Send-offs to remember

Tupac Shakur was shot dead aged 25 in 1996.

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That’s a rap: On his track Black Jesuz, recorded a month before the tragedy, the hip-hop star asked friends to one day smoke his ashes - and they obliged. “We took that s*** serious,” confirmed pal E.D.I Mean.

A little respect: Aretha Franklin hit all the right notes for her final act. In a celebration fit for the Queen of Soul, who died in 2018, she was brought to and from the service in a vintage 1940 hearse that had previously carried Rosa Parks. Stylish Aretha also dressed in four different fabulous outfits for her open-casket viewings. A diva until the end, she was buried in a gold gown and sparkling pumps.