10 conspiracy theories in the 1996 shooting death of rapper Tupac Shakur near the Las Vegas Strip:

Friday, Nov. 11, 2005 | 8:24 a.m.

10. Notorious B.I.G. was spotted on grassy knoll on East Flamingo Road minutes before the shooting

9. Tupac's not really dead -- he and Elvis are planning on bringing out a hip-hop version of "Suspicious Minds" just in time for the holidays

8. Extreme marketing scheme for Tupac's song "Ballad of a Dead Soulja"

7. Tipper Gore arranged for the hit after deciding that some of Tupac's potty-mouth lyrics just went too far

6. Earlier that night, Tupac won big on the nickel slots, and you know how the casinos REALLY hate it when that happens

5. If the Bush administration still is searching for weapons of mass destruction, maybe it should start on Koval Lane

4. Tupac forgot his own lyrics in "5 Deadly Venomz," which spoke of "just tryin' to keep from gettin' blasted"

3. Music execs had to do something to clear a path for Jessica Simpson

2. There are almost as many syllables in Tupac Shakur as Lee Harvey Oswald -- think about it

1. Where exactly was Karl Rove when all this was going on?

-- Barry Horstman

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