SHAKUR TUPAC: (1971-1996)

SHAKUR TUPAC: (1971-1996) American rapper. A rare D.S., Tupac A Shakur, being a signed cheque, Los Angeles, California, 1st September 1996. The partially printed cheque, completed in an unidentified hand, is drawn on the City National Bank and made payable to the rapper's mother, Afeni Shakur, for the sum of $1500. Signed by Shakur in bold black ink, a bank cancellation only very slightly affecting the first letter of his signature. Also signed ('Afeni Shakur') by Afeni Shakur in black ink with her name alone in the form of an endorsement to the verso. Autographs of Shakur are rare in any form, and the present cheque was signed less than a week before the rapper was shot by an unidentified assailant in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, which led to Shakur's death, at the age of 25, six days later. One extremely light, very minor vertical crease to the centre, otherwise about EX Afeni Shakur (1947-2016) American political activist and member of the Black Panther Party. Mother of Tupac Shakur and the executor of his estate.