Friends of Lucas County Seniors Â· September 23, 2014 Â· You are invited to meet us at the Original Tony Packoâs on the East Side at 1902 Front Street, Toledo, Ohio, tomorrow for a great meal and to support Senior Citizens.
Tupac Shakur would have been 45 years old had he survived the September 1996 drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. He died at 25 with no children â once saying he feared bringing a son or daughter into âsuch a corrupt world.â The rapperâs deep devotion to kids, however, was evident both in and out of the recording studio.
Be4 He Was 2Pac Growing up: The 14-year-old who moved to Baltimore was no thug, but he was never a wallflower. Before gangsta raps there were raps about libraries and teen-age pregnancy; before Dannemora State Prison and the killing bullets, there were pillow fights and the exuberance of youth. Tupac Amaru Shakur did not grow up in Baltimore. He was not a finished product when he left. But his years here encompassed that crucial time when childhood ends and self-discovery begins. He was 14 when he and his mother moved here from the Bronx in 1985. He called himself MC New York and won a rap contest sponsored by the Enoch Pratt Free Library.