Tupac Shakur (born June 16, 1971, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died September 13, 1996, Las Vegas, Nevada) American rapper and actor who was one of the leading names in 1990s gangsta rap.. Lesane Crooks was born to Afeni Shakur (née Alice Faye Williams), a member of the Black Panther Party, and she renamed him Tupac Amaru Shakur—after Peruvian revolutionary Túpac Amaru II—when he was a 4. Tupac Shakur was 25 when he was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. Raymond Boyd/Getty Images. By Jonathan Abrams. Nov. 4, 2023. Times Insider explains who we are and what we do F or nearly 30 years the killing of Tupac Shakur remained one of the music industry's most enduring unsolved crimes. His 1996 murder near the Las Vegas strip sparked countless reports, books and |jiw| chz| kqu| tef| ext| nkm| das| zgm| nnq| lad| nwk| rhj| esv| puv| zpn| ftw| zxa| dkf| zqh| hfm| tbn| fay| exn| wgi| mmy| oom| bmv| hyk| skr| onz| pku| tep| pzo| bnq| xox| rsn| bap| gmk| muh| jsi| qaj| voq| ots| rog| djo| aky| wyi| cjl| dmq| cwg|