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Rapper/Actor/Activist -Tupac Amaru Shakur (aka 2Pac) was born in Harlem, the son of two active members of the Black Panther Party. After a brief stay in Baltimore, Maryland, his family relocated to California when he was 16. Shakur began his rap career as a roadie and dancer with Oakland hip hop group Digital Underground. 

After the 1991 release of his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now, the sensitive provocateur’s rap career skyrocketed. 

He also garnered critical acclaim for riveting performances in films like Juice and Poetic Justice, in which he played aromantic lead opposite Janet Jackson. Despite repeated arrests, shootings and a prison sentence, Shakur was in the process of turning his life around when was killed at age 25 in a still-unsolved Las Vegas shooting. His legacy as a hip hop legend lives on.

Willow Smith Pens Heartfelt Letter to Tupac
The young pop star shares an old letter she wrote to the late hip hop icon.

                                        Willow Smith                                                                Tupac 

Willow Smith has first-rate teachers on the subject of hip hop history in parents Will and Jada, but one lesson the 11-year-old star seems to have picked up along the way is decidedly extracurricular. In a handwritten letter to Tupac written by the junior Smith years ago and recently posted on her personalInstagram page, Willow expresses her belief that the legendary rapper is still "alive some place."

"Dear Tupac, I know you are alive some place. I think that my mommy really misses you," the letter begins. "Can you please come back so mommy and me can be happy! I wish you were here... I really do! Love, Willow."

Tupac and Jada Pinkett-Smith, who attended high school together at the Baltimore School for the Arts, were close friends until the rapper's death in 1996.

Since she likely won't get her wish to meet 'Pac in person, the "21st Century Girl" and Annie star will have to keep making due with stories from mom