“Latasha Harlins, remember that name,” Shakur pleaded on his 1993 sophomore album, Strictly 4 My N-–. There was no prison time served by either of the members of the Los Angeles Police Department who beat King, or by Du.
Her death, along with the beating of Rodney King that same year, became detonators of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Latasha was killed by convenience store owner Soon Ja Du in March 1991. And their spirits seem joined this week, as Latasha makes a brief but emotional appearance in the recently aired second episode of O.J.: Made In America. Tupac and Latasha were born four years apart. It is Latasha, however, who appears in Shakur’s music throughout his career, even long after his death. Tupac Shakur on the set of Above the Rim in Harlem, New York.
What’s the use? / Unless we’re shooting no one notices the youth, he asked in the 1995 track “ Me Against The World. He didn’t wanna look like he was trying to sell records.”įrom Robert “Yummy” Sandifer to Qa’id Teal Walker - the 6-year-old boy from Marin City, California, who died from a stray bullet in 1992 following an altercation between Tupac’s entourage and former acquaintances - to Joshua Torres to Latasha Harlins and countless others, Shakur was a voice for young people who were and are so often ignored by society. He wanted to be able to set up something that would help those children, but he wanted to do it quietly.
Or who had parents who were incarcerated. “He had a real affinity, especially for children who had parents who were drug-addicted. “There were charitable things that he was interested in, primarily education for kids, and helping minority children,” Karen Lee, Shakur’s former publicist, said in the 2002 documentary, Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel (The Life of an Outlaw). He died at 25 with no children - once saying he feared bringing a son or daughter into “ such a corrupt world.” The rapper’s deep devotion to kids, however, was evident both in and out of the recording studio. Tupac Shakur would have been 45 years old had he survived the September 1996 drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.
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