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Also known as Makaveli, Tupac Shakur was undoubtedly one of rap\u2019s greatest artists. But did you know that he acted on the big screen as well? Shakur appeared on film for the first time in a movie called \u201cNothing but Trouble,\u201d in which he had a cameo appearance. His first starring role came by way of the 1992 film, \u201cJuice,\u201d playing the role of a hot-headed and violent gang member for which he was hailed as \u201cthe film\u2019s most magnetic figure\u201d by Rolling Stone\u2019s Peter Travers.<\/h6>\nOther movies of his include 1993\u2019s \u201cPoetic Justice,\u201d in which he starred opposite Janet Jackson; 1994\u2019s \u201cAbove the Rim,\u201d 1996\u2019s Bullet, and 1997\u2019s \u201cGridlock\u2019d\u201d and \u201cGang Related.\u201d He was also rumored to have read for the role of Mace Windu in George Lucas\u2019 \u201cStarwars Epsiode I: The Phantom Menace,\u201d a role that Samuel L. Jackson eventually landed.<\/h6>\nShakur was a charismatic figure even before he was famous, which was probably why people were drawn to him. Among the many friends Shakur had was Twitter user @Willyboss567\u2019s uncle, whose picture he shared online. He captioned the photo: \u201cMy uncle and his best friend.\u201d<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many of us have heard stories of someone, who knew someone, who\u2019s met someone, who used to know a big star before they were famous. But before we dismiss those claims as pure baloney, it would be prudent of us to give them the benefit of the doubt. The concept called Six Degrees of Separation suggests that people, are only six connections away from each other. This idea makes the possibility of a chain of \u201ca friend of a friend\u201d statements, connecting us to an \u201cA-list\u201d celebrity, very real. Being in the same circle with people who knew a celebrity <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6598],"tags":[2589,1058,90,71],"yst_prominent_words":[12775,13769,13764,12768,10348,13771,10839,9193,13770,13763,13761,13766,13765,13767,13762,8811,11441,8941,13760,13768],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56920,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56912\/revisions\/56920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56912"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=56912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}