The infamous diss record “Hit Em Up” released while he was alive was the iceberg’s tip of verbal assaults found throughout this record. Shakur himself may have chosen the alter-ego from being inspired by reading this treatise, but contrary to popular belief Machiavelli did not fake his OWN death – he died quietly and in poor health in June of 1527 almost 450 years before Shakur was even born.Īnother notable side of this posthumous album was the sheer amount of venom poured out through Shakur’s lyrics.
Renaissance writer Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a now infamous treatise called “The Prince” which advocated deception to fool your enemies and advance political causes. To them, he obviously faked his own death to avoid his enemies as well as more jail-time, and his very alias “Makaveli” was proof. While the truth is that Shakur was a prodigiously prolific writer with a penchant for marathon recording sessions in the studio, people seemed hard- pressed to accept that he had a whole album worth of material ready to go before he died. What followed was a firestorm of controversies related to the album the best known of these being the theories that Tupac Shakur never really died. The always unconventional Death Row Records shared no such sentiments. Even those who expected a disc of his unreleased songs or a “Greatest Hits” retrospective would have waited until ’97 when a “respectable” amount of time had gone by since he passed. Coming only eight weeks after the rapper was shot and in the same year as his massive “All Eyez On Me” double album, the new album and alias caught industry insiders by surprise.
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Tupac Shakur’s “Makaveli” CD was the first in a long series of posthumous recordings (bootleg and otherwise) released after his death in September of 1996.
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