The late Hip-Hop icon Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in East Harlem, New York. And grew up with his parents divorced at the age five, Tupac was interested in poetry and acting. He became famous in 1991 from playing in the movie Juice (1991). Tupac later died in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1996 September 13,1996 he was pronounced dead from his right lung collapsing during surgery. Thats how I got my name.