13 September 1996, exactly 20 years ago, died Tupac Amaru Shakur. He was 25 years old

In the 20-th anniversary of the murder of Tupac let us remember life and death, without a doubt, of the legendary person. 

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His mother Afeni Shakur (Afeni Shakur), consisting of the party "Black Panther", was pregnant with him while in prison on charges of explosions. In 1986, Shakur's family moves to Baltimore where Tupac enrolls at the Baltimore School for the Arts. Here he writes his first rap under the name MC New York"

Afeni Shakur

The vast majority of Tupac songs tell about the hard life in the ghetto, violence, poverty, racism, the problems of modern society and conflicts with other rappers. Social activities of Tupac was aimed at protecting political, economic, social and racial equality, and his early recordings — the violence, the problems of drug and alcohol abuse, conflict with the law.

2Pac was never the best technical rapper in addition to him, and after there was a huge amount of MC with a more complex and intricate rhymes. However, to this day he is considered one of the best, and for whom-if not the best rap artist in history.

Almost each of his songs full of passion confession, sometimes nervous and furious, sometimes dramatic and sad, and sometimes sinister and prophetic.

Tupac Shakur has gone down in history as the first person who released an album while in prison — "Me Against the World", which later gained multi-platinum status. In April 1995, while still in prison, married Keisha Morris, after his release from prison — divorced.

"I think I'll die saving a white child" - 2pac

But he was destined to die in another way.

September 7 1996 in Las Vegas hosted a Boxing match between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon, in which Tyson been knocked out of the enemy.

After the fight in the lobby of the MGM Grand there was an altercation between Tupac and Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, who got on a surveillance camera. After the Tupac along with knight, went to a club owned by Death Row's Club 662. They drove the BMW 750i. They were followed by the bodyguards of Tupac and Suge Knight. Bodyguard of Tupac wanted to take one car with them, but Tupac referred to the fact that, coming back from the club, many will be drunk and we need more cars to drive everyone back to the hotel.

At 22:55 during a stop at a traffic light, Tupac rolled down the window, and one of his fans, Leonard Jefferson, exchanged a few words, took a picture of the rapper. This picture (from static.deathandtaxesmag.com):

At about 23:15 white 4-door Cadillac one of the last models with an unknown number of passengers stayed on the right side of the vehicle the Suge at one of the intersections. The attackers lowered the window and shot the car Suge. Bullets hit only to Tupac in the chest, pelvis and thigh. One of the bullets ricocheted and hit in the right lung. Suge was wounded by fragments of glass. After the attackers quickly fled. One of the cars of the convoy went after him, but soon returned with nothing.

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It's hard to describe the effect that 2Pac left behind. He was a rapper, actor, public figure and could become a great businessman. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide, making it one of the best-selling artists in the world. Rolling Stone magazine put 2Pac on 86-th place in the list of the greatest artists of all time. He is also the first rapper, who erected a monument.

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