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Tupac Shakur 1971-1996

Sonia Poulton, Muzik, November 1996

At the age of 25, TUPAC SHAKUR was gunned down and died six days later in a Las Vegas hospital. His death was inevitable, but how did he become the latest name on the hip hop fatality list?

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