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...death of Shakur, who sold more than 10 million albums, constitutes a defining nightmare for a gangsta-rap world whose paranoid royalty seem increasingly compelled to live out the grotesque violence that fills its art. Many initially connected the murder to the rapper's vocal participation in an ugly feud between his California record label, Death Row, and its East Coast competitor, Bad Boy. It was Death Row president Marion ("Suge") Knight who was driving his black BMW after the Tyson fight, with Shakur standing up through the sun roof. Four men rolled up in a white Cadillac, fired about...
Before Tupac Shakur died last Friday, as he lay in a Las Vegas hospital with a lung removed, an intestinal wound and two fingers missing, a security video turned up. It was shot not long before he was; it showed the casino area of the MGM Grand Hotel, where Shakur had stayed while in town for the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon heavyweight fight. According to hotel employees, the tape recorded the superstar rapper and his entourage brutally "beating and stomping" an unidentified man. The Las Vegas police have seen the tape, but they claim that its contents are unrelated...
...Shakur was born in New York City into a nobility of violence: his mother, a Black Panther, was jailed on a bombing charge while she was pregnant with him, although she was later acquitted. His father was shot and killed when Tupac was a child. Their son, meanwhile, wrote sensitive poetry while attending the High School of Performing Arts in Baltimore, Maryland. Shakur never entirely ceased extolling black womanhood or elders. Increasingly, however, such lyrics were shouldered aside by the bitches and cop-killing bullets of gangstaism. The dominant persona, says rap reporter Larry Hester, was "a villain, a joker...
Then the artist regressed into his character. Shakur carried a gun and shot at people. He escaped conviction on a series of assault charges, but a 1993 sexual-abuse complaint stuck. He arrived for sentencing in a wheelchair; days earlier, he had been shot five times in a Manhattan "robbery" he regarded as a failed hit. Out on appeal last October, he sought protection under the wing of the massive, much feared Knight, who was deeply embroiled in his feud with Bad Boy and the East. In two years the conflict had moved far beyond artistic issues to beatings...
...VEGAS: Police investigating the mysterious shooting of mega rap star Tupac Shakur remained frustrated Wednesday after record executive Marion "Suge" Knight failed for the third day in a row to show up to answer questions about the incident. Shakur remains in critical condition and on life support after having been shot four times, twice in the chest and once in the throat late Saturday night. Doctors are giving the rapper -->