The death of rapper-actor Tupac Shakur, shown in 1995, is still considered a mystery and a tragic milestone in music. (Perry C. Riddle / Los Angeles Times)
Tupac Shakur, August 1993, photo by Danny Clinch (American, born 1964) Courtesy of Danny Clinch (Danny Clinch / Annenberg Space for Photography)
Tupac Shakur in 1994. (Ron Galella / WireImage)
Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur at the 1996 MTV Music Awards.
(Manny Hernandez / Getty Images)
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Tupac Shakur arrives at New York’s Radio City Music Hall for the 13th MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 4, 1996, just days before his death. (Todd Plitt / Associated Press)
Rapper Tupac Shakur, left, and Death Row Records’ Marion “Suge” Knight attend a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles in August 1996. (Frank Wiese / Associated Press)
Club 662, a nightclub located in Las Vegas, is reportedly where Tupac Shakur and Death Row Records Chairman Marion “Suge” Knight were heading when Shakur was shot Sept. 7, 1996. (Lennox McLendon / Associated Press)
Snoop Dogg performs with a projection of Tupac near the end of his set with Dr. Dre, closing the third and final day of Week 2 of the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)