Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Shakur i te Pipiri 16, 1971, i te rohe o East Harlem o Manhattan i New York City. I a ia e whanau ana i Lesane Parish Crooks, i whakaingoatia ia, i te tau kotahi, i muri i a Túpac Amaru II (te uri o te rangatira Incan whakamutunga, a Túpac Amaru), i whakaekehia i Peru i te tau 1781 whai muri i tana
he whakakeke i taka ki te kawanatanga Paniora. I whakamarama te whaea o Shakur, "I hiahia ahau kia whai ingoa ia mo nga iwi hurihuri, iwi taketake o te ao. I hiahia ahau kia mohio ia he wāhanga ia o te ahurea o te ao, ehara i te mea no te rohe anake".