“Accomplishments:
·2Pacalypse Now went on
to be certified Gold by the RIAA.
·It is considered one of
the greatest and most influential hip hop albums of all-time. It is his fourth
biggest selling album with 2,439,000 units moved to date. Me Against the World
won best rap album at the 1996 Soul Train Music
Awards.
·2002 tupac was released
into hip hop hall of fame
•In a 2005 Rolling Stone magazine vote,
Tupac was named No.86 of the '100 immortal artists of all time' behind the likes
of Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and John
Lennon.
•MTV
ranked him at No. 2 on their list of The Greatest MCs of All
Time.
•Shakur was
inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame in
2002.
•Ranked No. 3 on
VH1's 50 Greatest Hip Hop Artists.
•In 2003, MTV's
"22 Greatest MCs" countdown listed Shakur as the "Number 1 MC", as voted by the
viewers.
•A Vibe magazine
poll in 2004 rated Shakur "the greatest rapper of all time" as voted by
fans.
•In 2008, The
National Association Of Recording Merchandisers in conjunction with the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame recognized him as a very influential artist and has added him
in their Definitive 200 list.
•His double
album, All Eyez on Me, is one of the highest-selling rap albums of all time,
with over 5 million copies of the album sold in the United States alone by April
1996; it was eventually certified 9x platinum in June 1998 by the
RIAA.
Credits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Shakur