Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A 1995, Shakur ya yi watanni takwas a kurkuku saboda zargin cin zarafin jima'i, amma an sake shi bayan ya amince ya sanya hannu tare da Marion "Suge" Knight's label Death Row Records a musayar Knight yana biyan kudin belinsa. Bayan an sake shi, Shakur ya shiga cikin rikice-rikicen hip hop na Gabas ta Gabas da Yammacin Yamma. Kundin faifan faifan sa mai suna "All Eyez on Me" (1996), wanda ya yi watsi da kalmomin da ke cikin gangsta rap, ya sami takardar shaidar Diamond ta RIAA. A ranar 7 ga Satumba, 1996, an harbi Shakur sau hudu
wanda ba a san ko wane ne ba a wani harbi da aka yi a Las Vegas, Nevada; ya mutu kwanaki shida bayan haka kuma ba a taba kama maharin ba. Abokin Shakur wanda ya zama abokin hamayya, Notorious B.I.G., an fara la'akari da wanda ake zargi saboda rikice-rikicen jama'a na biyu, amma an kuma kashe shi a wani harbi na drive-by watanni shida bayan haka a Los Angeles, California. An sake fitar da karin albums guda biyar tun bayan mutuwar Shakur, dukkansu an tabbatar da Platinum a Amurka.