Investigators treated Tupac’s killing as a record label rivalry 30 years ago. The truth was more complicated.

Rather than a legendary feud between East Coast and West Coast record labels, the driving force behind Shakur’s death could instead be found in Compton, prosecutors said.

When Tupac Shakur died in 1996, investigators at the time pointed to an East Coast-West Coast record label rivalry as precipitating his violent end. They blamed Shakur, his entourage and other associates for hindering their probe into his killing. The case went cold. Now, with 30 years’ hindsight, prosecutors are arguing that the motivating factors behind his murder instead fell much closer to home.

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