The American rapper Tupac Shakur, killed nearly thirty years ago after a career as brief as dazzling, was finally rewarded Wednesday. Hip-hop legend, Tupac had risen to the top of the artists of the American west coast before being shot dead in September 1996 in Las Vegas, in circumstances that remain unclear.

"Tupac knew deep down that a very great future lay ahead," his sister, Sekyiwa "Set" Shakur said at the inauguration ceremony in Los Angeles.