Jury selection is due to begin on Monday in the murder trial of a former-street gang leader accused of masterminding the drive-by shooting ​death of hip hop star Tupac Shakur three decades ago in Las Vegas, a long-unsolved crime that became a seminal moment in rap music ‌history.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, is charged in Clark County, Nevada, with a single count of murder by use of a deadly weapon. He has pleaded not guilty. Davis is accused of leading a group of men to kill Shakur, 25, one of rap’s most commercially successful and influential artists, in a 1996 drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas Strip.

The killing heightened the ​image of violence permeating hip-hop culture and its lyrics during “gangsta” rap’s golden age, stoking the infamous East Coast-West Coast rap feud of that era.

Police ​said after Davis’ 2023 arrest that he was a longtime suspect in the killing but that investigators lacked sufficient admissible ⁠evidence to charge him until he began implicating himself in a series of public statements.

The trial before Judge Carli Kierny is expected to run for up to ​six weeks in a downtown Las Vegas courthouse.

It may feature testimony from Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight, a former rap mogul who was with Shakur ​the night he was slain and is now serving a 28-year prison sentence on an unrelated voluntary manslaughter conviction.