Marin City Click to see full answer. Consequently, where in LA did Tupac live?When he was shot and killed in Las Vegas in 1996, Tupac Shakur was living in the Woodland Hills area of Calabasas, Los Angeles. Woodland Hills borders the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando Valley. Tupac purchased the land in August 1994 for $250,000, and built the house in 1995.Likewise, when did Tupac move to the West Coast? Tupac was born in Harlem, New York in 1971 as Lesane Parish Crooks, but he moved to Marin City, California (just north of San Francisco) in 1988. Although he was already 17 by this move, Tupac almost immediately began to adapt to West Coast culture, and he soon became the image of West Coast rap. Correspondingly, what part of Cali was Tupac from? Born in New York City, Tupac grew up primarily in Harlem. In 1984, his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland where he became good friends with Jada Pinkett Smith. His family moved again in 1988 to Oakland, California.Was Tupac from the West Coast?Focal points of the feud were East Coast–based rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (and his New York–based label, Bad Boy Records), and West Coast–based rapper Tupac Shakur (and Suge Knight’s Los Angeles–based label, Death Row Records, which he was part of), who were both murdered in drive-by shootings.