How far the mighty have fallen. Death Row Records, the legendary West Coast hip-hop label that launched such seminal rappers as Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur and Dr. Dre to...
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The Los Angeles Times on Monday retracted stories that implied purported associates of Sean "Diddy" Combs assaulted Tupac Shakur in 1994 and that Combs knew about it ahead...
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The Los Angeles Times on Monday retracted a story that linked hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs to the 1994 shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, admitting that the report relied...
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"Somebody Scream! Rap
Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power" is
the story of this powerfully influential and yet surprisingly
little-understood...
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"Battalion 5" might conjure up images of
the next big computer game, but in Lebanon it's a group of
musicians who express the misery of life in Palestinian refugee
camps...
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Although a jury last week convicted Jose Padilla of supporting terrorism, rapper-actor Mos Def thinks that Padilla may not have gotten the due process the criminal justice...
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Tupac Shakur was killed in a drive-by as he rode in Suge Knight's car more than a decade ago. Now the late rapper's family is taking aim at Knight in court over some...
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Tupac Shakur's mother is seeking to prevent his former label, Death Row Records Inc., from selling the late rapper's unreleased recordings as part of a bankruptcy...
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The Supreme Court declined Monday to revive a libel lawsuit filed against two Philadelphia newspapers by a critic of violent rap lyrics.
Longtime civil rights activist C....
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Visit Y! Music's Tupac Tribute Here
In the years since hip-hop lost its most dynamic figure, several superstars have embodied the qualities that made Tupac Shakur such a...
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Rapper 50 Cent was arrested for
traffic offenses while driving a silver, open-topped
Lamborghini on Friday, generating a crowd that cheered the
recording artist and jeered...
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The ashes of Tupac Shakur are to be taken to Africa by his mother, on the 10th anniversary of the rapper's death, where she will meet Nelson Mandela.
Afeni Shakur is...
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Afeni Shakur, mother of slain rap star, Tupac Shakur, has announced that in addition to a spoken word project, there will be one more album of previously unreleased material...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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Another posthumous album from deceased rapper Tupac Shakur, Loyal To The Game, is due to drop on December 14. However, due to bootlegging and illegal downloading, the set...
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Vibe magazine president Kenard
Gibbs says the violent altercation at the publication's awards
show this year won't prevent it from holding the event in 2005.
"We're doing...
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Swedish DJ Eric Prydz rebounded to the
top of the UK pop charts Sunday, bouncing heart-throb Robbie Williams down to number three.
Prydz's "Call on Me" regained its hold...
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Tupac Shakur meant many things to
many people. He was an artist, poet, MC, actor, hero and son.
For first-time author Angela Ardis, the slain rapper was a
friend.
Ardis...
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a libel lawsuit by a critic of violent rap lyrics who said two newspapers had mischaracterized her dispute with the...
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Hip-hop's pioneers will be celebrated with a new awards show to air later this year on VH1, the network's president told The Associated Press.
Though it has recently...
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Given all the barely clad women that are booty-shaking, grinding and gyrating on BET during the day, it's hard to believe things could get any wilder after dark.
But as...
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a six-year-old theory that a Los Angeles Police officer orchestrated the 1997 shooting death of the Notorious B.I.G....
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When rap great Jay-Z released his
retirement opus "The Black Album" last year, a hip-hop remixer
called Danger Mouse had an idea -- why not meld the blackness
of rap with...
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This time last year, Ashanti,
Nelly and Eminem ruled the Billboard year-end R&B/hip-hop
charts. This year, it comes as no surprise that one artist
dominates the...
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The movers and shakers of hip-hop were in da club Thursday for
the first ever Vibe Awards, and 50 Cent was the big winner of the
night.
The red-carpet walkers were glam...
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Jay-Z sure knows how to make
an exit.
The retiring rapper is going out on top, as his
swan song, The
Black Album, beat out five other huge new releases last week...
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Afeni Shakur, the 56-year-old mother of the late rapper Tupac Shakur , does not fit the image of a savvy record executive.
She lives on a farm in North Carolina. She...
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The mother of murdered rapper Tupac Shakur will host one of four national premieres here of a documentary about her slain son.
"Tupac: Resurrection," will be shown Friday...
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Tupac Shakur's mother, Afeni Shakur, is busy making the rounds promoting the upcoming documentary on her murdered son's life, Tupac: Resurrection, which will hit theaters on...
