Tupac Amaru Shakur was born on June 16 1971 in New York. His mother was Afeni Shakur. She was a member of the Black Panthers. His father is claimed to be Billy Garland who was another Black Panther but the other possibility was Kenneth “Legs” Sanders who was a local drug dealer. Tupac started by writing plays and he would also pretend to be famous singers like Prince. Tupac wrote poetry and love songs and he also loved to read. Reading was a habit he picked up from his mother. When he was bad his mom made him read the entire New York Times newspaper.
