It is often through these living connections that fans learn more about their late heroes.
For example, did you know that Tupac Shakur went to a gay bar with Queen Latifah?
Yes, you read that right.

Here’s the truth aboutQueen Latifah’s friendship with Shakur.
In the interview, she also reminisced about a night she spent at a club with the late rapper.
“Tupac happened to be in town, so he came to kick it with me.

This was the early ’90s.
And the boys were like, ‘Take your shirt off, Tupac!’
He wasn’t doing that.
But we had a blast in there.”
“He tried to put me in a female rap group,” Pinkett Smith explained.
He’s like, ‘Yo, Jada, I’ma write your raps.
I’ma show you the flow.'"
She went on to explain the flaws she saw in Shakur’s logic.
“I couldn’t rap,” Pinkett Smith confessed.