![]() ![]() But the pace at which 2Pac worked, and the increasing urgency and quality of that work toward the end of his life, was remarkable and unprecedented. ![]() That might not seem like so much today, in the era of rappers routinely releasing several mixtapes a year. His solo career lasted less than 5 years, but in his life he released 4 albums (one of them a double CD), completed a 5th album released soon after his death, and left behind enough unreleased verses to double his discography with posthumously assembled albums. So he was one of the youngest of popular music's many icons who died too young, and yet he left behind a staggering body of work that few rappers could ever hope to equal. He wasn't in the 27 club - he'd only just turned 25 at the beginning of the summer of 1996. ![]() 20 years ago today, Tupac Amaru Shakur died.
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