Greater attires
Tupac Shakur — known mononymously as 2Pac — is the 90s West Coast hip-hop GOAT. Throughout the decade, the transcendental rapper revolutionized the era’s gangster rap genre with pointed — and often poetic — lyrics, which spoke to inner city social issues like racism, poverty, police brutality, teen pregnancy and the war on drugs. Think “Dear Mama”, “Keep Ya Head Up”, “Brenda's Got A Baby” and the revelatory “Changes.” As noughties rapper 50 Cent told Rolling Stone, “Every rapper who grew up in the nineties owes something to Tupac... He didn't sound like anyone who came before him.” Despite his short time with us, Tupac’s musical — and cultural — legacy is massively influential, inspiring the work of contemporary artists like Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and YG. Like his music, 2Pac’s sartorial style is wholly singular yet totally eternal: leather vests, knit suiting, massive jeans, workwear, twisted bandanas and army fatigues. Here, in honour of what would have been the legendary rapper’s 50th birthday, we look back at his career and style through a selection of his most iconic outfits.
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