandoned in the garbage, symbolizing the disregard for human life. The lyrics also highlight the constant threat of violence and the need for self-protection, with references to carrying weapons and wearing bulletproof vests. The song further explores the state of society, mentioning the prevalence of guns, the fear of AIDS, and the lack of trust in authorities.
Throughout the song, there is a sense of desperation and resignation to the dangerous times. The lyrics express the feeling that it's almost impossible to escape the cycle of violence and crime, as even attempts to express oneself through hip hop end up being surrounded by criminal activity. The danger is ever-present, whether it's on the streets, at school, in the movies, or even at home watching the news. The lyrics convey a sense of frustration and helplessness, as the world seems to be descending into chaos.
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Anthony Mcmillan
As much of Pac's albums and underground singles I've heard this is now one of my favorites. My first time hearing this! I've been unfortunately been living under a 🪨 I'm sure there's few other songs that I haven't heard of! This song is relatable to this day! ALL OF THEM WENT IN ON THEIR VERSES!! Pac and Stretch should've made an EP or and album together because they're in sync with one another 👍! Rip to the both of them 🙏!
Jonathan Villareal
Top 5 underrated Pac verses...yall blessed for this one✊
pappagetti 2009
This one is cold....
Scott Petermann
Only real true Pac fans know this one.
Daniel Stanciu
This is one of the realest songs I have ever heard in my life. The song emits strife, pain, struggle. #rip to them both
MICHAEL A
Pac flowed like the Amazon or Congo river. Unstoppable
Ryan Spangler
Straight up Mississippi Nile shit as well🦾
james5780
Your right, well said
giggs112008
Thank you so much for posting....so many people don't even know how many great and classic tunes Live Squad and 2pac did together...thank you so much for this, made my day!!
Kisha Howard
I know that's right ❤