When Tupac formed the Outlawz he gave them all names of old dictators.
Below are the dictators they were named after:

Niccolo Machiavelli



Italian Statesman and Political Philosopher (1469 - 1527)
Niccolo Machiavelli was born on May 3, 1469 in Florence, Italy. He was a political philosopher and diplomat during the Renaissance, and best known for his famous work, "The Prince" (1513).
Partly because Machiavelli's pragmatic view of the relationship between ethics and politics, he has been widely misinterpreted.
The adjective "Machiavellian" has become a pejorative used to describe a politician who manipulates
others in an opportunistic and deceptive way. Niccolo Machiavelli died in 1527.
It is not known the exact place where he died at. This is still a mystery.

Idi Amin

President of Uganda



Idi Amin (General Idi Amin Dada) since Hitler, is one of the most terrible dictators ever.
He was interested in glory, power, money and punishing those who might oppose him.
His boorish antics in the international community-he advised the Queen of England on protocol; and told Golda Meir to "pack her knickers"-earned him near-universal derision. He called Henry Kissinger a spy and a murderer; and sent U.S President Nixon a "get-well-soon" card after Watergate. While the world smirked, an estimated 200,000 people died at the hands of Amin's notorious secret police, the State Research Bureau.
He overthrew the Ugandan government in 1971 after a coup with the help of the military.
After coming to power he evicted many Indians from the country then set his troops to forcefully control his own people and in doing so killed many innocent civilians.
Eventually he was forced into exile.
Rumour say that Idi Amin is currently living comfortably in Saudi Arabia.


Saddam Hussein

President and Prime Minister of Iraq



Saddam Hussein was born on April 28, 1937 in Tikrit District, Iraq.

Saddam joined the socialist Baath party when he was 19. He made his mark three years later when he participated in a 1959 assassination attempt against Iraqi Prime Minister Abudul Karim Kassim. Saddam was shot in the leg during the botched effort and fled the country for several years, first to Syria, then Egypt. He built an elaborate network of secret police.
He became President of Iraq in 1979 and Prime Minister in 1994.
Saddam came to power through student activism, exile, and imprisonment.
He was condemned by the international community. The UN started a world wide trade embargo against his country. After Saddam failed to end the occupation a international military force was put together to evict him. After just over six weeks he withdrew claiming victory, however, his country's economy was shattered and had inflicted on him heavy casualties

Mu`ammar Qadhafi

President of Libya



Mu`ammar Qadhafi was born in the desert near the town of Sirte in 1942.
To the oppressed, the exploited and the struggling peoples of the Earth he is a teacher, guide, brother, but above all, the leader of a world revolution for a New Civilisation.
He has been described as a messenger and a thinker in the ancient North African tradition of the 'marabout' - a holy man. He lives simply, he does not drink, and he prays regularly.
Mu`ammar Qadhafi´s message covers the political, economic, social and philosophical dimensions of life.
In The Green Book with inspired insight and a deep vision he sets out fully the principles of the Third Universal Theory, a way beyond both communism and capitalism.
The main idea behind The Green Book is a return to the natural life and to natural forms of socialism and direct democracy - People's Power - which places all authority, wealth and arms in the hands of the people.

Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini



His real name is Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah is just a title. This man imposed holy terror on Iran. One of the most ruthless leaders of the twentieth century.

In 1989, Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini put a price on Salman Rushdie's head. Rushdie, he declared, had blasphemed the Prophet Mohammed by showing him, among other things, consorting with prostitutes in his novel "The Satanic Verses." Therefore, he said, Rushdie had to die. He probably enjoyed the world-wide attention he received eight years ago, but people who have seen him recently say he looks haunted.
He turns up occasionally at writers' conferences or in government offices to ask for help in overturning the fatwa, and receives expressions of sympathy, but the fatwa still stands, and his plight now may even be worse. An Iranian "foundation" recently raised the bounty on him to $2.5 million.