They're not autistic. Kids with autism usually flap their hands as a stim, usually for a visual stimulation caused by the movement of their hands, not in reaction to anything. Hand flapping during excitement/anger is usually excess energy looking for a way out. A form of expression. Many 3 yr olds don't play cooperatively with others at school.
That year one of the most influential rappers to ever hold a microphone released his breakout album. In January 1993, Tupac Shakur was 21 years old. He was about to drop his second album, and the first feature film he starred in had been a success. He was on the cusp of superstardom. Kevin Powell, a young journalist at Vibe magazine, was trying to talk his editors into taking a story.
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.