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Tupac Shakur TO Be Honoured With A Street Name In California
Following a “unanimous vote by the city council” on May 16, a street in Oakland will be renamed in honor of the late hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur.
According to information obtained by NBC, the rapper, who originally immigrated to the Bay Area as a child, made his big break in 1991 as a member of the group Digital Underground and credited his time in Marin City as the “location where he got his game.”
The article states that a section of MacArthur Boulevard near Lake Merritt, where Shakur formerly resided, “will keep its existing name, but also receive the additional, honorary name of Tupac Shakur Way.”
The Tupac Shakur Foundation will be covering the costs for ‘commemorative plaques and signs signaling the change.’
He was selected to ‘remind people’ of his ‘contributions to Oakland and celebrate art and culture as a catalyst for societal change.’
Tupac died of gunshot wounds suffered in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting in 1996, at just 25, after paramedics rushed him to the ICU at University Medical Center
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He was ‘shot him four times in the chest at a stoplight’ by an ‘unknown gunman in a white Cadillac,’ according to Britannica. In an attempt to save his life, he was placed on life support and put in an induced coma.
Nearly 30 years later, the homicide case remains unsolved. In 2021, the cop, Chris Carroll, who held Tupac as he took his final unaided breath revealed he was still harassed by conspiracy theorists claiming the rapper is alive.
The retired Las Vegas police officer told DailyMailTV he still regularly receives messages on social media and even through the Las Vegas Metro Police Department demanding he ‘come clean’ about the theory the iconic rapper secretly escaped that night.