By the time Tupac was born on June 16, 1971, his mother, Afeni Shakur, a member of the Black Panthers, had already defended herself in court and been acquitted on 156 counts. Living in the Bronx, she found steady work as a paralegal and tried to raise her son to respect the value of an education. Tupac's biological father, Billy Garland, was a truck driver who left before he was born. Afeni soon had another child with another member of the Black Panther Party, Mutulu Shakur. However, a few months before the birth of the girl, Mutulu was sentenced to 60 years in prison for a fatal armored car robbery.

With Mutulu away, the family experienced hard times. No matter where they moved-the Bronx, Harlem, homeless shelters-Tupac was troubled. As time passed, the issue of his father tormented him. The loneliness began to wear on him. He retreated into writing love songs and poetry. His mother enrolled him in the 127th St

2pac was about to release his next album The Don Killuminati under the alias Makaveli when tragedy struck. He and Suge Knight were attending 2pac's old friend Mike Tyson's fight against Bruce Seldom fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sep. 7, 1996. After the fight in the lobby, Tupac and Suge spotted Orlando Anderson, a reputed gangster with the crips that stole a Death Row chain a few weeks earlier. They attacked him, which was caught on security tape, and then stormed out of the MGM. Pulling up to an intersection, Tupac and his entourage were on their way to a charity concert at Death Row Records Club 662 when a car pulled up to the right of them. The men got out of the car and unloaded their guns into the car Tupac and Suge were in. Tupac lived in the hospital for seven days before succumbing to his wounds.

In Baltimore, at age fifteen, he fell into rap; he started writing lyrics, walking with a swagger, and milking his background in New York for all it was worth. People in small towns feared the Big Apple's reputation; he called himself MC New York and made people think he was a tough guy. He enrolled in the illustrious Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studied acting and ballet with white kids and finally felt "in touch" with himself.

reet Ensemble, a theater group in the impoverished Harlem section of Manhattan, where he landed his first role at age twelve, that of Travis in A Raisin in the Sun. Soon after, however, his mother tried to take a step in the right direction by moving the family to Baltimore.

tell all my people i'm a Ridah/nobody cries when we die

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