A stretch of street in Oakland was renamed Friday for Tupac Shakur, 27 years after the killing of the hip-hop luminary.
OAKLAND -- A section of MacArthur Boulevard near where he lived in the 1990s became Tupac Shakur Way, following a ceremony that included his family members and Oakland native MC Hammer.'Let his spirit live on the rest of these years in these streets and in your hearts,' Shakur's sister Sekyiwa 'Set' Shakur told the crowd, wiping away tears at the end of a nearly two-hour ceremony. The sign for Tupac Shakur Way was unveiled moments later.
He would live in Oakland in the early 1990s and embraced it as an adopted hometown.'He claimed Oakland,' said city councilwoman Carroll Fife, who led the effort to rename the street. 'He said Oakland gave him his game.'The ceremony came the day after a former Southern California street gang leader pleaded not guilty to murder in the Las Vegas shooting death of Shakur.Duane Keith 'Keffe D' Davis is charged with orchestrating the shooting.
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