February 1971: Afeni, pregnant with Tupac,
has her bail revoked; she's sent to the
Women's House of Detention in Greenwich
Village.
June 16, 1971: 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 1983: 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.
June 1986: Shakur's family moves to Baltimore.
As MC New York Tupac writes his first rap.
September 1986: Tupac enrolls at the Baltimore School
for the Arts, where he studies ballet and acting.
June 1988: 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.
August: 1988: 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.
January 3, 1991: Tupac makes his recording
debut on DU's. This is an E.P. Release.
November 12, 1991: 2Pacaplypse Now is
released. Shorty thereafter, Tupac files
a $10 million lawsuit against the Oakland
police for alleged brutality following
an arrest for jaywalking.
January 17, 1992: 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 fuck!"
April 11, 19992: 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.
August 22, 1992: 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 22, 1992: Tupac is denounced by
Vice President Dan Quayle, who says 2Pacalypse
Now "has no place in our society."
February 1, 1993: Strictly 4 My NIGGAZ is
released and eventually goes platinum.
March 13, 1993: 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 5, 1993: 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 23, 1993: 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 31, 1993: 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 18, 1993: 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 1993: John Singleton is forced by Columbia
Pictures to drop the rapper from the cast of his
upcoming film, Higher Learning.
March 10, 1994: 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 23, 1994, 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 7, 1994: Two Milwaukee teens murder a
police officer and cite Tupac's "Souljah's Story"
as their inspiration.
November, 30 1994: 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 1, 1994: Tupac is acquitted of sodomy and
weapons charges but is found guilty of sexual abuse.
February 14, 1995: 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 1, 1995: 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.
April 1995: In a vibe interview from jail, Tupac
renounces "Thug Life" persona 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.
August 1995: Biggie, Puffy and Harrell tell Vibe,
they had no connection to Tupac's shooting.
October 1995: 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 30, 1995: Exactly on year after Tupac's
shooting, Randy "Stretch" Walker is murdered
execution-style in Queens.
February 1996: In Vibe Tupac suggests he's been
sleeping with Biggie's wife, Faith Evans. She denies
the stories.
February 13, 1996: Tupac's Death Row Debut,
All Eyez on Me, rap's first double CD, is
released.
March 29, 1996: 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 25, 1996: All Eyez on Me goes quintuple
platinum.
May 1996: 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 4, 1996: Death Row releases Tupac's
"Hit 'Em Up," a brutal diatribe against Biggie,
Bad Boy, Mobb Deep, and others.
September 4, 1996: Tupac returns to New York
for the MTV music awards and gets into a scuffle.
September 7, 1996: 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 11, 1996: 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.
Friday, September 13 1996: After six days in
critical condition, Tupac Shakur is pronounced
dead at 4:03pm. His body is later cremated.
He was only 25.
November 5, 1996: Makaveli album, The Don Killuminati:
The 7 Day Theory, released.
January 29, 1997: Gridlock'd the movie staring Tupac
Shakur and Tim Roth is released nationwide. It is
the story of two friends who try to kick drugs.
The soundtrack is also released it features three
new 2pac songs.
February 28, 1997: Suge Knight is sentenced to nine
years in prison for his rile in an attack on Orlando
Anderson the night of Tupac's shooting.
March 9, 1997: The Notorious B.I.G. is murdered in Los
Angeles in a drive by shooting.
October 8, 1997: Gang Related, co-starring Tupac
and James Belushi, is released. Nine days later, the
soundtrack, which includes four Tupac songs, comes
out on Death Row.
November 25, 1997:R U Still Down? [Remember Me]
a double CD of previously unreleased Tupac
tracks, comes out on Amaru Records, a label
established to be run by Afeni Shakur.
May 29, 1998: The main suspect in the
2pac slaying, Orlando Anderson himself is
killed during a dispute at a Los Angeles
car wash.
November 24, 1998: 2pac's Greatest Hits, a
double CD of greatest hits and 4 previously
unreleased Tupac tracks, comes out on
Death Row/Interscope/Amaru Records.
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