ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, September 15, 1996 TAG: 9609160070
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: NEW YORK
As Tupac Shakur's family went about making his funeral arrangements Saturday, the hip hop world continued to mourn the violent, untimely passing of the rap master with tributes both large and small.
In New York, hip hop stations such as Hot 97 flooded the airwaves with Shakur's music while listeners and deejays offered testimonials to the 25-year-old rapper, who died Friday in Las Vegas.
``I told our listeners this morning that it is not about the color of your skin or your religion, it is about the loss of a young life,'' said Lisa G., a Hot 97 personality who is white and Jewish.
Shakur, whose coarse, often angry lyrics seemed a blueprint for his own life, was pronounced dead in Las Vegas at 4:03 p.m. [7:03 p.m. EDT] Friday, six days after he was shot four times in a drive-by shooting.
Police had no new leads in the shooting, which also injured Shakur's longtime friend Marion [Suge] Knight, head of Death Row Records.
The Sept. 7 shooting that took Shakur's life was the second time he was shot in two years.
In November 1994 he was hit five times during an apparent robbery in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio - an attack he bragged about on his latest album, saying, ``Five shots and they still couldn't kill me.''
- New York Daily News
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