{"id":525902,"date":"2026-01-18T02:07:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/525902\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T02:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:07:48","slug":"baltimore-orioles-announce-tupac-shakur-bobblehead-giveaway-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/525902\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Orioles announce Tupac Shakur bobblehead giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><br class=\" \"\/>The first 15,000 fans at theBaltimore Orioles&#8217; May 8 matchup against the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ath\/athletics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Athletics<\/a>will take home a special Tupac Shakur bobblehead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Orioles will honor Shakur with a bobblehead of him rocking an Orioles uniform, black bandana and holding a bat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Shakur <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoremagazine.com\/section\/artsentertainment\/legendary-rapper-tupac-shakur-spent-his-formative-years-in-baltimore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first went<\/a> to Roland Park Middle School then Paul Laurence Dunbar High School before auditioning as a theater major at the Baltimore School of Arts. He <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/baltimore\/news\/tupac-shakurs-baltimore-childhood-home-listed-for-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">studied<\/a> acting, poetry, jazz and ballet at the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He rapped along the way, too, with Baltimore playing a role in his career as a musician. According to <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoremagazine.com\/section\/artsentertainment\/legendary-rapper-tupac-shakur-spent-his-formative-years-in-baltimore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Baltimore Magazine<\/a>, 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: &#8220;Calling All Rappers&#8221; with the two penning a song called &#8220;Library Rap.&#8221; Shakur wrote his verse on a piece of lined notebook paper, which now resides in Pratt&#8217;s special collections archive alongside work from legendary Baltimore scribes H.L. Mencken and Edgar Allen Poe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Shakur is widely regarded as one of the greatest rappers and lyricists of all time. He became the first solo hip-hop artist to be <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2pac.com\/story\/tupac-inducted-into-the-32nd-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-hymn-for-afeni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">inducted<\/a> into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. He was murdered in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first 15,000 fans at theBaltimore Orioles&#8217; May 8 matchup against the Athleticswill take home a special Tupac&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[69812,3890,143,47,2538,5,649,4,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-525902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-69812","9":"tag-athletics-athletics","10":"tag-baltimore","11":"tag-baltimore-orioles","12":"tag-baltimoreorioles","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-espn","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115913667575734043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}