Tupac Amaru Shakur was one of the leading names in 1990’s rap, who through his music focused heavily on a lot of problems surrounding the life of underclass African Americans in America. Born June 16,1971 in Brooklyn, New York. In his early life he was surrounded by people heavily involved in the fight against equality. His mother as well as stepfather, were both members of the political organization black panthers.
Before the birth of Tupac, his mother along with 20 other members of the black panthers, were falsely accused and went to trial for planning to bomb and shoot up two police stations and an education office. The trial eventually fell apart and she was declared not guilty of 150 charges.
In 1986, Tupacs family moved to Baltimore where he witnessed a murder the first day he was there. In Baltimore Tupac experienced the truly dark sides of what the inequality in the U.S had created. Tupac started befriending drug dealers and gang members, and his mother got hooked on crack, which was widely believed to be intentionally trafficked by the CIA into poor black neighborhoods in the U.S. Immediately upon arrival, Tupac thought to himself that he needed to make a change.
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