On yet another sad note, Afeni Shakur Davis, mother of late rap legend Tupac Shakur who was the subject of one of his most iconic songs and who oversaw his posthumous legacy, has died. She was 69 years old and is suspected to have suffered cardiac arrest. Afeni Shakur oversaw the late rapper’s estate after his untimely death in.
In later life, Davis spent much of her time managing her late son’s massively popular musical legacy after he was gunned down at age 25 on a Las Vegas street corner in 1996. Davis was often noted for talking with frankness and candor, whether discussing her former crack habit or her son’s own mistakes, which she allowed to be chronicled directly.
Afeni Shakur was a member of the Black Panther Party and spent part of the time she was pregnant with the rapper in prison. As a member of the New York 21, she was accused — and acquitted — of conspiring to bomb department stores and police stations
