Timeline of Tupac's Life

Timeline of Tupac's Life

1968
September:
Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur, joins the New York Black Panther
Party at age 22.

1969
April:
Afeni is arrested and charged with conspiracy to bomb several
public areas in New York City. While out on bail,
Afeni courts two men: Legs, a local hood, and Billy,
a member of the party.

1971
February:
Afeni, pregnant with Tupac, has her bail revoked; she's sent to
the Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village.

1971
June 16th:
Shortly after his mom is acquitted on bombing charges,
Tupac Amaru Shakur is born in New York.
Tupac Amaru are Inca Words meaning "shining serpent."
Shakur is Arabic for Thankful to God.

1975-1983
Tupac's family shuttles between the Bronx and Harlem,
at times living in shelters.

1983
Legs comes to live with the Shakur family;
Tupac "claims" him as his father.
Legs introduces Afeni to Crack.

September:
Afeni enrolls 12-year-old Tupac in the 127th Street Ensemble,
a Harlem theater group. In his first performance,
Tupac plays Travis in a Raisin the Sun.

1986
June:
Shakur's family moves to Baltimore;.
As MC New York Tupac writes his first rap.

September:
Tupac enrolls at the Baltimore School for the Arts,
where he studies ballet and acting.


1988
June:
Tupac and his family move to Marine City, California
"Leaving that school affected me so much," he said later.
"I see that as the point where I got off track." Shortly after,
Tupac moves in with a neighbor and begins selling drugs.

Augest:
Mutulu Shakur, Tupac's stepfather, is sentenced
to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a
1981 armored-car robbery.

1990
Tupac joins Digital Underground as a rodie/dancer/rapper.
While on tour, he learns that his mother is using crack.

1991
January 3rd:
Tupac makes his recording debut on DU's.
This is an E.P. Release

November 12th:
2Pacaplypse Now is released. Shorty thereafter, Tupac files
a $10 million lawsuit against the Oakland police for
alleged brutality following an arrest for jaywalking.

1992
January 17th:
Tupac makes his big-screen debut in Ernest Dickerson's Juice,
earning praise for his portrayal of Bishop. He is
perhaps best remembered for the line
"I am crazy, and I don't give a f-ck!"

April 11th:
Ronald Ray Howard, 19, shoots a Texas trooper.
Howard's attorney claims 2Pacalypse Now,
which was in his client's tape deck, incited him to kill.

Augest 22nd:
Tupac has an altercation with old acquaintances in Marine City.
A 6 year old bystander is shot in the head.
Tupac's half brother, Maurice Harding is arrested but
released due to lack of evidence.

September 22nd:
Tupac is denounced by Vice President Dan Quayle,
who says 2Pacalypse Now "has no place in our society."


1993
February 1st:
Strictly 4 My NIGGAZ is released and eventually goes platinum.

March 13th:
Tupac has a fight with a limo driver in Hollywood who
accuses him of using drugs in the car.
Tupac's arrested but the charges are dropped.

April 5th:
Tupac is arrested in Lansing Michigan, for taking a swing
at a local rapper with a baseball bat during a concert.
He's sentenced to 10 days in jail.

July 23rd:
John Singleton's Poetic Justice, starring Tupac and
Janet Jackson, is released. Before filming began,
Jackson demanded Shakur take an HIV test before
she would do any kissing scenes.

October 21st:
Tupac is arrested for allegedly shooting two off-duty
Atlanta police officers who he says were
harassing a black motorist.
Charges are eventually dropped.

November 18th:
A 19 year old woman, whom Tupac picked up 4
days earlier in a New York nightclub, is allegedly
sodomized and sexually abused by the rapper
and 3 of his friends.

December:
John Singleton is forced by Columbia Pictures
to drop the rapper from the cast of his upcoming film,
Higher Learning.

1994
March 10th:
Tupac is sentenced to fifteen days in a Los Angeles
jail for punching out director Allen Hughes.
(Hughes and his brother, Albert, had dropped
Tupac from Menace II Society.)

March 23rd:
Tupac stars as Birdie, a troubled drug dealer,
in Above the Rim. The soundtrack album,
featuring the song "Pour out a little Liquor,"
recorded by Tupac's group, Thug Life, sells
2 million copies.

September 7th:
Two Milwaukee teens murder a police officer
and cite Tupac's "Souljah's Story" as their
inspiration.

November 30th:
While on trial for sex and weapons charges,
Tupac is shot five times and robbed of $40,000
worth of jewelry in the lobby of a Times Square
recording studio. Tupac checks himself out of
the hospital less than three hours after surgery.
The case remains unsolved.

December 1st:
Tupac is acquitted of sodomy and weapons
charges but is found guilty of sexual abuse.


1995
February 14th:
Tupac is sentenced to up to four and a half
years in a maximum security prison, convicted
of touching her bum. He immediately begins
serving his time in New York's Rikers Island
penitentiary.

April 1st:
While he's incarcerated, Tupac's third album,
Me Against the World, debuts at no. 1 on
Billboard's pop chart. Fueled by the single
"Dear Mama," the album goes double platinum
in 7 months

In a vibe interview from jail, Tupac renounces "Thug Life"
personal and commits himself to positive works.
He also implicates Biggie Smalls, Puffy Combs,
Andre Harrell, and his close friend Stretch, and
others in the recording studio ambush.

May:
Shakur married longtime girlfriend, Keisha Morris.
(I ain't sure about this one, so any info would be useful)

Augest:
Biggie, Puffy and Harrell tell Vibe, they
had no connection to Tupac's shooting.

October:
Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight posts
$1.4 million bond to release Tupac, who
immediately flies to LA, signs with Death Row
and begins recording All Eyez on Me.

November 30th:
Exactly on year after Tupac's shooting, Randy
"Stretch" Walker is murdered execution-style in
Queens.


1996
February:
In Vibe Tupac suggests he's been sleeping with
Biggie's wife, Faith Evans. She denies the stories.

February 13th:
Tupac's Death Row Debut, All Eyez on Me,
rap's first double CD, is released.

March 29th:
Words are exchanged and a gun is pulled when
Death Row and Bad Boy employees face off
after the Soul Train awards in Los Angeles.

April 25th:
All Eyez on Me goes quintuple platinum.

May:
Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg release
"2 of Amerikaz most Wanted." In the video,
caricatures of Biggie and Puffy and punished
for setting up Tupac.

June 4th:
Death Row releases Tupac's "Hit 'Em Up,"
a brutal diatribe against Biggie, Bad Boy,
Mobb Deep, and others.

September 4th:
Tupac returns to New York for the MTV
music awards and gets into a scuffle.

September 7th:
After leaving the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon
fight in Las Vegas in Suge Knight's car,
Shakur is shot four times in the chest by
an assailant in a white Cadillac. Knight,
who has connections with the Bloods, escapes
with a minor injury. Shakur is rushed to
University Medical Center, where he undergoes
surgery, including the removal of his right lung.

September 11th:
A Compton man who police say is associated
with the LA Crips is shot to death while sitting in
his car, the first in a series of gang releated murders.
Police begin investigating possible connections to
Tupac's shooting.

September 13th:
After six days in critical condition,
Tupac Shakur is pronounced dead at 4:03pm.
His body is later cremated. He was only 25.