Tupac Shakur June 16, 1971 - September 13, 1996 Live by the gun, die by the gun. Tupac Shakur was born Tupac Amaru Shakur (Tupac means shining serpent in Inca) in New York City in 1971. He went on to have very successful careers as an actor & rapper. On September 7, 1996, Tupac was in Las Vegas to attend a boxing match between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon. He was staying at the Luxor Hotel-Casino. The fight was being held at the MGM Grand Hotel, and he was attending with Marion Suge Knight. Knight is the co-founder and owner of Death Row Records which was Tupacs recording label. They sat at ringside along with bodyguard Frank Alexander and another friend of Suges, in $1000 seats. Also seated at ringside were actors Louis Gossett Jr. and Charlie Sheen, as well as baseball great Reggie Jackson and the Reverend Jesse Jackson. A song that Tupac had written for Tyson, Wrote the Glory, was played over the public address system as Tyson made his entrance. Tyson won the fight in less than two minutes and everyone got up to leave while Iron Mike fed on the carcass. As Tupac, Suge, and their entourage made their way through the lobby of the MGM to the entrance, they became involved in a scuffle with Orlando Anderson, of Compton, California.
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