American rapper and actor (1971–1996)
Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996) was an American rapper and actor. He was also step-nephew of Black power activist Assata Shakur.
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Pen Names:
2Pac
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Makaveli
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MC New York
Birth Name:
Lesane Parish Crooks
Alternative Names:
Tupac Amaru Shakur
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Tupac
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Lesane Crooks
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Tupac Omar Shakur
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Rapmusiker 2Pac
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I'm known as a survivor now, I hope so, for the jail thing, bullets and everything, controversies and everything, I hope so. And I want to be in the future known as somebody. You know I want people to be talking about me like you know: "remember when he was real bad, remember when Tupac was real bad". You know what I mean, they do that about a lot of actors now, like John Travolta I read stories like "remember you were wild". And all these other people, and now they're like sweet hearts. We all should get that chance, I just want my chance.
To dance with the naked [blow-up] doll, that was me! That's what I mean by I'm real, I'm truly hardcore, because I needed the money and I had to work. So if he told me that for me to get paid I had to go out there in bikini briefs and hop on top of this [blow-up] doll and that's how I gotta get paid, and I was homeless at the time, that's what I had to do. But What I did was not let him pimp me, you know what I'm saying. It wasn't like I just did that because that was my order. As soon as I got the check's to say what was on my mind, I said what was on my mind. And we have a platinum record now, you know what I'm saying.
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