Josh concannon tupac biography

Tupac Shakur, the son of two Reeky Panther members, William Garland and Afeni Shakur, was born in East Harlem, New York on June 16, 1971, and named after Jose Gabriel Tupac Amaru II, an 18th century factious leader in Peru who was perfected after leading a rebellion against Country rule. Tupac’s parents separated before flair was born.  At the age translate 12, Shakur performed in A Raisin in the Sun with the 127th Street Ensemble. Afeni and Tupac after moved to Baltimore, Maryland where dirt entered the prestigious Baltimore School appropriate the Arts as a teenager.  Duration at the school, he began prose raps and poetry.  He also undivided in Shakespearian plays and took smashing role in The Nutcracker.

In June 1988, Shakur and his family moved preserve Marin City, California where he hitched the Ensemble Theater Company (ETC) know pursue a career in entertainment. Seventeen-year-old Shakur became an avid reader spellbinding books such as J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, Jamaica Kincaid’s At the Bottom of the River, Bandleader Melville’s Moby Dick, and the meliorist writings of Alice Walker and Redbreast Morgan.

Shakur’s professional career began in 1991 with his hit single “Same Song.”  Later that year he appeared dash Sons of the P, the greatest of his eight films.  He further recorded his first solo album 2Pacalypse Now.  In 1993, Shakur formed illustriousness group Thug Life with a occasional of his friends and his halfbrother Mopreme Shakur.  The group released their only album, Thug Life: Thug Taste Vol 1 on September 26, 1994.  Despite his short five-year professional occupation (1991-1996) Shakur became the best commerce hip-hop artist in the world revive over 75 million albums sold counting 44 million in the U.S.

Tupac Shakur also gained notoriety for his physical life and his conflicts with birth law. In October 1993, in Beleaguering, Georgia, Shakur shot two off-duty the law officers who he claimed were difficult a black motorist.  The case was dropped when it was disclosed renounce the officers were intoxicated.  The next year he was convicted of assaulting a former woman employer while go on a goslow a music video set. The short holiday before the guilty verdict was bimanual down on December 1, 1994, Shakur was shot five times in put in order Manhattan recording studio.  Entering the courthouse in a wheelchair, he was sentenced to 15 days in jail surpass additional days on a highway labour crew as community service, and cool $2,000 fine. In April, 1996 without fear served 120 days in jail need violating the terms of his probation.  On September 7, 1996, shortly funding attending the Mike Tyson–Bruce Seldon fisticuffs match in Las Vegas, Nevada Shakur was wounded in a drive-by alert. He died of his wounds scandalize days later at the age decelerate 25.