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Tupac Shakur was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1971. He was born in the ghetto and his mother was Afeni Shakur. Afeni was a black panther. She had tried to have many children prior to the birth of Tupac but always had miscarriages. However, when Tupac was born, she knew something was special about him. She seemed to feel a different type of spirit in Tupac than anyone she had ever met. She raised Tupac up in a life filled with drugs, violence, and occasional homelessness. She was addicted to cocaine and lived a "rough" lifestyle. Tupac had to go through many different changes in his life moving to Baltimore and California before he finally found where he felt he belonged. As a child, Afeni would write poems for him and sang them to him. She said it was her way to warn him about things in life. She would put a meaning in the poems that she felt he could take with him in the later stages in life and use. This was the main inspiration of Tupac to search a career in music.......

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