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Eminem has produced a new song, "Running (Dying To Live)," for the new soundtrack, Tupac: Resurrection, which will be released on November 4. The song, which will be the...
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Afeni Shakur, the mother of slain rapper and actor Tupac "2Pac" Shakur, was recently interviewed by XXL magazine for the seventh anniversary of her son's death. Tupac Shakur...
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Sylvester Stallone, who became a household name for his portrayals of Rocky and Rambo, is currently working on a new movie, Rampart Scandal. The film will detail the...
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Rapper Ja Rule, who was supposed to be on a self-imposed six-month vacation, has released a new diss record, "The Wrap" this past weekend. It features Fatal Hussein and...
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Biggie & Tupac filmmaker Nick Broomfield is urging the public to contact the Los Angeles Police Department's Police Chief William Bratton to demand more investigation into...
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Death Row Records head Suge Knight said he believes slain rapper Tupac Shakur would disapprove of the Nas collaboration "Thugz Mansion." Knight said that he would never have...
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50 Cent, Eminem and Busta Rhymes have released a remake of Tupac Shakur's "Hail Mary" as a response to Ja Rule's dis record, "Warrior's Song (Loose Change)." The song...
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Patti LaBelle has been added to the lineup of performers at a tribute to the mothers of Jam Master Jay, Tupac Shakur, Aaliyah, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and other artists who...
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The mothers of Tupac Shakur, Aaliyah, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and other artists who met with untimely deaths are being honored. A tribute to the special women will happen at...
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Afeni Shakur, the mother of the late rap icon Tupac Shakur, addressed the need for the preservation of freedom of speech in the album credits of her son's latest posthumous...
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A new Tupac Shakur album titled Better Dayz is scheduled to be released on November 26 on Amaru/Interscope Records. Better Dayz will be the seventh posthumous release from...
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The Artist Empowerment Coalition (AEC) calls a recent Los Angeles Times story alleging that the Notorious B.I.G. had a hand in the murder of Tupac Shakur "dubious" and...
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In another heated response to Friday's (September 6) L.A. Times story accusing the late Notorious B.I.G. of paying Crips gang members to gun down Tupac Shakur six years ago,...
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The murder of Tupac Shakur, who was shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in September of 1996, has remained unsolved for six years. However, according to a new report...
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On the eve of the sixth anniversary of the death of Tupac Shakur--who was shot four times in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting on September 7, 1996--the Los Angeles Times will...
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Tupac Shakur, Eminem, Lauryn Hill, Will Smith, Grandmaster Flash, and Queen Latifah are some of the stars whose photos are included in Who Shot Ya? Three Decades Of Hip-Hop...
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The politically charged focus of the late Tupac Shakur is often muffled by the explosive and controversial tone from the rapper, who joined Death Row Records in 1995. But on...
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The Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, Run D.M.C., Afrika Bambaataa, and Grandmaster Flash are among the 15 honorees who will be inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall Of Fame Wednesday...
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Former Tupac bodyguard Frank Alexander will release the video and DVD Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake on January 15, 2002 on Step N' Up Enterprises, Sepiatone Entertainment, and...
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Amaru Entertainment and MTV Films have entered into an agreement to produce a feature documentary on the life and times of rapper Tupac Shakur. The film, which is currently...
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TheOutlawz--which comprises Young Noble, E.D.I., Kastro, and Napoleon--is set to release its sophomore set, Novakane, on November 6. The group was prominently featured on...
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Afeni Shakur, mother of slain rapper Tupac Shakur, filed a lawsuit against Daz Dillinger (Delmar Arnaud) on Monday (August 27), seeking unspecified damages. Shakur filed the...
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Tupac Shakur's group the Outlawz released a statement explaining that an altercation with Sean "P. Diddy" Combs did not take place during a rehearsal for a Tupac Shakur-...
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Rapper 2Pac's latest posthumous album, Until The End Of Time, was recently certified triple-platinum, and the set will be followed by another release in September to...
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The estate of Tupac Shakur has reached a settlement with Jimmy "Chopmaster" Dright and his company Network One. Dright released Tupac Shakur: The Lost Tapes without the...
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Until The End Of Time, the latest posthumous album from 2Pac, enters the Billboard 200 albums chart at Number One this week on sales of 425,000 copies. The double-disc set...
