In November, Shakur and two members of his entourage were charged with sexually assaulting a female fan, for which they were found guilty and sentenced to 4.5 years in jail. Later, in October 1993, Shakur was charged with shooting two off-duty police officers in Atlanta, though the charges would eventually be dismissed. In the summer of 1993, Shakur was charged for assaulting director Allen Hughes while filming Menace II Society Shakur was later sentenced to fifteen days in jail.
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However, the 22 year old artist had a series of incidents and charges of breaking the law. In 1993, Tupac Shakur was already a success in the hip hop industry, with two gold-certified singles that reached the top twenty on the pop charts (" I Get Around", " Keep Ya Head Up"), and a platinum-selling sophomore album that would peak just inside the top twenty-five of the Billboard 200 ( Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.). Me Against the World won best rap album at the 1996 Soul Train Music Awards. It is also his fourth biggest selling album with 2,439,000 units moved to date. The album served as one of Shakur's most positively reviewed albums, with many calling it the magnum opus of his career, and is considered one of the greatest and most influential hip hop albums of all-time. This ultimately made Shakur the first artist to have an album debut at number one on Billboard 200 while serving time in prison. Me Against the World, released while Shakur was imprisoned, made an immediate impact on the charts, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200. It was his impending prison sentence, troubles with the police and Shakur being poor, which many believe might have contributed to Shakur's artistic re-emergence on record, as his material is believed by Steve Huey of Allmusic to have become markedly more "confessional", "reflective", and "soul-baring". The album was composed of un-used tracks from the Thug Life era, and from other studio sessions from 1993 to 1994. It was released Maon the Interscope Records label. Me Against the World is the third studio album by American hip hop artist Tupac Shakur. West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap, conscious hip hop, g-funkĮasy Mo Bee, Sam Bostic, D-Flizno Production Squad, Brian G, Shock G, Johnny "J", Mike Mosley, Tony Pizarro, Soulshock & Karlin, Le-morrious "Funky Drummer" Tyler, Moe Z.M.D. For chapter 7 of The Emo Diaries series, see Me Against the World (compilation album).