A section of MacArthur Boulevard near where he lived in the 1990s became Tupac Shakur Way after a ceremony on Friday in Oakland, California.
A stretch of street in Oakland, California, was renamed Friday for Tupac Shakur, 27 years after the killing of the hip-hop luminary.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.
He would live in Oakland in the early 1990s and embraced it as an adopted hometown.In the spring, the city council in Oakland, California, unanimously voted to rename the street after Shakur. 'He claimed Oakland,' said City Councilwoman Carroll Fife, who led the effort to rename the street. 'He said Oakland gave him his game.
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