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Wallace mentioned that he had done so not only because of the ongoing East Coast–West Coast hip hop feud and the murder of Tupac Shakur six months prior, but because security was simply a necessity for high-profile celebrities. [3] Life After Death was scheduled for release on March 25, 1997.
Tupac Shakur attended the Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson boxing match with Marion "Suge" Knight, the head of Death Row Records, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.After leaving the match, one of Knight's associates, Trevon "Tre" Lane, a member of the M.O.B. Pirus gang based in Compton, California, spotted Orlando Anderson, from the rival South Side Compton Crips gang, in the MGM Grand lobby. [6]
Tupac’s murder has long been blamed on the escalating East Coast-West Coast hip-hop rivalry of the 1990s – a rivalry that would also claim the life of Shakur’s friend-turned-rival Notorious ...
Anderson, who was killed in an unrelated gang shooting in 1998, was long suspected in Tupac’s death by authorities. Shortly before 9 p.m., Shakur, Knight and their entourage left the MGM Grand ...
In the 50-year history of hip-hop, there have never been two stars whose lives – and deaths – have been more examined than Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace, the rapper known professionally ...
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), better known by his stage names the Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, [1] was an American rapper. Rooted in East Coast hip hop and particularly gangsta rap , he is widely considered to be one of the greatest rappers of all time.
Wardell Fouse (July 22, 1960 – July 24, 2003), also known by his aliases Darnell Bolton and Poochie, was an American Bloods gang member who was implicated in the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. Fouse belonged to the California-based gang known as the Mob Piru Bloods.
FILE - Rapper Tupac Shakur, left, and Death Row Records Chairman Marion Suge Knight, attend a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles, on Aug. 15, 1996. (AP)