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Entertainment, Music, Top Stories, Tupac, Tupac Shakur, Video - November 22, 2018

Tupac Shakur’s estate teases mystery ‘1998’ release

Tupac Shakur fans are hopeful that the late rapper’s estate will release new music after his official Instagram account teased something new. A surprising new release seemingly titled “1998” is set to drop this coming Saturday (Nov. 27.), and the announcement was made on Instagram on Tuesday, according to Complex. Word of the new track […]

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Reverence or Reach? The Tupac x Black Panther Collab Raises More Questions Than Interest

“From one icon to another” read a caption promoting a recent collaboration between Marvel’s Black Panther and the estate of slain rap star Tupac. But for followers and fans alike, there were questions about the correlation between the Marvel superhero and slain rap star, with many calling a co-tribute to the two a…

Tyson Live ’95: Iron Mike’s return to the ring and the complicated culture around it 23 summers ago, Tyson’s first fight back wasn’t the only hot ticket — but it was the most twisted

To stump Jamie Foxx? That takes a lot of work. But Mike Tyson pulled it off. The two celebrities have been connected for nearly 30 years, the boxer being a frequent and willing muse for Foxx. But recently they were discussing the actor’s long-anticipated, Martin Scorsese-directed biopic of the mercurial pugilist. During the conversation, Tyson, […]

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Music, Tupac Shakur - April 05, 2018

Unreleased ‘Makaveli’ liner notes reveal anger Tupac died holding Lost ‘Seven Day Theory’ transcript attacks Biggie, Diddy, Jay-Z, Faith Evans and more

A previously unreleased manuscript further reveals the depths of rancor Tupac Shakur lived with in his final days. Less than a month before his murder in Las Vegas, ‘Pac famously recorded the final album of his life (not career), The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, within a week in August 1996. Released under the […]

Anthony Hemingway, a director from ‘Underground,’ takes on the ‘Unsolved’ killings of Biggie and Tupac New USA Network series: ‘It allows you to see how human this story is — how universal it is’

Tupac and Biggie and their untimely — and unresolved — deaths: Sadly, it’s a story we all feel we know so well. Turns out, there’s much that even the most nerdy of hip-hop fans don’t know. That’s where USA Network’s Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. comes in. Starting Tuesday night, the […]

It’s 25 years old: Tupac’s ‘Keep Ya Head Up’ is hip-hop’s definitive ode to black women ‘Tupac cares, if don’t nobody else care …’

Tupac Shakur’s 1993 sophomore album, Strictly 4 My N.-.-.-.A.Z., was his last “pure” album. The project predates the cultural controversies, his sexual assault case, his incarceration, the 1994 Quad Studio shooting and the Death Row era that became his life’s final chapter. Released Feb. 16, 1993, S4MN is a fluid, aggressive, emotional and erratic project […]

Alabama Teacher Frustrated By ‘Foul Lyrics’ In Tupac’s ‘Dear Mama’ Demands Students ‘Turn The N—-r Tunes Off’

An Alabama teacher is on administrative leave with pay this week after admitting to using […]

Sundance previews ‘Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.’ Will it have the same vibe as FX’s award-winning ‘People v. O.J. Simpson’?

PARK CITY, UTAH — Before the start of the panel about Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G., a limited series coming to USA Networks on Feb. 27, a DJ blasted tracks that made both of the legendary rappers household names. More than 20 years after the genre-lifting rappers were killed, people are […]

What Had Happened Was: 7/6/17 Oh, you don’t know? We got you.

GAME. BLOUSES. Just two games into NBA summer league action, and Boston Celtics rookie small forward Jayson Tatum is already turning heads. In Monday’s Utah Jazz Summer League opener, the one-and-done product out of Duke, whom the Celtics took with the No. 3 pick in the draft last month, outdueled this year’s first overall selection, […]

What Had Happened Was: 6/30/17 Oh, you didn’t know? We got you.

GAME. BLOUSES. Give them your cellphone number and they will come. That’s exactly what new Minnesota Timberwolves forward Jimmy Butler did at his introductory news conference on Thursday. While responding to a question about his leadership qualities with his previous team, the Chicago Bulls, the three-time All-Star shot back at his detractors and told them […]

Kevin Powell in awkward spot over Tupac movie Former journalist says his work from ‘Vibe’ magazine was lifted

Things did not get off to a great start for All Eyez On Me, the Tupac Shakur biopic that had been hotly anticipated for years. Ever since the death of Shakur’s mother, Afeni, last May, there were concerns about how her son’s legacy and likeness would be used. She was the main gatekeeper of his […]

Writer Sues Tupac Filmmakers, Alleges Copyright Infringement

NEW YORK (AP) — A magazine writer has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the […]

A Life of Complex Lessons – The Making of Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur, who would have been 46 on June 16, to coincide the biopic “All […]

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Commentary, Music, Tupac Shakur - June 16, 2017

The murder of Tupac Shakur is a tragedy — but the why is not a complete mystery Conspiracy theories give fans comfort but, in truth, the brilliant artist was ‘a sacrificial lamb in thug clothing’

It’s time to stop wondering who killed Tupac Shakur. America has spent the past two decades fishing at red herrings and inventing theories about how our brilliant brother could be gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip at age 25. The real answer is obvious, yet too many of us who love the culture avoid […]

What Had Happened Was: 6/13/17 Oh, you didn’t know? We got you.

