Tupac

Tupac Shakur

  • Birth

    Birth
    Tupac Shakur was born in June 16, 1971 in Manhattan New York City. His mothers name was Afeni Shakur, and his father was Billy Garland.
  • Relocation and school

    Relocation and school
    In 1986, the family relocated to Baltimore, Maryland. After finishing his second year at Paul Dunbar High School he moved to Baltimore School for Arts, where he studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet. Shakur won most of the many rap competitions that he participated in and was considered to be the best rapper in his school
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  • Marin City

    Marin City
    In June 1988, Shakur and his family moved to Marin City, California, where he attended Tamalpais High School.
  • Poetry Class

    Poetry Class
    He began attending the poetry classes of Leila Steinberg in 1989
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  • Leila Steinberg

    Leila Steinberg
    Leila Steinberg organized a concert and that concert led him being signed with Atron Gregory who set him up as a backup dancer with a young rap group in 1990.
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  • Proffesional career starts

    Proffesional career starts
    Shakur's professional entertainment career began in the early 1990s, when he debuted his rapping skills in a vocal turn in Digital Underground's
  • Conflicts with the law

    Conflicts with the law
    Even as he gained attention as a rapper Tupac gained notice for his conflicts with the law In October 1991 he tried to file a 10 million civil law suit against the law enforcement of the Oakland Police Department because he said thah they brutally beat him for jaywalking
  • Contreversy with music

    Contreversy with music
    In 1992, a Texas state trooper was killed by a teenager who was listening to 2Pacalypse Now which included songs about killing police. This caused a swirl of media controversy.
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  • August 22, 1992

    August 22, 1992
    On August 22, 1992, in California, Shakur rapped at an outdoor festival, and stayed for an hour signing autographs and pictures. after a while arguments started, voices got loud; he pulled a gun and cocked it, and later it fell. Someone picked up the gun and a bullet discharged. Nobody in the crowd was shot, about 100 yards away, a 6 year old boy rode a bicycle at a schoolyard and was hit in the forehead with a bullet that killed him.
    After his release from Clinton Correctional Facility, Shaku
  • sexual charge

    sexual charge
    In November 1993, Shakur and others were charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a hotel room. According to the complaint, Shakur sodomized the woman and then encouraged his friends to sexually abuse her. Shakur denied the charges
  • Disk Goes Gold

    Disk Goes Gold
    Shakur formed the group Thug Life friends his stepbrother Mopreme Shakur, and Rated R. The group released their only record album Thug Life: Volume 1 on September 26, 1994, which went gold
  • Conflict with Biggie

    Conflict with Biggie
    On June 4, 1996, he and the Outlawz released the diss track "Hit 'Em Up", a lyrical assault on Biggie and others with him. In the track, Tupac claimed to have an intercourse with Faith Evans, Biggie's wife at the time.
  • Last Live Perdformance

    Last Live Perdformance
    On July 4, 1996, he performed live at the House of Blues with Outlawz,This was Tupacs's very last live performance.
  • Death

    Death
    On the night of September 7, 1996 At approximately 11:15 p.m. a white, four door Cadillac pulled up to the sedan's right side, rolled down one of the windows, and rapidly fired gunshots at Shakur