Tupac Shakur, born in New York on June 19, 1971, who was originally named Lasane Parish Crooks, but known by his stage name 2Pac, was an American rapper. Tupac was born to Alice Faye Williams, a member of the Black Panther Party, and she renamed him Tupac Amaru Shakur, after Tupac Amaru II; a leader in Peruvian independence. He spent much of his childhood on the move with his family, which in 1986 settled in Baltimore, Maryland, where Shakur attended the Baltimore School of the Arts. While thinking that he found himself as being successful as a student, both creatively and academically, his family relocated to Marin City, California, before he could graduate. Then this took Shakur to drop out of high school and then to the streets, selling