... mother was pregnant with Tupac she was spending time in the Woman's House of Detention in Greenwich Village for conspiring to bomb several public places in New York City. While growing up, his family lived in homeless shelters and run-down town houses. Many times his family could not even afford lighting in the ... housing and had high crime rates. This is the point in Tupac's life where he claimed he "got off track". Tupac began selling crack to all the ghetto inhabitants and was soon thrown out of his house. During this time, however, he did receive a positive break. He was hired as a ...

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... fast. This man is famous because of his music. When he was young he moved around a lot and ended up in Oakland California. In Oakland he lived in the ghetto, a place called the Jungle. There he learned the game of gangster life. His mom was addicted to crack. Tupac always wanted to become a star. First it was ... acting but then he found out that his real talent was in rap. He was able to rap about a life about a young black man that lives in the ghetto. From there they made a lot of money in a short period of time. He lived the classic life going from rags to riches. From there he start...

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... Luther King say about these rappers that demean women and glorify thugs, drug dealers and rapists?", and "What kind of role models are those for young children living in the ghetto?" (Philips A18). U.S. Representative Cardiss Collins, chairwomen of the congressional panel, complained the industry executive to cut out vulgar and violent lyrics was doing that little. She said, "a sticker is not ... virus just as Magic did when he found out that he had HIV. "Snoop,"" says that he hopes that listeners will see that any black man out Hawkins 8 of the ghetto can do something positive with his...

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... ", people will come to the conclusion that he was not murdered and is out in the world living a normal life. Rap star Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1971 to a mother and father who were active in the Black Panthers. He grew up in Baltimore Maryland, where as a teenager he attended the Baltimore school for performing arts ... number in 25 they equal 7 (2+5=7). Even his time of death 4:03 adds up to seven (4+0+3=7). That time also appears on a clock in a diner in the video "I Wonder if Heaven Got Ghetto". Alittle weird? This is only half of it. There's also alot of su...

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... Against the World" in the song "Death Around the Corner" he explicitly predicted his death and funeral. He had been shot five times before his "death", in a robbery at a New York City recording studio. Tupac clearly knew that people were after him, and that those people were quite capable of ending his life. So what better way to escape all the ... have been where he was headed. From the album "Better Dayz" and the song "My Block (remix)" he says "The three strikes law is drastic, and a certain death for us ghetto bastards, what can we do when we"re arrested but open fire, life in the p...

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