Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first began rapping, Shakur spent a few of his formative years in Baltimore, and ...
Admirable and despicable, charismatic and chaotic, Tupac Shakur epitomizes hip-hop culture. His life and death remain its defining tale. Tupac's status was cemented by his 1996 murder in, of course, a ...