Adventures with 2Pac excerpts from forthcoming Book revised... (Part-1)

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by  Donovan Niccolò Henry aka another tying to make money off 2pac

My Adventures with Tupac...brainchild gone rogue.

This is only short excerpts of accounts of my history with ‘Tupac’ for full disclosure look forward to a book release.
In 1989 Nitro Tour I was a Dancer/Choreographer for headliner platinum selling artist LL Cool J.
Walking with a Panther is the third studio album by high-selling hip-hop artist LL Cool J. Released in 1989, the album was a commercial success, with several charting singles ("Going Back to Cali," "I'm That Type of Guy," "Jingling Baby,""Big Ole Butt," and "One Shot at Love"). The album however was often criticized by the hip-hop community as being too commercial and materialistic, and for focusing too much on love ballads. LL Cool J was set to head line his first major tour. I was hired as the only male dancer & choreographer for the six girl dancers & LL. The entire Def Jam artist at the time including but not limited to Slick Rock, Kane, Del la soul, Epmd, Public Enemy were on the tour.... In 1990 we joined the Budweiser super fest tour. Digital Underground join the tour on the second leg for spot dates at first but then got picked up for rest of tour.
" However, the 1990 follow up, Mama Said Knock You Out, was almost immediately accepted as Cool J's best album yet, through which he "reclaim[ed] his persona as the most articulated of homeboys, above uncluttered funk riffs assembled by the producer Marley Marl," as New York Times columnist Jon Pareles assessed.

Tupac Shakur began his career as a roadie, backup dancer, and MC for the alternative group, Digital Underground. Digital Underground's leader and mainstay was Greg "Shock G" Jacobs (also known as Humpty Hump); Shock G formed the group in 1987 with Jimi"Chopmaster J" Dright of Berkeley, California, and Tampa hip-hop radio deejay Kenneth "Kenny-K" Waters in the summer of 1989, the band's gained popularity by their song "The Humpty Dance" in 1990. Digital Underground toured nearly every year up until 2008; this consisted of thousands [quantify] of live shows in Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, and the U.S. While the group's origins lay mostly in Oakland and Berkeley, California, various characters and voices from around the U.S. appeared on the band's albums, while Shock G and Money-B were the only individuals to appear on every album. Tupac began attending the poetry classes of Leila Steinberg in 1989. That same year, Steinberg organized a concert with a former group of Shakur's, "Strictly Dope"; the concert led to him being signed with Atron Gregory. He set him up as a roadie and backup dancer with the young rap group Digital Underground in 1990.

Fate brought us together on the same tour, I was working with the headliner LL Cool J as choreographer/image consultant/stylist and Pac was with the opening band. Dancing with Digital Underground PAC would drag me on stage to do the Humpy Dance with the band. I would often get to the venue early enough to see the opening acts. PAC was back up dancer, hype man, roadie, gofer & willing to do whatever to be on tour. PAC let me know at first meeting he wasn't a good dancer as me but wanted to learn. I saw bigger picture for his charisma which light up every room we entered. Always smiling from ear to ear I had a road dawg & so the adventures began. As the only 2 male dancers for much of the tour, two 18 yr old on a def Jam Budweiser tour the ladies groupies parties hotel room. We partied like rock stars. PAC would drink me under the table as we roamed from hotel room to room linking with da ladies/groupies. He would clown me on having an 8oz while everyone else had a 40 oz. No holds bars we sought out adventures..
This was my second tour around the country so I knew all the best places, parties, malls, clubs and groupies. One day on tour ninjas asked me where my shadow was I looked around confused?, I had no clue whom they meant so they inquired why Pac and I spent so much time together. I always ran solo or with arm candy since the tour started so it seem strange to them for me to be hanging with another dude. Before I knew it Pac shows up and we broke out to the night festivities.