In 1995, Tupac Shakur was in Rikers Island on sexual assault charges when LA rap entrepreneur Surge Knight offered to pay his $3 million bails on the condition he signed with Knight’s Death Row Records.
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A year later, Tupac was dead, assassinated in a drove up shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Was Tupac friends with Suge Knight?
Hammer and Suge Knight date back to 1988. With the success of Hammer’s 1994 album, The Funky Headhunter (featuring The Dogg Pounds), Hammer signed with Death Row Records by 1995, along with Snoop Dogg and his close friend, Tupac
How long was Tupac on death row for?
Tupac was on death row from 1995-1996.
In October 1995, Knight visited Shakur in prison again and posted $1.4 million bond. Shakur returned to Los Angeles and joined Death Row with the appeal of his December 1994 conviction pending.
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