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By:

MacKinnly Knoerzer and

Joshua Richman

Tupac Shakur's Life

  • Born in East Harlem in 1971
  • Name was Lesane Parish Crooks
  • Became involved with street performers as well as gangs
  • Harlem had a high poverty rate
  • Attended Baltimore School for the Arts
  • Participated in acting/dancing classes
  • Moved to Marin City, CA, near Oakland
  • Involved in street music as well as gangs
  • Became a solo artist
  • Produced first album, "2Pacalypse Now"
  • Appeared in "Poetic Justice" (1993)
  • Became involved in political issues
  • Involved in crime
  • Served time in jail
  • Talked about other rappers poorly
  • Offended other gangs
  • Shot to death by an enemy gang

I was the tree who grew from weeds

and wasn't meant 2 be

ashamed I'm not in fact i am proud

Societal Context in the 1980s

Societal Context Today

  • Poverty was common throughout the city
  • Racial discrimination influenced his poems and music

Citations

http://research.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2010/11/05/new-funding-initiative-fet-young-explorers-scheme/

http://fonwall.ru/wallpaper/_w452.html

http://www.schmoozemag.com/?p=1362

http://wallpapers.free-review.net/42__America_-_oak_tree_in_new_england_sunrise.htm

http://lahorelondon.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/474/

http://prathmeshdesai.wordpress.com/2011/05/

http://cropandsoil.oregonstate.edu/weeds/

http://www.fanpop.com/spots/tupac-shakur/images/24635936/title/tupac-photo

Tupac Shakur:

Family Tree

it blossoms in darkness

and gives birth 2 promising pods

Because we all spring

from different trees

does not mean

we are not created equally

the tree must fight 2 breed

among the evils of the weeds

of my thriving family tree

Is the true beauty in the tree

or in the vast forest in which it breathes

I find greatness in the tree

that grows against all odds

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