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Tupac Amaru Shakur was born on June 16,
1971, in the
East Harlem section of
Manhattan in
New York City. His birth name was
Lesane Parish Crooks, but in
1972, he was renamed after the last
Incan emperor. He was named after
Túpac Amaru II, the
18th-century Peruvian revolutionary who was executed after leading an indigenous uprising against
Spanish rule.Shakur was of African-American,
European and
Tuareg (
Berber) descent.
His mother,
Afeni Shakur (born
Alice Faye Williams), and his father,
Billy Garland, were active members of the
Black Panther Party in
New York in the late
1960s and early
1970s. The infant was born a month after his mother was acquitted of more than
150 charges of "
Conspiracy against the
United States government and New York landmarks" in the New York
Panther 21 court case.
Shakur lived from an early age with people who were involved with the
Black Liberation Army and 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 Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list beginning in
1982. Mutulu was wanted for having helped his sister
Assata Shakur (also known as
Joanne Chesimard) to escape from a penitentiary in
New Jersey. She had been imprisoned for killing a state trooper in
1973. Mutulu was caught in
1986 and imprisoned for the robbery of a Brinks armored truck in which two police officers and a guard were 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.
At the age of twelve, Shakur enrolled in
Harlem's
127th Street Repertory Ensemble and was cast as the
Travis Younger character in the play
A Raisin in the Sun, which was performed at the
Apollo Theater. In 1986, the family relocated to
Baltimore, Maryland.After completing his second year at
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, he transferred to the
Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet. He performed in
Shakespeare plays, and in the role of the
Mouse King in the ballet
The Nutcracker. Shakur, accompanied by one of his friends,
Dana "
Mouse"
Smith, as his beatbox, won many rap competitions and was considered to be the best rapper in his school. He was remembered as one of the most popular kids in his school because of his sense of humor, superior rapping skills, and ability to mix with all crowds.He developed a close friendship with a young
Jada Pinkett (later
Jada Pinkett Smith) that lasted until his death
.
In the documentary
Tupac: Resurrection, Shakur says, "
Jada is my heart. She will be my friend for my whole life." Pinkett Smith calls him "one of my best friends. He was like a brother. It was beyond friendship for us.
The type of relationship we had, you only get that once in a lifetime." A poem written by Shakur titled "Jada" appears in his book,
The Rose That Grew from
Concrete, which also includes a poem dedicated to Pinkett Smith called "
The Tears in
Cupid's
Eyes". During his time in art school, Shakur became affiliated with the
Baltimore Young Communist League USA, and began dating the daughter of the director of the local chapter of the
Communist Party USA.
In June
1988, Shakur, then 17, and his family moved to
Marin City, California, a residential community located 5 miles (
8 km) north of
San Francisco,[26] where he attended
Tamalpais High School in nearby
Mill Valley. Shakur contributed to the school's drama department by performing in several productions. In an
English class, Shakur wrote a paper "Conquering All Obstacles" where he said, "our raps not the sorry-story raps everyone is so tired of. They are about what happens in the real world. Our goal is [to] have people relate to our raps, making it easier to see what really is happening out there. Even more important, what we may do to better our world."He began attending the poetry classes of
Leila Steinberg in
1989.That same year,
Steinberg organized a concert with a former group of Shakur's, "Strictly
Dope"; the concert led to him being signed with Atron
Gregory. He set him up as a roadie and backup dancer with the hip hop group
Digital Underground in
1990.
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- published: 26 Jul 2016
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