Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur

The influential rapper died six days after being gunned down in Las Vegas, on Sept. 13, 1996.

Late rapper Tupac Shakur was born on June 16, 1971.

On Sept. 7, 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and later died due to injuries sustained in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas following a Mike Tyson boxing match. The mystery behind who actually shot the rapper remains unsolved. It has been speculated that Shakur is still alive, living in Cuba where his step-aunt, Assata Shakur, received political asylum after escaping a U.S. prison years earlier.

Tupac Shakur died six days after being wounded in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. He was 25. Though no arrests have been made in the years since his death, it is thought to have been linked to an East Coast-West Coast beef between himself and rival rapper Notorious B.I.G., who was also killed in a shooting six months later.

A holographic image of Tupac Shakur is seen performing during day 3 of the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif., on April 15, 2012.

Rapper Tupac Shakur arrives at New York's Radio City Music Hall three days before being fatally shot in Las Vegas, on Sept. 4, 1996. The car in which Shakur was shot was listed for sale for $1.5 million on Feb. 21, 2017, by a California memorabilia dealer.

Rapper Tupac Shakur, who died in 1996, is among the first-time nominees on the ballot for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.

USA Network has ordered a pilot for a scripted miniseries about the unsolved murders of rappers Tupac Shakur, above in 1994, and Biggie Smalls.

Tupac Shakur leaves state Supreme Court in New York on July 5, 1994.

Tupac in 1993's "Poetic Justice."