Inthe spring of1990, Tupac Shakur was shuttling between Marin City and Oakland, California, restlessly seeking his future. His manager, Atron Gregory, was shopping his demo tape but with little success so far. Meanwhile, activism beckoned. Friends of his mother, the former Black Panther revolutionary Afeni Shakur, had engaged Tupac to …
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The city of Oakland and some of the Bay Area’s most renowned MCs paid tribute to Tupac Shakur Friday at a ceremony celebrating the renaming of a street after the rapper. Members of the Shakur family were also on hand as a stretch of Oakland’s MacArthur Blvd. became “Tupac Shakur …
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Facing a murder charge in the Sept. 7, 1996 shooting death of Tupac Shakur, former California street gang boss Duane Davis received a little good news during his brief arraignment Thursday in a Las Vegas Courtroom. The State won’t seek the death penalty for what authorities are calling Davis’ role …
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The arrest of Duane “Keefe D” Davis, a former Southside Crips gang leader, in the murder of Tupac Shakur on Sept. 29, over 27 years after the legendary rapper’s killing in Las Vegas, sent shockwaves across the world. For over a decade, Keefe D had confessed that he’d ordered the …
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Since the arrest and indictment of Duane “Keffe D” Davis for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, people have speculated about whether the Los Angeles Police Department will be reinvigorated to pursue an investigation into the other great tragedy of that era in hip-hop — the 1997 murder of the …
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Following the arrest of Duane “Keffe D” Davis on Friday in connection to the fatal drive-by shooting ofTupac Shakurin 1996, Shakur’s sister and Jada Pinkett Smith spoke on the “pivotal moment.” Sekyiwa ‘Set’ Shakur, who is president of The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, shared in a statement that while the …
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On Friday, September 29, when Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested and charged with murdering Tupac Shakur (after 27 years), Dear Mama director Allen Hughes deemed it “the conclusion anyone in the know thought would come someday.” “For whatever reason, it sounds like [Davis] told the truth,” Hughes told Rolling …
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Tupac Shakur’s brother Mopreme reacted to the “bittersweet” news Friday that a suspect has been arrested and charged in the late rapper’s 1996 murder. In a pair of interviews Friday following the apprehension of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, Mopreme told TMZ the arrest was “bittersweet for a number of reasons. …
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A Las Vegas man was arrested and charged Friday in connection to the fatal drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur in 1996. Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested Friday morning. He has officially been charged with murder with use of a deadly weapon. A Nevada grand jury indicted Davis in the …
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Over 27 years after the shooting death of Tupac Shakur, Las Vegas police have finally made an arrest in connection to the rapper’s long-unsolved murder: Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the self-proclaimed last living person involved in the September 1996 drive-by shooting that ultimately claimed Shakur’s life at the age of …
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