She was bestowed an apartment in New York's, Riverside Drive, which is very expensive. "Then everything changed, the political tide changed over", Tupac said in his statement. "We went on welfare, we lived in the slums of the ghettos of the Bronx, Harlem, & Manhattan, and it was hard for my mother to find a job because of her political background". He estimated that he lived in "like eighteen different places", when he started Junior High, one of them a homeless shelter. Afeni tired of living in New York, moved her family to Baltimore, MD, where he excelled in Drama at the Baltimore Theater of Arts. (Tupac Shakur 1971-1996, by the editors of VIBE).
Tupac outshine in his dramatic performances, he was a great poet, and he began to have a passion for rapping. His first rap was about a friend that he lost to a gun. He was an extremely talented actor, he starred in five box office movies, which were all filmed in four years. Besides being a poet, actor, and rapper, he remembered as a teenager living in Baltimore, "We didn't have any lights. I used to sit outside be the streetlights and read the autobiography of Malcolm X. And then of course my mother had me read books by people like . Patrice Lumumba, Stokley Charmicheal, Bobby Seale, and George Jackson". To sum it up Tupac was raised on the knowledge of Black Nationalist, and was aware (as a child) that the Government was a twisted system.
(Tupac Shakur 1971-1996, by the editors of VIBE).
Tupac's life outside of school in Baltimore became distressed. His mother had no money for food and clothes. He stayed over friend's house and wore their clothes. Afeni began to have drug and alcohol problems. She was a victim to a horrific drug that hit mostly black communities, in the 70's early 80's. How could Tupac watch his mother crumble to something that was created to destroy us, after she perceived as a revolutionary activity for the good of their communities.
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Following the platinum success of Biggie and Craig Mack, other known artists clamored to have their songs graced by Combs magic touch. ... Combs and R&B super group 112, together with Faith Evans recorded a tribute to Biggie entitled, "I'll be missing you-. ... He started the Christopher Wallace fund in memory of "Biggie-. ... As head of the New York-based hip-hop empire, Bad Boy Entertainment, Combs himself had been a figure in the East Coast-vs. -West Coast feuds that allegedly led to the deaths of rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. ...
