1 Asheville, North Carolina Demographics - Crime Rate Indexes. 2  Asheville, North Carolina Demographics - Education Level Profile and Enrollment Statistics.  Asheville, North Carolina Demographics - Quality of Life Indexes.
Early life. Tupac Shakur was born Lesane Parish Crooks in The Bronx, New York City on June 16, 1971 to Afeni Shakur, a member of the Black Panthers. Serving jail time on bombing charges while pregnant with Tupac, his mother faced a sentence of up to three years in prison.
Rapper Tupac Shakur, left, and Death Row Records Chairman Marion âSugeâ Knight. Marion Knight jr aka Suge was born in April 1965 in Compton city in Los Angeles, California, just a few weeks before violent rioting over police brutality in nearby Watts.