It would come in the form of drive-by shootings that would take the lives of two legends and then lay waste to the hip-hop landscape. At the time he wanted Nagasaki and nothing else would suffice. Sadly, Pac’s proclamation would eventually come true, but the violence wouldn’t come in the form of an atomic explosion. A Los Angeles Times investigation determined that uncooperative witnesses and minimal pursuit of gang-related leads resulted in what remains an unsolved homicide case. This wasn’t a situation that could simply be diffused through a conversation or the two going their separate ways. Tupac Shakur died on September 13, 1996, six days after an unknown gunman in a white Cadillac shot him four times in the chest at a stoplight in Las Vegas. Pac didn’t want peace, not at that moment.
Still, it’s sad to look at how history has a way of repeating itself. On this date in 1994, rapper was headed into the building on 7th Avenue in Manhatan. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the. Bachelor of Arts in English University of Washington 2012. I struggled with the fine line between my journalistic duty to keep his meaning and not contributing to a dangerous situation as a human being who deeply cared about the culture. - Angie Martinez Billboard Interview 2016 It was on this day in Hip Hop history that many may argue that the legend of Thug Life and Tupac Shakur began. I GOT SHOT FIVE TIMES AND I GOT CRUCIFIED TO THE MEDIA TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR MORAL PANIC, MEDIA CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION. And yes, I took the best of what he had said about there not being an East Coast-West Coast beef, that it was about one person dealing with another person. I chose to stick by Pac with cuts that reflected his truth but that were also positive.
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