Exposé d'anglais sur Tupac Amaru Shakur

The Life of Tupac Shakur

6. Solo Career

1. An Introduction

7. His Problems with the Police

2. His Birth Place, Context

8. Jail Time

3. His Teenagehood

9. Death

4. Moving to California

10. Conspiracies about his Death

5. Beginning of his Career

1) An Introduction

Tupac Amaru Shakur is born on the 16th of October 1971 in New York, United States Of America.

2) His Birth Place, Context

He comes from East Harlem, in Manhattan. His family is made up of former Black Panther members.

2) His Birth Place, Context

His mother, Afeni, was acquitted of 150 charges as she was, at the time, a member of the Black Panther part of the Panther 21 group, planning terrorist attacks.

2) His Birth Place, Context

His original name (Lesane Parish Crooks) was changed to Tupac Amaru Shakur at 1 years old, in reference to Tupac Amaru II, an Incan revolutionary in Peru against Spanish rule.

2) His Birth Place, Context

His family was impoverished, and as a result ; he would very often move homes, as his mother raised them partly alone. At 12 years old, he started taking theater classes.

3) His Teenagehood

Tupac's family moved to Baltimore in 1984, where he would later study...

3) His Teenagehood

...Ballet, poetry, and acting at the BSA (Baltimore School for the Arts). He felt "the freest I ever felt" there, according to him.

3) His Teenagehood

At the time, some of his family members were on the run from the FBI, his step father being on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for 4 years.

3) His Teenagehood

He also started rapping at the BSA, after one of his friends died and as he was already into Poetry and Arts in general. Not to forget he liked reading, with Machiavel, Sun Tzu and Shakespeare being his favorite writers.

4) Moving to California

Tupac's family then moved to Marin City, California, in 1988 due to crime in his neighborhood, although Marin City was also just as poor and crime-ridden.

5) Beginning of his Career

In 1990 he met Laura Steinberg, a poetry teacher he talked her into becoming his manager; thanks to her...

5) Beginning of his Career

... He integrated "Digital Underground", a Hip Hop group managed by Atron Gregory which he met, and...

5) Beginning of his Career

... made his first recording debut in "Same Song", which was published in 1991. He also contributed to the "Sons of the P" Digital Underground's album.

6) Solo Career

In 1991, he also published his first solo album : "2Pacalypse Now" where he talked a lot about racism, police brutality, and other social issues he (and a lot of African Americans) went through during his life (their lives).

7) His Problems with the Police

The same year (1991) he got into troubles with the police and justice as he accused two policemen of having beat him up over jaywalking, marking the beginning of a series of arrests and other judicial troubles for him. Next year, in 1992, Tupac was arrested and released as, after an altercation with jealous youth in Marin City, a 6 year old died on the spot due to an accidental gunshot to the head.

7) His Problems with the Police

Two years later (1994), he was found guilty of sexual abuse on one of his fans, which he denied. He was sentenced to between 1 and a half years in prison and 4 and a half years in prison. He was hurt that "a woman would accuse me of taking something from her.", he said.

8) Jail Time

While in jail, his solo album "Me Against The World" got to the top of the Charts, the first time such a thing happened (an album being at top of the charts while its author was in jail). At this time he also said during an interview in prison : "They don't care if we stop the violence. They don't care about the gang violence".

9) Death

On September 7, 1996, Tupac and a friend assaulted a rival gang member at a boxing match at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas. Later, Tupac was shot multiple times by the same person he assaulted hours earlier in a drive-by shooting. He died 6 days later of a cardiac arrest.

10) Conspiracies about his Death

Obviously, his death was subject to a lot of conspiracies theories, because there is a lot that is unclear about the set of events that took place, such as who shot him, who was behind all of this... Not to mention alleged sightings in the US/Cuba.

Ending

Sources) Brut, USAToday, The Guardian, Britannica.com, Wikipedia.com, Biography.comMade by) Adam Monnier, Théo Noterman and Pierre Prushankin