Ka cika wannan jumla: An wanke ta da sauran a cikin "Panther 21" a watan Mayu 1971 bayan shari'ar watanni takwas. Gabaɗaya, Afeni Shakur ya shafe shekaru biyu a kurkuku kafin a sake shi. A lokacin da yake da shekaru 24, an haifi ɗanta, Lesane Parish Crooks, a ranar 16 ga Yuni, 1971. A shekara mai zuwa, a cikin 1972, an sake sunan Ikklesiya ta Lesane zuwa Tupac Amaru Shakur, wanda ke nufin "macijin mai haske" a cikin Quechua. An ambaci Tupac bayan Túpac Amaru II, shugaban 'yan tawaye na' yan asalin ƙasar
Tawaye na Túpac Amaru II, tawayen Inca da Mutanen Espanya a Peru wanda ya kasance daga 1780 zuwa 1783.