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Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight

© Lauren Greenfield

Suge Knight, C.E.O. of Death Row Records and his posse, including Tupac Shakur, convoy to Las Vegas for a weekend of cavorting. Suge started the record company in 1992 and made more than $100 million with artists such as Tupac and Death Row founder Dr. Dre. Living it up in Las Vegas-- gambling, partying, and strutting their stuff-- Tupac and Suge could never have guessed that on a similar weekend months later, Tupac would be shot in what is still an unresolved murder, and Suge would be trying to run Death Row from a jail cell.

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