AP - Sep 25, 2009
Tupac Shakur s mother has donated a collection of the rapper s writing to the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Atlanta University Center. Afeni Shakur has handed over more than 150 of her son s items, ranging...
More »Reuters - Mar 15, 2009
Tupac Shakur's mother is firing back at independent production company Morgan Creek over the right to make a biopic about the late rapper. In a $10 million cross-complaint set to be filed Monday...
More »Reuters - Sep 3, 2008
Dead rapper Tupac 2Pac Shakur, the hip-hop icon who sold more records after he was murdered than during his brief career, is the most overrated person in music, according to music magazine Blender....
More »E! Online - Jul 14, 2008
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 superstardom and made mint at the...
More »AP - Apr 8, 2008
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 of time. The newspaper said the...
More »Reuters - Apr 7, 2008
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 on fake FBI documents. The move...
More »Reuters - Jan 7, 2008
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 American musical genre. The story...
More »Reuters - Oct 28, 2007
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 through rap. Inspired by the...
More »E! Online - Jul 24, 2007
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 unreleased albums. The late...
More »AP - Jul 24, 2007
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 settlement. Afeni Shakur sought an...
More »AP - Oct 2, 2006
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. DeLores Tucker, who died last...
More »AP - Sep 13, 2006
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 legend. 50 Cent s vicious raps...
More »Reuters - Sep 8, 2006
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 police as they handcuffed him...
More »Yahoo! Music - Aug 8, 2006
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 planning to travel to Soweto in South...
More »USRN - Apr 20, 2005
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 from the late rapper. The...
More »Reuters - Dec 15, 2004
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 Peace/Def Jam South effort sold...
More »USRN - Nov 29, 2004
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 has already turned up online...
More »Reuters - Nov 27, 2004
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 the awards show next year,...
More »Reuters - Oct 17, 2004
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 on the number one spot after...
More »Reuters - Apr 30, 2004
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 chronicles her relationship...
More »AP - Apr 30, 2004
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 estate of slain rapper Tupac Shakur...
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Pac's Life
Ghetto Gospel
Runnin' (Dying To Live) - featuring Notorious B.I.G.
They Mourn Me
Thugz Mansion - Featuring Nas
When Ur Hero Falls
