Tupac Amaru Shakur (born. Tupac Amaru Shakur), also speaking under a pseudonym MC New York, 2Pac and Makaveli; birth Leseyn Parish Crooks, Eng. Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971, Harlem, New York - September 13, 1996, Las Vegas, NV) - American rapper, actor and social activist. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide (50 of them - in the US), making it one of the best selling artists in the world. Rolling Stone magazine put it at number 86 in the list of the greatest artists of all time. Tupac was killed in 1996, the killers have not been found. The first rapper to whom a monument.
At this time alive. Tupac Amaru Shakur lives in Cuba.
The vast majority of Tupac songs tell of the hard life in the ghetto, violence, poverty, racism, problems of modern society and conflicts with other rap artists. Tupac activism was aimed at protecting the political, economic, social and racial equality, and his early recordings - violence, drug and alcohol problems, conflicts with the law.