Putting Alive Theories To Rest
Why Tupac Shakur Will Not Return In Physical Form
Written By Ian Russel of Pacs Life
"Its amazing to me that some kids still think he’s alive. Its almost funny to me cause he couldn’t have been quiet this long; there would be no way in the world he could have been quiet this long." - Karen Lee : Family Friend/Tupacs Publicist (Quoted from THUG ANGEL DVD)
Being a huge Tupac Shakur fan for the last many years and a former alive believer, I still think its getting out of hand that a large majority of Tupac Shakur fans still think that Tupac is physically alive living in Cuba or hidden away by the government. Go to any Tupac related site and goto there forum/message board, and 99% of the time, there’s a whole area JUST for alive theories. I decided to end this controversy, hopefully with a two part article which ends the whole mystery and aura.
It’s been 10 years since he died, and the first wave of alive believers thought he would come back during September 13th 2003, 7 years after his death. “The theory, based around eerie clues from the rappers movies (Gridlock'd, Gang Related), references within his songs, scenes from music videos and calculations from his album release dates all seem to point to the number "7". And why would the rapper fake his death to return 7 years later? The plot thickens to explain Tupac's motivation was to make a huge impact that would change the world. Believe it or not, all eyes will be on Pac's return this September 13, 2003.” – Rap news
As you can already see this sadly never happened. After the hype died down, many discouraged believers started to create a new theory, which is the belief that it would be 10 years after his death that we would come back. This is called the (7day+3 day theory) aka 7 + 3 years = the return of Makaveli ( His return in 2006). So far there has been no return of Tupac in physical form, but I guess well have to wait till January 1st, 2007 to put this theory to rest.
Much controversy has been over Tupacs alias Makavelli, influenced by the 16th century Italian philosopher Machiavelli who supposedly advocated faking death to gain political power and evade enemies. Tupac read "The Prince" by Machiavelli and "Discourses upon the First Ten Books of Titus Livy" in jail. In the discourses people claim that Machiavelli advocated faking ones own death. This is NOT true, and is spread and claimed throughout the Alive Community. The only thing actually written in the discourses about it is in Book Two, Chapter XIII which states “Prince who wants to do great things, it is necessary to learn to deceive.”. Machiavelli never faked his death, all he did was teach that in order to win at war, you must learn to deceive. Although some of his soldiers did fake death, it was not under his orders.
Finally, most of the base evidences out there is through his music. Why do new Tupac songs and albums keep coming out? Why is it every year we hear about “exclusive new music”. After all, there have been more releases after his death then before his death. Through interviews with his producer Johnny and other Outlaws who recorded with him, it’s a known fact that Tupac was a very business oriented man. His mother said he had an extraordinary work ethic, and while he loved to party and enjoy himself, he was all business in the studio. After he got out of jail and was signed to Death Row, his concentration to work was three times more focused then it was before. Many days he would record 3 songs a day. Many were unpolished and written on the spot, but they are none the less acapella recordings that can be used and verses manipulated to create new songs. This is a reason for many of the new records, the producers create a new beat to match one of his unreleased tracks or acapellas, and they take 2 verses and release it. If he recorded 3 songs a day even only for 6 months, he would clearly have enough tracks to last a lifetime. One can see that he had recorded enough material before his death, for many albums to come. If each album has an average of 10 songs, we can still expect to see more albums(not including double albums). Also one must take into account that there are usually 2-3 songs on each album that are remix’s or alternative versions. It’s known when he would record that the beats would be made usually before he got to the studio, not to waste time and he would go into and record in usually 15-30 minutes for a son. He would be smoking, and record his vocals 3 times for one track and he would be done, this way if he was missing a word or something due to lack of breath, one of the other recordings would capture it. He recorded the Hit “Hail Mary” in about 30 minutes supposedly. His work ethic was go in and attack his recordings, you can see from some tracks such as thug passion where he messes up, but just goes with the flow. “I’m not trying to turn you into alchohols…. Alcoholics.. hahahah, I’m just trying to turn you into muthafucking thugs.” He clearly stumbles on his words, but what’s so nice is they keep that in the recording and it feels authentic.
