Makaveli was the alias used by American hip-hop artist, poet, and actor Tupac Shakur while he was with his hip-hop group the Outlawz. The posthumous solo studio album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory was the only album to be officially released as Makaveli. Future posthumous releases of his with the Outlawz and solo Makaveli recordings were released under Tupac Shakur’s more familiar alias 2pac. Tupac read and studied the works and life