Tupac Shakur

AKA:
Rebel of the Underground , Tupac Amaru Shakur , T Shakur
Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
06/16/1971
Birthplace:
New York, New York
Death Date:
09/13/1996
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biography
"I didn't create thug life," Tupac Shakur once proclaimed. "I diagnosed it." A charismatic African-American leading man and one of the most potent and admired rap artists of his day, Shakur was born the son of Afeni Shakur, a political activist and high-ranking member of the Black Panthers who was in jail while pregnant with her son, perhaps instilling an awareness of oppression and political struggle in utero. Shakur began acting at age 13 in a benefit performance of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" and later studied acting at the Baltimore School of the Arts (Jada Pinkett was a Continued
Credits
Himself
2003
Detective Rodriguez
1997
Spoon
1997
Lucky
1993
Birdie
Bishop
Tank
milestones
Year
Milestone
1984 
Made professional acting debut in a production of "A Raisin in the Sun", part of a benfit for Jesse Jackson's first presidential campaign
 
Moved to Baltimore with his family
 
Moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, with his family
 
Joined the rap group Digital Underground
1991 
Debut album "This Is An EP Release"
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