Interesting Tupac Facts

• Tupac's given name was Lesane Crooks. He was the sone of Afeni Shakur (government name Alice Fay Walker) who was one of the defendants at the Panther 21 trial.
  
  
• Tupac studied drama at Baltimore's School For The Arts, where he rapped under the name MC New York.
  
  
• At the Baltimore School of the arts, Tupac met Jada Pinkett, who would become a close friend of his
  
• Tupac was planned to act in the movies Cool Runnings, Higher Learning, Menace II Society and How To Be A Player.
  
• As a young man, Tupac also studied ballet and dance.
  
  
• Tupac Amauru Shakur was named after an Inca Indian chief, "Tupac Amaru" means "Shining serpent" and "Shakur" means "thankfukl to god" in Arabic.
  
  
• When Tupac was 12 years old, his mother enrolled him in Harlems 127thSt Ensemble. He played Travis in "A Raisin in The Sun" in his first acting role.
  
  
• While he was with Digital Underground, someone once shoved a 12 gauge shotgun in Tupac's face because of a dispute over a woman at a Martin Luther King Jr festival.
  
  
• Tupac said the individual letters in his THUG LIFE tattoo stood for "The Hate U Give Little Infants F-ck Everybody"
  
  
• Tupac said that because of his moms ties with the Black Panthers, the FBI was always after him and his family.
  
  
• Tupacs first appearence ever was on Digital Undergrounds Same Song where he raps wearing West African war clothes in the video.
  
  
• Kidada Jones, daughter of Quincy Jones and fiancé of Tupac, has a tattoo of Tupac on her arm.
  
  
• Porn Star Spontaneous XXXStacy, whos been in mags like Portfolioand Players has a tatoo on her arm with Tupacs name and the title of the song "Keep Ya Head Up."
  
  
• Tupac has a huge cross on his back that says Exodus 18:11 a reference to where the bible says "Now I know That the Lord is Greater Than All Gods because he delivered the people from the hands of the Egyptions when they dealt with them arrogantly."
  
  
• Tupac started his career on Tommy Boy Records with Digital Underground.
  
  
• Tupac was first inspired to rap when a friend of his was killed while he was playing with a gun. His first rap was about gun control.
  
  
• When he first moved to California, Tupac was homeless for 2 years.
  
  
• In the movie Juice, Tupac plays Bishop and said the now famous line "Yeah I'm crazy, but you know what? I dont give a f-ck."
  
  
• Tupac wanted to name his first child Star.