2Pac immediately professed his allegiance to Death Row Records' CEO Marion 'Suge' Knight, who helped facilitate his release and fronted the $1.4 million bail it took to get him out of a jailhouse jumpsuit and back into designer threads and luxury vehicles. From the moment he stepped foot out of Clinton Correctional Facility on October 12, 1995, and back into society as a free man, the question on rap fans' minds was, 'What would his next move be?'įans wouldn't have to wait that long.
Heading into the calendar year of 1996, 2Pac was a made man.
To commemorate the anniversary of Tupac Shakur's 'All Eyez on Me,' we highlight 10 facts that you didn't know about the rapper's magnum opus.