Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur, who also acted in films including “Poetic Justice” (1993), was widely regarded as a brilliant musician, but he provoked a firestorm with lyrics that to some listeners seemed to glorify violence. The rapper was convicted of sexually abusing a female fan and, in a separate incident, of assault and battery. He tattooed the phrase “thug life” across his abdomen. He survived a shooting in 1993 before he was fired upon in his BMW in Las Vegas in 1996. He died six days later, at age 25. The crime remains unsolved.