2pac Shakur

Tupac (Two-pahk) Amur Shakur, commonly known as 2pac, led a violent life.

He died on September 13, 1996. He was a gangsta rapper/Aspiring actor. Tupac was

a big figure in the rap community, always doing what he wanted and not caring

what others thought of him. His life symbolized what a lot of people have gone

through, through his music and movies he showed us how hard life can be.

Tupac was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1971. His family and he moved to

Baltimore, Maryland early in his life. He took Performing Arts classes at his

school; his teachers said he looked promising. He never finished school. He

dropped out and moved to a small town outside Oakland, CA (“Associated”),

however he did go to college and finish his high school credits.

All his life he was raised by his mom, with his sister. He always led a

violent life; April 5, 1993, he assaulted a fellow rapper with a baseball bat.

October 31, 1993, he was charged with shooting two off duty police officers. The

charges were later dropped. November 19, 1993, he was convicted of sexual

assault (“Death”).

In November 1994, Tupac himself was shot during an attempted robbery

outside a music studio in New York. Tupac did, however, mention this; “Thug life

to me is dead. If it's real, let somebody else represent it because I'm tired of

it.” Shakur told Vibe Magazine. “I represented it too much. I was Thug Life”(“

Associated”).

Tupac had a very promising career. His first album “2pacallyps Now” was

very successful. Not too late after that his movie “Juice” was released in 1992.

He released two more albums titled “Strictly for my Niggaz” and “Me against the

world” and two more movies “Poetic Justice” (1993) and “Above the Rim”(1994).

His last album, “All Eyes on Me” sold over 6 million copies and was the first

double CD for rap music. (“Thuglife”)(“Associated”)

4:03 p.m. PDT, Friday, September 13, Tupac died of respiratory failure and

cardio-pulmonary arrest at University Medical Center, Las Vegas(Payne). He died

of bullet wounds to the abdomen and chest at the young age of 25 (“Unofficial”).

“Shakur was shot four times in the chest and abdomen. Police believe he was the

target.” He lingered in a coma before he died. So far police have no suspects.

All they are saying is that the people were in a white cadillac, not from Las

Vegas where he was shot (“Associated”).