2 P A C (Descriptive Essay)

I've decided that I wanted to write my descriptive essay all about the legendary rapper 2PAC. Why? Because I heard a lot about him, from my friends, especially my uncle in my mother side 'coz he was a fan of 2pac. Little did i know the impact that this man would have on this world. So here we go.

Tupac was the son of one of the famous "BLACK PANTHER" members, Afeni Shakur. This organization was a movement fighting for the prejudice against African Americans. By the year February 1971, Afeni, pregnant with tupac. And by the date of June 16,1971 Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in New York. His name was not just a name . It has meaning. Tupac Amaru are Inca words meaning "shining serpent". As i know serpent means snake. Anyways, Shakur means in Arabic is for "thankful to god". He was from a single parent family as many of the time were.He has a stepfather Mutulu Shakur and had a sister named Sekyiwa. So both his parents a member of Black Panther. I can imagine their family experienced hard times. His stepfather, was sentenced to sixty years for a fatal armored car robbery. This had been a very big impact on Tupac's life. Of course everyone who has a family and you grow no one to look up, its pathetic. He had no father figure that he could look up to.

Tupac was truly into arts,whether it was music film or poetry. He enrooled in the Baltimore School for the arts. Even at young age, Tupac was outspoken on the subject of racial equality. The loneliness began to wear on him. He retreated into writing love songs and poetry. I think he wanted to be an actor . Because in the arts of acting, he can escape from his dismal life.

In Baltimore at age fifteen, he fell into rap; he started writing lyrics. By the time he was twenty, Shakur had been arrested eight times being convicted of sexual abuse.

In addition to his status as a top-selling rap artist, he was a promising actor and a social activist. Most of Shakur's songs are about growing up , avid violence,racism, problems in the society and conflicts with other rappers during the East-Coast-West-Coast hip hop rivalry.

Shakur was initially a roadie and a back up dancer for the alternative hip hop ground Digital Underground. Violence was a theme not only in his art but in his life.

Shakur's professional entertainment career began in the early 1990's, when he debuted his rapping skills. After his rap debut, he performed with Digital Underground again on the album Sons of the P. Later he released his first solo album 2PACALYPSE Now. 2pacalypse Now did not do as well on the charts as future albums spawning no top ten hits. His second record , STRICTLY 4 MY N.I.G.G.A.Z. was released in 1993.

In late 1993 , Shakur formed the group "THUG LIFE" with a number of his friends; including Big Syke, Macadoshis, his stepbrother Mopreme Shakur and Rated R. The group usually performed WITHOUT 2pac.

Tupac has been addicted to drugs. Shakur has sold over 75million albums worldwide, making him one of the best selling music artists in the world. Rolling stone magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time.

Path of life for tupac has been ups and downs. Playing along with him. In September 1996, Tupac Amaru Shakur was shot in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area of Nevada. He was taken to the University Medical Center, where he died of respiratory failure and cardiac arrest 6 days later Shakur's body was cremated.H died at the age of 25. So young ! :|