"Then go into the key years leading up to the pinnacle of his success - those three or four key years of his rise, and the empire he built.” In early 2015, producer Randall Emmett said: "The script is great and we're ready to make the movie, we're just prepping the logistics."Įmmett added: "I think our story, especially like a lot of biopics in the hip-hop space, will at least tease the beginning of his life, kind of tease his beginnings and kind of the people around him. The shocking news he might still be alive came just months after it was reported a film about his life was due to start filming. He had been at the Mike Tyson vs Bruce Sheldon boxing match and been involved in a altercation with gang member Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson.Ī short while later, while en route to night club a car pulled up alongside Shakur's while he was standing with his head out of the sunroof and unknown occupants shot him, hitting him in the chest, pelvis, right hand, thigh and lung. However, after a 2008 Times story by Philips was retracted due to the inclusion of falsified FBI reports, this notion was widely dismissed as well.On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their feud was one of the most storied in hip-hop history - and, in an anonymously-sourced Los Angeles Times investigative piece, former Times reporter Chuck Philips wrote that the Notorious B.I.G. offered the Crips $1 million to kill Shakur.
Biggie Smalls was the mastermind behind the shooting. Knight was in the car with Shakur on the night of shooting but, as Sullivan argues, "if you look at the police report, the shooter's car pulled up and shot at an angle that could really only hit Tupac. No shot really came close to hitting Suge."ĥ. LAbyrinth also revealed that Shakur fired Kenner shortly before his death, and was looking to launch his own label, a move which would have barred Knight from the profits of Shakur's work. And it came to Suge Knight’s attention that Tupac was going to leave Death Row Records – and the evidence shows you just don’t leave Death Row Records and get away with it," said LAPD Detective Russell Poole, who worked closely with author Randall Sullivan on LAbyrinth, a damning look into the LAPD's involvement with the Death Row Records label head and pattern of police brutality and cover-ups, all of which were chronicled in reports on the LAPD Rampart Scandal.
"Tupac Shakur was becoming a very outstanding actor. 13, 1996 and that…Ĥ. Suge Knight - and his then-attorney David Kenner - called for his death. Of course, the CIA has long refuted this.Īlternatively, there are those who believe that Shakur did die on Sept. He's being harbored by the government as a witness. Assata was a staunch figure within the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army who sought political asylum in Cuba in the early 80s after escaping from a New Jersey prison following a hotly-contested murder conviction.ģ. Some speculate that Shakur was weary of the bloodshed that accompanied rap beef and longed for an escape, holing up in Cuba with his aunt, Assata Shakur. Many times this has given victory to him who used it."īut believing that Machiavelli espoused faking one's death, fans reasoned that Shakur's adoption of the stage name, Makaveli, and the inclusion of the phrase "Exit 2Pac, Enter Makaveli" in the album sleeve for The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory - an album which also depicted Shakur as Jesus Christ - were all deliberate clues left behind by the artist. Theorists have also picked apart a video interview with Shakur's mother Afeni - the only individual besides hospital personnel to see the artist after he was admitted - who said, "in the end, he chose to leave quietly." Machiavelli actually wrote: "Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Conspiracy theorists have rationalized it by pointing to Shakur's respect for political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli, whose treatise The Art of War (not to be confused with Sun Tzu's The Art of War) has been misconstrued as advocating for faking one’s death in order to manipulate an enemy. This is perhaps the most pervasive theory that emerged after the rapper died days after he was targeted in a drive-by shooting on the Las Vegas strip.
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