History YMMV / TupacShakur

** The whole "Tupac is still alive" thing, helped by the sheer amount of music recorded before his death.

** It wasn't impossible to see coming, he grew up surrounded by death, and he made a good deal of enemies. Another good example is "Life Goes On", where he memorializes friends of his that were murdered and talks about how he'll see them again after death. Tupac himself was killed just seven months after the song was released.

* ValuesResonance: One of the main reasons why Tupac is considered one of the greatest in hip hop is that many of the issues he addresses in his songs are still quite prevalent to this day.

** "Picture Me Rollin'" deserves special mention. No hook, two solid guest spots, one of the best verses Pac ever dropped.

* UncannyValley: Music/DrDre & Music/SnoopDogg brought a Pac hologram with them when they headlined Coachella in 2012. It just ''barely'' looked like a projection, and that was if you were sober and watching on a computer. Naturally, something so unnerving had to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGbrFmPBV0Y open with Pac's creepiest song]].

* EpilepticTrees: The whole "Tupac is still alive" thing, helped by the sheer amount of music recorded before his death.

** [[Creator/TheWayansFamily Marlon Wayans]] mentions in one interview that he and Tupac laughed at the part where the former's character killed the latter's character in ''Above the Rim'' after the scene was finally finished. This wouldn't become a laughing matter in the next eight months where Pac actually did get shot in New York and ended up attacking most of the East Coast rappers, who he felt were all out to get him after his release from prison and his affiliation to Deathrow Records. Come his trip in Vegas in 1996, he gets shot again, and subsequently passes away just six days later.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: [[Creator/TheWayansFamily Marlon Wayans]] mentions in one interview that he and Tupac laughed at the part where the former's character killed the latter's character in ''Above the Rim'' after the scene was finally finished. This wouldn't become a laughing matter in the next eight months where Pac actually did get shot in New York and ended up attacking most of the East Coast rappers, who he felt were all out to get him after his release from prison and his affiliation to Deathrow Records. Come his trip in Vegas in 1996, he gets shot again, and subsequently passes away just six days later.

* WhatAnIdiot: Confessed on Yo! MTV Raps to beating up the Creator/HughesBrothers. Keep in mind that when he assaulted them there were absolutely no witnesses to the crime, so without 2Pac's confession he probably would have walked. With the confession, not only was he convicted and sentenced to 18 days in jail, but the prosecutors made a big deal about how he showed absolutely no remorse for committing the crime and in fact went on television to brag about it.

** Combined with HarsherInHindsight, the song "Guess Who's Back" from his second studio album contains the line "Now I'm sure to be rich for ninety-six". Tupac would later drop his fourth studio album ''All Eyez On Me'' in 1996, which was his most successful record to date. He would later get killed in Las Vegas just months later.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: "Changes" a posthumous remake of Bruce Hornsby's "The Way It Is" and many many more...
** "Ghetto Gospel" wouldn't be so good if it wasn't for this.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: [[Creator/TheWayansFamily Marlon Wayans]] mentions in one interview that he and Tupac laughed at the part where the former's character killed the latter's character in ''Above the Rim'' after the scene was finally finished. This wouldn't become a laughing matter in the next eight months where Pac actually did get shot in New York and ended up attacking most of the East Coast rappers, who he felt were all out to get him after his release from prison and his affiliation to Deathrow Records. Come his trip in Vegas, he gets shot again, and subsequently passes away just six days later.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Creator/MarlonWayans mentions in one interview that he and Tupac laughed at the part where the former's character killed the latter's character in ''Above the Rim'' after the scene was finally finished. This wouldn't become a laughing matter in the next eight months where Pac actually did get shot in New York and ended up attacking most of the East Coast rappers, who he felt were all out to get him after his release from prison and his affiliation to Deathrow Records. Come his trip in Vegas, he gets shot again, and subsequently passes away just six days later.

* HilariousInHindsight: "And though it seems heaven sent, we ain't ready to see a [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama black president]]." Can also count as LifeImitatesArt.
** Music/{{Nas}} sampled this line in the chorus of his song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Z5AKVwCNk Black President]]".

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Creator/MarlonWayans mentions in one interview that he and Tupac laughed at the part where the former's character killed the latter's character in ''Above the Rim'' after the scene was finally finished. This wouldn't become a laughing matter in the next eight months where Pac actually did get shot in New York and ended up attacking most of the East Coast rappers, who he felt were all out to get him after his release from prison and his affiliation to Deathrow Records. Come hie trip in Vegas, he gets shot again, and subsequently passes away just six days later.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Marlon Wayans mentions in one interview that he and Tupac laughed at the part where the former's character killed the latter's character in ''Above the Rim'' after the scene was finally finished. This wouldn't become a laughing matter in the next eight months where Pac actually did get shot in New York and ended up attacking most of the East Coast rappers, who he felt were all out to get him after his release from prison and his affiliation to Deathrow Records. Come hie trip in Vegas, he gets shot again, and subsequently passes away just six days later.

** And let's forget "Hit 'Em Up", the diss track towards Music/TheNotoriousBIG and the entire East Coast Rap as a whole, which is widely considered the greatest diss song of all time.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: ''Dear Mama''.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: "And though it seems heaven sent, we ain't ready to have a [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama black president]]." Can also count as LifeImitatesArt.

* HilariousInHindsight: "And though it seems heaven sent, we ain't ready to have a [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama black president]]." Can also count as LifeImitatesArt.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: "And though it seems heaven sent, we ain't ready to have a [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama black president]]. Can also count as LifeImitatesArt.

* HilariousInHindsight: "And though it seems heaven sent, we ain't ready to have a [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama black president]]. Can also count as LifeImitatesArt.

* WhatAnIdiot: Confessed on Yo! MTV Raps to beating up the Hughes brothers. Keep in mind that when he assaulted them there were absolutely no witnesses to the crime, so without 2Pac's confession he probably would have walked. With the confession, not only was he convicted and sentenced to 18 days in jail, but the prosecutors made a big deal about how he showed absolutely no remorse for committing the crime and in fact went on television to brag about it.