News of June 16, 2011
Concert in Atlanta for Tupac's 40th Birthday
Erykah Badu, Bun B, 8Ball & MJG, Meek Mill: On June 16, 2011, Afeni Shakur and Mike Epps celebrated Tupac's 40th birthday at Atlanta Symphony Hall.
On June 16, 2011, Tupac would have turned 40 years old. His mother Afeni Shakur and Mike Epps hosted a concert in Atlanta to mark the occasion, not at a club, but at Symphony Hall in the Woodruff Arts Center on Peachtree Street.
Soul and Rap in the Concert Hall
Taking the stage were Erykah Badu, Bun B, 8Ball & MJG, Meek Mill and Pill; DJ Drama was DJing. Tickets cost between 45 and 150 dollars, and the show started at 20:00. More on the work of Afeni Shakur’s foundation in Georgia can be found under TASF and Stone Mountain.
The milestone birthday fell during an eventful week. One day earlier, an inmate in New York had confessed to robbing Tupac at Quad Studios in 1994. Fifteen years after the fatal shooting in Las Vegas, the rapper was back in the headlines.