When Tupac was 12 years old he performed in his first play “A Raisin in the Sun”, in which he played a boy named Travis. His family believed him to be a natural talent. In 1986, Tupac’s family moved to Baltimore, Maryland. It is here he was enrolled in the Baltimore School for the arts, studying ballet and acting. This is also when he wrote his first rap.

Two years later Tupac moves west to Marin City, California. It is there where he was introduced to gangs and drug trafficking. It would have been the end to his story had he not run into a rap promoter who introduced to the Digital Underground record label, where he was a dancer and a rapper. In 1991 he was

While in jail his third album “ME Against the World,” was released. The album was #1 on the Billboard’s pop chart upon its release. The album goes double platinum seven months after it is released.

Tupac released his next album on February 1, 1993. That album went platinum. He then receives his next movie role in July of that year. It is John Singleton’s Poetic Justice. He plays opposite Janet Jackson.

In October of 1994, Death Row CEO Suge Knight pays Tupac’s 1.4 million bond, and Tupac is released from jail. Once he was released he flies to L.A. and begins work in his next album under the Death Row record label. His album All Eyes on Me, was released on February 13, 1995. The double CD goes quintuple platinum.

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