Birth Name: Lesane Parish Crooks
Government Name: Tupac Amaru Shakur
Born: June 16, 1971
Died: September 13, 1996
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 165
Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York
Place Of Death: Las Vegas, Nevada
Occupation: Rapper/Actor
Marital Status:
Father: William Garland
Step Father: Jeral Wayne Williams a/k/a Mutula Shakur
Half Sister: Sekyiwa Shakur
Half Brother: Maurice Harding (Mopreme of Thug Life)
Godfather: Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt
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September 1968: Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur, joins the New York Black Panther party at age 22.
April 1969: Afeni is arrested and charge with conspiracy to bomb several public areas in New York City. While out on bail, Afeni courts two men: Legs, a local hood and Billy, a member of the party.
Febuary 1971: Afeni, pregrent with Tupac, has her bail revoked; she's sent to the Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village.
June 16, 1971: Shortly after his is acquitted on the bombing charges Tupac Amaru Shakur are Inca words meaning "Shing Serpan." Shakur is Arabic for "thankful to god".
1975-1983: Tupac's family shuttles between the Bronx and Harlem, at times living in shelters.
1983: Legs comes to live with the Shakur family; Tupac "claims" him as his father. Legs introduces Afeni to crack.
September 1983: Afeni enrolls 12-year-old Tupac in the 127th Street Ensemble, a Harlem theater group. In his first performance, Tupac plays Travis in Rasin in the Sun.
June 1986: Skaur's family moves to Baltimore. As MC New York, Tupac writes his first rap.
September 1986: Tupac enrolls at the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studies ballet and acting.
June 1988: Tupac and his family move to Marin City California, "Leaving that school that affected me so much" he said later. "I see that as the point where I got off track." Shortly after, Tupac moves in with a neighbor and begins selling drugs.
August 1988: Mutulu Shakur, Tupac's stepfather, is sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 armored car robbery.
1990: Tupac joins Digital Underground as a roadie/dancer/rapper. While on tour he learns his mother is using crack.
January 3, 1991: Tupac makes his recording debut on Digital Underground's This Is an E.P. Release and makes a spotlight appearence in Same Song
November 12, 1991: 2Pacalypse Now is released. Shortly thereafter, Tupac files a $10 million lawsuit against the Oakland Police for alleged brutality following an arrest for jaywalking
January 17, 1992: Tupac makes his big-screen debut in Ernest Dickerson's Juice, earning praise for his portrayal of Bishop. He entered the set, reading lines cold-turkey with such emotion that many wondered if he was actually playing himself and was offered the part immediately. His is perhaps best remembered for the line "I am crazy. And I don't give a fuck!"
April 11. 1992: Ronald Ray Howard, 19, shoots a Texas tropper. Howard's attorney claims 2Pacalypse Now, which was in his client's tape deck, incited him to kill.
August 22, 1992: Tupac has an altercation with old acquaintences in Marin CIty. A 6 year old bystander (Natasha?) is shot in the head. Tupac's half brother, Maurince Harding is arrested but released due to lack of evidence.
September 22, 1992: Tupac is denouced by Vice President Dan Quayle who says 2Pacalypse Now "has no place in our society."
Febuary 1, 1993: Stictly 4 my N. I.G.G.A.Z. is released and eventually goes platinum.
March 13, 1993: Tupac has a fight with a limo driver in Hollywood who accuses him of using drugs in the car. Tupac's arrested but charges are dropped.
April 5, 1993: Tupac is arrest in Lanisng Michigan, for taking a swing at a local rapper with a baseball bat during a concert. He's sentenced to ten days in jail.
July 23, 1993: John Singleton's Poetic Justice, starring Tupac and Janet Jackson, is released. Before filming began, Jackson demanded that Shakur take an HIV test before she would do any kissing scenes.
October 31, 1993: Tupac is arrested for allegedly shooting two off-duty Alanta police officers who he says were harassing a black motorist. Charges are eventually dropped.
November 18, 1993: A 19 year-old woman, whom picked up days earlier in a New York night club is allegedly sodomized and sexually abused by the rapper and three friends.
