Late hip-hop singer, Tupac Shakur, will have a street in Oakland renamed after him, after a ‘unanimous vote by the city council’ recently.

According to legislation obtained by NBC, Tupac first moved to the Bay Area as a teenager and he got his first break in 1991 as a member of the group Digital Underground. He credited his time in Marin City as the ‘location where he got his game.’

According to the publication, “a stretch of MacArthur Boulevard by Lake Merritt where Shakur once lived will keep its existing name, but also receive the additional, honorary name of Tupac Shakur Way.”

Tupac Shakur Foundation will cover the costs for ‘commemorative plaques and signs signalling the change.’

He was chosen to “remind people” of his “contributions to Oakland and celebrate art and culture as a catalyst for societal change.”

In 1996, Tupac died of gunshot wounds suffered in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting after paramedics rushed him to the ICU at University Medical Center.
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According to Britannica, he was “shot him four times in the chest at a stoplight” by an ‘unknown gunman in a white Cadillac”. In an effort to save his life, he was placed on life support and put in an induced coma.

Twenty-seven years later, the homicide case is still unsolved. In 2021, Chris Carroll, the cop who held Tupac as he took his last unaided breath, revealed he was still harassed by conspiracy theorists who claim the rapper is alive.