Prosecutors allege Tupac's 1996 murder was gang revenge plot in trial opening

Thirty years after a drive-by shooting silenced one of hip-hop's most consequential voices, a Las Vegas courtroom has finally opened the first chapter of formal accountability. Prosecutors allege that Tupac Shakur's 1996 death was not the product of chaos, but of calculation — a revenge killing rooted in Compton gang warfare, orchestrated by a Los Angeles gang leader who saw the rapper not as an artist, but as a target defined by association. The trial asks a question that has haunted American culture for a generation: not merely who pulled the trigger, but what kind of world makes such violen