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Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur was born on June 16, 197 1 in Brooklyn New York by Afeni

Shakur who was a member of the Black Panther Party.Shortly after Tupac

was born Afeni changed his name from Lesane Parish Crooks to Tupac

Amaru Shakur which meant shining serpent , thankful to god. In 1983 legs

who was a drug dealer comes to live with the Shakur family and introduces

Afeni to crack. Since Tupac never knew his father,Tupac claims Legs as his

father.In the same year Tupac enrolls in the 127th street ensemble, a Harlem

Theater group which he made his acting debut in A Raisin in the Sun

Production. In 1986 at the age of 15 Tupac and his family moved to

Baltimore where he enrolled in the Baltimore school of arts and studied

Acting and ballet. While Tupac was still in the …show more content…
Later he got a general

equivancy diploma. In June of 1988 Tupac left home and moved in with a

friend where he starts selling drugs and wrote poetry. In August of 1988

Tupac's stepfather , Mutulu Shakur was sentenced to 60 years in prison for

armed robbery. Leila Steinberg bacame Tupac's first manager. Tupac

formed the group strictly dope with five other members. Later Steinberg

introduced Tupac to Shock-G of Digital Underground. Strictly Dope

recorded an album with TNT records that has never been released. Tupac

auditioned to join the group Digital Underground. In 1990 Shock-G took

Tupac as a roadie and dancer, and as he toured with the group, he worked

on his own material. Tupac got the nickname of "Rebel of the

Underground". Tupac made his recorded appearence on the Album "This is an EP release" and the song was titled "Same Song", and he also appeared

on their second album, Sons of the P. In 1991 Tupac was stopped by the

police for Jaywalking in Oakland, Tupac later filed a $10million dollar

lawsuit against Oakland police for brutality. During the year of 1991 Tupac

released his debut album 2Pacalypse which became a gold record with
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