tupac shakur

Birth name lesane parish crooks was born on June 16, 1971, in the East Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City .He was named after Tupac Amaru, an 18th-century South American revolutionary who was executed after leading an indigenous uprising against Spanish rule. His mother, afeni Shakur and his father, William Garland, were active members of the Black Panther party in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Shakur was born a month after his mother was acquitted of more than 150 charges of "Conspiracy against the united states grovement and New York landmarks" in the New York "Panther 21" court case.

Shakur lived from an early age with people who were convicted of serious criminal offenses and who were imprisoned. His godfather, Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt a high ranking black panther was convicted of murdering a school teacher during a 1968 robbery, although his sentence was later overturned. His stepfather, Mutulu, spent four years at large on the FBI’s 10 most wanted fugitives list beginning in 1982. Mutulu was wanted for having helped his sister Asante Shakur to escape from a penitentiary in New Jersey. She had been imprisoned for killing state trooper in 1973. Mutulu was caught in 1986 and imprisoned for the robbery of brinks aromed truck in which two police officers and a guard was killed. Shakur had a half-sister, Sekyiwa, two years his junior, and an older stepbrother, mopreme”komani” Shakur, who appeared in many of his recordings.

In 1986 afeni moved Shakur and his family to Baltimore, Maryland. Where Tupac enrolled in the Baltimore school for the arts. He studied acting, poetry, and ballet .He performed in many Shakespeare plays, and had a major role as mouse king in the ballet “The Nutcracker”
Shakur never professed following a particular religion, but his lyrics in singles such as "Only God Can Judge Me" and poems such as “The Rose That Grew From The Concrete “suggest he believed in God. Many analysts currently describe him as a