December 1993: John Singleton is forced to by Columbia Pictures to drop the rapper from the cast of Higher Learning.
March 10, 1994: Tupac is sentenced to 15 days in jail for punching out director out director Allen Hughes (Hughes and his brother, Albert had dropped Tupac from Menance II Society.
March 23, 1994: Tupac starts as Birdie, a troubled drug dealer, in Above the Rim. The soundtrack, featuring the song, "Pour out a little Liquor" recorded by Tupac's group Thug Life, and featuring the mega hit, "Regulators" by an upcoming Warren G and Nate Dogg goes platinium. Thug Life, sells two million copies.
September 7, 1994: Two Milwaukee teens murder a police officer and cite Tupac's "Souljah's Story" as their inspiration.
November 30, 1994: While on trail for sex and weapons charges, Tupac is shot five times and robbed for $40,000 worth of jewlry in the lobby of a Times Square recording Stuido. Tupac checks himself out of the hospital less than three hours after surgery. The case remains unsolved.
December 1, 1994: Tupac is acquitted of sodomy and weapons charges but is found guilty of sexual abuse.
Febuary 14, 1995: Tupac is sentenced to up to four-and-half years and immediately begins serving jail time in New York's Rikers Island Penitentiary.
April 1, 1995: While he's incarcerated, Tupac's third album, Me Against the World, debuts at No. 1 on Billboard charts in Pop and R & B. Fueled by the single Dear Mama, Tupac goes double platinum in seven months. He is the first artist ever to be a #1 artist while in jail.
April 5, 1995: In a VIBE interview from jail, Tupac renouces his "Thug Life" persona and commits himself to positive work.s. He also immplicates after rumor Biggie Smalls, Puffy Combs, Andre Hall and his closest friend Stretch and others in the recording studio ambush.
August 1995: Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight posts a $1.4 million bond to release Tupac, who immediately flies to L.A., and sings with Death Row, and begins recording All Eyez on Me.
November 30, 1995: Exactly one year of Tupac's shooting, Randy "Stretch" Walker is murdered execution-style in Queens.
Febuary 13, 1996: Tupac's Death Row Debut, All Eyez on Me - rap's first double CD - is released.
March 29, 1996: Words are exchanged and gun is pulled when Death Row and Bad Boy employees face off after Soul Train Awards in Los Angeles.
April 25, 1996: All Eyez on me goes quintuple platinium.
May 1996: Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dog released "2 of Americaz Most Wanted" music video. In the video, caricatures of Biggie and Puffy are punished for setting up Tupac.
June 4, 1996: Death Row releases Tupac's "Hit 'em Up" a fiery brutal diatrabe against Biggie, Bad Boy, Mobb Deep and others.
September 4, 1996: Tupac returns to New York for the MTV Music Video Awards and gets into a scuffle.
September 7, 1996: After leaving the Mike Tyson - Bruce Seldon fight in Las Vegas in Suge Knights car, Shakur is shot four times in the chest by a assailant in a whie Cadillic. Knight, who has connections with the Bloods, escapes with minor injury. Shakru is rushed to University Medical Center, where he undergoes surgury, including the removal of his right lung.
September 11, 1996: A compton man say is associated with the L.A. Crips is shot to death while sitting in his car, the first in a series of gang-related murders. Police begin investigating the possible connections to Tupac's shooting.
Friday, September 13, 1996, After six days in critical condition, Tupac Shakur is pronouced dead at 4:03 P.M. His body with cremated.
He was 25.
November 5, 1996: makaveli Album, the Don Killuminati: The 7 day theory, released. The mysterious album peaks at #1 on both Pop and R &B charts and goes platium
December 31, 1996: MTV selects California Love music video as the #3 music video of 1996 under Smashing Pumpkins and Alanis Morsett. The music video cost nearly $1.2 million to shoot and is inspired by the movie "Madd Max" starring Mel Gibson.
January 28, 1997 - Gridlock'd Soundtrack is released. It tops charts as #1 pop and R&B albums on Billboard.
January 29, 1997 - The movie, Gridlock'd, is released in movie theaters.
