Tupac Shakur was born in Brookly, 
New York in 1971. Early in his life, 
he moved to Baltimore, where he 
attended The Baltimore School for the
Performing Arts.
Unfortunately, Tupac was unable to
continue his training. He moved to
Oakland, California with the rest of his
family. That's when Tupac began to, as
he called it, "Hang with the wrong crowd" 
Not held back by his lack of formal
education, Tupac joined the Rap group 
"Digital Underground" as a dancer.
There he became a big success.
Not long before the group achieved
award winning success, Tupac released
his own album "2pacalypse Now",
which was also a success. The hit single
"Brenda's Got A Baby" launched Tupa
c's career like a rocket. His stunning
talent also got him a role in the motion
picture, "Juice". Tupac eventually
released a second album 
"Strictly for my Niggaz," 
which was an even bigger
success. The highlight of Tupac's
acting came when he appeared
in "Poetic Justice" besides Janet
Jackson.
In the midst of a role in the movie
"Above the Rim" and a Platnum album
"Me against the world," Tupac's rising
career was snagged. He was brought
up on sexual assault charges by a
woman he met at a nightclub. Hours
before Tupac would be found guilty,
Tupac was robbed at gun point by men
whose intent and purpose is still
uncertain. 
After his release, Tupac answered his
critics by releasing his best album, 
"All eyes on me" it has currently sold
around 6 million copies world wide,
which is revolutionary for a double cd.
Especially in Hip Hop music. As the
album climbed the charts, Tupac also
completed work on two films, one
entitled "Gridlock." While on his way
to do charity work, Tupac Shakur was
assassinated by the bullets of unknown
gunmen on September 13, 1996.


The Death of Tupac


Tupac was pronounced dead at 4:03
p.m. Friday at University Medical Center.
He died of respiratory failure and
cardiopulmonary arrest, a hospital
spokesman said.
Las Vegas police have struggled to
discover who shot Shakur, but family
friends grieving at the hospital suggested
that they know who murdered him.
Family and friends milled around the
hospital comforting each other until 6 pm,
even though a mortuary van took his body
to the Clark County Coroner's office about
5:10 p.m.
Tupac and Marion "Suge" Knight,
chairman of Los Angeles-based "Death
Row Records", were shot while Knight was
driving Tupac on East Flamingo Road. A
white Cadillac pulled up next to them and a
gunman emptied a semiautomatic pistol into
the passenger side of their car.
Tupac was hit four times in the chest and
abdomen. Police believe he was the target.
He lingered in a coma and was
nonresponsive until he died, a friend outside
the hospital said.
But why did now one see it?
Knight was slightly injured from bullet
fragments.
The two were in a caravan of cars leaving
the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon heavyweight
fight Saturday night when the gunman,
inside a car with two or three black men
inside, opened fire on S about retaliation
here. That'll come later."
It was the second time Shakur had been
gunned down in less than two years. In
November 1994 he was shot five times
during an apparent robbery in the lobby of
a Manhattan recording studio.
Arrested repeatedly in recent years, he was
released last year on bail pending appeal
after serving eight months in a New York
prison for sex abuse.
The Las Vegas attackers got away. Knight,
with three lawyers, talked to investigators
four days after the shooting but was of no
help, police said.
There had been trouble ealier. Shakur and
associates were in a fight outside a Las
Vegas hotel just before the shooting. And
at the recent MTV awards in New York,
police broke up a confrontation between
Shakur's entourage and six other men. But
then there always seemed to be something
brewing.
Shakur was up-front about his troubled life
in the 1995 release "Me Against The
World," a multi-million-selling album that
contained the ominously titled tracks "If I
Die 2Nite" and "Death Around The
Corner."
"It ain't easy being me - will I see the
penitentiary, or will I stay free?" Shakur
rapped on the album, which produced the
Grammy-nominated "Dear Mama" and
standout singles "So Many Tears" and
"Temptations."