Q 01/05

Tupac Shakur's debut album 2Pacalypse Now (1991) took its title from which film?

A) Apocalypse Now

B) Boyz n the Hood

C) Do the Right Thing

D) New Jack City

Answer · why

A) Apocalypse Now

He had debuted months earlier as a dancer and rapper with Digital Underground; his mother Afeni was a Black Panther.

Q 02/05

Tupac's Me Against the World hit number one in March 1995 while he was where?

A) On tour in Japan

B) In prison

C) Filming a movie

D) In hospital after a shooting

Answer · why

B) In prison

He was serving a sentence for sexual abuse; the album made him the first artist to top the Billboard 200 from behind bars.

Q 03/05

All Eyez on Me (1996) holds what distinction in rap history?

A) First rap album to win Album of the Year

B) First rap album to sell a million in a week

C) Rap's first double album

D) First rap album released on CD only

Answer · why

C) Rap's first double album

Suge Knight bailed Tupac out of prison in exchange for three albums on Death Row; this was the first, released in February 1996.

Q 04/05

Under what alias did Tupac release The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory?

A) Don Tupac

B) 2Pac Shakur

C) Killuminati

D) Makaveli

Answer · why

D) Makaveli

The name nodded to Machiavelli, fuelling theories that he had faked his death; the album came out two months after he was shot in Las Vegas.

Q 05/05

Tupac was shot in a drive-by on September 7, 1996, in which city?

A) Las Vegas

B) Los Angeles

C) Oakland

D) Atlanta

Answer · why

A) Las Vegas

He had just watched a Mike Tyson fight; he died six days later, and the case stayed unsolved for 27 years.