If anyone thought the story of Tupac Shakur’s death couldn’t get any stranger, Suge Knight just proved them wrong. From a California prison cell, the former Death Row Records boss is adding a wild twist to one of hip-hop’s most infamous tragedies, and this one involves blunts, ashes, and what he says was a very unconventional tribute.
Knight, who was driving the car when Tupac was gunned down in a 1996 Las Vegas drive-by, claims the rapper’s close friends and family smoked his ashes. Yes, really. “His homies rolled him up. They smoked him,” Knight told People from Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, where he’s serving 28 years for a fatal hit-and-run in 2015.
“I told his mother, ‘Moms, I’d love to, but if I hit that, I’ll get in trouble,’” he said. “I was probably the only one who didn’t hit him.”
Tupac, Smoke, And Stories That Won’t Die
The night Tupac was shot had all the makings of a celebration. Mike Tyson had just won his fight. Tupac and Knight were in a BMW, riding through Vegas heat. Then came the ambush at a red light. Four bullets hit Tupac. Knight took a graze to the head.
Knight says he made a U-turn on two blown tires and sped toward Las Vegas Boulevard. Police eventually flagged them down. Paramedics rushed both men to the hospital. Knight walked out, stitched up. Tupac didn’t.
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Shakur fought for six days. He underwent two surgeries. Doctors removed one of his lungs. But on September 13, 1996, at 4:03 p.m., he died at just 25.
Knight says Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur, wanted immediate cremation. No delays. He claims he dropped a million dollars in cash to make it happen. That night, in a private gathering, a bag of Tupac’s ashes was passed around and smoked.
Symbolic or not, the claim has reopened old wounds and got fresh controversy. It plays right into the larger-than-life image Tupac left behind, the poet, the prophet, the fighter who knew he might die young.
Knight’s version may sound unbelievable, but in the world of Tupac Shakur, myth and truth often blur. Almost three decades later, the man may be gone, but his story and apparently his ashes still stay around.
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