For over two decades, there's been a lot of talk on what could've happened to Tupac after September 13, 1996, the date he was pronounced dead. People believe that he could still be alive and well, with the name changing from 2Pac to Makaveli, short before he died, after being inspired by work of the famous Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer Niccolò Machiavelli, while he was incarcerated.