Tupac was a star cross country runner for his high school with a 16:15 5k pr he went to a fancy high school

Tupac went to the Baltimore School for the Arts, which is a public arts magnet school. Tupac was a talented kid and was acting on stage at the age of 12 with a theater group in NY. He was actually a theater kid before he was a rapper. But his family was poor. His mother was a black panther and was tried for the bombing of a Bronx police station (she was acquitted). She had trouble finding work due to her arrested and the notoriety of her trial and struggled with drug addiction.

The east Harlem neighborhood he grew up in was rough in the 1970s. Back then, Times Square was mostly strip clubs and XXX theaters and even in nice parts of NYC, people got mugged all the time. His Baltimore neighborhood was more economically diverse, but he lived on the first floor of a typical low income row house.

It is up for debate whether Tupac was a gangster through and through or whether he got swept up in it once he found fame as a rapper. But he definitely came from the streets and did not have much growing up. He was not some kid from the suburbs playing gangster to build a rap career. His godfather was Geronimo Pratt and his step father served 30 years for a Brinks armored car robbery and murder that was carried out with several members of the Black Panthers.

A real G don't need no "link".

Unless you kill someone after you become a cop! Oh Snap! Go buy a clue!

He also had a relationship with Madonna and Will Smith's wife.

Tupac started wearing a head rag due to early onset male pattern baldness. He never repeated his early xc success due to fear of it slipping during competition. It was similar to Andre Agassi wearing a rug at the 1990 French open. His hairpiece fell apart the night before and strategically placed hair clips were used to keep it in place. Unfortunately this inhibited his performance.

Hard and raw, no regard for the law
[Eazy E, were you ever caught slipping?]
Hell no! Just trippin off 8-ball

He had a 4:22 mile PR in the 11th grade. The dude could run. His 3200 was 9:45 if my memory is correct.

Drugs can do funny things to a memory. Whitney Houston told him crack is whack.

He was acquitted of all charges. I thought you dudes were all about the rule of law?

Bro have you seen Training Day?

Tupac Shakur was a gifted athlete. Shakur ran freshman cross country and track in 1984-85 for Dunbar HS in Baltimore. Shakur transferred and ran varsity cross country and track for the Baltimore School for the Arts during his sophomore (1985-86) and junior (1986-87) years. Shakur then transferred to Tamalpais HS for his senior year (1987-88), where he competed on the varsity cross country team, but unenrolled for the spring semester and did not participate in track.

His track and cross country personal bests are:
400m: 50.1 (relay)
800m: 1:57.3
1600m: 4:22
3200m: 9:42
5k XC: 16:08

There is an interview of Shakur at a cross country meet while he ran for Tamalpais HS in California during his senior year.

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I don't know anything about him doing high school sports but was shocked to see the Tamalpais HS bit a year after I graduated Tam. It is true:

"In his acclaimed 2001 book on Shakur, Holler If You Hear Me, author Michael Eric Dyson describes how Afeni’s crack addiction was exacerbated by her move to Marin City, noting that it put her “in dangerous proximity to the drug’s infamous center of distribution in Northern California’s black ghettos.” At some point, the situation with his mother got so bad that Tupac moved out to live with friends in an abandoned apartment. He also started selling crack as a way to afford food. Despite these substantial hardships, Shakur’s grades apparently never slipped.
For Owens, the memory is of a bright, exceptionally talented actor.
In announcing her departure from the Tamalpais Union High School District board of trustees earlier this summer, Owens noted that though her 35-year career has been packed with cherished memories, one of her favorites will always be of the time she tasked Shakur with reading some Shakespeare aloud.
“I asked him to take the part of Othello,” she says. “All of the students read the play aloud and he took that part. It was absolutely, hands down, one of the most stellar performances of Shakespeare, let alone Othello, that I have ever heard.”
Hearing Owens describe the scene, one can almost imagine Shakur’s robust baritone — the same voice that would later anchor beloved hits like “California Love” and “Dear Mama” — reverberating off the classroom walls.
“When he got to the scene where Othello is having a critical argument with himself about whether or not he’s going to snuff out Desdemona,” Owens recalls, “he read it brilliantly. I stopped the class and said, ‘I want you all to remember this moment. You will never ever, in your lifetime, hear Othello as well as you just heard it now.’ ”
Eventually, Shakur would drop out of Tamalpais High School.
“He could no longer pretend school fit his view of the world,” writes Dyson of Shakur’s mindset at the time. “Neither could he reconcile the poverty that he saw … he simply stopped going.”"

marinmagazine.com

Tupac Shakur's Life in Marin

Zack Ruskin

On the 23rd anniversary of his September 13 death, we look at the rapper’s short but meaningful time as a Bay Area resident.

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This is the link to the interview with Tupac at 17 at Tam.

10/10

ESPN is dropping the ball. There needs to be a 30 FOR 30 on this story.

For the moderates who took down post and this fool above who is a weirdo, who has problems and l know who you are. How do you feel now??. Tupac did run in high school and actually faster then was originally posted. You thought this was a troll post! SMH!

I literally CANNOT tell if this thread is a joke or not.

This is a FACT! That Casino 2:18 joke and the moderates have been taking down post that had his PRs from people that know 1st hand. Now that more people are saying it's real they are leaving them up. The dude ran and was FAST!! The dude wasn't all getto! He was all about $ and being a business man. Look as his body build in the 1980s. Just like a runners! The dude ran and grew up in a non getto life too.