Let off a clip from a automatic weapon
Through shots in the door, it died in Vegas
Though it fought so hard, I knew it wouldn’t make it

from Kanye West (Ft. Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz) – Welcome to the Jungle Lyrics on Rap Genius

Fittingly, these lines are about Biggie’s friend-turned-rival Tupac Shakur, who was shot in an also-unsolved case on September 7, 1996. Shakur was shot multiple times while in the passenger seat of a car while he was in Las Vegas to attend a boxing match

Shakur famously stayed alive for six nights after the shooting, but ultimately passed away on September 13th. Tupac and his label head Suge Knight twenty minutes before the shooting, below:

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