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The Life Of Tupac Amaru Shakur
June 16, 1971
-Tupac Shakur is born in New York
University
Hospital to Afeini Shakur and his
biological
father Billy Garland. While a member of
the
Black Panther Party, Afeini was released
from
jail only a month earlier on charges of
conspiracy to bomb several public places
in
NYC. Tupac's father Billy Garland was
not a
part of Afeini Shakur's life at the time
of
Tupac's birth and had no contact with
Tupac
until almost 20yrs later.
1971-1986
-Tupac and his mother Afeini lived in
NYC
moving often between Bronx and Harlem
and at
different times residing in homeless
shelters.
September 1983
-At the age of 12 Tupac joined a Harlem
theater group, The 127th Street
Ensemble. In
his first performance, he played Travis
in
the play "A Raisin in the Sun".
1985
-The Shakur family moved to
Baltimore,MD.
Tupac enrolled in the Baltimore School
for
the Performing Arts. This is where
Tupac met
his life-long friend and fellow star
Jada
Pinket. He also wrote his first rap
lyrics
and performed under the name of MC New
York.
June 1988
-Tupac is forced to leave school in
Baltimore
before graduating and move with his
mother to
Marin City,California.
August 1988
-Tupac moved out of his mother's home
and is
soon selling drugs.
September 1988
-Tupac's stepfather, Mutulu Shakur is
sentenced to 60 years in prison for his
involvement in a 1981 armoredcar
robbery.
1989
-Tupac starts a short lived rap group
called
Strictly
Dope, with his friend Ray Luv.
1989
-Tupac becomes chairman of The New
African
Panthers, an organization of black youth
determined to honor the goals of the
original
Panthers without duplicating their
mistakes.
Early 1990
-Tupac joins rap group Digital
Underground as
a dancer and as a rapper.
January 1991
-Tupac made his recording debut with the
rap
group Digital
Underground's "This is an EP Release"
song
entitled, "Same Song".
November 12 1991
-Tupac's first solo album
entitled,"2Pacalypse Now,"
is
released and
goes gold launching his recording
career.
December 1991
-Tupac files a $10 Million lawsuit
against
Oakland police for alleged brutality
following an arrest for jaywalking. They
probably didn't take a likeing to his
name.
January 17, 1992
-Tupac makes his big screen debut in the
film
"juice"
portraying
the character Bishop.
April 1992
-Ronald Ray Howard,19 shoots a Texas
trooper
and Howard's Attorney claims that Howard
was
incited by Tupac's album "2pacalypse
Now"
which was in his tape deck at the time.
August 22 1992
-Tupac has an altercation with old
acquaintances in Marin City which
results in
the death of a 6-year old bystander and
the
arrest of Tupac's half brother, Maurice
Harding, who was eventually released due
to
lack of evidence.
February 1993
-Tupac released his second solo album
entitled, "Strictly for my
N.I.G.G.A.Z,"
which eventually went plantinum,
surpassing
the sales of his first album.
March 13,1993
-Tupac got into a fight with a limo
driver
who accused Tupac of using drugs in his
car.
Tupac was arrested but the charges were
eventually dropped.
April 1993
-Tupac was arrested again. This time
for
taking a swing with a baseball bat at a
local
rapper during a concert. He was
sentenced to
serve 10 days in prison.
July 23,1993
-John Singleton's "Poetic
Justice"
was
released, in which Tupac plays Lucky, a
young
postal worker, alongside Janet Jackson.
(This
is a Great movie)
October 31,1993
-Tupac is arrested for allegedly
shooting at
2 off-duty Atlanta police officers who
were
allegedly harassing black motorists.
The
charges were dropped.
November 18, 1993
-A 19 year old women accuses Tupac of
sexual
assault.
March 10, 1994
-Tupac begins serving a 15 day prison
sentence for punching director Allen
Hughes
after he was dropped from the motion
picture
"Menace II Society."
