Book Event - THIS THUG’S LIFE: An Unapologetically Black Story by Maurice 'Mopreme' Shakur
Sun, Jun 14
|Sankofa Video Books & Café
Join us for a special evening with Mopreme Shakur as he shares an intimate and personal account of Tupac Shakur, the Shakur family legacy, and the stories behind THIS THUG’S LIFE.
Time & Location
Jun 14, 2026, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Sankofa Video Books & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
About The Event
About the book
The first-ever insider account of the Shakur family, the iconic hip hop group T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E., and the life and death Tupac Shakur – written by Mopreme Shakur, the legendary rapper’s big brother and eldest son of Black liberation activist Mutulu Shakur.
Maurice. Little Mutulu. Mogie. Mocedes. ’Preme. Wycked. Mopreme Shakur has been known by many names. Fitting for a multi-hyphenate like Mo: hip hop artist and sole surviving member of T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E. and Outlaw Immortalz, soldier, writer, husband and father, filmmaker, record producer, and big brother of, and co-collaborator with, the legendary Tupac Shakur, the greatest rapper of all time. The one thing Mo hasn’t done—until now—is to tell his story, one of complex family relationships, fame, tragedy, politics, musical innovation, and brotherly love.
Born in Flushing, New York, in 1967 and raised in South Jamica, Queens, Mo got an early education in what it meant to be a…
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