Months later in his cell, he would wake up from his nightmares convinced that he was being fired at again. ![]() Fast-forward to 1994, the night before Shakur was convicted of sexual assault and sent to prison, he was shot five times in the lobby of a New York recording studio during an alleged attempted robbery. His stepfather, Mutulu, an activist, was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list. ![]() His mother, Afeni, was eight-months pregnant with him in 1971 when she was acquitted – along with 20 other members of the Black Panther Party – of more than 150 charges stemming from an alleged bomb plot. ![]() The rapper, one of the most recognisable names in hip-hop, had grown up in East Harlem surrounded by persons of interest. All his life, Tupac Amaru Shakur knew he was being watched.
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