More controversy arrives when people start to really examine the lyrics. While there are many strange controversies, many of the lyrics are overanalyzed and put into contexts in which they were never ment to be. Tupac spoke in metaphors, this was his way of expression, so sometimes when he discusses deceiving, plotting and preparing, he is not literally making reference to where, why and when he will “appear & reappear”. So many of his lyrics talked about deceiving, death and leaving this place. There have been references to many things that seemed to happen after his death such as mentioning biggie smalls in one of his songs (The song God Bless The Dead). Turns out the Biggie Smalls he is referring to was not the famous Notorious B.I.G, that died a year after him, but a close friend also named Biggie smalls. Again NOT notorious.
People keep examining his lyrics and the relation to death. The thing was that Tupac was not a happy guy. Near the end of his life he wanted to die, he was waiting for someone to kill him. “All Those records he’s talking about pain” said Shock G from the Digital Underground. He would write about death because he really felt that he would die early, and near the end of his life he really wanted to die. Many of his early poetry showed that he knew he would die young, especially in the poem “In the Event Of My Demise”. "He couldn’t function sober, he didn’t like to anyway. Had to be some Weed there, had to be some Hennessey, had to be some drink, had to be something going on. If he wasn’t high he had to be doing something that was a lot of fun. He wasn’t so happy, a lot of his laughter was forced.” – Shock G. It is only natural for someone who is not happy and under pressure to discuss death.
For Tupac, rapping was his release, to get whatever it was off his chest. It’s not surprising he completed all these tracks. Tupac wanted to do more then any other man in the business. In his behind the scenes interview when he’s doing a cover shoot for All Eyez On Me, he says “Im gonna touch every level, and everything. i dont wanna burn out, i wanna be forever, eternal. I wanna be here forever, when im gone i want my name to be here. So to do that, i gotta do more then just the average man would do. i gotta set a mark that nobody can touch " – Pac. He planned on retiring early. One can already see that he was expanding his career to movies, which he starred in about 6 before he died. He started a family restaurant; he wanted to be a person owning stock in Death Row, and being a producer on death row, releasing albums as he pleased. He would set a new standard, similar to any great rock and roll legend today. He didn’t want to be in the rap game his whole life, he only expected to be into it until his early 30s. Naturally he was recording as much as possible while he was still young because he wanted to get it all on paper, he wanted to be more then just a single man. He wanted to live after his death, he wanted to his name to be here. It looks like he accomplished that.
What do you think?
Q+A
Q: But In Tupacs Album "The 7 day theory" during the first track Bomb First, Kadafi is heard saying "Suge Shot Me"
A: This was confirmed that it was Kadafi said it, but also confirmed it says "Should've Shot Me".
Q: But in the album Better Dayz, there is a hidden last track at the end of the album in where Tupac says "Expect me nigga, like you would expect jesus to come back, expect me nigga, im comming"
A: Better Dayz was the sixth posthumous album released by Afeni Shakur under Amaru Records. This is a sample from an earlier interview with Tupac. This is just another marketing trick for people to misinterperet it to boost up album sales. Again this is not recorded from Tupac after his death, it is a clip from an interview before he died.
Q: I saw a video online with tupac and the outlaws standing outside of a parking lot. Hes alive, it looks exactly like him!
A: … Do I really have to explain this? If it really was tupac, why the hell would be chilling in a parking lot in god knows where. And why haven’t people gotten hold of him yet?
PART 2 COMING SOON : WRITE WITH QUESTIONS :: THEY WILL BE ANSWERED IN PART 2, COMING SOON, A MORE IN DEPTH LOOK AT INDIVIDUAL THEORYS
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