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Birth
Shakur was originally named Lesane Parish Crooks, but his moniker was soon changed to Tupac Amaru Shakur."Tupac Amaru" means "shining serpent." -
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His Life
Born in New York City in 1971, Tupac Shakur, known by his stage name 2Pac, was an American rapper. Shakur has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. Most of Tupac's songs are about growing up amid violence and hardship in ghettos, racism, other social problems and conflicts with other rappers during the East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry. Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1996. -
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Rapper Carrer
His rap career began when he attended the Baltimore School where he took acting classes. There he discovered hip-hop and Began performing as MC New York. About in 1985 -
His first Album And Song
He joined the Oakland, California-based hip-hop group Digital Underground, which earlier had scored a hit with the song "The Humpty Dance." Shakur appeared on two of the group's recordings 1990's This Is an EP and Sons of the P before going solo. -
Jail
In 1994, he spent several days in jail for assaulting director Allen Hughes and was later convicted of sexual assault in another case. In this year Tupac fell victim to violence, getting shot five times in the lobby of a recording studio during a mugging. -
Jail again
After recovering from his injuries, Shakur was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in the sexual assault case. -
In the music again
After serving eight months in prison, Shakur returned to music with the album All Eyez on Me (1996).He was reportedly released after Death Row Records CEO Marion "Suge" Knight paid a bond of more than $1 million as part of Shakur's parole. -
His death
On a trip to Las Vegas to attend a boxing match, Shakur was shot while riding in a car driven by Knight on September 7, 1996. He died six days later, on September 13, 1996, from his injuries at a Las Vegas hospital.
