Tupac Shakur‘s 65-year-old godmother, Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, has become the first woman to be placed on the FBI’s Most-Wanted Terrorists list. Chesimard, a black liberation activist, was convicted in 1977 of shooting policeman Werner Foerster on the New Jersey Turnpi... Read more...
Exploitative much? According to stats from All Music Guide (allmusic.com), Tupac Shakur 'released' three times as many albums after his death than before. The posthumous math looks something like this. Prior to his tragic passing in 1996, the rapper had released 5 albums. After his deat... Read more...
The Tupac Shakur "hologram" used onstage at Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival over the weekend isn't a novelty in just the live music business. It's also a rarity in entertainment law. "It's very unique," says Donald Passman, an entertainment attorney for the Los Angeles-based fi... Read more...
But why the f*ck.... nevermind Well, that was uncomfortable. Despite supposedly having been dead for over 15 years, Tupac Shakur joined Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg on the main stage at Coachella late Sunday night. An all-too-realistic hologram of the late rapper rolled through "2 Of Amerikaz Most... Read more...
Devon Thompson is a Philadelphia born and raised artist/emcee that delivers the love, struggle, life, sound and hustle of Philly unlike any other artist before him. Imagine if Bill Withers, Bob Marley and Tupac Shakur were born into this new age of music, this new era of hip hop! Would they ... Read more...
A man has admitted to being involved in the attack on rap star Tupac Shakur in 1994, inside Manhattan's Quad Studios in November of 1994, after allegedly being paid $2,500 dollars by James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond. Dexter Isaac, a former friend of Rosemond, is an inmate currently serving lif... Read more...
Former Black Panther Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, who was wrongly imprisoned for 27 years on a murder conviction, died Thursday in Tanzania, his former lawyer said. He was 63. Stuart Hanlon, a San Francisco-based lawyer who helped overturn Pratt's murder conviction, said he did not know the... Read more...
This is a lost interview of The Late Tupac Shakur in Macon Penitentiary, Speaking about jail and living the "Thug Life" it is a very telling, and good look at Tupac as a person not as a Rapper. (more…) Read more...
I didnt see anything too interesting or new here that I havent read before or seen in this documentary, but Eskay makes some interesting points : On the heels of their massive Biggie document dump, the FBI has now released their file on Tupac. Well, one of their files on Tupac, because I do... Read more...