A Tale of Two Mothers

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While Shakur has concentrated on tending her son's artistic legacy, Wallace has been on a manhunt. Perhaps because Biggie left little to remember him by or to preserve his image for history, his mother fights for his memory the best way she knows how. She declined to be interviewed for this story but said through a representative that she was "sickened by the personal attacks and lengths the L.A.P.D. was willing to go to in order to keep the victim's family from getting to the bottom of this cover-up. All we have ever wanted was the truth and justice."

Her lawsuit resulted in a mistrial after the judge ruled that the L.A.P.D. had deliberately concealed evidence. The case is due back in court early next year.

Doesn't Shakur want justice for Tupac? She isn't holding her breath. One of the principal suspects, Orlando Anderson, was killed a year and a half later, and the investigation seems to have stopped. "They still haven't solved Malcolm's murder. They still haven't solved Martin's murder," Shakur says, alluding to the suspicions around the deaths of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. In a flash, the fire of her Panther past rears up. "When they solve those, then they can get to Tupac."