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Tupac is born
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Tupac begins his performance career
At the age of twelve, Shakur enrolled in Harlem's 127th Street Repertory Ensemble and was cast as the Travis Younger character in the play A Raisin in the Sun, which was performed at the Apollo Theater. -
Tupac's family moves to Baltimore, Maryland
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Tupac enrolls in the Baltimore School for the Arts
At the Baltimore School for the Arts, Tupac studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet. He performed in Shakespeare plays, and in the role of the Mouse King in The Nutcracker. Shakur, accompanied by one of his friends, Dana "Mouse" Smith, as his beatbox, won most of the many rap competitions that he participated in and was considered to be the best rapper in his school. -
Tupac's family moves to Marin City, CA
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Tupac meets his poetry teacher, mentor, and manager
Tupac began taking poetry classes with Leila Steinberg at AIM4theHeart. She becomes his mentor and first manager. -
Tupac joins the hip hop group Digital Underground
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Tupac releases his first solo album
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Tupac is nominated for 2 Grammy awards
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Tupac dies
According to eyewitness and police and medical reports, At approximately 11:15 pm, a white, four-door, late-model Cadillac with an unknown number of occupants pulled up to the sedan's right side, rolled down one of the windows, and rapidly fired a volley of gunshots at Shakur; bullets hit him in the chest, pelvis, and his right hand and thigh. One of the rounds apparently ricocheted into Shakur's right lung. -
LA Times publishes an article called "Who Killed Tupac Shakur?"
Reporter Chuck Phillips looks at documents from the time of Tupac's death and talks to people close to the event, and writes a two part article in which he hypothesizes that Orlando Anderson killed Tupac. -
Cathy Scott writes "The Killing of Tupac Shakur?
6 months after the book is published, television show "Unsolved Mysteries' followed Scott through a reconstruction of the crime scene. -
Rapper Keffe D confesses to being in the car with Tupac's killer
Esquire magazine reports that on his deathbed, Keffe D admits to being in the car with Tupac's killer, although he does not say who the actual killer was.
