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Murder of Tupac Shakur
On September 7, 1996, at 11:15 p.m. (PDT), Tupac Shakur, a 25-year-old American rapper, was shot in a drive-by shooting in Paradise, Nevada. The shooting occurred when the car carrying Shakur was stopped at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane. Shakur was struck by four rounds fired from a .40-caliber Glock 22 pistol: two in the chest, one in the arm, and one in the thigh. The driver, Suge Knight, was grazed by a bullet in the shooting. Shakur died from his injuries six days later, on September 13, 1996.
Orlando Anderson, a Crips gang member, was suspected in the murder but denied being involved and was never charged. He was killed in an unrelated gang shootout in 1998. On September 29, 2023, 27 years after Shakur's murder, Duane "Keefe D" Davis, Anderson's uncle, was arrested after being indicted by a grand jury for the first-degree murder of Shakur.
Tupac Shakur was an American rapper. His debut album, 2Pacalypse Now (1991), made him a prominent figure in West Coast hip-hop; he achieved further success Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... (1993) and Me Against the World (1995). His music featured political themes, addressing topics such as racism, police brutality, gang violence, and the war on drugs. In addition to his music career, Shakur acted in films such as Juice (1992) and Above the Rim (1994), and wrote poetry. In 2022, Rolling Stone described him as "one of his era's most revolutionary voices".
Shakur's career was beset by legal problems. In 1993, he was charged with two counts of aggravated assault for shooting two off-duty police officers, though the charges were dropped. He was convicted of sexual abuse in 1994 and served eight months in prison, but was released pending appeal in 1995. Following his release, he signed to Suge Knight's Death Row Records.
The murder occurred at the height of the East Coast–West Coast hip-hop rivalry, a focal point of which was the feud between Shakur and the East Coast rapper the Notorious B.I.G. They were initially friends, but had a falling out after Shakur was shot in a building where B.I.G. was recording in November 1994. Shakur accused B.I.G. and Sean Combs, the head of B.I.G.'s label Bad Boy Records, of setting up or having prior knowledge of the shooting. In 1995, the feud intensified with the release of the B.I.G. song "Who Shot Ya?", which Shakur interpreted as a diss track targeting him, and Knight's speech at the 1995 Source Awards, in which he insulted Combs and Bad Boy.
In June 1996, Shakur released the diss track "Hit 'Em Up", which the reporter Chuck Philips described as "a caustic anti-East Coast jihad in which the rapper threatens to eliminate Biggie, [Combs], and a slew of Bad Boy artists and other New York acts". "Hit 'Em Up" is regarded as the feud's centerpiece and a turning point in which things were said and rapped that could never be taken back.
Shakur attended the Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson boxing match with Knight, the head of Death Row Records, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. After leaving the match, one of Knight's associates, Trevon "Tre" Lane, a member of the Mob Pirus gang based in Compton, California, spotted Orlando Anderson, from the rival South Side Compton Crips gang, in the MGM Grand lobby. Earlier that year, in July 1996, Anderson and a group of South Side Crips attempted to steal Lane's Death Row medallion in the Foot Locker store at the Lakewood Center mall in Lakewood, California.
Lane told Shakur, who in turn attacked Anderson in the lobby. Shakur asked Anderson if he was from the "South" (South Side Crips) and punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Shakur and Knight's entourage assisted in assaulting Anderson. The fight, which was captured on the MGM Grand's video surveillance, was broken up by hotel security.
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Murder of Tupac Shakur
On September 7, 1996, at 11:15 p.m. (PDT), Tupac Shakur, a 25-year-old American rapper, was shot in a drive-by shooting in Paradise, Nevada. The shooting occurred when the car carrying Shakur was stopped at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane. Shakur was struck by four rounds fired from a .40-caliber Glock 22 pistol: two in the chest, one in the arm, and one in the thigh. The driver, Suge Knight, was grazed by a bullet in the shooting. Shakur died from his injuries six days later, on September 13, 1996.
Orlando Anderson, a Crips gang member, was suspected in the murder but denied being involved and was never charged. He was killed in an unrelated gang shootout in 1998. On September 29, 2023, 27 years after Shakur's murder, Duane "Keefe D" Davis, Anderson's uncle, was arrested after being indicted by a grand jury for the first-degree murder of Shakur.
Tupac Shakur was an American rapper. His debut album, 2Pacalypse Now (1991), made him a prominent figure in West Coast hip-hop; he achieved further success Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... (1993) and Me Against the World (1995). His music featured political themes, addressing topics such as racism, police brutality, gang violence, and the war on drugs. In addition to his music career, Shakur acted in films such as Juice (1992) and Above the Rim (1994), and wrote poetry. In 2022, Rolling Stone described him as "one of his era's most revolutionary voices".
Shakur's career was beset by legal problems. In 1993, he was charged with two counts of aggravated assault for shooting two off-duty police officers, though the charges were dropped. He was convicted of sexual abuse in 1994 and served eight months in prison, but was released pending appeal in 1995. Following his release, he signed to Suge Knight's Death Row Records.
The murder occurred at the height of the East Coast–West Coast hip-hop rivalry, a focal point of which was the feud between Shakur and the East Coast rapper the Notorious B.I.G. They were initially friends, but had a falling out after Shakur was shot in a building where B.I.G. was recording in November 1994. Shakur accused B.I.G. and Sean Combs, the head of B.I.G.'s label Bad Boy Records, of setting up or having prior knowledge of the shooting. In 1995, the feud intensified with the release of the B.I.G. song "Who Shot Ya?", which Shakur interpreted as a diss track targeting him, and Knight's speech at the 1995 Source Awards, in which he insulted Combs and Bad Boy.
In June 1996, Shakur released the diss track "Hit 'Em Up", which the reporter Chuck Philips described as "a caustic anti-East Coast jihad in which the rapper threatens to eliminate Biggie, [Combs], and a slew of Bad Boy artists and other New York acts". "Hit 'Em Up" is regarded as the feud's centerpiece and a turning point in which things were said and rapped that could never be taken back.
Shakur attended the Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson boxing match with Knight, the head of Death Row Records, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. After leaving the match, one of Knight's associates, Trevon "Tre" Lane, a member of the Mob Pirus gang based in Compton, California, spotted Orlando Anderson, from the rival South Side Compton Crips gang, in the MGM Grand lobby. Earlier that year, in July 1996, Anderson and a group of South Side Crips attempted to steal Lane's Death Row medallion in the Foot Locker store at the Lakewood Center mall in Lakewood, California.
Lane told Shakur, who in turn attacked Anderson in the lobby. Shakur asked Anderson if he was from the "South" (South Side Crips) and punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Shakur and Knight's entourage assisted in assaulting Anderson. The fight, which was captured on the MGM Grand's video surveillance, was broken up by hotel security.