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Famous Hip Hop Artist Tupac Shakur: Famous Rap Artist
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Famous rap artist Tupac Shakur was born June 16, 1971. He grew up in the west Harlem of New York City. Tupac Shakur began his career as a MC for the hip hop group Digital Underground ,and then started to begin his solo career as a rap artist . Tupac Shakur's songs started to become popular when his songs was about the violence in cities, racism and many other different problems. Both of his parents and other people in his family were in the Black Panther.Tupac Shakur lived in the times were many people were in the Black Liberation Army and got most of them serious criminal stuff. Tupac godfather Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt was high ranked in the Black Panther, He was being accused of murdering a school teacher during a 1968

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