Napoleon Born: Outlawz Rapper Turned Faith Advocate
Mutah Beale — Napoleon — was fifteen when Tupac Shakur took him in. His mother had been murdered. He joined the Outlawz, appeared on All Eyez on Me and Don Killuminati, and was in the car two vehicles behind the one that was shot when Tupac was killed in Las Vegas in 1996. He kept making music, kept mourning. Then, in 2005, he converted to Islam, moved to Saudi Arabia, and became an international speaker on faith, grief, and redemption. He was born in New Jersey on October 26, 1977.
October 11, 1977
49 years ago
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