Tupac Shakur honored with street name in California

(3 Nov 2023)
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Oakland, California - 3 November 2023
1. Various Tupac Shakur street renaming ceremony
HEADLINE: Tupac Shakur honored with street name
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sekyiwa Shakur, Tupac Shakur’s Sister:
"If we had him these 20 years, these streets would be different. We've been stunted by the fact that he died before his sentence was finished, before he got to explain what thug life meant, what thug life looked like. It was about taking care of ours. It was about feeding ours. It was about being a shield for ours."
3. Close-up of Tupac Shakur Way
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sekyiwa Shakur, Tupac Shakur’s Sister:
"So Tupac Shakur Way, let it be better than Martin Luther King Boulevards around the country. Please let his spirit live on the rest of these years, under these streets and in your hearts and in the way that you walk and in the way that you stand. You listen to his music? You really love my brother? Live like you do. Let him live through you."
5. Hip-hop artists MC Hammer and E-40 listen to speakers at ceremony
6. Graffiti artist painted Tupac mural during ceremony
7. SOUNDBITE (English) MC Hammer, hip hop artist:
"I love you Pac. I love the family. I appreciate y’all coming out here supporting him. Not only do he deserve a street, he deserved so much more. He was taken away from us. I just give God the glory for his life and it’s town business forever. Rest in peace Pac.”
8. Tupac’s sister and brother listen to speaker’s during ceremony
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) E-40, hip hop artist:
"I really feel in my heart that Tupac is in heaven because he believed in the Lord, real heavy. He spoke up for our people, for our culture, you understand me? And he the greatest rapper that ever did it, man. He did so much in so little time. Speaking of time, I want to take up everybody’s time. But this is a great event and I know he's looking down hella happy.”
10. Ceremony attendees take photos of Tupac Shakur Way sign
CAPTION: Shakur was 25 when he was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. An arrest in the murder case was made just one month ago.
STORYLINE:
Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem and later lived in Baltimore, Maryland; and in Marin City, California, but credited Oakland as the location where he got his “game” and launched his career, according to legislation authorizing the commemorative street renaming.

A stretch of MacArthur Boulevard by Lake Merritt where Shakur once lived will keep its existing name, but also received the additional, honorary name of Tupac Shakur Way.

Commemorative plaques and signs signaling the change were paid for by the Tupac Shakur Foundation.

Oakland has honored others with street names, including Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton and rapper and record producer Too Short.

Shakur was 25 when he was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996.
An arrest in the murder case was made just a month ago in Las Vegas.

Former Southern California street gang leader Duane Keith Davis has pleaded not guilty.

The Oakland City Council legislation says the renamed part of the street will remind people of Shakur’s contributions to Oakland and celebrate art and culture as a catalyst for societal change.

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