tupac shakur

Tupac shakur

Tupac life began as Lesane Parish Crooks in Harlem, New York, on June 16, 1971. His mother, Afeni Shakur was actively involved with the Black Panther party: she also renamed young Lensane Parish as Tupac Amaru, after an 18^th-century Peruvian revolutionary who was killed by the Spanish. Then she became pregnant with her son in 1970 while on bail after being charged with conspiring to set off a race war. Afeni died in May 2016 at the age of 69, Tupac’s father, Billy Garland, was also a panther but lost contact with Afeni when Tupac was five years old and the rapper would not see his father again until he was 23, also Tupac has a sister two years younger than him, however they didn’t have the same father and Sekiya’s father, Mutulu Shakur, did not stick around.

Shakur was raised in Bronx and Harlem, and at the age of 13 he made his acting debut in a production of Raisin in the Sun at an Apollo Theatre for Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign. He spent most of his childhood moving around with his mother, as well as he attended the Baltimore School of the Arts before dropping out and settling, at the age of 17, in Marin County, California as well as Shakur wrote poetry for example: “The world moves fast and it would rather pass You by, than to stop and see what makes you cry”, is one verse he wrote as teenager that would eventually be published in the 2000 book, The Rose that Grew from Concrete. It was in Marin City that Afeni give in to crack addiction a drug , Tupac, would sell on the same streets as his mother bought her supply but Tupac’s love for hip hop would steer him away from a life of crime.

At 17, in the spring of 1989, he met an older white woman, Leila Steinberg, in a park. They had a conversation about Winnie Mandela. By the time they met, Tupac was obsessively writing poetry and convinced Steinberg, who had no music industry experience, to become his manager. Then Steinberg was eventually able to get Tupac a auditioned to become a dancer and roadie for the rap group named Digital Underground, then he soon stepped up to the mic, making his recording debut in 1991 on same song, which sound tracked the Dan Aykroyd comedy nothing but trouble, and Tupac also appeared on Digital Underground’s album son of the p in October that year.

After the band’s manager, Gregory, took over from Steinberg. He gave Tupac a deal with interscope Records. A month after sons of the p hit the stores came 2pacalypse now, Tupac’s debut album as a solo artist.In August 1992, Tupac was attacked by jealous teens in Marin City. He drew his pistol but dropped it in the brawl. Someone picked it up, the gun fired, and a six year old bystander, dropped dead. Even though Tupac was not charged for the death of that child, he was reportedly devastated. In October 1993, Tupac shot and wounded two white off-duty cops in Atlanta, however the charges were dropped after it emerged in court that the policemen had been drinking, had started the incident, and that one of the officers had threatened Tupac with a stolen gun. The case illustrated the misrepresentation of African-American males, and the attitude of some police towards them, which Tupac had been talking about in his music. What was portrayed as gangster behaviour by a lawless individual turned out to be an act of self-defence by a young man in fear of his life and Tupac’s star continued to rise.

Tupac vs Biggie smalls, before Tupac released his third album, there was more trouble. In November 1994, he was shot multiple times in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio, Quad, by two young black men. Tupac believed his rap rival Biggie smalls was behind the shooting, for which nobody has ever been charged. Smalls always denied he knew anything; in 2011 Dexter Isaac a New York
prisoner serving a life sentence for an unrelated crime, claimed he was paid to steal from Shakur by the artist manager. In February 1995, Tupac was sentenced to between one and half and four and a half years of jail times for sexually abusing a female fan. The case related to an incident that he was accused of rape in the New York Parker Meridien hotel in November 1993.

Also Tupac's diss record"Hit Em Up" ft OutLawz sent shockwaves in hip-hop history aimed directly at Biggie smals and Puff Daddy in the middle of their national feud ,Tupac's former friend became his rival.