concerns in providing the audience with the truth and the real. Hence, with reference to the documentary on "Biggie and Tupac" (2002) directed by Nick Broomfield, we will explore how the documentary has managed to capture the real in terms of structure, style and modes of documentary. The documentary film was about the murders of hip hop rappers Christopher “Notorious B.I.G” Wallace and Tupac “2Pac” Shakur. Following the film closely, the evidences and theories was based mainly on a former detective
Biggie and Tupac (2002) directed by British film maker, Nick Broomfield, digs deeper into the unsolved murder cases of rap artists, Tupac Amaru Shakur and Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace. Broomfield, who is known for his controversial and exposing documentaries, goes out of his way to try and solve the case with the help of eyewitnesses, family and friends of the late artists. With revealing interviews and eventually identifying a few of the people responsible for Tupac and Biggie Smalls' murders
Did you know that Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur were some of the best famous Hip Hop Artist in the 1900’s. Reading my paper should matter to you because the history of hip hop is fascinating to learn about and there are little things that will surprise you. Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur were some of the two known Hip Hop artists. When you read my essay be prepared to read about Legend Hip Hop Artists that made History and great music. My essay will tell you about them and what they did to get where
Tupac and Biggie are the biggest hip hop rap Legends and even though they are dead rappers their legacy still lives. To this day many people still buy their albums and still listen to the music. They were killed because of a West Coast and East Coast hip-hop rivalry. Tupac and Biggie we're not always enemies. Tupac and Biggie were really close friends before they got into a rivalry. Many people don't know how Tupac and Biggie became friends. The way Biggie became friends with Tupac was by telling
Biggie Smalls Vs. Tupac Shakur “Stay far from timid, only make moves when your heart’s in it, and live the phrase sky’s the limit.” It’s lyrics like these where Biggie Smalls could grab his listeners attention and have them correlate their average lifestyle to his prosperous one. Some could say he influenced a new generation of hip-hop and rap, but he didn’t do it alone. Biggie Smalls name and music represented the whole East Coast side of the country at the time. During the late 1990’s Biggie had
both affiliated with Bad Boy Entertainment, which had close ties to the Crips gang. Tupac came to be associated with the West Coast rappers and Death Row Records. Death Row was owned by Marion "Suge" Knight, a former NFL player and a guy who was always up to no good. Suge Knight and Tupac were both members of the “Bloods” gang. This gang happened to be archrivals of the Crips. One night in Las Vegas in 1996, Tupac was in town for a Mike Tyson fight. After the fight, he and his friends beat up a Crip
for.” Death is a hard pill to swallow and that swallow happened in 1996 when Lesane Parish Crooks died. He was a man of many names. Some people known him as Tupac Amaru Shakur. Many people known him as 2Pac but he called himself Makaveli. Makaveli was a man that touches many souls. In 1996 when he lost his soul countless people felt pain. Tupac Shakur was a Rapper and Actor. People known him for mostly rapping. He was a hip-hop legend with controversial and explicit lyrics. He was never afraid to speak
Tupac Shakur - His Impact on American Culture Tupac Shakur was a very influential person in the 20th century. He was born on June 16, 1971 in Brooklyn New York, and died on September 13, 1996 in Las Vegas Nevada (unknown author, no title, no page, letter code C). But his family moved around a lot while he was a kid (Bastin, J.D.). He eventually ended up in the Bay Area California alone and spent his first two years there homeless (unknown author, no title, n.p., letter code D). He grew up
Tupac Shakur Tupac Shakur was one of the most influential artist of our last decade. He not only made several albums, but was also a large role in many films and a poet. Millions of people bought and still buy his albums. He was a pioneer to gangster rap, and he sang about things that mattered. Although, he was a role model and was admired by many, he also had a lot of enemies, and in the end, his enemies over powered his fans by taking his life. Some say that he may still be alive, but no
Christopher wallace aka The Notorious Big or Biggie Smalls, a drug dealing seventeen year old rapper with an ambition to make it in life and get rich while doing so. Marshall Mathers, Eminem his stage name was just a young white kid in a black detroit community with a passion for rapping. Both rappers have changed the current and and will be changing the future rap with their songs, not only by just their rap but from their persona as well. Just think about it for a second, if you walk into the mall