March 23,1994
-Tupac appears in the movie,"Above the
Rim,"where
he plays a troubled drug dealer. The
soundtrack which features the song,
"Pour Out
A Little Liquor," recorded by Thug Life,
sells over 2 million copies.
September 7,1994
-2 Milwaukee teens murder a police
officer
and say Tupac's song "Souldjah's Story"
was
their inspiration.
November 1994
-Tupac's sexual assualt trial opens.
November 30,1994
-While entering the lobby of the Quad
Recording Studios in Times Square, NYC,
Tupac
was shot 5 times and robbed of jewels
and
cash estimated to be worth over $50,000.
November 31,1994
-Tupac is acquitted of sodomy and
weapons
charges but found quilty of sexual
abuse.
February 14,1995
-Tupac begins serving his 18 month to 4
and a
half year sentence in NY's Rikers Island
penitentiary.
April 1,1995
-Tupac's third album,"Me against the
World,"debuts at No.1 on Billboard's
pop
chart fueled by his single, "Dear
Mama."The
album goes double plantinum in 7 months.
May 1995
-Tupac marries longtime girlfriend
Keisha
Morris.
October 1995
-Death Row Records CEO Marion "Suge"
Knight
posts $1.4 million bail to get Tupac out
of
jail. Tupac immediately flies to Los
Angeles
to sign a record contract with Death Row
and
begins work on his fourth solo album"All Eyez On
Me".
February 1996
-Stories of Tupac's alleged affair with
Faith
Evans (Rapper Biggie Smalls wife) goes
public. Faith denies the stories.
February 13,1996
-Tupac's Death Row debut,"All Eyez On
Me,"becomes raps first double cd to be
released.
April 25,1996
-"All Eyez On Me" goes quintiple
platinum.
May 1996
-Tupac and Snoop Doggie Dogg release "2
of
Americaz Most Wanted." In the video
caricatures of Biggie Smalls and Sean
"Puffy"
Combs are punished for setting up
Tupac's
November 30th shooting.
June 4,1996
-Death Row releases Tupac's "Hit Em Up"
single which is brutal diatribe against
Biggie Smalls, Bad Boy, Mobb Deep, and
other
corny sounding artists.
Mid 1996
-Tupac works on a film as a detective
for
Orions's Urban crime thriller"Gang Related."
September 4,1996
-Tupac returns to NY for the MTV Music
Video
Awards Show in which he gets into a
scuffle.
September 7,1996
-Tupac, Suge Knight, and other friends
leave
the Mike Tyson/Bruce Seldon fight in Las
Vegas in Knight's car. Tupac and his
friends
are later involved in a physical
altercation
with a man near the hotel's Grand
Garden.
Afterwards Knight was stopped by police
for
playing his car stereo too loud and for
not
having license plates on his rented
vehicle.
He was not cited and was released a few
minutes later. Within a few minutes
Tupac is
standing through the roof of the rented
BMW
750 sedan traveling eastbound on
Flamingo
Road when he is shot four times in the
chest(for some reason he wasn't wearing
his
bullet proof vest)and Knight's head is
grazed
by shrapnel. They turn the car around
and
head for the hospital when they are
stopped
in traffic. Police catch up with them.
Tupac and Knight are taken to University
Medical Center. Tupac undergoes his
first of
three surgeries immediately.
September 8,1996
-Knight is released from the hospital.
At
6:20p.m. Tupac undergoes his 2nd
operation.
September 11,1996
-Knight, accompanied by his attorneys
speak,
with Metro Police for about and hour.
September 13,1996
-Tupac Amaru Shakur dies from his gun
shot wounds at 4:03p.m.
Tupac never got to see some of the work
he
did, released after his death were the
movies,"Bullet,""Gridlock'ed,"and "Gang
Related."
Right after he died his last album came
out,
as his alias,"Makaveli."
Tupac Amaru Shakur
June 16,1971-September 13,1996
R.I.P
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