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 ...
Tupac Shakur was one of the most influential pop culture figures of the '90s. His rap lyrics echoed the voices of disaffected Black youth, and in some songs, he sought to lift his community out of ...