Shakur also oversaw her son’s estate, including his voluminous posthumous releases. One year after Tupac’s death, Afeni Shakur created the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, which provides art programs to students. Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac, a former leader of the New York. He came for a gun, but was instead given books and a mentor.
Joseph met Davis the first day he joined the Panthers at age 15.
Baby mama claims she conceived while Tristan was still dating Khloe. “Sad news about Pacs mom #AfeniShakur RIP Dear Mama learned a lot about being a women from watching you,” Pepa from Salt & Pepa tweeted. Sometime in the spring of 1992, I knocked on the door of a hotel room in midtown Manhattan. RELATED: Afeni Shakur Davis, Activist and Mother of Tupac, Dies at 69. LEGENDARY rapper Tupac Shakur was married a year before he died September 13, 1996. “Ain’t a woman alive that could take my mother’s place,” he said on “Dear Mama,” a tribute to Afeni that was later added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry.Ī year after “Dear Mama” was released, Tupac Shakur was gunned down in Las Vegas on September 7th, 1996 a week later, he died of his wounds at a hospital with Afeni at his side. Afeni Shakur, who overcame being “poor single mother on welfare” as described in her son’s 1995 single “Dear Mama,” was a constant inspiration in Tupac’s music, as the late rapper dedicated many of his songs to the woman who tempered his artistic ability and revolutionary spirit.