Tupac Shakur was born on June 16, 1971 in Brooklyn New York. While Tupac was a kid his father was sent to jail, which in turn caused the shakur’s to face many problems. They had to move to numerous places from the Bronx to Harlem as well as many homeless shelters. He eventually ended up in the Bay Area California, alone, and spent his first two years there homeless. Tupac had a love for writing lyrics as well as acting. Soon enough he ended up as a dancer for the rap group known as Digital Underground. After dancing with the group for about a year, Tupac went solo and released his first album called "2Pacalypse Now". After that, his career just basically skyrocketed until September 7, 1996. On that day in Las Vegas Nevada, Tupac was shot several times and on September 13, 1996, Tu

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Some of Tupac’s lyrics are spoken with the real truth and there are real life examples to back them up. The lyric “Cops give a damn about a Negro pull the trigger kill a nigga he’s a hero” holds true. There are numerous cases in which a white police officer has killed an African-American. The one incident that stands out in my mind is the case of a 15-year-old African-American by the name of Timothy Thomas. Timothy was gunned down by a white police officer that was chasing him through the streets of Cincinnati in hopes of serving a warrant in which Timothy had for a traffic violation. Supposedly the officer thought that the 15 year old was reaching for a gun, so the officer shot one shot at Timothy that then killed him.

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