Famous Cold Case: Tupac Shakur

   Tupac Amaru Shakur was a musician, actor and poet. He was a rapper from California and starred in several movies before he was fatally shot. Till this day, no one really knows who actually killed Tupac Shakur. Some don't even believe that he is dead, but that it was all set up by him because he was tired of the fame. Tupac was shot 4 times on September 7th, 1996 while on a trip to Las Vegas where he had gone to support His friend Mike Tyson in a boxing match. He was at a red light sitting in the passenger seat of his manager's car when a white Cadillac  pulled up next to the car and fired 9 times into the car and sped off. Four of those shots hit Tupac in the lung so it had to be removed to stop internal bleeding. He then spent 6 days in a medically induced coma before he passed away on September 23rd.

  Tupac had a lot of enemies. Although he never claimed a gang, some gangs hated him simply because of how he was portrayed. Another famous rival that he had was fellow rap artist Biggie Smalls. Their feud started when Tupac released a diss track called "Hit Em Up" aimed at Biggie. Biggie then released his own diss track called "Who Shot Ya" aimed at Tupac. There feud was never resolved.  A lot of people thought it could've even been Tupac's manager, Suge Knight that set everything up. Tupac was not happy with what he was getting from the label and felt that Suge was being unfair so he was planning on leaving Suge's Record Label, Death Row Records.

 I watched an interview with Tupac's bodyguard and he claims that he never left Tupac's side until that fatal night. Suge Knight had asked Tupac to ask his body guard to ride in seperate cars so he could talk to Tupac privately. His body guard thinks that Suge Knight, being a very violent person, was responsible for Tupac's death. It is interesting that even though Suge was also in the car the night of the murder, he was only left with a bullet grazing his head.

 Another Theory as mentioned before is that Tupac isn't really dead, but that he faked his own death himself. These are some of facts that I found to support this theory.

• Tupac was very interested in a 16th century philosopher named Niccolo Machiavelli. Niccolo advocated the staging of one's death in order to evade one's enemies and gain power. While in Jail Tupac read Machiavelli's book "Discourses Upon the First Ten Books of Titus Livy. in Book 2 Chapter XIII he says "a prince who wishes to achieve great things must learn to deceive." 
• Tupac's last and final album was released under his other stage name Makaveli. (Sounds a lot like Machiavelli.) 
• His final album was called The 7 Day Theory. On the cover there is a picture of Tupac being crucified kind of like Jesus was before he reincarnated. This fits with the idea that Tupac "died" so he could be reincarnated as Makaveli. 
•  It's actually legal to fake your own death in the state of Nevada! 
• Tupac was shot on September 7th. He surived the days 7th through 12th of September before passing on the 13th, which kind of ties to the title of  his album The 7 day Theory.
• Tupac never had a funeral. His body was immediately cremated after his death. Some think that's suspicious.  

After learning about these different theories, I'm not sure what to believe.