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A focal point of the rivalry was the feud between East Coast–based rapper the Notorious B.I.G. signed by Puff Daddy and their New York City–based label, Bad Boy Records, and West Coast–based rapper Tupac Shakur signed by Suge Knight and their Los Angeles–based label, Death Row Records.
He had a secure childhood with his grandparents after his parents split up. His mother worked 12 hour shifts as a bookkeeper to support her children. [3] Anderson joined the South Side Compton Crips gang at some point in his youth. Anderson attended Taft High School, where he was a conscientious student who passed his exams and received good ...
Sean Combs (aka Puff Daddy, Puffy, Diddy) is pictured during a press conference at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, New York on January 2, 1992, following a deadly stampede at a concert at City ...
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]
Earlier this week, his longtime West Coast sparring partner Suge Knight, who is currently serving a 28-year sentence for manslaughter, tweeted from jail: “Justice for 2Pac is coming Keefe D and ...
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 1995, Tupac Shakur began serving a prison sentence of up to 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 years for a sexual abuse conviction. Knight struck a deal with Shakur that October, posting his $1.4 million bail and freeing him from prison pending an appeal of his conviction, while signing him to Death Row Records.
Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting while he sat in a car at an intersection near the Las Vegas strip on 7 September 1996.. Earlier that night, Tupac had gone to watch a Mike Tyson boxing ...