#3: Tupac Shakur
Pac built a Gangsta-Rap legacy on East Coast-West Coast feuding and eventually cemented his legendary status in the industry by paying for it with his own life when he was shot outside of a Las Vegas hotel in 1996. Shakur’s last significant paycheck came when he landed the role for Detective Jake Rodriguez in the film Gang Related, which was released a year after his death. Ironically, one Las Vegas police officer has gone on record to say that the on-screen cop’s last words were “F*ck you” in response to police asking him who shot him.
