Of the originally planned four and a half years imprisonment, however, he only served eleven and a half months, since he was released by the head of the Death Row Records label, Suge Knight, for bail of $ 1.4 million. While in prison, his album Me Against the World peaked at # 1 on the Billboard charts. In 1995 Shakur was convicted of sexual harassment. He survived the attack and charged Combs and Wallace with the assassination attempt in what became the beginning of the so-called East Coast vs. He was hit by five bullets, one of which hit him in the head. He was shot in 1994 when he met Christopher Wallace, better known as "The Notorious BIG," and Sean Combs, aka "Puff Daddy," at Time Square's Quad Recording Studios in New York to record a new title. a helpline for needy children and adolescents. On the other hand, Shakur was socially committed - he judged z.
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Īt that time he got into a series of violent clashes that earned him numerous legal proceedings. In addition to music, Shakur appeared in a number of films, such as Poetic Justice on the side of Janet Jackson. Two years later, Strictly 4 My NIGGAZ followed. In 1991 Tupac Shakur released his first and most political album, 2Pacalypse Now. He drew attention to himself with an appearance in the digital underground track Same Song and received his first solo record deal with Interscope Records. At the same time, however, he got together with people from the music business who helped him to a loose engagement as a roadie, dancer and finally also a rapper in the rap group Digital Underground. In the ghettos of Oakland he looked to the successful pimps and drug dealers in his neighborhood and eventually tried his own hand in the drug trade. In retrospect, Tupac himself saw the move and the associated dropping out of school as the decisive point “at which I got off the track” ( “where I got off track” ). With that she uprooted Shakur, who was looking for a father figure, one more time. In 1988, however, his mother moved to the west coast of the United States to look for work and settled there in Marin City, California, near the city of San Francisco. Although he was an outsider because of his social background, he later referred to the Baltimore years as the happiest of his life on many occasions he saw himself as privileged by fate compared to the other young people in his neighborhood and recognized the importance of education. He took courses in literature and ballet, read a lot and acted in the theater. There Shakur attended the Baltimore School for the Arts. In 1986 Afeni Shakur moved with her children to Baltimore in the US state of Maryland, in a largely white, middle-class neighborhood. Shakur spent most of his youth with his mother and half-sister in constantly changing accommodations in New York. Shakur owes his first name Tupac Amaru to the affiliation of his birth parents to the Afro-American Black Panther movement, they are an allusion to Túpac Amaru II, a South American freedom fighter against the Spanish conquerors. His stepfather, Mutulu Shakur - brother of civil rights activist Assata Shakur, father of his half-sister and Tupac's stepbrother Mopreme Shakur - was sentenced to 60 years in prison after a bank robbery. He met his biological father, William "Billy" Garland, a former Black Panther member, as a grown man. He grew up with his half-sister Sekyiwa Shakur with his mother Afeni (* 1947 † 2016) in poor circumstances. Tupac Shakur was born Lesane Parish Crooks on Jin East Harlem in the New York borough of Manhattan and was officially renamed Tupac Amaru Shakur one year after his birth.
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