Editing Tupac Shakur (section)

=== ''2Pacalypse Now'' ===
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Shakur's debut album, ''2Pacalypse Now''—alluding to the 1979 film ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''—arrived in November 1991. Some prominent rappers—like [[Nas]], [[Eminem]], [[Game (rapper)|Game]], and [[Talib Kweli]]—cite it as an inspiration.<ref name="MTV2">{{cite web|title=MTV – They Told Us|website=[[MTV]]|url=http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2006/emcees/index15.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060423100616/http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2006/emcees/index15.jhtml|archive-date=April 23, 2006|access-date=April 26, 2011}}</ref> Aside from "If My Homie Calls", the singles "[[Trapped (2Pac song)|Trapped]]" and "[[Brenda's Got a Baby]]" poetically depict individual struggles under socioeconomic disadvantage.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Vaught|first=Seneca|date=Spring 2014|title=Tupac's Law: Incarceration, T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E., and the Crisis of Black Masculinity|url=https://www.academia.edu/8258642/Tupacs_Law_Incarceration_and_the_Crisis_of_Black_Masculinity <!-- alternate URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/article/540809 -->|url-status=live|journal=Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men|volume=2|pages=93–94|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306233517/http://www.academia.edu/8258642/Tupacs_Law_Incarceration_and_the_Crisis_of_Black_Masculinity|archive-date=March 6, 2017|access-date=June 28, 2016|number=2|doi=10.2979/spectrum.2.2.87|s2cid=144439620}}</ref>

U.S. Vice President [[Dan Quayle]] said, "There's no reason for a record like this to be released. It has no place in our society." Tupac, finding himself misunderstood,<ref name="not-a-ganster" /> explained, in part:

{{Blockquote|I just wanted to rap about things that affected young black males. When I said that, I didn't know that I was gonna tie myself down to just take all the blunts and hits for all the young black males, to be the media's kicking post for young black males.<ref name=
Philips-1995-interview>{{cite web |last=Philips|first=Chuck|date=September 13, 2012|title=Tupac Shakur Interview 1995 |work =The Chuck Philips Post |url=http://chuckphilipspost.com|url-status=live |access-date=October 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022001021/http://chuckphilipspost.com/ |archive-date=October 22, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Sami |first=Yenigun |date=July 19, 2013 |title=20 Years Ago, Tupac Broke Through|newspaper=National Public Radio.com|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/07/19/203360557/in-1993-tupac-breaks-through|url-status=live|access-date=October 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030040028/http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/07/19/203360557/in-1993-tupac-breaks-through|archive-date=October 30, 2013}}</ref>}}

''2Pacalypse Now'' was [[certified Gold]], half a million copies sold. The album addresses urban Black concerns said to remain relevant to the present day.<ref name="Brown-2016" />