Fans of Tupac believe the late rapper ‘predicted his death’ in a series of songs and music videos before being killed in a drive-by shooting.
The death of rapper Tupac Shakur - also styled as 2Pac - is arguably as famous as his music career itself.
On 7 September 1996 the 'California Love' rapper was in Las Vegas to watch Bruce Seldon and Mike Tyson fight alongside his associate and former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight.
The rapper would be gunned down and killed later that very night, while he and Knight were driving to a Vegas nightclub.
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Shakur was shot four times and later passed away on 13 September. He was 25 years old.
Despite numerous suspects and investigations, no one has ever been convicted of killing Shakur.
The rapper's death has also been a source of fascination among his fans as well as the broader conspiracy theory community.
Numerous people have come up with theories which claim the rapper had somehow faked his death in order to live out the rest of his days in obscurity while others have tried to pin the blame on numerous celebrities over the years.
Which of course is natural for shocking and unsolved murder case.
Meanwhile others have even gone as far as speculating whether or not Shakur had somehow 'predicted' his death in various songs, with Grunge pointing to a series of tracks which feature some pretty dark foreshadowing.
Tupac predicted his own death theory, explained
The biggest piece of evidence people use to support this theory is the accompanying music video to his track 'I Ain't Mad At Cha' which became the fourth and final single from his 1996 album All Eyez on Me.
Filmed in May 1996 but not released until several days after his death, the video opens with Shakur being shot multiple times after leaving an event, later dying in the back of an ambulance.
One fan commented on the video: "This s**t was crazy when it came out right after he died ...it was like he gave himself a funeral."
Another said: "This man was so smart he could tell a story with a song and he even predicted his death."
Shakur also makes numerous references to his death in his songs, including the lyrics to 1995's 'If I Die 2Nite' where Shakur sings: "I hope they bury me and send me to my rest / Headlines reading 'Murdered to death' / My last breath."
Which we can all agree is a pretty bleak way of looking at his future.
This isn't the only time where Shakur has shared a morbid outlook on his future either, with the 25-year-old rapping: "I been shot and murdered, can't tell you how it happened word for word," in his verse on Richie Rich track 'N***** Done Changed'.
While it may be a bit of stretch to suggest that Shakur had been able to predict exactly how he'd die, the multiple references to dying young in his music and the eerily accurate visuals suggest the rapper was more than aware about very real and credible threats against his life.
Topics: Tupac Shakur, Music, Conspiracy Theory
Brenna Cooper