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Lesane Parish Crooks |
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2pac |
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Male |
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5' 7" |
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US - United States of America |
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| Date of Birth |
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June 16, 1971 |
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Brooklyn, New York |
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| Date of Death |
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September 13, 1996 |
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Las Vegas, Nevada |
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Biography |
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Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 - September 13, 1996) was born Lesane Parish Crooks in Brooklyn to Afeni Shakur, a member of the Black Panthers. At the age of 12, Shakur joined a Harlem theatre group and acted as Travis in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. In 1984 The Shakurs lived on Greenmount Ave., in East Baltimore. Tupac attended Roland Park Middle School. The following year he spent his freshman year at Paul Lawrence Dunbar High. For his sophomore year Tupac was accepted to the Baltimore School for the Arts. Shakur composed his first rap in Baltimore under the name "MC New York". Shakur then moved in with a neighbor and started selling drugs. He also made friends with Ray Luv, and with a mutual friend named DJ Dize (Dizz-ee), they started a rap group called Strictly Dope. Their recordings were later released in 2001 under the name Tupac Shakur: The Lost Tapes. In 1990, Shakur joined as a roadie and dancer for Digital Underground. On a song for the Nothing But Trouble movie soundtrack, Same Song, Tupac was given his first opportunity to rap on a big-time record. Shakur was a talented actor. He starred in Juice in 1991. He was hailed by Rolling Stone's Peter Travers as "The film's most magnetic figure." From 1991-1996, Shakur went on to star in Poetic Justice, Above the Rim, Gridlock'd, Bullet, and Gang Related.
In 1994, he formed the group Thug Life with his friends, including Big Syke, Macadoshis, his half-brother Mopreme, and Rated R. On February 7, 1995, Shakur was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. Shortly before his verdict was announced, in an apparent robbery attempt outside a music studio in New York, Shakur was shot five times. Soon after, his multi-platinum album, Me Against the World, was released. From jail, he married his long-time girlfriend, Keisha Morris. Shakur had a number of rivals. Most famous of all is probably his rivalry with The Notorious B.I.G. and his cohorts at Bad Boy Records. Shakur was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 7, 1996 after attending the boxing match. He died in the University of Nevada Hospital six days later. Shakur's last album before his death was The Don Killuminati: The Seven Day Theory. On November 14, 2003, a documentary about the rapper entitled Tupac: Resurrection, was released under the supervision of Afeni Shakur and narrated entirely in Pac's voice with archival footage. Proceeds will go to a charity set up by Afeni. There is also a new clothing line based on Shakur, called "Makaveli Branded."
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