
- Tupac's birth name was Lesane Parish Crooks.
- He changed his name to Tupac Amaru Shakur in honor of the Incan chief Tupac Amaru, whose name means "Shining Serpent."
- The last name Shakur means "Thankful to God" in Arabic.
- 4. Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur (or Alice Fay Walker), was one of the defendant's at the infamous "Panther 21" trial.
- At the Baltimore School of the Arts, Tupac rapped under the name "MC New York."
- In his youth, Tupac studied ballet and other types of dance.
- The letters of Tupac's "THUG LIFE" tattoo stand for "The Hate U Give Little Infants F*cks Everybody."
- On Tupac's back, there is a massive tattoo of a cross with the words Exodus 18:11, which states "Now I know that the Lord is greater than all Gods because He delivered the people from the hands of the Egyptians when they dealt with them arrogantly."
- Tupac was scheduled to act in the movie "Cool Runnings, " about the Jamaican Olympic Bobsled Team.
- 10. Tupac's record "All Eyez on Me" went quintuple platinum.


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