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Tupac Amaru Shakur (/ ˈtuːpɑːkʃəˈkʊər / ⓘ TOO-pahk shə-KOOR; 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. Considered to be one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all time, [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] academics regard him as one ...
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 ...
Afeni Shakur. Afeni Shakur Davis (born Alice Faye Williams; January 10, 1947 – May 2, 2016) was an American political activist and member of the Black Panther Party. [1] Shakur was the mother of rapper Tupac Shakur and the executor of his estate. She founded the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation and also served as the CEO of Amaru Entertainment ...
Assata Olugbala Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron; July 16, 1947), [a] also known as Joanne Chesimard, is an American political activist who was a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA). In 1977, she was convicted in the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973.
Shakur was born in New York and was raised there and in Baltimore, but he moved with his mother to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1980s. He would live in Oakland in the early 1990s and ...
Tupac Shakur, Allen Hughes (Photo: Getty Images) With the new five-part series Dear Mama, ... Albert Hughes, first encountered the New York-born, Baltimore-raised, Bay Area-schooled poet and ...
The discography of American rapper Tupac Shakur consists of 11 studio albums. Throughout his career and posthumously, Shakur sold more than 75 million records worldwide. [ 1 ] He has scored 5 No. 1 albums on Billboard 200 and 8 No. 1 albums on Top R&B/Hip-Hop albums .
In a 2022 appearance on Big Boy, Pinkett Smith's son, Jaden, said that at one point Shakur even proposed, saying "Tupac asked to marry my mom and she was like, 'Pac, we're best friends.'". Pinkett ...