‘Everything in Our Lives Was Traumatic’: Tupac Shakur’s Early Years in Baltimore

‘Everything in Our Lives Was Traumatic’: Tupac Shakur’s Early Years in Baltimore

The story of Tupac Shakur has been told many times since his tragic death at just 25 following a drive-by shooting in 1996. Yet a life so big and complicated is always ripe for further exploration. Jeff Pearlman’s new biography, Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur, is a 400-page deep dive into Shakur’s brief and tumultuous existence, from his childhood in New York City, Baltimore, and the Bay Area to his early brushes with fame…