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Childhood and Personal information Do you know the rapper Tupac Shakur? Lesane Parish Crooks was born on June 16th 1971 in East Harlem New York. His mother Afeni Shakur was part of the Black Panther Party, which was a group that tried to help against Police brutality against African Americans. After joining the Black Panther Party his mother changed his name to Tupac Amaru Shakur. After Tupac’s father left him when he was five his mother did not have enough money, so she moved to Baltimore Maryland. According to biography.com the city was so full of crime they moved to a city called Marin City in California. Marin City was not that much better than Maryland, Tupac’s mother started her addiction to crack. Which got Tupac into drugs. When Tupac was 17 he met an older white woman, Leila Steinberg, in a park. Tupac was writing poetry, and convinced her to become his manager. Steinberg was able to get Tupac in front of a music manager Atron Gregory, who was able to get him a gig for a roadie and a dancer for the hip hop …show more content…

He pulled out his pistol, but dropped it in the melee. Someone picked it up, the gun fired. It hit a six year old bystander that instantly died. Tupac Shakur was not charged for his death. October 1993, Tupac shot and wounded two off-duty police officers after one of the officers threatened him with a stolen gun. The charges were dropped because the officers were drinking. In November 1994, he was shot multiple times in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio, by two black men that Tupac had thought his rival Biggie Small sent them to kill him. In February 1995, Tupac was sentenced to between one and half and four and a half years of jail time for sexually abusing a female fan. While in prison was in prison he was visited by Suge Knight, the notorious label boss of Death Row records. He offered to pay the 1.3 million dollar bail to be released pending his

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