Themes in Pac’s music primarily revolved around social injustices in African American communities. There have been five other solo posthumous albums from the Tupac estate and one collaborative album with his rap group, Outlawz. The album was further certified 4x platinum in 1999 after its debut in August 1996. The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, popularly shortened to Makaveli, was Pac’s first posthumous album and the last released with his creative input. He had, however, finished recording the recording of his third album at Death Row. Reports have further suggested that the drive-by shooting was retaliatory and premeditated. In 1996, Tupac was shot and killed in Las Vegas. All Eyez on Me won R&B/Soul or Rap Album of the Year at the 1997 Soul Train Music Awards and Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist at the American Music Awards the same year. The album was later certified diamond (10 million records sold) in 2014. This has profoundly altered my understanding of what I was doing, and what brought me here.The album was released in February 1996 and by April of that year, had been certified 5x platinum by the RIAA. “I have spent almost three decades living with countless addicts from all ages and races and backgrounds, hearing their personal horror stories. “I think one of the reasons I finally came to see this clearly is that while in custody, I have lived with countless people who were abusing the same kinds of drugs I distributed,” Harris wrote in a 2017 letter to a federal judge. When he was up for parole in the early 2010s, he received support of many prominent advocates, as well as high-ranking law enforcement officials including Richmond’s then police chief. He is credited with helping revive the San Quentin News as the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, and started non-profits geared towards helping impoverished or struggling youth. While Harris has maintained his innocence on the state charges, during his decades of incarceration he earned a different kind of recognition - not as a notorious drug trafficker, but as a man who started using his intelligence to achieve positive goals. He was formally convicted of trafficking three tons of cocaine and sentenced to federal prison in 1990. Federal authorities say the drug business raked in hundreds of millions in profits and operated from coast to coast. In 1988, he was arrested and charged with running a cocaine trafficking empire out of Los Angeles, alongside members of the Cali Cartel. In recent years, Harris has made several failed attempts to get himself out of federal prison. His release date is still listed as June 2028, but is expected to change once the commutation is formalized. ![]() Since he was paroled from the state charges, Trump’s commutation of the drug trafficking sentence formally clears the way for Harris to be released.Īccording to Bureau of Prison records, Harris was still incarcerated in FCI Lompoc as of 10:30 Wednesday morning. Harris has been incarcerated since the late 1980s, serving sentences of conspiracy and attempted murder in state prison, and a lengthy drug trafficking sentence in federal prison. Michael “Harry-O” Harris, the man who funded the start of Death Row Records despite serving a life sentence in California state prison at the time, was among the more than 100 people granted pardons or commutations by outgoing President Donald Trump, according to multiple media reports.
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