After three decades, a murder trial brings focus back to the legacy of Tupac Shakur

“We kept it moving, but there’s one thing that’s for sure when living that gangster lifestyle, you already know that the stuff you put out is going to come back to you,” Davis wrote of the mall incident.

Sentenced to a minimum of 18 months in prison, Shakur appealed and reached a deal with Marion “Suge” Knight cofounder and head of Death Row Records, the top hip-hop distributor on the West Coast getting the label to front his bail money while the appeal was pending in exchange for a three-album deal, record executive Leslie Gerard told New Yorker journalist Sheldon Pearce.

Davis’s book is vague on who made the call to gun down Tupac, saying it was only coincidental his crew caught up to his vehicle on the street that night, but he is clear the shooting was about revenge for the assault on his nephew.