A house in Woodland Hills owned at one time by legendary rapper and urban poet Tupac Shakur has hit the market. The house is listed with an asking price of $2.695 million.
Shakur purchased the property for $250K in 1995, and was presumably the first owner, but only called it home for about a year before his untimely death in 1996. In the past two decades, the home has been bought and sold three times, with Limp Bizkit’s DJ Lethal among its previous owners; the present owner has retained it for about fourteen years.
With a brick drive and motorcourt, and vine-covered façade, the home makes an initial impression of understated substance. The property is gated, and the driveway leading up to the house is bordered with mature trees and landscaped romantically.
The home’s interior space measures a little less than 5,900 square feet, and there are six bedrooms and five baths. A single-floor residence, the great room extends to double-height for a pleasing sense of expanse, with a large bay window, clerestories, and a music room with fireplace featured immediately upon entrance.
Floors throughout are sandstone and hardwood, and lighting is generally recessed, with a few unremarkable fixtures, and an imposing pendant for the staircase. The master suite is comfortably sized, and features a fireplace with a raised hearth and a carved wood mantel which looks to be walnut. The master bath features a soaking tub with a gas fireplace.
The home’s amenities include a home cinema room and an office; exterior features amid the one acre-sized lot include abundant space for entertaining: covered brick patios in the style of the Pacific Islands, a summer kitchen, and an ornate lagoon-style pool/spa with waterfall feature.
Shakur’s influence in the music world is still prominent. The artist—whose artistic education was broad spectrum, and included theater and dance—released only four studio albums in his short career, although compilations and posthumous releases number triple that figure. An actor whose star was on the rise at the time of his death, his films include ‘Gridlock’d’; the movie also starred Tim Roth and Lucy Liu.
