tupac
  This is the life of tupac shakur and the things that he went through as a child and during his rap career and how fast it ended over a revelry   with another rapper. Tupac shakur was born June 16 , 1971 he grew up in east Harlem Manhattan . He was named tupac after a Peruvian   revolutionary who had led a indigenous uprising against the Spanish . While growing up in Harlem tupac’s parents afeni   shakur and billy shakur were active members of the black panthers in new York during the late 1960s through the 1970s .
While growing up tupac’s mother was always worried that her enemies would one day attack her son so she always lived in fear of him getting hurt . At the age of twelve years old tupac shakur was enrolled in Harlem’s 125th street repertory ensemble and was casted as Travis younger in his school play this place took place in the Apollo theater the play was called a rasin in the sun . After the play him and his family relocated to Baltimore, Maryland .
After he completed his seconded year of Paul Laurence Dunbar high school he was transferred to Baltimore school of arts . That’s were he started taking classes of potry and acting that’s were he got passionate about poetry he also studied jazz and ballet . After he finished studding all those subjects he started to get into most rap competitions and won most of them and over time he was named the best rapper in his school .   After June of 1988 tupac and his family moved once more this time they moved to Maryland city , California .
After moving to Maryland he know attended tamalpais high school . Later that year he attended poetry classes in 1989 . That same year he then performed a concert with his rap group strictly dope. The concert then led to tupac getting singed with Atron Gregory witch set him up with up coming rap group digital underground he was asked to be a rode and a back up dancer for the rap group .
He eventually left the back up dancer life and formed his own rap group called... [continues]

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