NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. The Las Vegas Police Department did not respond to NPR's request for details, but they did refer to the investigation as ongoing. Questions about his murder have never gone away. There's a new documentary about him on FX. He recently got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Shakur is very much in the news this year. And so it's just baffling why it's gone this long without any real arrests or really any developments at all when people have actually confessed to being there and being - you know, witnessing it.īLAIR: Maybe now things are different. HOLLEY: A lot of people were not assisting the police, you know, for their own reasons.īLAIR: But Holley still faults law enforcement for taking so long to make progress. He says after he died, distrust between the police and the Black community complicated the murder investigation. SANTI ELIJAH HOLLEY: Throughout Tupac's career, he's always been pretty vocal against police harassment and police brutality, and he's also been a target of police harassment himself.īLAIR: Journalist Santi Elijah Holley is the author of a new book about Shakur. SHAKUR: (Rapping) Tired of being trapped in this vicious cycle, if one more cop harasses me, I just might go psycho. Shakur was known for using his music to speak about Black people's interactions with the police. He was at the center of a feud between East Coast and West Coast rappers. TUPAC SHAKUR: (Rapping) You know, they got me trapped in this prison of seclusion, happiness, living on the streets is a delusion.īLAIR: Shakur died in September 1996, six days after being shot in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas. NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports.ĮLIZABETH BLAIR, BYLINE: Tupac Shakur is one of the most legendary hip-hop artists of all time. Details are scarce, but the Las Vegas Police Department says it has issued a search warrant in Henderson, Nev. More than 25 years after Tupac Shakur's death, there's been a development in the investigation into his murder.
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