Holler If You Hear Me : Blackstone Audiobooks : 9781455108756 : 1455108758 : 01 Jul 2011 : Tupac Amaru Shakur (1971?1996) was an American rap artist, actor, and social activist. More than seventy-five million of his albums have sold worldwide, making him one of the bestselling music artists in the world. Rolling Stone magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time.Shakur also gained notoriety for his conflicts with the law and time spent in prison.Most of Tupac's songs are about growing up amid violence and hardship in ghettos, racism, other social problems, and conflicts with other rappers during the East Coast?West Coast hip-hop rivalry.In September 1996, after attending a boxing match in Las Vegas, Shakur was shot four times and died several days later.Shakur's double album, All Eyez on Me, is one of the highest-selling rap albums of all time, with more than five million copies of the album sold in the United States alone. A Vibe magazine poll in 2004 rated Shakur the great