GAME. BLOUSES. Welcome to retirement, Michael Vick. In a ceremony hosted by the Atlanta Falcons, the 36-year-old, along with former Falcons wideout Roddy White, was officially retired by the organization. The former quarterback and wide receiver didn’t sign one-day contracts with the teams, but the event served the same symbolic purpose, and Falcons owner Arthur […]

Warriors’ JaVale McGee has added incentive to close out Finals Backup center is investor in ‘All Eyez on Me’ and can make the premiere if there’s no Game 6

All eyes will be on the Golden State Warriors as they attempt to clinch a 2017 NBA championship in Oracle Arena on Monday night. If the Warriors eliminate the Cleveland Cavaliers, their backup center JaVale McGee will be free to attend the national debut of the movie in which he made a financial investment, All […]

All Eyez on VIBE magazine’s 1996 Death Row cover The only thing wilder than Death Row Records’ rise was its public and violent fall

Appropriately titled “Live From Death Row,” VIBE ’s February 1996 cover featured the already-notorious label’s faces: Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Suge Knight and Tupac Shakur in a Goodfellas-inspired collage. To understand the significance of the cover image is to understand the chain of events that led to it — and to the label’s downfall shortly […]

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Coachella, Music, Tupac Shakur - April 14, 2017

The strange legacy of Tupac’s ‘hologram’ lives on five years after its historic Coachella debut On Dr. Dre’s order, an Academy Award-winning visual effects studio spent weeks designing a virtual Makaveli

Expect me, n—a, like you expect Jesus to come back / Expect me … I’m coming. — Tupac Shakur on the “Outro” of his fourth posthumous album, Better Dayz (2002) The mood and scene were one and the same out in that empty Southern California field. Dark and ominous. A wind blew furiously as night […]

Snoop Dogg Attends Tupac’s HOF Ceremony to Ensure He’s Remembered As ‘Strong Black Man’

By MESFIN FEKADU, AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Seattle rockers Pearl Jam, the late […]

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame honor Tupac Shakur knew he’d never live to see ‘I want when they see me, every day when I’m breathin’, it’s for us to go farther,’ said Shakur. ‘Every time I speak I want the truth to come out.’

Tupac was never supposed to be Bishop. While waiting on a solo record deal in late 1990, the 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee decided to slide through a movie audition with fellow Digital Underground member Money-B. The call was for a movie titled Juice, and B’s audition was for the role of […]

Poetic injustice Why Tupac Shakur and Janet Jackson should’ve been a package deal for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Tupac Shakur continues to rewrite hip-hop history 20 years following his death. ‘Pac joined Pearl Jam, Joan Baez, Electric Light Orchestra, Journey and Yes in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 32nd class. Acts become eligible 25 years following their first recording. Shakur’s debut album 2Pacalypse Now celebrated its quarter-century anniversary in 2016, making […]

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All Day, All Eyez On Me, Hip-Hop, Rap, Tupac Shakur - September 13, 2016

New Tupac biopic trailer is haunting The Benny Boom-directed movie is set for a November release

The day that Tupac Shakur died, the rap world was forever changed, obviously. But the moment itself happened in a different way. It was 20 years ago, at a time when 24-hour news was still in what we’ll call its teenage phase of its now fully formed adult life span. If you weren’t sitting by […]

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Hip-Hop, Music, Rest In Peace, Tupac Shakur - September 13, 2016

Tupac Amaru Shakur: June 16, 1971-Sept. 13, 1996 It’s been 7,306 days since we lost a legend

Sept. 13, 1996. It didn’t truly hit home until the following day. Having traveled to Philadelphia on Sept. 13 with my mother, grandmother and brother, we heard the news together on the radio — Tupac Shakur dead of gunshot wounds. I was 10. That Saturday, Sept. 14, my grandma’s cousin’s man, Arcenio, walked me to […]

Tupac said her name The rapper never forgot Latasha Harlins, who was killed on the streets of Los Angeles before the O.J. Simpson trial

Tupac Shakur would have been 45 years old had he survived the September 1996 drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. He died at 25 with no children — once saying he feared bringing a son or daughter into “such a corrupt world.” The rapper’s deep devotion to kids, however, was evident both in and out of […]

Happy Birthday, Tupac Here’s a preview of the movie about your life

Today is the birthday of Tupac Amaru Shakur, the legendary rapper who was gunned down in Las Vegas at the age of 25. He would have been 45 years old today, and in conjuction with the commemoration of his death, a trailer for the new biopic about his life All Eyez on Me (named after […]

In loving memory of Tupac Shakur He would have been 45

From the introduction to 1998’s Tupac Shakur (Three Rivers), by the editors of VIBE magazine. Tupac made people uncomfortable. At his best, he called blacks and whites alike out on their complicity in a despicable system. He made thuggery-as-resistance appealing, urged us to be loud and wild and reckless. He was not trying to “rise […]