The first authorized biography of one of the world's most incendiary and brilliant performers--multi-platinum rapper, critically acclaimed actor, and thug-life originator Tupac Shakur. Tupac Shakur was born into the whirlwind of one of the most radical times in African-American history. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s ashes were still smoldering; urban riots sprang from feelings of social and economic deprivation; and The Black Panther Party, seething at the repression and lack of opportunity, did their best to foment change. Afeni Shaku, one of its most prominent members, gave birth to Tupac Shakur, little knowing the lasting legacy her son would create. From a poor childhood in New York, Baltimore, and Oakland, Shakur watched and waited for his time. A man of immense contradictions, he became a preeminent MC, an activist, a felon, a multimillionaire, and--in the end--a tragically marked man. After his death in Las Vegas at age twenty-five, Shakur became something else--a legend. All Eyez on Me is the first and only definitive account of Tupac Shakur's life and work.
- ISBN10 074344888X
- ISBN13 9780743448888
- Publish Date 31 December 2019
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 22 September 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Simon & Schuster
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Language English