The New YorkerTupac Shakur was one of the most influential rappers of all time, and also one of the best-selling musicians in history.A life of lights, and some shadows, that René Mäkelä wanted to immortalize with this creation titled 2PAC, framed in his famous pictorial seriesHip-Hop Angels .
In its preparation it used astyle of painting, in oil on canvas, but with a palette, which gives a magical effect and greater complexity to the technique .
2Pac was shot in Las Vegasin the worst era of rap bands in memory, always marked by extreme violence. His crime was never solved.The same fate befell Notorius Big , first a great friend of Tupac and later considered a rival and suspect in the crime, who also died shortly after under similar circumstances.
