9. Tupac Shakur
It wouldn't be entirely unreasonable to suppose that Mr. Shakur enjoyed courting controversy. Hell, he sparked enough of the stuff when he was alive: or not in hiding, dependant upon on which side of the fence one sits. As one of the biggest-selling rap stars of all time, Tupac certainly did little to portray anything other than the "Thug Life" image and his beef with Biggie Smalls is stuff of hip-hop legend. The two regularly exchanged barbed discussion via the medium of not-so-subtle song lyrics. I think it would be fair to say that Biggie's "Who Shot Ya?" may have rankled somewhat. So here's how it did/didn't come to pass. Apparently, Tupac was gunned-down at a set of traffic lights in Vegas after the Tyson vs Seldon fight at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas. It went a little something like this: Tupac's car pulls up at the lights. He stands up through the sunroof to chat on with two girls in the car on his left. Car pulls up on his right-hand side. Tupac ends up with four slugs in his torso and dies six days later.
Conspiracy theorists say: He's in Cuba sipping mojitos and learning Spanish with Biggie. "Lo siento Biggie. Te amo mucho, hombre."