Mean, a member of 2Pac's group called, 'Outlawz' intervene when two white male off-duty police officers assault a black man, Tupac is arrested for shooting at the cops. Tupac finds himself beaten by police officers over jaywalking. He generates both praise and controversy. Tupac begins acting in movies such as Juice, as well as collaborating with performers including Biggie Smalls. Although his music becomes popular, some songs' controversial lyrics cause tensions between him and his record producers.

Under manager Atron Gregory, he begins to have hip-hop albums produced.

Tupac's music career begins when he joins Digital Underground for their hit ' Same Song'. He attends the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he becomes friends with Jada Pinkett. As Tupac gets older, he distances himself from his mother's revolutionary ideals. His stepfather, Mutulu, a revolutionary, is caught by the FBI for an armored-truck robbery and murder. From an early age, Tupac, instilled with black pride, witnesses multiple injustices in his neighborhood. In a flashback to 1971, Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur and other Black Panther Party members are released from prison following acquittal. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $55 million worldwide.Īt the Clinton Correctional Facility in 1995, a documentary filmmaker arrives to interview Tupac Shakur. It lasted until April 2016, filming in Atlanta, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.Īll Eyez on Me premiered on June 14, 2017, at the Fox Bruin Theater and was released in the United States on June 16, 2017, on what would have been Shakur's 46th birthday. That December, Shipp Jr., whose father worked on music videos with Shakur, was cast as the singer and principal photography began that month. The film languished in development hell for several years with various directors, including Antoine Fuqua and John Singleton, attached at different points before Boom was confirmed in November 2015. Talks of a Tupac biopic began in 2011 by Morgan Creek Entertainment Group. as Shakur with Kat Graham, Lauren Cohan, Hill Harper and Danai Gurira in supporting roles, with Jamal Woolard reprising his role as Christopher 'The Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace from Notorious (2009). Titled after Shakur's 1996 fourth studio album as well as the song of the same name, the film stars Demetrius Shipp Jr. All Eyez on Me is a 2017 American biographical drama film about rapper Tupac Shakur, directed by Benny Boom and written by Jeremy Haft, Eddie Gonzalez and Steven Bagatourian.

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