Black and White photo of Baltimore School for the Arts students featuring Tupac Shakur

In the News Alumni

Tupac Shakur in Baltimore: Friends, Teachers Retrieve the Birth of an Artist

At the height of his celebrity, Tupac Shakur chose to requite author Kevin Powell some of his most revealing interviews ever — from a subdued, introspective conversation while the rapper was incarcerated to resentful provocations against rivals that fueled the escalating East Coast-West Coast rap beef.

Powell said that ane topic came upwards often, when the recorder was on and off: The cursory but determinative time a teenage Shakur called a small flat at 3955 Greenmount Avenue home.

Read the full Baltimore Sun story hither.