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Suge Knight at The seventh Annual Soul Train Lady Of Soul Awards and Tupac Shakur at Club Amazon

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Key Takeaways:

• Suge Knight says Tupac’s ashes had been smoked by associates after his cremation.
• He describes the act as “symbolic,” meant to honor Tupac’s legacy.
• The declare provides to the lengthy historical past of myths and rumors surrounding Tupac’s loss of life.

September will mark three many years since Tupac Shakur’s loss of life, and by some means, we nonetheless don’t know the whole lot about him. On Tuesday (July 1), Suge Knight revealed that the late artist’s family and friends rolled his ashes right into a blunt and smoked it.

As unusual because it sounds, particularly these days when rappers recurrently speak about lighting up their “opp packs,” Knight insisted the gesture was really “symbolic.” Speaking to People, the previous music exec defined that Tupac’s mom, Afeni Shakur, requested he be cremated the very evening of his loss of life. According to Knight, he shelled out a large $1 million to meet her want.

“A bag with his ashes was passed around. His homies rolled him up. They smoked him,” Knight recounted earlier than taking a protracted pause, in response to the publication. “You gotta perceive; that’s what made sense. It was symbolic. It’s like… You hold a part of him.”

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Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight exterior Club 662, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1996.

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Knight, nonetheless, sat that second out. “I was so happy to say I was on probation — I couldn’t smoke,” he defined. “I told his mother, ‘Moms, I’d love to, but if I hit that, I’ll get in trouble’… I was probably the only one who didn’t hit him.”

By now, the small print round Tupac’s tragic remaining evening have been advised numerous occasions. After attending the Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson battle at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand, Pac and Knight had been ambushed at a purple gentle. A gunman in a white Cadillac opened hearth, hitting the “California Love” rapper a number of occasions. Despite present process two emergency surgical procedures, he handed away six days later, on Sept. 13, 1996.

For many years, followers and investigators alike had been left guessing about who pulled the set off and, maybe much more considerably, why. That uncertainty lastly noticed some decision in 2023 when Duane “Keefe D” Davis was arrested and charged with organizing the homicide. Per KLAS 8 News Now, the previous Crips chief’s trial will start in 2026.