![]() ![]() On the cover of the album it displays the words "Exit 2Pac, Enter Makaveli". ![]() That’s not all though, if you rearrange the letters in the name Makaveli it can spell "Am Alive K," or, "Mak Alive." "A prince who wishes to achieve great things must learn to deceive," he wrote. ![]() One of Machiavelli's ideas on how to "fool" your enemies was to fake your own death and come back when they least expected it. The inspiration for the name came from political playwright, politician and Italian war strategist Niccolò Machiavelli, whose books The Prince and The Art of War (not to be confused with Sun Tzu's book of the same name) were reading material for 2Pac while incarcerated prior to signing to Death Row Records. Towards the end of his career 2Pac performed under the alias Makaveli - this was the name he went by when he released the last album of his career whilst alive, 1996's The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. ![]()
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