Tupac Vs. Biggie

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when she was 21, she was the mother of the late Legend Tupac Amaru Shakur. Tupac was a social scientist, who rapped about economical pressure, broken families, poverty, drugs, teen pregnancy, genocide, and political issues. Afeni raised Tupac to become a “Black Prince” of his generation. (http://www.alleyezonme.com) In his short twenty-five years of life, he accomplished his goal, and his mothers. Their goal was for Tupac to represent the African-American youths, and to express the pain of Black America.
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Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 16, 1971.
Although Tupac was a victim of problems of the inner youth; poverty, fatherless, a constant relocation, his story began while he was just a seed in Afeni’s stomach. Prior to his birth Afeni was pregnant with him in a Women’s House of Detention in Greenwich Village. She patted her stomach and stated “this is my prince. He is going to save the black Nation”. Afeni was released from prison two months before his birth, for her convictions of being in the Panther 21, she was out on bail.
(http://www.2paclegacy.com)
Like many other inner city youth’s of Today, Tupac did not have a stable father figure in his life. Even though he had members of the Panther as father figures (Geronimo Pratt, Mutulu Shakur), they wasn’t in his life for long, and they were sentenced 60+ years in prison. One of the most important father figures was a New York Hustler named Leggs, he died of a drug overdose, and that was who Tupac claimed as his father. In one of his songs he says “I was raised by thugs, schooled by villains, I learned my mathematics skills from real drug dealers” (CD: Until the End of Time, Tupac, producer Afeni Shakur). In spite of the fact, Tupac had formal education.
Tupac and his sister Sekiywa (born in 1975), became small Panther celebrities in the liberal communities. Afeni’s friend called Tupac, a “Black Prince”...