Rolling Stone’s 1996 story on the short life and violent death of Tupac Shakur
Four days after Shakur’s death, his father, Billy Garland, told Rolling Stone in an exclusive interview that he wanted people to focus on the rapper’s accomplishments. “My son is dead, and he don’t deserve to be talked about like some common criminal,” he said. “He wasn’t perfect, but he did do some great things in a little bit of time.”
At the hospital, Knight was treated for minor injuries to his head and released; Shakur, who had received two bullets to his chest, was admitted and listed in critical condition. During the following two days, the rapper underwent two operations, including one to remove his right lung to stop internal bleeding. To take pressure off his badly damaged body, doctors placed Shakur in a medically induced coma and on a respirator. Shakur died on Sept.
A third theory for the Shakur shooting, which doesn’t seem to hold a lot of water, is that the rapper’s death is somehow related to the simmering feud between East Coast and West Coast rap artists. For some time now, Death Row, which is based in Los Angeles, has been at odds with the East Coast-based Bad Boy Entertainment and one of its artists, Biggie Smalls .
Jeeps and cars drove ominously through the intersection of Goldring Avenue and Rose Street, transforming the blocks surrounding the hospital into Las Vegas’ version of Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles on a Sunday night. Some of the vehicles blasted Shakur’s music. Inside one black Hummer, four young men slouched in their seats and stared blankly in the direction of the hospital.
Like Kurt Cobain before him, Shakur had become a living symbol of his generation’s angst and rage, and for that he is now looked upon as a martyr. But his fame and the controversy and misunderstanding that surrounded his life have also rendered Shakur — like Cobain, Marvin Gaye, James Dean, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and even Malcolm X — an enigma.
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