Essay About Tupac’S Life And Tupac Amaru

Tupac’s Life
Essay title: Tupac’s Life
On June 16, 1971, Tupac (born Lesane Parish Crooks) was born in Brooklyn, New
York. He was named after an Inca Indian revolutionary: Tupac Amaru means “shining serpent”,
and Shakur is arabic for “thankful to God”. Tupac was the son of the politcal activist Alice Faye
Williams (Afeni Shakur). She was a member if the Black Panther Party. Tupac grew up without
knowing that his biological father was still alive. Afeni moves in with Mutulu Shakur who
becomes Tupacs stepfather and confidant for the rest of his life. Tupac accepted him as a father
figure.
At the age of 12 Tupac found a passion for acting and writing poetry. Afeni enrolls him
in a Harlem theater group. Tupac plays Travis in A Raisin the Sun as his first performance.
Unfortunately, Tupac was unable to continue his training, and moved with his family to
Marin City (The Jungle), California. He has been quoted saying “Leaving that school affected
me so much, I see as the point where I got off track”. The man side began to come out of
Tupac as he now began to hang with the wrong crowd.
Tupac changed out his alias MC New York with a new one, 2Pac. He rapped with
Ray Luv in a group called “Strictly Dope”. They perform in small shows for people around the
neighborhood. Tupac auditions for Greg Jacobs (Shock G) of the group Digital Underground.
Tupac joins the group as a roadie, dancer and as a rapper. He toured with Digital
Underground, instead of waiting around for them to get back in town to work on his album, he
preferred to travel with them to kill time. He appeared on several songs with Digital
Underground including “Same Song”, “DFLO Shuffle”, and “Wassup Wit Tha Luv”.
Nothing could have stopped this man, he was on top of the world making movies and
receiving good reviews and getting better acting jobs. Three days after he finished making “All
Eyez On Me” Tupac began work on Makaveli: The Don Killuminati”. Tupac never lived to see
the album being put out. He died due to gunshot wounds. He and Suge Knight were attending
the Mike Tyson Vs Bruce Seldom fight at the MGM Grand In Las Vegas, Nevada on the
September the 7th, 1996. After the fight in the lobby, one of the staff from Death Row spotted