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Tupac Amaru Shakur was born on the 16th of June 1971, in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. He was born Lesane Parish Crooks and was renamed Tupac Amaru Shakur at age one, after Tupac Amaru II, a descendant of the last Inca ruler who was executed in Peru in 1781.
Tupac Shakur died on the 13th of September 1996, at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, six days after being shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Paradise, Nevada, on the 7th of September 1996. He was pronounced dead at 4:03 p.m. Official causes of death were respiratory failure and cardiopulmonary arrest associated with multiple gunshot wounds.
Tupac Shakur sold more than 75 million records worldwide. His Diamond-certified album All Eyez on Me was rap's first double album, and his posthumous Greatest Hits is one of only nine hip-hop albums to be certified Diamond in the United States.
Shakur's parents, Afeni Shakur and Billy Garland, were both active Black Panther Party members in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His godfather, Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, was a high-ranking Black Panther wrongly imprisoned for 27 years, and his godmother, Assata Shakur, was a former Black Liberation Army member who escaped from prison in 1979.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police arrested Duane "Keefe D" Davis on the 29th of September 2023, in connection with Shakur's 1996 murder. Davis pleaded not guilty on the 2nd of November 2023, in Las Vegas. His trial was subsequently delayed to the 10th of August 2026, while Davis remained incarcerated at Nevada's High Desert State Prison.
Shakur was inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame in 2002 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the 7th of April 2017, in his first year of eligibility. On the 7th of June 2023, he received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2009, the Vatican added his posthumous track "Changes" to its online playlist, and the Library of Congress added "Dear Mama" to the National Recording Registry on the 23rd of June 2010.