LIFE AND TIMES OF TUPAC SHAKUR

He was born in New York, New York on June 16, 1971 and died from fatal gun shot wounds in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 13, 1996. He was also a well respected actor with several films.
2Pac's lyrics always went deep into the meaning of many political and social subjects including violence, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy and broken families. He was well informed as noted by his extensive reading list. 2Pac's poetry also reflected his many sides, some poems were motivated by love, others seeking to understand himself better and others by the cruel injustices of America and society.
2Pac was famous for being real and upfront. 2Pac is considered as a modern day prophet. Reading some of 2Pac's interviews, lyrics and quotes, it’s not hard to see why. In Baltimore, at age fifteen, he fell into rap; he started writing lyrics, walking with a swagger, and making his background in New York for all it was worth.
By the time he was twenty, Shakur had been arraigned in court eight times, even serving eight months in prison after being convicted of sexual abuse. In addition, he was the subject of two lawsuits, one involving a six-year-old boy who was killed after a nasty crossfire between Shakur's gang and a rival group.
In 1992, Shakur entered a most fruitful five-year period. He made his solo debut, 2Pacalypse now, a gangster rapper that put him in the notorious, high-speed lane to stardom. That same year he starred in Juice and poetic justice films
In November of 1994, he was shot five times during a robbery. Shakur miraculously recovered from his injuries to produce his most impressive artistic accomplishments, including “me against the World”, which sold two million copies, and All Eyez on Me, which sold nearly three million copies. As his career grew to fame and fortune, Shakur was shot and killed after watching a Mike Tyson fight with Death Row Records owner Marion "Suge" Knight. Shakur himself often said that he expected he'd die before he reached thirty.
Tupac was a misunderstood poet who him self was battling with his own demons from his child hood to his adult hood being raised up by a single mother and the absence of his father greatly made to what he became to be. The stardom brought money and as the saying goes more money more problems.
Many of today’s artist regard tupac as a source of inspiration and the one who put rap music on the global stage many of the usually do his cover songs in his honor the likes of jay z, the Game, and many more.
No matter what was written about him in the past and in the future no one disputes the fact that tupac was the greatest rapper dead and alive, the poet who made us to think about our lives and how we live with our brothers and sisters. He once asked when will we see a black president today his prophecy has come to pass and like him and Obama they had to go through a lot of challenges to fulfill there destinies.