Almost 30 years later, the murder of Tupac Shakur will go to trial for the first time.
The gang leader allegedly responsible, according to the prosecution, will only have himself to blame if he goes behind bars.
‘I’m innocent. I ain’t killed nobody, never did ever kill nobody.’
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Postmortem records, documentaries, and conspiracy theories have surrounded the death of Shakur for decades, and the same goes for his rival, rapper Christopher Wallace, aka the Notorious BIG.
The rivalry between the West Coast and East Coast rappers and their entourages hit a boiling point on September 7, 1996, in Las Vegas following a Mike Tyson boxing match.
The two sides had already employed gangs for protection, with Shakur and Death Row Records protected by Mob Piru, a Los Angeles gang
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