During his short life , Tupac Amaru Shakur (a.k.a. 2Pac) became a living symbol of his generation's frustration and rage. As a rapper, his songs often depicted the misery, desperation, and violence of ghetto life. As a personality, he easily embodied the common street thug that spoke his mind and soul. As an actor, he was charismatic and very natural, he appeared in five films and was offered a chance at the big screen in a variety of personas. But Shakur never had time to realize any of these embodiments. 1992 Ernest Dickensons "Juice." The son of political activists Afeni Shakur and Billy Garland, Tupac grew up a troubled child. His home life was unstable, and he ended up moving from one inner-city community to another. Because of that instability, Shakur sought to assert himself through gangs. By the time he was twenty, Shakur had been arrested eight times, even serving eight months in prison after being convicted of sexual

New York November 30, 1994, Tupac and several friends went down to Quad Recording studio slightly after midnight to do some rapping for an East Coast rapper named Little Shawn. " I pressed the elevator button, turned around, and that's when the dudes came out with the guns." Tupac Shakur (They Died Too Young) The gunmen ordered everyone down on the floor, but Tupac simply stood frozen where he was as his buddies dropped to the floor. After frisking Tupac for a gun, the gunmen ordered him to hand over his jewels-a thirty thousand ring, ten thousand in golden chains and a diamond-studded Rolex. He refused to take them off. The gunmen shot Tupac five times. Still conscious, Tupac fell to the floor, where he played dead as the robbers kicked him, beat him, and removed his jewelry. After the robbery, Tupac and the others went up to the studio. Already, Tupac was suspicious that the robbery had been set up. He was sure the robbers had known him. He had felt uneasy before he entered the building, because "this guy knew somebody I had major beef with" They Died Too Young p28.

Tupac's success started in 1990, the group released its debut and best album, Sex Packets, a pulsating testament to the boogie power of hip-hop, featuring two classic tracks, "Humpty Dance" and "Doowutchyalike." These songs started the base today's artists still use as standards. Tupac unexpectedly landed his first movie role while he was on tour with Digital Underground in New York. When D.U. rapper Money B went to audition for the role of Bishop in the movie Juice, Tupac decided to tag along. Although he hadn't intended on auditioning, director Ernest Dickenson invited him to read for the part. And Tupac simply "blew everyone else out of the water" They Died Too Young p20. Rap was getting big and young artists were coming up in the world very quickly. After an EP of the re-mixes in 1991, Digital Underground released Sons of the P and, the following year, The Body Hat Syndrome, all on

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