A Thug Life
What is it that determines and creates an abnormality in the mental state of a young man growing up in east Harlem the violence, gangs, drug abuse, or perhaps overall condition of poverty they’re brought up in? A young black kid that no one on the street expects to go anywhere or do anything with his life that is if he even gets past the age of eighteen, destined for doom before he’s even brought into the world.
Tupac Amaru Shakur, or makaveli which ever you decide to call him grew up in exactly these conditions if not worse. His mother a strong leader in the Black Panthers during his birth and had over one hundred and fifty accusations of conspiracy against the government. To start off Tupac had already accumulated enemies being born. From an early age Tupac was exposed to prison and the effects it has on people including him. His father was on the FBI’s top ten most wanted list and was arrested in a crime involving the robbery of a bank and death or three......
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