People in small towns feared the Big Apple's reputation he called himself MC New York and made people think he was a tough guy.īy the time he was twenty, Tupac had been arrested eight times, even serving eight months in prison after being convicted of sexual abuse. That's when Tupac began to, as he called it, "Hang with the wrong crowd."Īt age fifteen, he fell into rap he started writing lyrics, walking with a swagger, and milking his background in New York for all it was worth. He moved to Oakland, California with the rest of his family. Unfortunately, Tupac was unable to continue his training. At this school, Tupac left a lasting impression on his teachers and was showing tremendous potential. As a young teen, his family moved to Baltimore, MD, where he attended The Baltimore School for the Performing Arts studying acting and ballet. I didn't have no buddies that I grew up with."īy the age of twelve, Tupac had discovered his loves for acting, writing love songs and poetry. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. No matter where they moved-the Bronx, Harlem, homeless shelters- Tupac was distressed. With Mutulu away, the family experienced hard times. This child's father, Mutulu, was a BlackPanther who, a few months before her birth, had been sentenced to sixty years for a fatal armored car robbery. When he was two, his sister, Sekyiwa, was born. "Shakur" means "Thankful To God" in Arabic.įrom childhood, everyone called him the "Black Prince." Formisbehaving, he had to read an entire edition of The New York Times. While still a small child, his mother changed his name to Tupac Amaru after an Inca Indian revolutionary, "Tupac Amaru", meaning "Shining Serpent". Tupac Shakur was born Lesane Parish Crooks in Brooklyn, NY in 1971.
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