The formation of Tupac as what produce his personality and character mainly has to do with his social habitation. For this we are to return to Tupac’s early years beginning from birth; before he became Tupac the fame international rapper, actor.

He was born June 16th as Lesane Parish Crooks in the year 1971 to Alice Faye Williams who later became Afeni Shakur after marrying Mutulu Shakur who was a Muslim. In 1972, Afeni decided to change his name to Tupac Amaru. The name that she gave her son Tupac Amaru was Arabic meaning ‘Shining serpent’ ad Shakur meant thankful to God. He was named after a famous Inca who fought for Inca rights.

Throughout Tupac early years Tupac was in constant movement between the Bronx and Harlem living in Shelters. During this time Legs one of the men Afeni was seeing at this time she became pregnant moved into the family and Tupac took him as his father. Legs then introduced Afeni to crack this same year in 1983. Later this year, Tupac was enlisted in the 127 Street Ensemble a Harlem theater group. Three years later Tupac and his family moved to Baltimore where Tupac wrote his first rap created his rap name, MC New York.

Three months later in June 1986, he was enlisted into Baltimore school of Arts. He studied ballet and acting. In the 8th grade, Tupac met up with Ace Roker and DJ Plain Terror, where they formed a group called Born Busy. Two years later, Pac and his family moved to Marine City, California, which later Pac said “I see that as the point where I got off track.”. Pac and another rapper formed a group called ‘2 from the Crew’, which was a group developed by teenagers living in the ‘jungle of marine City’. This was the same time Tupac came up with Thug Life; because they were called thugs in their neighborhood. Within the year 1988, Pac moved with a neighbor and began selling drugs. These experiences laid the foundation for Tupac.

This was Tupac; developing as a rap artist, creating and joining different rap groups, learning civility and non-civility music, performance, struggling and transfiguration of personal growth for Pac was only a teen learning to be a man. What made him was the world; these people, these experiences and in contingents of this how we understand Tupac, not as a rapper, actor or any form of label, but as a human being that learnt ghetto socialism, civil socialism, rap culture colonialism that shackled his mind and spawned the fight between his personality and character. Personality as his exclusive self – persona and character as the man few saw the desire to further himself beyond this. This was Tupac’s struggle; for we all heard it, but didn’t listen. Tupac (Positive and Negative).