On the anniversary of Tupac's death, looking back at his life in Baltimore [VIDEO]
Rapper Tupac Shakur died 21 years ago today, six days after being shot on the Las Vegas Strip. In honor of the anniversary, let’s take a look back at Shakur’s Baltimore beginnings. He spent a portion of his teenage years there and attended Baltimore School for the Arts — an experience that his friends and teachers said was formative for his eventually legendary career. Becky Mossing, former schoolmate and friend of Tupac Shakur at the Baltimore School for the Arts in the 1980s, talks about what he was like as a person and his talent. At the height of his celebrity, Tupac Shakur chose to give author Kevin Powell some of his most revealing interviews ever — from a subdued, introspective conversation while the rapper was incarcerated to resentful provocations against rivals that fueled the escalating East Coast-West Coast rap beef. Powell said that one topic came up often when the recorder was on and off: The brief but formative time a teenage Shakur ...