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Some five years after his tragic 1996 death at age 25, 2Pac's latest posthumous double-disc set Until The End Of Time arrives at Number One on the Billboard 200 chart this...
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2Pac died on September 13, 1996, but more than five years after his death still another posthumous album of unreleased material, Until The End Of Time, is set for release on...
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The seemingly endless supply of unreleased music from the late Tupac Shakur will help form a pair of double albums due out this year. Until The End Of Time, the first of the...
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2Pac's group the Outlawz has released its debut full-length album, Ride Wit Us Or Collide Wit Us, on Outlawz Records. When the album Still I Rise came out in 1999, it was...
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Two books by investigative journalist Cathy Scott--The Killing Of Tupac Shakur and The Murder Of Biggie Smalls--have been optioned by a pair of Hollywood producers who plan...
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Marion "Suge" Knight, embattled president of Death Row Records, has decided to lend a hand in the legal fight of death row inmates. Proceeds from Death Row's upcoming...
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Today (September 7) marks the fourth anniversary of the shooting of 2Pac that eventually lead to his death. The rapper-actor died September 13, 1996.
2Pac, whose given...
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2Pac's family has settled a lawsuit with the family of Orlando Anderson, who was shot to death May 29, 1998, and whom 2Pac's family alleged was involved with the September...
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Dwayne Wiggins likes to start his shows in an unconventional manner: by combining a song from Frank Sinatra with one from 2Pac.
Now performing in support of his debut...
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2Pac is among the guests featured on The Big Picture, the new album from late rapper Big L that was released on Tuesday (August 1).
The two are featured together on...
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Slain rap star 2Pac will have another album of previously unreleased material available in record stores on Tuesday, Dec. 21.
2Pac + Outlawz's Still I Rise contains 15...
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A new album by slain rap superstar Tupac Shakur, titled Still I Rise, which was slated for release on Tuesday (Dec. 14), has been put on hold for a week.
According to an...
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A new album titled Still I Rise by slain rap superstar Tupac Shakur is slated for release on Dec. 14, via Interscope Records.
The set has been described as a collection of...
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It's been more than two years since Tupac Shakur was fatally wounded in a drive-by on the Las Vegas strip. Like many recording artists who have died at the peak of their...
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Snoop Doggy Dogg and the estate of Tupac Shakur both scored victories of sorts in recent court hearings in Los Angeles.
At a probation hearing on Tuesday, Snoop pleaded...
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All Eyez On Me, the 1996 double-album by late rapper 2Pac, has been certified for sales of 9 million copies by the Recording Industry Association Of America, making it the...
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An attorney for Orlando Anderson, the recently-slain gang member and chief suspect in the shooting death of Tupac Shakur, says that Anderson's lawsuit against Shakur and...
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Chuck D and Mike Tyson are among the celebs slated to participate in a weekend festival commemorating slain rapper Tupac Shakur's birthday. The event, to be held June 12th...
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Orlando Anderson, a key figure in the September 7, 1996 shooting attack that took the life of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas, was killed last Friday.
Anderson, who has always...
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Note to self: straighten out estate, just in case.
Tupac Shakur's short but volatile life spawned yet another round of litigation in the last week, with promises of more...
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Suge Knight, the 315-pound CEO of gangsta rap label Death Row Records, spoke to the Los Angeles Times Thursday about life behind bars.
Knight, whose label roster has...
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The libel lawsuit against the estate of Tupac Shakur, filed by anti-rap activist C. Delores Tucker, hasn't even gone to court yet, and already the Tupac's estate is being...
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After you've feasted on Thanksgiving, it's time to do your part to save the music industry. So buckle up your pants and pay attention.
The record industry is having a...
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A new 24-track double-CD of previously unreleased 1991-94 recordings by the late Tupac Shakur, entitled R U Still Down? (Remember Me), will be released November 25th by...
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In what seems like a direct flashback to Tipper Gore's mid-'80s heyday with the PMRC, a Senate subcommittee on governmental management and restructuring will convene...
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The editors of Vibe magazine will commemorate the first anniversary of Tupac Shakur's death with a hard-cover collection of essays and portraits of the slain rap star,...
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C. DeLores Tucker, an outspoken gangsta rap critic and head of National Political Congress Of Black Women, filed a lawsuit last week in Philadelphia federal court against...
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U.C. Berkeley has added a course on the poetry of the late Tupac Shakur to its curriculum this semester. The extremely popular class, for which students can only receive a...
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