6/12/2023 0 Comments 2pac all eyez on me album interior![]() ![]() The crowd hoots, the kid obliges an obscure smile, and the show band glides into “California Love.” 2-3-4… “Ladies and gentlemen, a miracle has taken place. “Oh my God,” he says with a shocked voice. The singer points a rhinestone-festooned finger at a powerfully built young black man with a shaved head, standing before a row of video poker machines. Between Jimmy Buffett and Bell Biv DeVoe covers, he stares hard through the smoke to the back of the small room. ![]() It was early in the morning of Friday the 13th, and in a Las Vegas intensive care unit the world’s most famous rapper was drifting along in a “medicinally induced coma.” Across town, a lounge singer grabs the mike. This piece originally ran in the December 1996 issue of SPIN, and was published on the website in 2006, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Tupac Shakur’s death. ![]()
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