Tupac Shakur: The Life and Times of an American Icon

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A passionate, critically incisive biography of one of the most influential rappers of all time, Tupac Shakur, and how he came to dominate hip-hop in the 1990s Title PagePraise part one - SAVIORone - THE BOY FROM NOWHEREtwo - LUMBERTONthree - ALICEfour - THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF-DEFENSEfive - LESANE GETS A NAME CHANGE part two - SURVIVORsix - WHO PLANS A MOTHERLESS CHILD?seven - NONVIOLENCE IS A DEAD PHILOSOPHYeight - THE NEW STARTnine - BALTIMORE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSten - THE BAKKE DECISIONeleven - YEARS OF LEAN AND PLENTY OF MEANtwelve - JADA AND JOHNthirteen - THE JUNGLEfourteen - LEILAfifteen - SHOCK G part three - STARsixteen - INTERSCOPEseventeen - 2PACALYPSE NOWeighteen - JUICEnineteen - T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.twenty - THE WOMENtwenty-one - STRICTLY 4 MY N.I.G.G.A.Z.twenty-two - POETIC JUSTICEtwenty-three - PUFFYtwenty-four - BIGGIEtwenty-five - A SHOOTING IN ATLANTAtwenty-six - NEW FRIENDStwenty-seven - THE BEGINNING OF THE ENDtwenty-eight - ABOVE THE RIMtwenty-nine - KEISHA MORRISthirty - THE FIRST SHOOTINGthirty-one - WHAT HAPPENED UPSTAIRS?thirty-two - WHERE THE REAL GANGSTAS LIVEthirty-three - ME AGAINST THE WORLDthirty-four - THE SHOGUN OF DEATH ROWSNOOP DOGGWARREN GRIFFINKURUPTLADY OF RAGEthirty-five - INMATE NO.95-A-1140 part four - AVENGERthirty-six - THE MAN WHO WALKED OUT OF PRISONthirty-seen - A PROBLEM BETWEEN TWO RAPPERSthirty-eight - CRUSADERthirty-nine - PIGGIE AND BUFFYforty - THE SECOND SHOOTINGforty-one - BLACK ROYALTY AND BIG PLANSforty-two - THE NOTORIOUS P.I.S.S.E.D.forty-three - THE THIRD SHOOTING part five - BELOVEDforty-four - TOO HARD TO BELIEVEforty-five - GOODBYE Acknowledgements BIBLIOGRAPHY DISCOGRAPHY FILMOGRAPHY INDEXCopyright Page