Where was 2pac from?

[Average Coli Poster]

How would you answer this question?

NY?

Baltimore?

The Bay?

LA?

Everywhere?

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

Baltimore to NY to CA

 

[JQ Legend]

Baltimore to NY to CA

U got NY and Baltimore backwards

He didnt move to Baltimore till he was 14

 

[Truality]

heaven sent

 

[Ego Noir]

New York but he was made in Cali. So ill let him claim Cali:niro:

 

[RAX 010]

Newark NJ

 

[SubLyminalz]

gawgia

 

[b@squ1@t]

he claims cuba now

 

[JQ Legend]

I honestly think Cali only let Pac claim them because he was a real nikka and one of the biggest rappers ever, if he was some cornball nikka who moved out there at 17 trying to claim he was from there they'd hit him with the


It's always been a known fact Pac was from NY, his first rap name was MC New York

He didnt even get on that reppin Cali shyt till he felt like NY turned on him

 

[Still Benefited]

No Bay=no Pac ill let you decide...people point out he didn't claim the bay like that,but he did enuff...he knew exactly how much he could claim it without pissing off nikkas that's really from there...But what greater gift than being a honorary bay nikka

 

[Still Benefited]

I honestly think Cali only let Pac claim them because he was a real nikka and one of the biggest rappers ever, if he was some cornball nikka who moved out there at 17 trying to claim he was from there they'd hit him with the


It's always been a known fact Pac was from NY, his first rap name was MC New York

He didnt even get on that reppin Cali shyt till he felt like NY turned on him in late 94

What you want Cali to do,just go around letting nikkas like Luda and Lil Bowow act like they from there....Bone Thugs coulda fukked around and got that pass if they didn't stay shoutin out Cleveland..nikkas wanted Bone to be from Cali,lookin for Cleveland California on the map and shyt

 

[Average Coli Poster]

No Bay=no Pac ill let you decide...people point out he didn't claim the bay like that,but he did enuff...he knew exactly how much he could claim it without pissing off nikkas that's really from there...But what greater gift than being a honorary bay nikka

IMO I feel like Pac should of shown the Bay more respect.

I feel thats where he made the transition from Boy to Man. But he never really let that be known

As a youngin I always thought Pac was from LA




Where was he living when he got his first record deal and dropped his debut?

 

[osama bin fly]

Toronto

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Yeah, the impression i get is that the pac we're all familiar with didn't really exist until he got to the bay...recently read an article from the baltimore sun back from '96, shortly after he died...and they to a bunch of his closest friends from his years in bmore..they describe him as basically that guy from that clip people are always posting trying to clown or whatever where he's talking about girls not liking the nice guy...when he moved to cali he became 2pac the rapper we all know...his bmore friends said he never changed when dealing with them personally, but had a harder time reconciling the difference when in the presence of others

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/19..._shakur-baltimore-school-dunbar-high-school/2

Shakur left Baltimore in the spring of 1988, his junior year. Hicken, the theater instructor, never had the chance to put him in a show. Pilcher says Shakur was "heartbroken" about leaving.

From thespian to thug

"He wanted nothing more than to stay at the School for the Arts," says Pilcher. "There was respect, and acting wasn't looked upon as a sissy thing to do."

Shakur moved to Northern California, found his way into the West Coast rap scene and got his break with Digital Underground. By the time he was 22, he had starred in two films and his two albums had each sold a half-million copies. Tupac was now 2Pac, a walking symbol of the thug life.

Shakur made several return visits to Baltimore, usually as part of record promotions. He arrived in limousines, but still presented himself as the Shakur of old.

"We knew him before he adopted the gangster persona," says Hicken. "It wouldn't make any sense for him to talk to us that way."

Cole visited him in Los Angeles during the filming of "Poetic Justice," released in 1992. But Shakur cut him off when his Oakland friends arrived at the hotel where they were staying.

"I'm rather white, and I didn't fit the image of what his thug life friends wanted, and I don't think he knew how to deal with it," says Cole.

So far as his rap persona goes, I says he's essentially from Cali...from his debut up until MATW, from the bay...and once he starting running with Suge and Death Row, gangbanging and sh!t...basically from LA...don't know if i could trace any of his rapper persona specifically to bmore or nyc

 

[Ashtrey]

if you listened to Pac in 1991-1993 u would have thought he was from Oakland cause the only city he mentioned in his lyrics or filmed his videos in was Oakland ... he never mentioned his New York origins in his music until "Old School"...

and Pac claimed L.A. like Will Smith claimed Miami..