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Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in Brooklyn, NY. in 1971. He moved from there to numerous places, mainly to the Bronx, then to Baltimore, Harlem and back and forth, most of the time living in homeless shelters. In Baltimore he attended The Preforming arts school here he met Jada Pinkett who also attended the school. He was known as MC New York here. At 17 2pac moved to Marin County across the Golden Gate bridge from San Francisco on the Westcoast, here he learned of street life and soon moved out of his mothers house and moved in with some drug dealers. He then began a life of dealing and hustling till he had money. Soon he met a white single mother of three, Leila Steinburg, they met in a park one afternoon. She was reading a book when 2pac came along and said 'Thats a good one' and recited lines from it, she said she turned around and seen a stunnin young man. She invited him to stay at her house and became his manager. Tupac suggested that she tell all the record labels that he'd be the highest selling rap artist ever, she called Atron Gregory, manager of Digital underground, and repeated his claim. "The greatest huh?" Greg said, and then said I'll give him a chance as a DU ( Digital Underground ) roadie and then as a dancer for the group while they were on tour. As Humpties Dance blew up 2pac found himself on tour all over the place dancing with blow up rubber dolls. He then made his debut on Digitals song 'Same Song', he made a good impression on Interscope records who signed him there and then for a solo career.

At the same time he went along to a casting audition with Digital Undergrounds Money B, Money read the script and did a pretty bad bit of acting it out and then Pac said 'Man I can do this shit' and 2pac read the part cold turkey and was hired to play Bishop in the movie JUICE. Here he played a physcotic teenager of Harlem that desperatly wants the power and respect of all the ghetto. Some people wondered if 2pac was acting or just being himself. The film was a big success and then he released his gold selling album '2Pacalypse Now'. This album attracted vice president Dan Quales attention coz of the way the lyrics were, and he had this album pulled from stores. But this was not stopping 2pac he then went to release 'Strictly 4 my N.I.G.G.A.Z' which went double platinum.. He then made another movie with Janet Jackson titled 'Poetic Justice', here he stirred things up by refusing Janet an AIDS test.. The movie was a success too but him and Janet finished the movie no longer on speaking terms.

In 1994 while enjoying his success he was arrested and accussed of raping a 19 year old woman. He denied it but he was given a court case. Tupac claims that he was not in the same room as the girl when she was raped. He left after 2 other men came in, while she gave 2pac a massage, and they started to touch the girl up. She didn't object so he left them all to it and went and had a rest in another room as he was tired. In this year 2pac was also accused of a violent attack on an off duty police officer. It was when 2pac went to a recording studio in New York where The Notorious BIG and his crew were also recording that he was shot 5 times and robbed of $40, 000 worth of jewellery. Instead of phoning an ambulance and going to hospital he went up to the recording studio. When he got up there Little Shawn burst out crying and Puffy and Biggie couldn't look Pac in the face. Because of this he believed that Biggie had set him up and this started the Biggie/Pac beef and the West/East coast shit. 2Pac phoned his girlfriend, mother and then an ambulance. 2pac was adamant that Biggie had set him up as the men had been waiting in the lobby and they came straight at Pac, he believed it even more so as Biggie and his crew had way more jewellery than Pac had been wearing. The officers that testified against him in the rape case turned up and started saying 'Hows it hangin Tupac' and started looking at all his wounds and laughing. Puffy and Biggie always denied setting him up claiming they new nothing of what happened. Pac then checked himself out of the hospital just hours after being shot to attend his court case, he was sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison. While in prison he released 'Me Against The World' it was the first time a jailed man had a number one album. On the song 'Old School' he gave mad props to NY and LL Cool J. While he was in jail he wanted 2 know who shot him but he already suspected Biggie and Puffy, Biggie then released the song 'Who shot ya' which made Pac very mad and very soon after LL COOL J released 'I shot ya'. The East/West coast rap war had just begun. 2PAC was then bailed from Jail with help from Marion ''Suge'' Knight. Bail was set at just over 1 million dollars. He then signed to Deathrow Records. He signed a three album deal, despite being advised not to sign with them, he told a friends hours before he signed to them that he knew he was selling his soul to the devil. He then collaborated with artists such as Snoop Dogg, Tha dogg pound, Daz, Kurrupt, Dr Dre, Outlaw Immortalz and other artists. He then started working on 2 movies, 'Gridlock'd' and 'Gang Related'. He also released the 7 times platinum album 'ALL EYEZ ON ME' which was a classic album.

