"He rapped along the way, too, with Baltimore playing a role in his career as a musician. According to Baltimore Magazine, Shakur and his friend Dana Smith won a youth rap contest in November 1985 held at the Enoch Pratt Free Library. He spotted a flier that read: "Calling All Rappers" with the two penning a song called "Library Rap." Shakur wrote his verse on a piece of lined notebook paper, which now resides in Pratt's special collections archive alongside work from legendary Baltimore scribes H.L. Mencken and Edgar Allen Poe."
"A prominent figure on the West Coast rap scene, the legendary rapper and his family moved to Baltimore from the Bronx in November 1985 when he was 14 years old. He went to middle school and high school in Baltimore before moving to Marin City, Calif. in 1988. The Orioles will honor Shakur with a bobblehead of him rocking an Orioles uniform, black bandana and holding a bat."
The Baltimore Orioles will distribute a Tupac Shakur bobblehead to the first 15,000 fans at their May 8 game against the Athletics. The bobblehead shows Shakur in an Orioles uniform, wearing a black bandana and holding a bat. Tupac lived in Baltimore from 1984–88 after moving from the Bronx at age 14 and attended Roland Park Middle School, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School and the Baltimore School of Arts as a theater major. He studied acting, poetry, jazz and ballet, won a November 1985 youth rap contest at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, and wrote a verse now preserved in Pratt’s special collections. Shakur became the first solo hip-hop inductee to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 and was killed in a 1996 Las Vegas drive-by shooting.
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