Family of Tupac
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Mother
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Afeni Shakur
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Biological
Father:
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Billy
Garland
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Father:
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Mutulu
Shakur
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Brother:
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Mopreme
( Maurice Harding)
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Uncle:
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Lumumba
Shakur
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Uncle:
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Zayd Shakur
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Godfather:
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Geronimo
Pratt
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Afeni
Shakur
Mother of Tupac, she was in prison while pregnant with Tupac.
Afeni was a member of the Black Panthers. She was in prison for a
plot to bomb banks and department stores. Family moved from the east
coast to the west. Tupac found out Afeni was taking drugs while on
tour with digital underground in 1990. Afeni won the rights to all
unreleased Tupac songs. She released double album "RU Still
down ?(Remmember me) in 1997. She has recently released Greatest
Hits and a Tupac poetry book.
Billy
Garland
Biological father of
Tupac. Tupac was told that his father was dead, but he first met him
in hospital after being shot in new york. A member of the Black
Panthers
Mutulu
Shakur
Married to Afeni Shakur. Convicted for his involvement
in a 1981 armored car robbery. It left two policeman and a brinks
guard dead.
Lumumba
Shakur
Brother of Mutulu Shakur. Murdered in Louisiana before
Mutulus arrest.
Zayd Shakur
Brother of Mutulu Shakur. Killed in a shootout in New
Jersey.
Geronimo
Pratt
Convicted Black Panther member, Tupac's godfather.
Assata
Shakur
In 1973 she and Zayd Shakur were stopped by an NJ
trooper. In a shooout Zayd and the NJ trooper were killed. Assata
was sent to prison. In 1979 she escaped from prison after learning
of a plan to kill her. She fled to Cuba, where she is under Asylum
granted by Fidel Castro.
