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Born on June 16, 1971. Born into a warzone and a country in turmoil. Tupac Amaru Shakur\\\\\\\'s mother Afeni had already defended herself in court and been acquitted on 156 counts. She was associated with members of the ill-fated Black Panther Party, a movement that wanted to feed school kids breakfast and earn civil rights for African Americans. His mother enrolled him in the 127th Street Ensemble, a theater group in the impoverished Harlem section of Manhattan, where he landed his first role at age twelve, that of Travis in A Raisin in the Sun. \\\\\\\"I lay on a couch and played sleep for the first scene. Then I woke up and I was the only person onstage. I can remeber thinking, \\\\\\\"This is the best shit in the world!\\\\\\\" That got me real high. I was gettin\\\\\\\' a secret: This is what my cousins can\\\\\\\'t do.\\\\\\\" In Baltimore, at age fifteen, he fell into rap; he started writing lyrics, walking with a swagger, and milking his background i...