"Hail Mary" is a single by American rapper Tupac Shakur, who died on September 13, of which year?
1996
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur ( (born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor.
 Shakur has sold over 75 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
 His double disc albums "All Eyez on Me" (1996) and his "Greatest Hits" (1998) are among the best-selling albums in the United States.
 Shakur is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all time, and he has been listed and ranked as one of the greatest artists of any genre by many publications, including "Rolling Stone", which ranked him 86th on its list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
 On April 7, 2017, Shakur was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Hail Mary (2Pac song)
"Hail Mary" is a single by American rapper Tupac Shakur from his final album "", under the new stage name, Makaveli.
 The song, released after his September 1996 death, features rap verses by Kastro, Young Noble and Yaki Kadafi of The Outlawz and Prince Ital Joe.
 A music video was shot for the song and can be found on the DualDisc of "The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory".
 It is one of Shakur's most famous singles.
 The single peaked at number 12 in the R&B chart, and number 8 in the rap singles.
'03 Bonnie &amp; Clyde
"' 03 Bonnie & Clyde" is a song recorded by American rapper Jay-Z featuring his then-girlfriend, American singer Beyoncé.
 It was composed by Shawn Carter, Kanye West, Prince Nelson, Tupac Shakur, Darryl Harper, Ricky Rouse and Tyrone Wrice for Jay-Z's seventh studio album "" (2002).
 The song was released as the album's lead single on October 10, 2002.
 An East Coast hip hop and R&B song, "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" sampled its beat, lyrics, and theme from American rapper Tupac Shakur's 1996 song "Me and My Girlfriend", and was inspired by the crime film "Bonnie and Clyde".
 The instrumentation is based on programmed drums, bass instruments, and a flamenco guitar. Holler If Ya Hear Me
"Holler If Ya Hear Me" is a song by 2Pac, from his second solo album, "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.".
 It was the first single released from this album in 1993.
 The track, which uses a sample from the song "Do It Any Way You Wanna" by People's Choice and Public Enemy's "Rebel Without a Pause", is an anthem of resistance.
 Frustrations with black poverty, police injustice, and Tupac's perceived persecution from political figure Dan Quayle fuel the majority of the track.
 Hustling, bearing arms, and refusal to conform are the key methods of combating said issues, and the chorus leads those listeners in agreement to join in the movement.
 The song is autobiographical in nature, referring to various traumas experienced by Tupac himself, and the editor of "Vibe" was quoted in "TIME" magazine as stating that the song struck a chord with a large section of disaffected youth.
 The song was used by Michael Eric Dyson as the title of his book about the life of Tupac Shakur.
 The song was also used as a title for a musical based Shakur's music, which premiered on Broadway at the Palace Theatre on May 26, 2014 and closed on July 20, 2014.
 The non-biographical musical, directed by Kenny Leon and starring rapper/poet Saul Williams, was also produced by Shakur's mother, Afeni Shakur.
 The song was also played in the 1994 film Above The Rim, which starred Tupac. Tupac Shakur discography
The discography of Tupac Shakur, an American rapper consists of eleven studio albums. Four were released before Shakur's death on September 13, 1996 and seven were posthumously released, the first being "The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory" released on November 5, 1996 (although the album was finished before Shakur's death).
 As of 2007, Tupac Shakur has sold over 75 million records worldwide, which makes him one of the highest selling rap artists of all time.
 As of June 2014, he was the second best-selling rap or hip-hop artist of the Nielsen Soundscan era in the United States with 29,235,000 albums sold.
 The RIAA has certified his album sales at 36.5 million.
 However he sold an additional 5 million under his Makaveli name which gives him 42.5 million overall. The Killing of Tupac Shakur
The Killing of Tupac Shakur is a biographical and true-crime account by American journalist and author Cathy Scott of the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur.
 The book made news upon its September 1997 release, on the first anniversary of Shakur's death, because of an autopsy photo included in its pages.
 It was the first book to be released covering the rapper's death.
 The book was reprinted in the UK by Plexus Publishing and in Poland by Kagra.
 Coverage of the autopsy photo, taken of Shakur's body on a gurney in the coroner's examining room, catapulted the book onto the "Los Angeles Times" bestseller list.
 New editions of the book were released in 2002 and 2014. Thug Life: Volume 1
Volume 1 is the only studio album by American hip hop group Thug Life, started by rapper Tupac Shakur, and was released on September 26, 1994.
 The group featured Big Syke, Macadoshis, Mopreme, The Rated R and Tupac Shakur.
 Among the notable tracks on the album are "Bury Me a G," "Cradle to the Grave," "Pour Out a Little Liquor" (which also appears on the soundtrack to the 1994 film Above the Rim), "How Long Will They Mourn Me?"
 and "Str8 Ballin'."
 The album was originally released by Shakur's label Out Da Gutta Records.
 Due to heavy criticism on gangsta rap at the time, the original version of the album was scrapped and re-recorded with many of the original songs being cut.
 The album only contains ten tracks because Interscope Records felt many of the other recorded songs were too controversial to release.
 It has been said that 2Pac created two other versions of this album, with many of the songs still remaining unreleased. Tupac: Resurrection
Tupac: Resurrection is a 2003 American documentary film about the life and death of rapper Tupac Shakur.
 The film, directed by Lauren Lazin and released by Paramount Pictures, is narrated by Tupac Shakur himself.
 The film was in theaters from November 16, 2003 to December 21, 2003.
 As of July 1, 2008 it had earned over $7.8 million, making it the 21st-highest-grossing documentary film in the United States - (in nominal dollars, from 1982 to the present).
 The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 77th Academy Awards. Tupac: Assassination
Tupac Assassination: Conspiracy or Revenge is a documentary film about the unsolved murder of rapper Tupac Shakur produced by Frank Alexander, a Shakur bodyguard who was with the rapper at the time of the shooting, produced and directed by Richard Bond.
 The film was released October 23, 2007 on DVD. Kastro (Outlawz)
Katari Terrance Cox (born December 30, 1976) better known by his stage name Kastro, is an American rapper.
 Best known for being part of Tupac Shakur's rap group Outlawz.
 He was also blood cousins with Shakur and is featured on many of the late rapper's songs such as "Made Niggaz", & "Hail Mary".
 When he was in Elementary School, he introduced his friend, and future Outlawz rapper, Malcolm Greenridge, later named E.D.I. Mean, to his cousin.