cd_god
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Post by cd_god on Sept 7, 2021 20:17:18 GMT -8
25 years ago today 2 Pac was shot in Las Vegas which eventually lead to his death.
Some here may have not been born before that date.
Every generation has a real hero and spokesman.
One of the greatest.
I wholeheartedly believe shit in society would not be in the state it is today if 2pac had been around to guide the urban impoverished youth rather than the ghetto fabulous bling rap that took over the mainstream after his death.
3 degrees
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HiBeat
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Post by HiBeat on Sept 8, 2021 19:11:07 GMT -8
I think your words are pretty wise there Josh.
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cd_god
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Post by cd_god on Sept 13, 2021 19:24:43 GMT -8
Friday the 13th 1996
1996
September 13
Tupac Shakur dies
Hip hop star Tupac Shakur dies on September 13, 1996 of gunshot wounds suffered in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting.
More than a decade after his death on this day in 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur remains one of the most recognizable faces and voices in hip-hop. A steady stream of posthumous album releases has kept his name near the top of lifetime sales rankings, and artistic efforts like the 2003 film Tupac: Resurrection have kept his image and music current among fans who were far too young to have seen and heard him perform while he was still alive. His recording career came to an end with his death at the age of 25, but like another famous rapper with whom his story is intertwined, Shakur has only grown in stature with each passing year since his still-unsolved murder.
The story of Shakurâs death on September 13, 1996, begins with a failed attempt on his life two years earlier. On November 30, 1994, Tupac Shakur was shot and seriously wounded during a robbery committed by two armed men in the lobby of a midtown Manhattan office building that housed a recording studio where heâd been working on his third album, Me Against the World (1995). For reasons that have been detailed obsessively in works such as Nick Broomfieldâs 2002 documentary Biggie and Tupac, Shakur blamed the attack on producer Sean âPuff Daddyâ Combs and rival rapper Christopher Wallaceâa.k.a. âThe Notorious B.I.G.â Shakurâs charges, and his subsequent move to the L.A.-based record label Death Row Records, sparked the so-called âEast Coast vs. West Coastâ feud that defined the hip-hop scene through the mid-1990s.
In Las Vegas on September 7, 1996, for the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon boxing match, Shakur and others in his entourage were captured on tape in the lobby of the MGM Grand hotel engaging in a violent scuffle with a man later identified as a member of the Los Angeles-based Crips street gang. Hours later, Shakur was riding as a passenger in a car driven by Death Row Records head Marian âSugeâ Knight when a white Cadillac pulled up alongside them at a stoplight on Flamingo Road and opened fire. At least 12 shots were fired, four of which struck Shakur and one of which grazed the head of Suge Knight. Emergency surgery at University Medical Center saved Shakurâs life that night, and in the days following, doctors announced that his chances of recovery had improved. On September 13, 1996, however, Tupac Shakur died of his wounds.
Six months later, Shakurâs rap rival, Christopher Wallace, was murdered in similar circumstances in Los Angeles. No arrest has been made to date in connection with either murder.
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