The beef with Biggie and the West/East coast war was still going strong and it was at the 96 Soul Train Awards that Pac and Suge held a gun to Biggie and Puffy's crew. (Wasn't Puffy a no show at this?) On September 7th shortly after he finished his album 'Makaveli The Don; The 7 Day Theory', him and Suge attended the Tyson/Seldon fight in which it ended after 2 minutes. Pac and Suge confronted Orlando Anderson and kicked and punched him, accusing him of stealing a Deathrow employees Deathrow necklace a month earlier at a mall. He and Suge left and went back to Suges apartment to change, they then left an hour later where a white cadilac pulled up at an intersection and opened fire on 2pac and Suge. 2PAC was hit 4 times and Suge was grazed in the head by a bullet. Suge done a u turn on the road and headed to the hospital but before they could get there they were pulled over by the police and made to get out of the car and lay on the floor with their hands behind their heads even though they were the victims. Now this is kinda strange as Pac had been shot 4 times and should have been bleeding a fair bit but if you look at pictures of the BMW (the ones where its pulled over and the police are checking it out preferably) there seems to be no blood on the roads or pavement. Even when you have a nose bleed you still drip a fair amount of blood and is fairly noticeable on a pavement. So, for someone who was shot 4 times, in major places as well, Pac managed to keep the road and pavements free of blood, which in my opinion is fairly strange. 2PAC was in hospital for 6 days until he died on Friday the 13th September. His murder remains unsolved. Was it Bad Boy, Suge or The Southside Crips? Orlando Anderson was later seen driving a white cadilac similar to the one involved in the shooting and people on the streets of Compton told police that Orlando was bragging about killing him. A year and a half later he was killed. Kadafi, a member of the Outlawz who says he new who shot Pac and was gonna tell was also killed. He was shot in the head execution style. No one was arrested, the only suspect was shot, the only witness who was gonna talk was executed and people say that the Police made no effort to try and solve 2pacs murder. Afeni Shakur claims that she knows who shot Pac, as does Suge but they won't say who it was. A lot of people think that he faked his death, to do this I think that 2pac would of needed alot of money to do this, but his mom claims that he wasn't gettin paid with money, just cars and houses that were in Suges name, not 2pacs. But the 7 day theory is so weird that he has to be alive OR...........................WHO KNOWS...

APRIL 1969: Afeni Shakur is picked up and arrested for conspiracy to bomb several public areas in NY CITY. During this time, Afeni Shakur is released on bail and during this time "lopes" with two men. One, 2pac knows as "Legs" and the other Billy. Billy is involved with the Black Panther Movement.

FEBRUARY 1971: Afeni Shakur is sent to a Women's House of Detention while pregant with Tupac.

JUNE 16th, 1971: Afeni Shakur is acquitted on the charges brought against her, and in Tupac Shakur is born in the state of New York.

(TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR) TUPAC AMARU is named after Inca words meaning "shining serpent". SHAKUR is arabic for "thankful to God."

1974-1983: Tupac's family living in the Bronx, moves to Harlem. It is mentioned that during this time, Tupac and family were moving from shelter to shelter for a place to live.

SEPTEMBER 1983: At age 12, Tupac is enrolled in the 127th Street Ensemble, which at the time is a Harlem Theater Group. Tupac appears in a small play, A Rasin in the Sun.

JUNE 1986: The Shakur family moves out of Harlem, and into Baltimore. Tupac during this time takes the name MC NEW YORK and starts what will later become his great rapping career.

SEPTMEBER 1986: Tupac is enrolled in the Baltimore School for the Arts. He studies acting, continues his career writing rap, and does some ballet.

JUNE 1988: Once again, Tupac and family move, this time to Marin City. It is in Marin City that Tupac begins selling drugs to make some money.

AUGUST 1988: Mutulu Shakur, Tupac's "Stepfather" is laid down a sentence of 60 years in prison for the 1981 Armored Car robbery, leaving Tupac again without a father figure.

MARCH 1990: Tupac joins the group Digital Underground as a roadie. While touring, he becomes favored amongst others in the group, and they make him a dancer/rapper for their shows. While away on tours, Tupac says he learns of his mother's use of crack.

NOVEMBER 12 1991: Tupac releases 2Pacalypse Now. During this same year, Tupac files a 10 million dollar lawsuit against Oakland Police Department for a jaywalking incident that turns brutal.

JANUARY 1992: Tupac takes his acting skills to the test, and is given a role in Ernest Dickerson's JUICE. Tupac's character Bishop shines the spot light.

AUGUST 22 1992: While in Marin City, Tupac attends the 50th Ann. of the city and it's during this party that an altercation takes place with Tupac and some of his long time enemies. During the fight, a 6 year old little girl is shot and killed.

SEPTEMBER 1992: Dan Quayle takes aim at Tupac and says that the album 2Pacalypse Now "Has no place in our society."

FEBRUARY 1993: Tupac releases his next album, STRICTLY 4 MY N.I.G.G.A.Z is released and goes platinum.

MARCH 1993: A limo driver accuses Tupac of using drugs in his limo while in Hollywood and files a report. Tupac is arrested but the charges are later dropped.

APRIL 1993: Tupac is again arrested, this time in Michigan for swinging at a rapper with a baseball bat. Tupac is sentenced to 10 days in jail.

