In his teenage years, Tupac Shakur (born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1971) attended the Baltimore School for the Arts in Baltimore, Maryland. During that time one of his friends was shot while playing with a gun. This accident inspired Shakur to write and perform his first rap, which was about gun control.
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