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- Afeni Shakur
Mother of Tupac, she was in prison while pregnant with Tupac. Afeni was a member of the Black Panthers. She was in prison for a plot to bomb banks and department stores. Family moved from the east coast to the west. Tupac found out Afeni was taking drugs while on tour with digital underground in 1990. Afeni won the rights to all unreleased Tupac songs. She released double album "RU Still down ?(Remmember me) in 1997. She has recently released Greatest Hits and a Tupac poetry book.
- Billy Garland
Biological father of Tupac. Tupac was told that his father was dead, but he first met him in hospital after being shot in new york. A member of the Black Panthers
- Mutulu Shakur
Married to Afeni Shakur. Convicted for his involvement in a 1981 armored car robbery. It left two policeman and a brinks guard dead.
- Lumumba Shakur
Brother of Mutulu Shakur. Murdered in Louisiana before Mutulus arrest.
- Zayd Shakur
Brother of Mutulu Shakur. Killed in a shootout in New Jersey.
- Geronimo Pratt
Convicted Black Panther member, Tupac's godfather.
- Assata Shakur
In 1973 she and Zayd Shakur were stopped by an NJ trooper. In a shooout Zayd and the NJ trooper were killed. Assata was sent to prison. In 1979 she escaped from prison after learning of a plan to kill her. She fled to Cuba, where she is under Asylum granted by Fidel Castro.
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