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The East Coast vs. the West Coast was one of the most controversial beefs in music history. Things came to a head in 1996. When famed Tupac Shakur was shot and killed on the Las Vegas Strip at just 25 years old.
Suge Knight Says Tupac’s Friends Smoke His Ashes After His Death
September will mark the 29th anniversary of the rap star’s tragic death. And still, details are being revealed about that fateful night. In a recent interview with PEOPLE, former Death Row Records, executive, Suge Knight revealed that he paid a million dollars to have Tupac cremated on the night he was pronounced dead. Per the request of his mother Afeni Shakur.
But that is not the wildest part about the hours following Shakur’s murder. Knight says that once the rapper had been cremated a group of the rapper’s friends gathered around. And passed around a bag of his ashes and smoked them.
“A bag with his ashes was passed around,” Knight said during the interview. “His homies rolled him up. They smoked him. You gotta understand, that’s what made sense. It was symbolic. It’s like… you keep part of him.”
Knight, however, could not participate in the smoking session. Because during the time he was on probation. And a failed drug test could have landed him in prison.
“I was so happy to say I was on probation — I couldn’t smoke,” Knight added. “I told his mother, ‘Moms, I’d love to, but if I hit that, I’ll get in trouble. Was probably the only one who didn’t hit him.”
The Death Row and Bad Boy Records beef is perhaps the most famed dispute in hip-hop history. Not just because it pitted two of the hottest emcees of all time against each other. But also because of the end result.
Just four Months later, during a controversial trip to Los Angeles, Shakur’s nemesis, Biggie Smalls, was murdered in a drive-by shooting. The same way he was.
