Year 202519 items
News 2025
19 news items from 2025, in chronological order, each with a source.
January 2025
- Murder Charge Against “Keffe D”: Defense Moves for DismissalEarlier assurances of protection and long delay: Attorney Carl Arnold seeks to dismiss the murder charge against Duane “Keffe D” Davis before trial begins.
- Murder Charge Against “Keffe D” Remains in PlaceNo immunity in Nevada: Judge Carli Kierny denies Duane “Keffe D” Davis’s motion-the Tupac Shakur murder trial remains on course.
- Jailhouse Brawl: New Charge Against Duane "Keffe D" DavisBrawl ahead of murder trial: Duane "Keffe D" Davis clashed with a fellow inmate in jail. A grand jury indicted him.
February 2025
March 2025
- "I'm innocent": "Keffe D" gives his first TV interviewFrom jail, Davis tells "Good Morning America" he was not at the scene. Four days later he walks out of another interview.
- Unreleased Tupac recordings from 1990/91 offered for $250,000Three songs and a lyric sheet from 1990/91 are up for sale for $250,000. But without an agreement with the estate, the music remains private.
April 2025
May 2025
July 2025
- Young Noble of the Outlawz Is DeadHe was the last member Tupac himself brought into the Outlawz: rapper Young Noble (Rufus Lee Cooper III) died in Atlanta at age 47.
- Davis' Lawyers Petition the Nevada Supreme CourtCiting protected statements: Duane Davis' defense seeks to overturn the murder charge over Tupac Shakur's death before the Nevada Supreme Court.
- Lawsuit Over "White Man'z World": Khalid Muhammad's Estate Demands MillionsFive million dollars per violation: Khalid Muhammad's heirs sue Tupac's label over unlicensed speech samples on the Makaveli album.
August 2025
September 2025
- Jailhouse Brawl: 16 to 40 Months in Prison for "Keffe D"16 to 40 months in prison for a brawl: The sentence against Duane "Keffe D" Davis changes nothing about the murder trial, which was set for February 2026.
- Assata Shakur Dies in CubaWanted by the FBI, in asylum in Cuba: Tupac's godmother Assata Shakur died at 78. She remained politically controversial to the end.
October 2025
- Tupac at Target: An AI Video Sparks OutrageA deceptively real video shows Tupac shopping at Target. Fans react with outrage as media debate digital resurrection and image rights.
- Jeff Pearlman's Tupac Biography "Only God Can Judge Me"Trauma in Baltimore and the child behind “Brenda's Got a Baby”: Jeff Pearlman's biography of Tupac Shakur focuses on contradictions rather than glorification.
- After 34 Years: The Child from “Brenda's Got a Baby” Meets His MotherA twelve-year-old girl, a trash chute, and a 1991 song: Biographer Jeff Pearlman tracks down the real people behind “Brenda's Got a Baby”.