Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first began rapping, Shakur spent a few of his formative years in Baltimore ...

Tupac Shakur died in 1996. Photo: Rex/Shutterstock. One of the most iconic photos in music history is a snap of Tupac Shakur giving cameras the middle finger after he'd been shot five times.