2Pac on "Thugz Mansion (Nas Acoustic)" (October 17, 2002)

"Tired of gettin’ chased by the police and arrested"

• 2Pac, Thugz Mansion (Nas Acoustic) (Released: October 17, 2002)

Genius Annotation:

2Pac had alot of legal issues and altercations with the police early on in his career.

In 1991, 2Pac accused 2 police officers of brutally beating him for simply jaywalking.

In 1992, During an outdoor festival; 2Pac got involved in a fight which resulted in the fatal shooting of Qa'id Walker-Teal, a 6-year-old boy, by a gun registered to 2Pac (though he wasn’t the shooter).

In 1993, He got into a shootout with 2 off-duty police officers after a fight with his car driver when the police officers were crossing the street. 2Pac shoot one of the police officers in the buttocks. Moreover the same year, he spent 30 days in prison for assaulting rapper Chauncey Wynn from the group M.A.D. with a baseball bat.

In 1994, 2Pac was found guilty of assaulting Allen Hughes, co-director of Menace II Society; which led him to serve 15 days in prison.

In 1995, 2Pac went to jail for a charge of sexual assaulting a woman for a sentence of 1.5-4.5 years but he only spent 9 months before he got bailed by Suge Knight.

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