Shakur was shot in Las Vegas

Tupac: Resurrection was made with the approval of his mother and is released in the US on Friday.

Shakur was shot in 1996 and no-one has ever been charged with his death, but it is thought east and west cost rap rivalry was somehow involved.

His mother, Afeni Shakur, said: "We want people to see, hear and understand Tupac as he was."

Director Lauren Lazin said the film was told entirely from Shakur's point of view.

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"The murder has not been solved and we didn't want to put something in the movie that was speculation," he said.

The movie contains Shakur's premonitions of his own death, including a scene of the rapper saying: "I always knew I was gonna be shot."

The film shows Shakur developing from a boy who wrote poetry to a global star and features much home movie footage given to the film-makers by the rapper's mother.

However, the film spends little time on Shakur's numerous arrests, and his supposed misogynistic lyrics.

A soundtrack to the film, with music by Eminem, has also been released.