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The significance of 2Pac's visit to Milan and his encounter with Gianni Versace will forever be etched in the annals of Hip Hop history

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The story begins on June 29, 1996, the day 2Pac arrived in Milan with his girlfriend Kidada Jones, daughter of Quincy Jones, and two bodyguards. “The music was pounding, lights were flashing and the rapper 2Pac was flexing his tattoos as he strutted Gianni Versace’s leather and lace stuff high on a platform in the palazzo gardens. The bad-boy star of ‘Juice’ was only one attraction at the show, which detonated the Italian menswear fashion season for summer 1997.” (Suzy Menkes, 1996