A stretch of street in Oakland, California, was renamed Friday for Tupac Shakur, 27 years after the killing of the hip-hop luminary.
A section of MacArthur Boulevard near where he lived in the 1990s became Tupac Shakur Way, following a ceremony that included his family members and Oakland native MC Hammer.
“Let his spirit live on the rest of these years in these streets and in your hearts,” Shakur’s sister Sekyiwa “Set” Shakur told the crowd, wiping away tears at the end of a nearly two-hour ceremony. The sign for Tupac Shakur Way was unveiled moments later.
MC Hammer, the “U Can’t Touch This” rapper who spent many of Shakur’s final months with him before his 1996 shooting death at age 25, said in his remarks that Shakur was, “hands down, the greatest rapper ever, there’s not even a question of that.”
TIL Tupac was Scottish.
Wait wasn’t he living in Antarctica with Elvis, JFK, Michael Jackson and Hitler?
I mean, that alone doesn’t disqualify a person from having a street named after them in many cities.
Oh
But why doesn’t the guy who “killed” Hitler have a street named after him? He’s in Antarctica too
it’s the kill a killer you get another killer problem, hitler would of had to kill himself several million times at least and then appologise for his bland landscapes.
Even master Yoda while reading that a stroke had
CALL THE COPS
Is this the street Jada Pinkett Smith lives on? (Is she still “Smith”, who the heck even knows?!) If not, will she be moving there immediately?
“This isn’t the street I live on, but it’s my soul street.” – Jada, probably.
What a weird comment to make.
She recently said publicly that Tupac was her soul mate.
Ah gotcha
I’m looks like it is one block between Van Buren and Grand - which is basically the freeway off ramp to the lake. An off ramp is kind of a terrible spot for a commemorative road. Especially when the very next block on MacArthur is the Lake Merritt park with a lovely grass lawn and where people often gather and picnic.
Who the fuck made this decision? Why wasn’t this one block over?
That dude could have been so much for this country.
In fear of making a bad argument, I’ve thought about this myself over the years. And about other rappers that didn’t make it. I don’t know what to think. He’s his own dude, but check Nas and Jay Z these days. They’ve got nothing. Maybe Pac would have been more like a Rage Against the Machine. They’ve kept true, for the most part. I’m not sure. Maybe he fulfilled all he could. Top notch performance.
