How a chain-snatching and a Vegas beatdown led to Tupac's murder
New York Times: How a fatal dispute altered the course of hip-hop history.
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New York Times: How a fatal dispute altered the course of hip-hop history.
How Tupac Shakur's killing in 1996 brought "10 days of hell" to Compton, with multiple shootings that helped crack the case.
Grand jury witness testimony describes how hyperlocal clashes between warring gang factions spilled into a fatal dispute that would alter the course of hip-hop history.
In the adrenalized aftermath of a Mike Tyson prizefight in 1996, a black BMW carrying rapper Tupac Shakur pulled up to a red light just off the Las Vegas Strip, thrilling the women in the car next to him. As Shakur hung out of his passenger-side window, his friends in the Lexus behind him assumed that he was inviting the women to his record label’s new nightspot, Club 662 — its numeric name a barely disguised telephone code for “MOB.” The women pulled away and a white Cadillac took their place.
Grand jury witness testimony describes how hyperlocal clashes between warring gang factions spilled into a fatal dispute that would alter the course of hip-hop history.