Lesane Parish Crooks, better known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was born Tupac Amaru Shakur on June 16, 1971, in Upper Manhattan’s East Harlem neighborhood of New York City. On September 13, 1996, he died. He was given Tupac Amaru Shakur when he was just a year old. In commemoration of the ancestor of the final Incan king who was executed in Peru in 1781 for attempting to oust the Spanish, he was given the name Tupac Amaru II.
Tupac Amaru Shakur is recognized as one of the greatest and most successful rappers of all time. Shakur is among the best-selling performers, with more than 75 million recordings sold worldwide. Shakur is seen as a symbol of protest against unfairness, and much of his work has been hailed for tackling current socioeconomic challenges affecting inner cities.
Who is Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis? Man charged with murder in Tupac Shakur shooting
Duane Keith “Keefe D” Davis, a citizen of the United States and a member of the South Side Compton Crips gang located in California, was born in Compton on June 14, 1963. He played football with Suge Knight when he was a kid.
Davis, an old buddy of N.W.A. frontman Eazy-E, is suspected of having a hand in Tupac Shakur’s murder. Sean “Diddy” Combs and Davis became good friends in the early 1990s. Davis alleges that Diddy hit Tupac and Suge Knight for $1 million in 1996, which led to Tupac’s tragic injury in Las Vegas later that year.
Despite rumors from fans and other parties that Davis and his nephew Orlando Anderson were engaged in the assassination, Detective Tim Brennan from Compton, California named them as suspects in an affidavit. Both have never been accused of the crime; Anderson passed away in a 1998 battle involving a gang.
