Tupac Shakur Studied BALLET and Shakespeare

He studied ballet and Shakespeare as a teenager. He became the most dangerous voice in rap.

Tupac was born to a Black Panther mother who was on trial while pregnant with him.

He grew up poor and moving constantly, finding refuge in poetry and the stage.

At a performing arts school he fell in love with acting, ballet, and Shakespeare.

But the streets pulled at him, and he poured all that pain into rhymes.

His music swung from tender to furious, raging at injustice, then aching with sorrow.

He became a superstar, selling millions and acting in films, the voice of a generation.

But fame brought lawsuits, prison, and a violent feud that swallowed the rap world.

In 1996, at just twenty-five, he was shot and killed in Las Vegas.

The theater kid who studied Shakespeare left behind poetry the world still recites today.

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