Nicollas Machiavelli was a 16th century Italian philosopher who wrote several books on how to gain and manipulate power and advocated the staging of one’s death in order to evade one’s enemies and gain power. Tupac was said to be into reading into Machiavelli’s theories. Tupac also got a tattoo that says “Makaveli”. Tupac spells it Makaveli which looks like Mak alive or Make alive. Machiavelli wrote two books on the subject of faking one’s death. The “All Eyez On Me” disks are called Book 1, and Book 2. Tupac also started releasing records under the name of Makaveli instead of Tupac.