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Tupac Amaru Shakur (/ ˈ t uː p ɑː k ʃ ə ˈ k ʊər / ⓘ; born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all time.
After Tupac died in Las Vegas on September 13, 1996, she had him cremated the next day. [25] His close friends, actresses Jada Pinkett and Jasmine Guy, provided emotional support for Shakur and advised her to hire lawyers to sort out Tupac's assets. [26] In 2004, Shakur released her biography, Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary. [27]
Tupac’s mother Afeni was born Alice Fay Williams on Jan. 10, 1947, in Lumberton, N.C. When she was 9 years old, Afeni’s mother, Rose, left her husband and moved Afeni and her older sister to ...
Mutulu Shakur (born Jeral Wayne Williams; August 8, 1950 – July 7, 2023) was an African American activist, and a member of the Black Liberation Army who was sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck in which a guard and two police officers were murdered.
Orlando Tive "Baby Lane" Anderson (August 13, 1974 – May 29, 1998) was an American gang member suspected in the murder of Tupac Shakur.Anderson belonged to the California-based gang known as the South Side Compton Crips. [1]
Tupac Shakur attended the Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson boxing match with Marion "Suge" Knight, the head of Death Row Records, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.After leaving the match, one of Knight's associates, Trevon "Tre" Lane, a member of the M.O.B. Pirus gang based in Compton, California, spotted Orlando Anderson, from the rival South Side Compton Crips gang, in the MGM Grand lobby. [6]
Tupac Shakur Legacy is an official interactive biography of Tupac Shakur released on August 16, 2006. [ citation needed ] The author of the book is Jamal Joseph , a friend of the Shakur family, Shakur's godfather, and a former Black Panther Party member, now a professor of film at Columbia University .
Tupac believed that Rosemond was involved in setting up the shooting and robbery of Shakur at the Quad Recording Studios in New York in November 1994. In 2012, a man named Dexter Isaac, serving a life sentence for unrelated crimes, claimed that he attacked Shakur that night and that the robbery was indeed orchestrated by Rosemond. [48]