Biographie Tupac ANGLAIS

I will present you the famous rapper Tupac.

Tupac Amaru Shakur  from his full name was an American rapper. In addition to his status as a top-selling recording artist, Shakur was a successful film actor and a prominent social activist. He is recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-selling rap artist, with over 75,000,000 albums sold worldwide, including over 50,000,000 in the United States alone. Many fans, critics, and industry insiders rank him as one of the greatest  rappers ever.

Tupac was born on June 16, 1976 in New York. His mother, Afeni Shakur, was an active member of the Black Panther Party (it’s a revolutionary movement that wanted to feed school kids breakfast and earn civil rights for African Americans). Tupac was born just one month after her acquittal on more thand 100 charges of “Conspiracy against the United States government”

Tupac had a half-sister, and an older stepbrother who appeared on many of his recordings.

At the age of twelve, Tupac enrolled in Harlem’s famous « 127th Street Ensemble » his first major role with this acting troupe. In 1986 Tupac’s mother brought him and his sister to live in Baltimore There, Tupac was disliked because of his looks, name, and lack of trendy clothing.

For his second year Tupac was accepted to the Baltimore School for Arts. He enjoyed his classes there, studying theater, ballet, and other arts. Even at this young age, Tupac was outspoken on the subject of racial equality. Tupac composed his first rap in Baltimore under the name “MC New York”. The song was inspired by the fatal shooting of one of his close friends.

In August of 1988, Tupac’s stepfather Mutulu was sentenced to past sixty years in prison.

Tupac soon moved with a neighbor and started selling drugs on the street, but also made friends who helped spark his interest in rap music. One of these was Ray Luv, and with a mutual friend named DJ Dize,they started a rap group called Strictly Dope. Their neighborhood performances brought Tupac to have an audition with Digital Underground.

Tupac’s professional entertainment career began in the early 1990’s, when he debuted his rapping skills on “Same Song” from the Digital Underground album ”This is an EP Release”. He first appeared in the music video for “Same Song“. After his rap debut, Tupac performed with Digital Underground again on the album ”Sons Of The P”.

Tupac claimed his first album was aimed at the problems facing young black, but it was publicly criticized for his language against the law and images of violence . In one instance, a young man claimed his killing of a police officer was influenced by the album.

Late in 1993, he acted in the basketball movie ”Above the Rim”.  Tupac was filming ”Menace II Society” in the summer of 1993

By the time he was twenty, Tupac had been arrested eight times. In addition, he was the subject of two wrongful-death lawsuits, , sexual abuse, one involving a six-year-old boy who was killed after getting caught in gang war crossfire between Tupac’s gang and a rival group.

In late 1993, Shakur formed the group Thug Life with a number of his friends. The group released their first and only record album Thug Life Vol. 1 on September 26, 1994. The group usually performed their concerts without Tupac.

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