Thursday, February 23, 2012

Tupac Amaru Shakur

Encyclopedia Britannica
 http://www.school.eb.com/all/eb/article-9474467?query=tupac&ct=null
Tupac Shakur

  • Tupacs real name was Lesane Parish Crooks till his step mom renamed him.
  • growing up him and his family moved place to place not being able to keep a home.
  • when his family finally settled in Baltimore he attended the elite Baltimore School of the Arts but never got to grauduate because his family decided to move again.
  • after his family moved to calilfornia he started selling drugs and getting involved in gangs.
  • in 1990 he joined Digital Underground and hit the billboard top 40 hits with his single 
    "The Humpty Dance."
  •  his solo debut album 2Pacalypse was a big break from the dance party sound of digital underground.
  • his success became a big influnce on his gangsta lifestyle.
  • after his conviction for sexual assault in 1994 he came out of jail to release his third album "Me Against the World."
  • tupac was paroled after serving eight months in prison and signed with Suge Knight's Death Row Records.
  • on sept. 7, 1996 tupac was leaving a casino in Las Vegas where he attended a Mike Tyson fight he was shot by an unknown person and died six days later.

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