He is god (2Pac in general)

Member Name: bananaman

Product:	2Pac in general
Date:	26/03/01 (89 review reads)
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Tupac Amaru Shakur was born on June 16, 1971 in brooklyn, New York. He was born Lesane Parish Crooks but his mother changed his name to Tupac Amaru meaning "shining serpent" Shakur which means "thankful to god".He is a world famous gangsta rapper who also starred in many films.Before 2pac was born his mother was jailed on charged of conspiring to bomb several New york buildings and his father sentenced to 60 Years in jail for a armored car robbery.When his mother got released they moved to Harlem where she became a cocaine addict.With his father away the family experienced hard times and had to live in homless shelters many times.When he did live in a house he used to live without any electricity and had to listen to his radio with batterys.Tupac could never make friends because he was always getting moved about.At the age of 2 tupac's sister Sekyiwa was born.
As a young teen his family moved to baltimore where he attended The Baltimore School For Performing Arts this was where he discovered his love for acting and writing songs and poetry.While at the school he started writing rap lyrics and came up with the name MC New York.Tupac was unable to stay at the school as he moved to oakland, California.This is where he began hanging with the wrong crowd and got into trouble many times.One of which included a six year old boy getting killed after getting caught in a cross-fire between tupacs gang and a rival gang.By the time he was twenty he had been arrested 8 times and served 8 months in jail for sexual abuse.One of tupacs childhood heroes was LL COOL J who is a great rapper and actor who starred in Films such as Deep Blue Sea and Haloween H20.He used to listen to him on radio while he wrote lyrics by candel light and he then knew that 1 day he would become a rapper.
Tupac was eventually discovered by rap group Digital Underground and joined them as a dancer.In 1992 released his first album "2pacalypse"
which went gold.on the album was the singles "brenda's got a baby" and "trapped" which lauched his career like a rocket.Later that year the vice president of the united states attacked the album for its blunt and explicit lyrics.The success of this album got him the role in the movies "juice" and "poetic Justice" in which he starred beside Janet Jackson.By the time the films hit the box-office he had released his second album "strictly 4 my N.I.G.G.A.Z" which went on to become a platinum record.He then acted in the basketball film "above the rim" but after that he started to run into the law again for getting into a fight with a cab driver for using drugs in the back of his cab,then for shooting 2 police officers who were harrasing a black motorist but the charges were dropped.He was due to star in the movie menece to society but got dropped from the cast after assaulting the director.His career was then brought to a stop on november 18th 1993 by a sexual harrasment case involving a 19 year old women.Despite witnesses he was jailed for 4 years.Before he got sentenced 2pac was shot 5 times, which included once in the head,The robbers made off with $40,000 worth of jewellrey.Tupac miraculosly recovered and signed himself out of hospital 3 hours after surgery which included getting a testical removed determined to make his trial.2pac began serving his sentence and was in jail when his third album "me against the world" was released.He became the 1st artist to reach no1 in the album chart while serving a jail sentence.While he was in prison he accused Puff daddy,Notourious B.I.G,andre harrell and his own friend randy walker.Tupac only served 8 months of his sentence before suge knight the president of death row records arranged parole at $1.4 million.
2pac's first death row record "all eyez on me" went straight to no1 and went quadrupal plainum in just a few months.On
the album was the hit record "california love" which featured DR DRE.2pac was starting to get tired of Rap music and started to concentrate on acting.During the summer of 1996 he made the 2 films "bullet" and "gridlock'd".But while making the films his record company death row records was quickly going down hill without Dr Dre who had left and Suge Knight becoming involved in a lot of illegal activities.
On 7th September 1996 2pac was shot in las vegas.he had just watched a heavyweight championship fight between mike tyson and bruce seldon.Tupac and suge knight had stopped at some traffic lights when tupac put his head out of the sunroof to talk to some girls a whit cadillac pulled up beside them and opened fire on the car hitting tupac 5 times and grazing suge.Immediatly Knight drove tupac to the hospital where thay removed his right lung.After 6 days in critical condition 2pac died his murder still remains unsolved but police know that he was seen fighting with an unknowing man after the boxing match.The only witness who agreed to come forward was killed before the police could get to him.Six months later the Notourious big was killed in a similar incident.many belive that these murders was caused because of the east coast/west coast rivalry.I belive that 2pac will be remembered for many years as a rap and black icon

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