Tupac Amaru Shakur one of the most influential, controversial rappers to have ever existed. He grew up fatherless and at times motherless because of drugs, violence, and twisted ideas. Through struggle and hardships he found his flow. He showed the world that something can come from nothing. From joining up with the Digital Underground to his single debut he worked up he grew his fan base. As he grew in fame so did the East and West rivalry. Soon after a sexual assault scandal Tupac was shot in
Tupac Shakur was an actor and a rapper. He was born in Harlem, New York on June 16, 1971, as Lesane Parish Crooks. Both his mother and father were members of the Black Panthers, which later in his career influenced his political views in his songs .At the age of 13, he began his acting career in the production, “Raisin in the Sun” at the Apollo Theater. Tupac’s mother was single mother of two and struggled with money, forcing them to move around a lot and often stay in shelters.Tupac went to Baltimore
Hook--Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) were different in many ways, but there were also some major similarities between them. While they were both extremely influential rappers in their day, there was a lot of fighting between them considering the fact that Tupac was a West Coast rapper, and Biggie --The Notorious B.I.G.-- was an East Coast rapper. Tupac tended to be a lot more poetic and respectful to women he had better lyrics than Biggie, but Tupac had little flow.
The Shooting of Tupac Shakur Bang! The sound of a bullet being fired from a gun. To some, a sound of protection and safety, to others sheer agony and pain, and to some unlucky few the last sound they will ever hear. One of these unlucky few happened to be Tupac Shakur on the fateful night of September 7, 1996 at approximately 1:30 a.m. Unfortunately for Tupac he had to listen to a flurry of 15 bullets, some of which buried themselves deep into his chest, while the others ended up in the
Christopher Wallace as known as Biggie Smalls was born on May 21, 1972. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in the neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant. Biggie later became known. He experienced a rough childhood at an early age. He was surrounded by drug addicts and dealers. By his early teens, biggie had joined the life that was all around them. He once said, “Hustlers were my heroes” At the age of seventeen, Biggie was arrested for selling crack, and spent nine months in a North Carolina Prison before
Tupac Amaru Shakur, most known by the name 2Pac and briefly also known as Makaveli, was an american rapper and actor. He was born on June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, New York. Tupac was raised by his mother as a child and she was a member of the “Black Panthers”. But during the time of her pregnancy with Tupac, she was in jail with bombing charges. She was facing a possible sentence of up to three hundred years in prison. But she was her own attorney and she beat the charges and was released from jail
Born in New York City in 1971, Tupac Shakur, also known by his stage name 2Pac, was an American rapper. Shakur has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. Most of Tupac's songs are about growing up amid violence, hardships in ghettos, racism, and social conflicts with other rappers during the East and West Coast hip hop rivalry. Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1996 at age 25. On the day of the shooting Pac was
many occasions like this that still happen in today’s society. To extend, one of the more famous ones of the modern era was the feud between East Coast rapper, Notorious B.I.G ,and West Coast rapper, Tupac Shakur. Finally, there are many similarities and differences between Julius and Brutus, and Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. that are seen throughout their relationships. Julius Caesar was one of Rome’s most famous dictators of that time. Julius Caesar was born around July 12th To begin, Brutus was born
same fate. II. Today, we will be talking about how the murders of the Notorious B.I.G. also known as Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur are undeniably connected to each other. From the results of the audience analysis survey, 62.5% of you that responded to the survey have listened to their music, but none of you have any background information into their murders. III. I’ve been listening to Biggie and 2Pac since I was a teenager. Just as of recently, I became fascinated about researching the connection
chose was Tupac Shakur. Tupac was one of the best rappers to live and probably the best rapper till this day. I was never born when he was making great music but it was so good that I still heard his music even when I was a young boy. Tupac rival was Biggie Smalls and he was also in that mix on being one of the greatest rappers ever. Tupac was born in Manhattan, New York City in 1971. Tupac and Biggie was going at it for being the best rapper ever. Tupac was for the East Side and Biggie was for the