TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR 2 PAC MAKAVELI BIOGRAPHY BORN
TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR 2 PAC, MAKAVELI
BIOGRAPHY • BORN: JUNE 16, 1971 • EAST HARLEM, NEW YORK CITY, NY • ORIGINAL NAME BEFORE TUPAC WAS LESANE PARISH CROOKS • RAPPER, ACTOR, POET
EARLY LIFE • SON OF BLACK PANTHER ACTIVISTS • RAISED ONLY BY HIS MOTHER • MOTHER HEAVILY ABUSED DRUGS • DIFFICULT CHILDHOOD, FREQUENTLY MOVING AROUNDNY CITY
INTEREST IN MUSIC • AT A YOUNG AGE HE JOINED AHARLEM-BASED THEATRE GROUP • 127 TH STREET ENSEMBLE • ATTENDED BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS • TOOK ACTING AND DANCE CLASSES • DISCOVERED RAP WHILE LIVING INBALTIMORE • BEGAN RAPPING AS “MC NEW YORK”
RAP CAREER • LATE 1980 ST , UPAC AND FAMILY MOVED TOCALIFORNIA • STARTED USING 2 PAC ANDMAKAVELI AS HIS RAP NAME • JOINED OAKLAND-BASED HIP-HOP GROUPDIGITAL UNDERGROUND • 1991 DEBUT ALBUM “ 2 PACALYPSE NOW” • 2 ND ALBUM “STRICTLY 4 MY ____” WENT PLATINUM • SOLD OVER A MILLION COPIES
ACTING CAREER • AROUND THE SAME TIME AS HIS RAP DEBUT, HE ALSO BEGAN HIS ACTING CAREER • MADE HIS DEBUT IN THE MOVIE J“ UICE” • WENT ON TO ACT IN “POETIC JUSTICE”, “ABOVE THE RIM”, “GRIDLOCK'D”, “BULLET”, AND “GANG RELATED”
CRIMINAL CAREER • NEVER HAD A RECORD UNTIL MOVING TOCALIFORNIA • MULTIPLE SHOOTING INCIDENTS • 1995 FOUND GUILTY OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND SENTENCED TO PRISON • WHILE HE WAS HEADED TO PRISON, HIS 1995 ALBUMM“E AGAINST THE WORLD” WAS HEADED TO THE TOP OF THE CHARTS • SERVED ONLY 8 MONTHS OF HIS 4 AND A HALF YEAR SENTENCED • RELEASED ON $1. 4 MILLION BOND PAID BY DEATH ROW LABEL CEO MARION KNIGHT
2 PAC’S FINAL ALBUM • AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM PRISON 2 PAC SIGNED WITHMARION KNIGHT’S DEATH ROW RECORDS • SOON RELEASED 2 DISC ALBUM A “ LL EYEZ ON ME” • RATED #1 INPOP AND #1 INR&B CHARTS IN 1996 • TOP SONGS INCLUDED “HOW DO YOU WANT IT” AND C “ ALIFORNIA LOVE” • HTTPS: //WWW. YOUTUBE. COM/WATCH? V=H UB 86 WHZ 658
2 PAC’S DEATH • SEPTEMBER 7, 1996 • GOT IN A “SCUFFLE” WITHMARION KNIGHT AT MGM GRAND HOTEL • THIS INCIDENT LED TO KNIGHT BEING ARRESTED FOR VIOLATING HIS PAROLE • 2 HOURS LATER 2 PAC WAS RIDINGKINNIGHT’S BMW NEAR THELAS VEGAS STRIP WHEN HE WAS SHOT • DIED 6 DAYS LATER IN THE HOSPITAL • CONSPIRACIES?
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