Interesting Facts About 2Pac
This where you'll find interesting facts about him.
Tupac's given name was Lesane Parish Crooks. He was the son of Afeni Shakur (Government name Alice Fay Walker) who was one of the defendants at the Panther 21 trial.
Tupac studied drama at Baltimore's School For the Arts, where he rapped under the alias MC New York.
At the Baltimore School For the Arts, Tupac met Jada Pinkett, who would become a close friend of his.
Tupac was sought to act in the movies: Cool Runnings; Higher Learning; Menace II Society; & How To Be A Player.
As a young man Tupac also studied ballet & dance.
Tupac Amuru Shakur was named after an Inca Indian chief, "Tupac Amuru" which means "Shining Serpent" and Shakur means "thankful to God" in Arabic.
When Tupac was 12 years old, his mother enrolled him in Harlem's 127th St. Ensemble. He played Travis in "A Raisin In the Sun" in his first acting role.
While he was with Digital Underground, someone once shoved a 12 gauge shotgun in Tupac's face because of a dispute over a woman at a Martin Luther King Jr. festival.
Tupac said the individual letters in his THUG LIFE tattoo stood for "The Hell U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody."
Tupac said that because of his mother's ties with the Black Panthers, the FBI was always after him and his family.
Tupac wrote his hit song "Dear Mama" while he was in prison.
Tupac's first appearance ever was on Digital Underground's "Same Song" where he raps wearing West African war clothes in the video.
Kidada Jones, daughter of Quincy Jones and fiance of Tupac, has a tattoo of Tupac on her arm.
Porn Star Spontaneous XXXStacey, who's been in magazines like Portfolio and Players, has a tattoo on her arm with Tupac's name and the title of his song Keep Ya Head Up."
Tupac has a huge cross on his back that says Exodus 18:11, a reference to where the bible says "Now I know That the Lord is Greater Than All Gods because he delivered the people from the hands of the Egyptians when they dealt with them arrogantly."
Tupac started his career on Tommy Boy Records with Digital Underground.
Tupac was first inspired to rap when a friend of his was killed while he was playing with a gun. His first rap was about gun control.
When he first moved to California, Tupac was homeless for 2 years.
Tupac wanted to name his first child Star.
Pesonal Quotes
"Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes."
In Vibe Mag Interview 2/96
"All good niggaz, all the niggaz who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways."
Details Mag Interview Spring '96