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Tupac was born on the East Harlem section in Manhattan in New York City. His father Billy Garland and mother Afeni Shakur were active members in the Black Panthers. Tupac was born one month after his mom was accused on more than 150 charges of conspiracy against the U.S. government and New York landmarks. Tupac's step father Mutulu Shakur was America's ten most wanted fugitives. He was later caught then imprisoned from a robbery. Tupac was then left with no father figure to look up to. - East Harlem was one of the hardest hit areas in the 1970's as they struggled with race riots, crime, poverty, drug abuse, and urban flight. East Harlem had very high dropout rates. Local schools have to deal with low test scores, and high truancy rates. Lack of healthy food is another problem to the community of East Harlem, which leads to great amounts of people with obesity, and __diabetes__. Tupac was raised in a very poor and bad environment at young age. He had to do something with his life or he would continue to live in the ghetto and poverty for the rest of his life. Tupac then turned to rapping as an escape route. He used rapping to take him from a man from no money to a very successful man. He started rapping at a young age knowing he had a skill, entertaining large groups of people while still in high school.

Tupac then moved out to California to join a rap gang called Digital Underground. With this group he made many rap debut's and appearances. His first record to be released was criteria heavily. "There's no reason for a record like this to be released. It has no place in our society." someone said, as the record apparently influenced a youth to shoot a state trooper. It was a bad start to Tupac's career as the record gained no type of success. The record supported police brutality, therefore Tupac always had a rough time with the police. He was beaten brutally by a gang of police for jay-walking once. Tupac had to work hard and change his rapping for the public. Most of his raps supported his public and social views. Most of Tupac's work under achieved until he releases //Me Against The World.// It the first album to be released from jail and be number one on the charts. This album remained number one for four weeks. After hard work and perseverance Tupac's music was finally getting some recognition. Tupac was involved in several gang shootings and violence. Tupac was able to overcome all obstacles, poverty, and hinders, to become one of the best rappers of all time. "East Harlem, Harlem,Â NY." //East Harlem, Harlem, NY |//. Harlem World, 10 Oct. 2010. Web. 30 May 2012. .

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