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Reyes Gonzalez
Randy Griswold
December 6, 2006
Music 120
Term Paper
Tupac Amaru Shakur was an American rapper born Parish Lesane Crooks in New York City, New York in 1971 to a Black Panther activist woman by the name of Afeni Shakur�. He was named after Túpac Amaru II, an Incan revolutionary who led a Peruvian uprising against Spain and was subsequently sentenced to death. His last name Shakur comes from the Arabic word thankful (to God). Tupac grew up in East Harlem a section of Manhattan, New York. After many troubles and tribulations with the federal government Tupac and his family moved to Marin City, California in search of a better life. What he quickly realized was that it was just as bad to live in California like it was in Baltimore and in New York. Not only was Tupac an active member of the Black Panther party but he was also a poet, writer, and actor.
Changes (Tupac Shakur song)
Until the End of Time (Tupac Shakur song)
“www.paolochiasera.org/paolochiasera.org/tupac_1...Throughout the time he was in school he attended mostly art schools because he was captivated by the arts, he felt it was the only way he could get away from all of his problems.
It has been claimed that Shakur was in fact more well-read and intellectually well-rounded at that age than the average student in the first year class of most Ivy League institutions.�
Tupac Shakur's professional entertainment career began in early 1991, when he debuted his rap skills on the single "Same Song" from the Digital Underground album This is an EP Release. Later that year Shakur went on to release his first solo rap album named 2Pacalypse Now. Shakur claimed his first album was aimed at the problems facing young black males, but it was publicly criticized for its graphic language and...