Biography

Lesane Parish Crooks was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1971. His name was changed by his mother Afeni Shakur to Tupac Amaru Shakur when he was a small child. Tupac Amaru means shining serpent from the Incas and Shakur means thankful to god in Arabic . As an early age of twelve, Tupac discovered his talent for acting, poetry and song writing. Tupac then went to The Baltimore School for Performing Arts, and was studying acting and ballet, when his family moved to Baltimore. Although leaving a great opportunity he didn't finish his training due to his family then moving to Oakland, California where he starting hanging with the wrong crowd.
Tupac join the group `Digital Underground' as a dancer when he was in his teens. As he was dancing for his rap group he released his own CD called `2PACALYPSENOW' which was a great success, Brenda's got a Baby was a hit single. Due to his love of acting, he was asked to act in `Juice'. After making the movie, 2Pac eventually released his second album `Strictly 4 My N.i.g.g.a.z', which introduced him into the pop charts. Tupac was then a household name when we stared in `Poet Justice' beside Janet Jackson.
While making his third album `Me Against the World' and making the film `Above the Rim' Tupac was charged with Sexual Assault, and was robbed and shot 5 times just hours before he was found guilty and was thrown in jail for 4½ years. With $1 million dollars missing out of Deathrows Mangers wallet Tupac was bailed out after being in jail only a few months. After his release by Suge Knight, Tupac sold over 6 million copies of his album `All Eyez on Me'. Suge then signed Tupac to Deathrow Records. While he was in jail for the Sexual Assault case Tupac married long time girlfriend Keisha Morris-Shakur although later divorced. Tupac said that he had married for the wrong reasons.
Tupac was engaged to Kidida Jones when he was shot ( 7th September )on the way to club 662 after a Tyson fight he went to earlier in the night. After being shot 4 times in the chest and abdomen, Tupac was taking to University Medical Centre where he died 6 days later. Suge Knight was driving the BMW on the night when a white Cadillac drove next to Tupac and shot more then 13 rounds, none of which hit Suge although did graze him and 4 hitting Tupac. Tupac officially died on the 13th September 1996 at 4:03 at the young age of 25.

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