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Hip-hop activists

  • Kanye WestKanye Omari West was born on the 8th of June 1977, in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents divorced when he was three years old, and he moved with his mother to…
  • Tupac ShakurTupac Amaru Shakur was born on the 16th of June 1971, in East Harlem, Manhattan. His birth name was Lesane Parish Crooks until he was renamed at age one.
  • Afrika BambaataaLance Taylor grew up in the Bronx River Projects during the 1960s and 1970s. He was born on the 17th of April 1957 to Jamaican and Barbadian immigrants.
  • Lupe FiascoWasalu Muhammad Jaco arrived in Chicago on the 16th of February 1982. He grew up as one of nine children born to Shirley and Gregory Jaco.
  • Ice-TTracy Lauren Marrow arrived in the world on the 16th of February 1958. He was born in Newark, New Jersey to Solomon and Alice Marrow.