Tupac's family says Trump campaign used him as prop to mock Sen Harris - News Today

Tupac Shakur's brother has slammed President Donald Trump's campaign for leaving a ticket at the vice presidential debate last week for the late rapper just weeks after Sen Kamala Harris named him as the 'best rapper alive'.The Democratic vice presidential candidate made the gaffe during an interview with CNN's Angela Rye at the NAACP's virtual convention in September. 'Best rapper alive?' Rye asked Harris in the interview. Harris paused for a second and answered: 'Tupac.'According to TMZ, Tupac's stepbrother Mopreme Shakur said the Trump campaign team used the rapper in a 'clearly disrespectful' way just to mock the senator. Mopreme said he wasn't surprised by the incident because 'we should know Trump's lack of respect for the Black and brown community'.He also said he would like an apology, but he knows that Trump won't apologize. Mopreme did say that the president could make it up to him by releasing his father, Mutulu, from prison.In 1988, Mutulu, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for RICO conspiracy, armed bank robbery and bank robbery killings. Share this article Share In his defense, Mopreme says his father has spoken out against violence and has taken full responsibility for his crimes. Despite this, he has been denied parole eight times. Mopreme also addressed Harris's mistake for calling Tupac the greatest rapper alive.He told TMZ that it's all California love for Harris and that her snafu only shows that she has great taste in music. During the interview with Harris, Rye pointed out that Tupac has been dead for more than two decades. 'He's not alive!' cried Rye. 'You say he lives on?'Harris laughed and replied: 'Not alive, I know, I keep doing that.' Rye jokingly defended the gaffe, pointing to the conspiracy theories that Tupac could be alive: 'Listen, West Coast girls think Tupac lives on; I'm with you. So Tupac keep going.' 'I keep doing that,' Harris repeated and then seemed to struggle to come up with the name of any living rapper to answer the question.'Who would I say? I mean there's so many, you know?' she said.'There's some I would not mention right now because they should stay in their lane but others...' Rye laughingly replied 'I don't know what that means' before Harris, without elaborating on her meaning, told her to move on from the question.'Keep going, keep going, keep moving Angela,' the former DA said, to which Rye replied: 'That was not supposed to be a stumper.' Tupac was shot multiple times in a car on the night of September 13, 1996 after he had gone to a Mike Tyson boxing match at the MGM Grand.Tupac, former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight and his bodyguards got into a fight with a member of the notorious Crips gang in