Bailed out and bound to Death Row Records

After surviving a 1994 shooting at Quad Studios in New York and serving eight months in prison on a sexual abuse conviction, Tupac’s trajectory changed forever in October 1995.

Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight paid his $1.4 million bail in exchange for a multi-album contract, instantly thrusting the rapper into the explosive center of the East Coast-West Coast hip-hop rivalry.