JULY 23, 1993: POETIC JUSTICE, a John Singleton film is released featuring Tupac Shakur and Janet Jackson. During the production of the movie, Tupac and Janet get off on bad terms when he refuses to take a HIV test that Janet wants him to take.

OCTOBER 31, 1993: Tupac is arrested for allegedly shooting two off duty police officers. Tupac states that the officers were harassing a black motorist near by. The charges are later dropped do to lack of evidence.

NOVEMBER 22 1993: Tupac is arrested again this time for allegedly sodomizing and sexually abusing a 19 year old woman just 4 days before.

DECEMBER 1993: Tupac is dropped from his role in HIGHER LEARNING.

MARCH 10 1994: Tupac faces 15 days in jail for knocking out director Allen Hughes for being dropped from MENACE II SOCIETY.

MARCH 23 1994: ABOVE THE RIM is released, Tupac playing the role of Birdie.

NOVEMBER 30 1994: Tupac is shot five times in the lobby of Times Square recording studio, and robbed of 40k worth of jewelery. (Theres a history to this, but I don't have the time right this second to go into this one. I will post this later) After surgery, it is recorded that Tupac checked himself out of the hospital less than 3 hours after he is placed in the Att. Care unit. Tupac states that he didn't feel safe being there and had a hearing the next day.

DECEMBER 1 1994: Tupac beats the sodomy and weapons charges brought against him, but is found guilty for sexual abuse with the 19 year old woman.

FEBRUARY 14, 1995: Tupac is sentenced to a max time of 4 1/2 years and is sent to serve time at New York's Rikers Island penitentiary.

APRIL 1, 1995: ME AGAINST THE WORLD hits #1 on the Billboards. The hit "Dear Mama" is on that album. This album later goes double platinum.

OCTOBER 1995: Death Row CEO Suge Knight puts up 1.4 million dollars bond for the release of Tupac Shakur. Tupac flies directly to L.A. and signs a 3 album deal with Death Row Records. It is in this time that Tupac starts the production of ALL EYEZ ON ME.

NOVEMBER 30, 1995: Randy Walker, aka Stretch is murdered in Queens, New York. Stretch was a close friend of Tupacs, that Tupac mentioned as one of the men who had set him up in the Time Square shootiing.

DECEMBER-FEBRUARY 1995/1996: Tupac starts slingin' that he has been sleeping with Biggie's wife, singer Faith Evans. During this time to present, Faith denies all such stories.

FEBRUARY 13, 1996: ALL EYEZ ON ME is released under Death Row Records, being the first double CD to come from rap.

MARCH 29, 1996: During the Soul Train awards, Death Row and Bad Boy employees have a heated confrontation. During this fight, a gun is pulled and later is linked to following events. (Soul Train awards was held in Los Angeles.)

APRIL 1996: ALL EYEZ ON ME goes quintuple platinum. Tupac's career with Death Row seems to be bonded 4 life, and his career seems untouchable.

JUNE 4, 1996: Tupac's "HIT EM UP" is released under Death Row. In this video, Tupac hits hard against Bad Boy, Mobb Deep, Biggie, and the whole East Coast crew connected to Bad Boy Ent.

SEPTEMBER 4, 1996: During the MTV MUSIC AWARDS, a fight breaks out between Tupac and some Bad Boy employees and fans. (MTV MUSIC AWARDS was held in New York City.)

SEPTEMBER 7, 1996: After the Mike Tyson vs Bruce Seldon fight in Las Vegas, Nevada, Tupac and Suge head out to Suge's place for a few drinks before the event at CLUB 662, a club owned by Suge Knight. The club that night was having a retirement party for some fighters. During the ride to the club from Suge's place, a white Cadillac pulls up side of Tupac's BMW on the right side. Suge is driving and Tupac is in the passenger seat. A large caravan of cars are following Pac and Suge to the Club for the party. As the Cadillac pulls up side of Tupac's BMW, an assailant from the Cadillac steps out and fires 14 shots into the BMW at as they are stopped at a traffic light. Tupac takes 4 gunshot wounds. Two wounds to the chest, one to the hand in an attempt to deflect the shots, and another in his pelvis as he tries to jump in the back of the BMW. Suge gets "grazzed" by a bullet in the head. After a U turn and a mile later Suge is pulled over and Tupac is rushed to University Medical Center, where he undergoes the first in the surgeries to save his life. After initial surgery, doctors cannot stop the internal bleeding that Tupac has taken, and they remove his right lung in an attempt to save the young man's life.

SEPTEMBER 13th, 1996: (FRIDAY 13th) Tupac Amaru Shakur is pronounced dead at 4:03 P.M. His body taken for an autopsy and is cremated the next day. Tupac was 25.

NOVEMBER 5 1996: Makaveli: The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory is released

November 1997: R U Still Down is released.

December 1999: Still I Rise is released.

November 2000: The Rose That Grew From Concrete is released.

March 2001: Until The End Of Time is released.

PRESENT DAY: The Rest is still unfolding.....