You could hardly bill it as having one careful owner, even if it is fully serviced, clean as a whistle, and has a surprisingly low mileage given its age. On the other hand, if you want car with a bullet hole in one of the seatbelts, and a grisly place in hip-hop history, then it’s the 1997 GMC Suburban for you. ![]() ![]() ![]() The vehicle in which the Notorious BIG was shot dead is on the market, priced at $1.5m, making it one of the rare cars that has increased in value despite clocking up 114,000 miles. The car was bought at a public auction in October 1997, and the buyer only became aware of its history in 2005, when Los Angeles police told her of its past. She had bought the car to fit her family of six. The reason she wouldn’t have noticed the car was riddled with bullet holes in the drive-by shooting in LA on 9 March 1997 is that the passenger door through which the rapper was shot was taken by police as evidence in the original murder investigation, and was later replaced. Police will return the original door in the event of the car being sold. The sale is being handled by the memorabilia seller Moments in Time, which was approached after the seller saw they were also handling the sale of the car in which Smalls’s great rival Tupac Shakur was shot dead in September 1996. In strictly vehicular terms, Tupac’s 1996 BMW 750iL might be the better buy. It is selling for the same price, but has only 90,000 miles on the clock. However, one dealer told Complex that the same model in similar condition would normally sell for around $2,500. Notorious Big Death PhotoTupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace, also known as Biggie Smalls, were some of the most ground-breaking and influential rappers of our time. Though the two artists dominated the hip-hop scene in the early ‘90s — with Tupac in California and Biggie in New York — they were both tragically killed in drive-by shootings. Their murders have remained unsolved until this day, and the duo’s heated East Coast-West Coast rivalry has fueled various conspiracy theories over the years. Who was 2Pac? Tupac Amaru Shakur was born on June 16, 1971. Although he would become synonymous with West Coast hip-hop, he was born in New York City. His parents were both members of the Black Panther Party. 2Pac’s late mother, Afeni, became pregnant with her son while on bail. According to NBC News, she had actually been charged, along with other members of the Panthers, for conspiring to bomb police stations and department stores in New York City, and although the charges were later acquitted she had spent 11 months in jail. 2Pac’s father, Billy Garland, lost contact with the rapper when he was 5 years old. They wouldn’t reunite until 2Pac was 23. In 1996, 2Pac told writer Kevin Powell in Vibe magazine that 'I thought my father was dead all my life. I felt I needed a daddy to show me the ropes and I didn't have one.' Neel Sethi takes the lead role of Mowgli, the man cub raised by wolves in the wilderness. The jungle book 2 movie. A single mother with two children, Afeni moved the family often and struggled financially. They eventually moved to Baltimore, and 2Pac enrolled at the prestigious Baltimore School for the Arts. He met his lifelong friend Jada Pinkett Smith there and called the time “the freest I ever felt.” Just this year, Jada opened up about her relationship with 2Pac on Sway’s Sirius XM show, admitting that she met him when she was dealing drugs. “I've been having kind of an existential crisis around Pac because I was coming out, he was coming in, and there was a point at which we met. And then we kinda were going our separate ways. And I just felt like, 'OK, God, one day you're going to do for Pac what you did for me, which is, you saved me.' And that just never happened for him,' she said. Comments are closed.
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