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When Tupac Shakur passed away on Sept. 7, 1996, he was survived by his mother, Afeni Shakur, father Billy Garland, and half-sister Sekyiwa Shakur, but what many people don't know is that he also left behind his ex-wife, Keisha Morris. Tupac and Keisha first met at Capitol nightclub in NYC in the Summer of 1994, while she was studying criminal justice at John Jay College and working as a camp counselor. Keisha was 20 and Tupac was 21.

"We were dancing, and we spoke briefly. He was going through something legally at the time, and I told him to just be careful of the people he's around and that I hope everything works out," Keisha told Xxl magazine in 2011. "I saw him a month later at the Tunnel [another nightclub], and he remembered the whole conversation. He told me he had been looking for me for a month - going to every club.

It’s often amazing how a premature death has the habit of deifying artists. So many composers, painters and actors have accrued almost mythical status in the face of a young and tragic demise. So it was with Tupac Shakur, widely considered among the very best hip-hop artists of his generation, whose tempestuous life was ended by a barrage of gunshots in September 1996. Now, following on from the biopic of his rival- and, fleetingly, suspect in his murder- Biggie Smalls, Notorious – Tupac is to have his own story told on the big screen according to Deadline (via The Playlist).

According to the studio Morgan Creek Productions, principle photography has been tentatively scheduled to begin late spring and early summer with director Antoine Fuqua- most renowned for the excellent Training Day- at the helm. Casting is underway with Fuqua believed to be looking at an unknown to lead.

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This story is from the October 31, 1996 issue of Rolling Stone.

At 4:03 P.M. on Sept. 13, Tupac Amaru Shakur, rapper and actor, died at the University of Nevada Medical Center in the Wild West gambling town of Las Vegas, the result of gunshot wounds he had received six days earlier in a drive-by shooting near the glittery, hotel-studded strip. Shakur, a.k.a 2Pac, was 25. The rapper is survived by his mother, Afeni Shakur, his father, Billy Garland, and a half sister, Sekyiwa.

The official cause of Shakur’s death...