2pac
On September 13, 1996, 7 days after being shot while leaving a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas, Tupac Amaru Shakur became hip-hop’s first martyr. At 25, 2pac and his music had frequently focused on his own death, but after cheating it once, he was not so lucky the second time, and rap’s own Malcolm X was silenced. 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
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Death Row, Digital Underground, Life Goes, Infants F****, Los Angeles, School Arts, Snoop Dogg, Suge Tupac, Amaru Shakur, Niccolo Machiavelli, death row, death row records, suge knight, tupac suge, las vegas, row records, ya head, own death, alias makaveli,
Approximate Word count = 1558
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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