He was described as a “‘gangsta’ rapper,” with the quote marks just like
that; the story spent nearly as much space on his rap sheet as his
career. But the death of Tupac Shakur 20 years ago today, nearly a week
after he was shot in a still-unsolved Las Vegas shooting, was a major
front page story in The Washington Post. There was a lot of powerful
journalism in the Post that week, as writers grappled with the violent
death of a rising young star. Alona Wartofsky detailed the East Coast
vs. West Coast rivalry that had brought bloodshed to hip-hop. (“The
31-year-old [Suge] Knight, who was driving Shakur the night of the
shooting and who himself was injured, is a compelling figure. . .
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