User:Lesane Parish Crooks - Tupac Amaru Shakur

The beginning of TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR
Tupac Shakur, born Lesane Parish Crooks, was born in a Brooklyn maternity hospital on June 16, 1971 in New York. 2pac shouts out in the early 70's, at a time when the Black Panthers' movement is growing in popularity at a dizzying pace. It should be known that at that time, it was common for cops to break into the ghettos and murder a young black, just because it had given them a bad look. Tupac's father had gone to make a living elsewhere, mother Afeni Shakur (who was part of the Black Panthers) is incarcerated for plotting to bomb bombs in several busy places in New York. She was 5 months pregnant when they sent her to prison. Tupac grew up in this environment where the hatred of the cops lived on endlessly. The name of Tupac was not chosen at random: Afeni wanted it in reference to the Inca revolutionary movement Tupac Amaru, which means "shining snake", and Shakur means we are full of gratitude to God. 

TUPAC and his youth
At 12, attracted by the artistic world, Tupac joined a theater group in Harlem. This first contact with the scene seems to please him, because when he moves in 1986 to Baltimore, he follows an art school "Perfoming Art". His talent is quickly spotted by teachers and Tupac decides to write his first texts. At age 17, he moves again to go to Marin City in California, he hangs out with lascars and starts to deal. But soon he realizes that this is not a way to go so he integrates as a dancer, the funky rap group Digital Underground. In 1991, he even poses for the first time his voice on tapes for the maxi "This Is a EP release" Digital Underground. 

TUPAC the beginning of a legend
In 1991, Tupac released his first solo album "2Pacalyspe now". His debut album is a hit with "When My Homies Call" and "Brandy's Got A Baby". Very quickly, he attacks the cinema, he plays a furious and paranoid crazy character, Bishop, in the movie "Juice". Before releasing his second album in 1993 titled "Strictly 4 my N.I.G.G.A.Z", Tupac had many fights and so many court summonses with even a few stays in jail. His musical style continues to be noticed after the release of his album from his songs "Keep Ya Head Up" and "I Get Around"; likewise for his film career starring, with Janet Jackson, John Singleton's film "Poetic Justice". And then always, repeated muddles of which one mainly serious accuses Tupac of sexual harassment on a 19 year old woman. A year later, the day before his trial, Tupac goes to the studio to see his friend Notorious BIG (who will later be his worst enemy) to record some songs and when he is in the elevator, he is stripped of his jewelry, and in exchange, receives 5 balls. Refusing to stay in the hospital, he goes to trial the next day, who sentences him to 4 years in prison... 

TUPAC the legend
On April 1, 1995, his third album "Me against the world" came out and became the best selling album thanks to "Dear Mama", but 2pac is still in prison. It will come out in October, thanks to a deposit of 1.4 million dollars paid by Suge Knight, boss of the Californian label Death Row Records, against a signature in his electric chair. On February 13, 1996, his fourth and double-album "All Eyez On Me" came out. This typical Death Row masterpiece is a long deluge of rage. The super hit and hymn "California Love" with Dr. Dre, "2 Amerikaz Most Wanted" will be excerpted and I'll be better. 2pac accuses Biggie of organizing the attempted murder and does not hesitate to spread provocative statements on his new album and even the accused of stealing a lot of rhymes for his first album "Ready To Die". On his side Biggie hallucin. Between the two men, between the two labels (Death Row and Bad Boy), and finally between New York and Los Angeles, the tension rises quickly and Tupac (instead of lowering the pressure a little) adds and insults Biggie at the slightest opportunity on "Hit'Em Up". The atmosphere turns really vinegar and it seems now that this story will end in a bloodbath.  REST IN PEACE LEGEND.