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Birth
tupac shakur was born in Manhattan New York city. His mothers name was Afeni Shakur and his father was Billy Garland -
Relocation and school
in 1986 the family relocated to Baltimore Maryland. After finishing his second year at Paul Dunbar Highschool he moved to Baltimore School of Arts, where he studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet. Shakur won most of the many rap competetions that he participated in and was considered to be the best rapper in highschool -
Marin City
In june 1988 Shakur and his family moved to Marin City Cali, where he attended Tamalparis highschool -
Poetry class
He began attending the poetry classes of Leila Steinberg -
Leila Steinberg
She organized a concert and that concert led him being signed with Atron Gregory who set him up as a backup dancer with Digital Underground -
proffesional career starts
Shakurs pro entertainment career began in the early 1990's when he debuted his rapping skills while being with Digital Underground -
conflicts with the law
Conflicts with the law Even as he gained attention as a rapper he gained notice for his conflicts with the law in October 1991 he tried to file a 10 million civil lawsuit against the law enforcement of the oakland police dept. because he said that they brutally beat him for jaywalking -
contreversy with music
in 1992 a texas state trooper was killed by a teenager who was killed by a teenager who was listening to 2pacalypse which included songs about killing police this caused a swirl of media controversy -
2nd august 1992
Shakur rapped at a outdoor festival, and stayed for an hour signing auto graphs and pics after arguments started voices got loud he pulled a gun and cocked it and later it fell someone picked up the gun and a bullet discharged no one in the crowd was shot about 100 yards away a 6 year old riding his bike was hit with the bullet and died -
sexual charge
Shakur and others were charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a hotel room. according to the complaint, shakur sodomized the woman and then encouraged his friend to sexually abuse her. he denied the charges -
disk goes gold
shakur formed the group thug life friends his stepbrother mopreme shakur and rated r the group released their only record album thug life volume one on sept 26 1994 which went gold -
conflict with biggie
he and the outlawz released the diss track hittem up a lyrical assault on biggie and others with him in the track tupac claimed to have an intercourse with faith evans biggies wife at the time -
last live performance
on july 1996 he performed live at the house of blues with oulawz,this was tupacs very last performance -
death
on the night of sept 7, 1996 at approximately11:15 a white four door cadillac pulled up to the sedans right size, rolled down one of the windows and rapidly fired gunshots at shakur a few hours later tupac shakur died at the hospital
