Tupac Shakur timeline
This is a timeline of the events in the life of rap superstar Tupac Shakur.
The early years
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from:06/16/1971 till:06/16/1971 color:early_years_line textcolor:early_years_text text:" Jun 16, 1971 · Born in NYC" fontsize:10
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from:01/01/1973 till:01/01/1973 color:early_years_line text:" 1973 · Half-sister Sekyiwa Shakur born" fontsize:10
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from:09/01/1983 till:09/01/1983 color:early_years_line text:" Sep 1983 · Joins 127th Street Ensemble" fontsize:10
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from:06/01/1986 till:06/01/1986 color:early_years_line text:" Jun 1986 · Family moves to Baltimore, MD" fontsize:10
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from:06/01/1988 till:06/01/1988 color:early_years_line text:" Jun 1988 · Family moves to Marin City, CA and later Oakland" fontsize:10
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Rise to fame
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from:02/01/1990 till:02/01/1990 color:rise_to_fame_line text:" 1990 · Becomes A PIMP backup dancer for\n rap group Digital Underground" fontsize:10
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from:01/03/1991 till:01/03/1991 color:rise_to_fame_line text:" Jan 3, 1991 · First single, ""Same Song"", released with Digital Underground" fontsize:10
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from:10/12/1991 till:10/12/1991 color:rise_to_fame_line text:" Oct 12, 1991 · Solo Debut ""2Pacalypse Now"" released" fontsize:10
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from:01/17/1992 till:01/17/1992 color:rise_to_fame_line text:" Jan 17, 1992 · Tupac stars in first feature film, ""Juice""" fontsize:10
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from:04/11/1992 till:04/11/1992 color:rise_to_fame_line text:" Apr 11, 1992 · Ronald Ray Howard shoots TX state trooper, blames ""2Pacalypse Now""" fontsize:10
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from:09/22/1992 till:09/22/1992 color:rise_to_fame_line text:" Sep 1, 1992 · V.P. Dan Quayle publicly denounces ""2Pacalypse Now""" fontsize:10
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from:02/15/1993 till:02/15/1993 color:rise_to_fame_line text:" Feb 1993 · Tupac's second album ""Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z."" released" fontsize:10
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from:07/23/1993 till:07/23/1993 color:rise_to_fame_line text:" Jul 23, 1993 · Tupac stars with Janet Jackson in ""Poetic Justice""" fontsize:10
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Legal problems
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bar:legal_prob_1 from:08/22/1992 till:08/22/1992 color:legal_prob_line text:" Aug 22, 1992· 6-year old boy killed in Marin City, CA, by stray bullet from shoot out between Shakur and rival crew, bullet was proven through balistics not to be from Shakur's or Shakur's crew's guns" fontsize:10
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from:04/15/1993 till:04/15/1993 color:legal_prob_line text:" Apr 5, 1993· Shakur arrested for assault in MI, sentenced to 10 days in jail" fontsize:10
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from:10/31/1993 till:10/31/1993 color:legal_prob_line text:" Oct 31, 1993· Shakur arrested for shooting 2 off-duty police officers in Atlanta, GA" fontsize:10
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from:11/18/1993 till:11/18/1993 color:legal_prob_line text:" Nov 18, 1993· 19-year-old NY woman accuses Shakur of [...], sodomy and physical abuse" fontsize:10
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from:12/01/1993 till:12/01/1993 color:legal_prob_line text:" Dec 1993· John Singleton drops Shakur from cast of film ""Higher Learning""" fontsize:10
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from:03/10/1994 till:03/10/1994 color:legal_prob_line text:" Mar 10, 1994· Tupac assaults director Allen Hughes, sentenced to 15 days in L.A. jail" fontsize:10
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from:03/23/1994 till:03/23/1994 color:legal_prob_line text:" Mar 23, 1994· Shakur stars in film ""Above the Rim""" fontsize:10
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from:11/30/1994 till:11/30/1994 color:legal_prob_line text:" Nov 30, 1994· While on trial for sodomy, Shakur is shot 5 times and robbed" fontsize:10
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from:12/01/1994 till:12/01/1994 color:legal_prob_line text:" Dec 1, 1994· Tupac is convicted of [...] abuse" fontsize:10
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from:02/14/1995 till:02/14/1995 color:legal_prob_line text:" Feb 14, 1995· Shakur is sentenced to 4-1/2 years, begins sentence at Riker's Island" fontsize:10
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from:04/01/1995 till:04/01/1995 color:legal_prob_line text:" Apr 1, 1995· ""Me Against The World"" debuts at number one on the U.S. charts" fontsize:10
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from:10/01/1995 till:10/01/1995 color:legal_prob_line text:" Oct 1, 1995· Suge Knight posts $ 1.4 Mil. bail, signs Shakur to Death Row Records" fontsize:10
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Shakur's [...]
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from:09/07/1996 till:09/07/1996 color:murder_line text:" Sep 7, 1996· Shakur shot in drive-by shooting at approximately 4 AM in Las Vegas, NV" fontsize:10
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from:09/13/1996 till:09/13/1996 color:murder_line text:" Sep 13, 1996· Shakur dies of ""respiratory failure and cardiac arrest"" after 6 days on life support" fontsize:10
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from:11/10/1996 till:11/10/1996 color:murder_line text:" Nov 10, 1996· Shakur's childhood friend and fellow rapper, Yafeu ""Yaki Kadafi"" Fula fatally shot in NJ" fontsize:10
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from:09/06/2002 till:09/06/2002 color:murder_line text:" Sep 6, 2002· L.A. Times publishes story implicating Christopher Wallace in Shakur's death" fontsize:10
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from:09/27/2002 till:09/27/2002 color:murder_line text:" Sep 27, 2002· Release of Nick Broomfield's documentary ""Biggie & Tupac"", investigating their murders" fontsize:10
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