Tupac Shakur is alive somewhere in Cuba.
No, he’s in Mexico.
Didn’t you listen to Machiavelli? Tupac faked his death.
The CIA killed Tupac.
If you’re a Hip-Hop head who listened to and loved slain rapper Tupac Shakur, you’ve probably heard a variation of one or more of the above statements. If you’re a superfan with a healthy distrust of the United States government, you probably believe some version of the last statement — insert FBI or LAPD where you will.
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On Monday, the CIA, who entered the Twittersphere with arguably the most perfect tweet of all time…
We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
— CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014
…decided to “take 10 mins to answer 5 of the top questions” they’ve been asked to celebrate their #Twitterversary. And in doing so, the shadowy organization flamed the enduring urban legend that Tupac still walks among us:
No, we don’t know where Tupac is. #twitterversary — CIA (@CIA) July 7, 2014
And the tweets went wild.
See the swift backlash below:
I know I’m late to this, but this really happened today: RT @CIA: No, we don’t know where Tupac is. #twitterversary—
Michael Rusch (@weeddude) July 08, 2014
Each time @CIA kills more civilians in wedding parties & villages, they can tweet playfully about their secrecy powers #LOL #Twitterversary—
Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 07, 2014
all this does is make me think you killed him RT @CIA: No, we don’t know where Tupac is. #twitterversary—
Mychal Denzel Smith (@mychalsmith) July 07, 2014
.@CIA: we will subvert democracy worldwide & hide what we do from you, and then joke in your faces about it on Twitter #Twitterversary—
Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 07, 2014
LIES. RT @CIA: No, we don’t know where Tupac is. #twitterversary—
Reasonable White Man (@BlackGirlDanger) July 07, 2014
Are you saying he's alive, CIA? (But seriously, what does this mean?) RT @CIA No, we don’t know where Tupac is. #twitterversary—
Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) July 07, 2014
But would you tell us if you did? RT @CIA: No, we don’t know where Tupac is. #twitterversary—
Jeremy Hobson (@jeremyhobson) July 07, 2014
looks like @nymag just scooped the CIA RT @stefanjbecket He's dead. RT @CIA: No, we don’t know where Tupac is. #twitterversary—
Jazmine Hughes (@jazzedloon) July 07, 2014
As previously reported by NewsOne, Shakur was shot several times in a drive-by on September 7, 1996 after attending a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he reportedly resisted treatment. He died on September 13, six days later, after his mother Afeni Shakur ordered doctors to stop reviving her son.
He was 25 years old.
CIA’s ‘Tupac’ Tweet Flames Urban Legend was originally published on newsone.com