{"id":29,"date":"2022-12-08T10:01:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T10:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2022-12-08T10:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T10:33:36","slug":"2pac-in-full-tupac-amaru-shakur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/08\/2pac-in-full-tupac-amaru-shakur\/","title":{"rendered":"2pac, in full\u00a0Tupac Amaru Shakur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>original name&nbsp;<strong>Lesane Parish Crooks<\/strong>, bynames&nbsp;<strong>2Pac<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Makaveli<\/strong>, (born June 16, 1971, Brooklyn,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/New-York-state\">New York<\/a>, U.S.\u2014died September 13, 1996, Las Vegas, Nevada), American rapper and actor who was one of the leading names in 1990s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/gangsta-rap\">gangsta rap<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lesane Crooks was born to Afeni Shakur (n\u00e9e Alice Faye Williams), a member of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Black-Panther-Party\">Black Panther Party<\/a>, and she renamed him Tupac Amaru Shakur\u2014after Peruvian revolutionary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Tupac-Amaru-II\">T\u00fapac Amaru II<\/a>\u2014when he was a year old. He spent much of his childhood on the move with his family, which in 1986 settled in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Baltimore\">Baltimore<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Maryland-state\">Maryland<\/a>, where Shakur attended the elite Baltimore School for the Arts. He distinguished himself as a student, both creatively and academically, but his family relocated to Marin City, California, before he could graduate. There Shakur took to the streets, selling drugs and becoming involved in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/gang-crime\">gang<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/culture\">culture<\/a>&nbsp;that would one day provide material for his rap lyrics. In 1990 he joined Digital Underground, an Oakland-based rap group that had scored a&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;Top 40 hit with the novelty single \u201cThe Humpty Dance.\u201d Shakur performed on two Digital Underground albums in 1991,&nbsp;<em>This Is an EP Release<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Sons of the P<\/em>, before his solo debut,&nbsp;<em>2Pacalypse Now<\/em>, later that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>original name&nbsp;Lesane Parish Crooks, bynames&nbsp;2Pac&nbsp;and&nbsp;Makaveli, (born June 16, 1971, Brooklyn,&nbsp;New York, U.S.\u2014died September 13, 1996,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-music-download"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Tupac-Shakur-1993.webp",1600,1101,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Tupac-Shakur-1993.webp",150,103,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Tupac-Shakur-1993.webp",300,206,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Tupac-Shakur-1993.webp",640,440,false],"large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Tupac-Shakur-1993.webp",640,440,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Tupac-Shakur-1993.webp",1536,1057,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Tupac-Shakur-1993.webp",1600,1101,false],"shareaholic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Tupac-Shakur-1993.webp",640,440,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Tupac-Shakur-1993.webp",1024,705,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Tupac-Shakur-1993.webp",825,568,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Tupac-Shakur-1993.webp",590,406,false]},"author_info":{"info":["ghost"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/category\/music-download\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Music Download<\/a>","tag_info":"Music Download","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}