Tupac Shakur Born: Rap's Poetic Voice Cut Short
Tupac Shakur merged poetic introspection with the raw violence of street life, producing albums that made him the best-selling rapper of the 1990s and a voice for urban Black America. His murder at 25 in a still-unsolved Las Vegas drive-by shooting cemented his status as hip-hop's most mythologized figure, with posthumous releases continuing for decades.
June 16, 1971
55 years ago
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