Tupac Shakur’s name appears in headlines more frequently than many other musicians who are still alive, despite the fact that he has been dead for almost as long as he was alive (25 years). Tupac has appeared in a Snoop Dogg video and fronted the newest season of Supreme as a hologram in the last year or so alone thanks to deep fake technology.

This is a continuation of an aggressive posthumous life cycle for the late rap legend, with Tupac releasing seven of his 11 platinum albums in death, headlining Coachella back in 2012, and giving Kendrick Lamar a pep talk on arguably the most important albums of 2010s.

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The persistent rumour that the late rapper didn’t pass away from bullet wounds received in a drive-by shooting on the Las Vegas Strip on September 13, 1996, but instead fled to Cuba and has been mocking us ever since is one of the main reasons he still feels so omnipresent. You may discover monthly tabloid pieces on the matter, with new sightings of the rapper and fresh reports on the way he faked his death, by conducting a simple search for “Tupac” on Google News.

One of the most recent ideas contends that Tupac exchanged places with a double and was helicoptered out of Las Vegas after learning of an assassination plot. Tupac is allegedly hiding away in New Mexico, according to director of the documentary 2Pac: The Great Escape from UMC Rick Boss. “Let’s just say Mr. Shakur — the family is aware of the movie, and they’re okay with the title, so that should tell you more or less what’s going on,” Boss said to KTNV, a Las Vegas television station.

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During the promotion of Pac’s posthumous album Makaveli in November 1996, which featured “Listen very carefully” billboards and a music video for the album’s lead track, “Hail Mary,” which showed Tupac literally rising from the earth to kill all of his enemies, Pac’s body was still warm. Ronald Brent, the artist behind the 7 Day Theory album’s eerie cover art, admitted this in a 2019 interview with Crack Magazine: “I know ad-libs and stuff were added to the 7 Day Theory album after Pac’s death to keep him feeling alive.”

Death Row CEO Suge Knight (who possessed a vault full of hundreds of unreleased Tupac songs) realised that creating the appearance that his valuable asset was fabricating his own death would produce an intrigue that may support record sales for a long time after the rapper’s passing.