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Hello Miss, classmates.

In this video I’m going to talk about Tupac


Shakur biography.

Tupac Amaru Shakur was a rapper, actor, poet an American


activist.
He was born on June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, district of
Manhattan, New York. His birth name was Lesane Parish Crooks,
but in 1972, his name was changed to Tupac Amaru Shakur in
honor of the revolutionary Inca Túpac Amaru II.
Shakur’s song Spoke of freedom and criticism of the government
and the police. Also about the violence, because he lived in Harlem,
a very poor district, where there abuse of women and other
difficulties.
Initially, Shakur was a dancer for the alternative hip-hop group
Digital Underground.
In his musical career, he released his first álbum called 2Pacalypse
Now where he talked about social issues.
He had his greatest comercial and critical sucess with his albums
called Stricthy 4 My N.I.G.A.Z in 1993 and Me Against the World
in 1995.
He became involved in the rivalry between the East an West coast
of the United States. He was the victim of robbery and five shots
but survived.
He was later sentenced to prison for sexual assault but was innocent
and was released eight months later.
He recorded three albums with the Death Row Studio because the
helped him when he was in prison.
On September 7, 1996, he was shot three times in Las Vegas and
died six days later.

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