Tupac Amaru Shakur (Although unconfirmed by the Shakur family, several sources (including the official coroner's report) list his birth name as Lesane Parish Crooks. Born in Harlem New York. The son of Afeni Shakur and his father Billy Garland, later Afeni divorced Garland and married Mutulu Shakur. Tupac grew up in a town of imprisonment and struggling. His godfather, Elmer Pratt, was convicted of murdering a school teacher during a 1968 robbery. Things only kept getting worse. His stepfather, Mutulu, spent four years on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1982. Mutulu was wanted for having helped his sister Assata to escape from a jail in New Jersey. She had been put in prison for killing a state trooper in 1973. At a young age, Pac got introduced into theater and poetry. He casted as Travis Younger in the play A Raisin in the Sun, performed at the Apollo Theater. He also enjoyed shakes spear. At age 13 he got into shakes spear, then enrolling in the Baltimore School of arts where he studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet but dropping out at 17. But poetry wasn’t the only thing Pac was good at. He won rap competitions. He was remembered as one of the most popular kids in his school because of his sense of humor and his superior rapping skills. Then becoming the Tamalpais High School best rapper. From then Pac launched into a rap icon and sensation.
Early Years
Tupac Amaru Shakur