Tupac Shakur News

Censorship of art is nothing new. However, in the long history of hip-hop, censorship has always been present.

Following last year's successful underground release of "The Street Album," which debuted at #91 on Billboard Top 100 - the Jacka's 3rd solo album entitled Tear Gas is IN STORES NOW.

Read this article featured on the Times Online site: Rap star linked to attack on Tupac.

MC Hammer, performing Saturday, recalls friendship with Tupac Shakur DOUG ELFMAN MORE COLUMNS Preview MC Hammer, Tone Loc, Young MC 7 p.m. Saturday Thomas & Mack Center, Swenson Street and Tropicana Avenue $28 MC Hammer On Sept.

An album of unreleased music from Tupac Shakur will be among a series of new releases coming from WIDEawake Entertainment Group, the owner of Death Row Records.

Fans of TUPAC SHAKUR are set for a birthday treat in 2010 thanks to the publishing company which has picked up the late rapper's Death Row back catalogue.

June 16, 2009 @ 1:35 pm VIBE 365: Tupac Shakur Keith Murphy Remembering yesterday, one day at a time On June 16, 1971, one of hip hop's most celebrated, documented and influential talents, Tupac Amaru Shakur, is born in East Harlem, NYC.

In the Land of the Ayatollahs Tupac Shakur Is King: Reflections from Iran and the Arab World By Shahzad Aziz Amal Press, 296 pages, $14.95. Albanian music is amazing.

Pac explains in this interview his then recent encounter with the Oakland Police Department which resulted in him getting beat.

Late rap legend TUPAC SHAKUR will be honoured on his birthday with a star-studded benefit concert organised by his mother AFENI SHAKUR.

It's truly difficult to choose ten records as Tupac Shakur's best work. He's made so many hit records, influential records, and unforgettable records that no list will ever achieve a unanimous consensus.

At the Baltimore School for the Arts, two friends were thinking big. "I knew that I would definitely be participating in Hollywood," recalled Jada Pinkett Smith, whose new series debuts Tuesday.

Notorious: This biopic features the life of Christopher Wallace, also known as Notorious B.I.G. It follows the young rapper from his start on the streets of Brooklyn to superstardom and his murder.

Within the confines of the world of music, singers with one name represent an exclusive group who have mastered the art of name recognition without the last name.

Afeni Shakur and entertainer extraordinaire Mike Epps [ click to read ] are planning to give late rapper Tupac Shakur a posthumous birthday to remember.

A few years back, media outlets took shocking note of a deadly and disturbing phenomenon.

AFP/Getty Images/File Up-and-coming rap artist Dolla has been shot dead outside a landmark Los Angeles Tue May 19, 5:48 pm ET LOS ANGELES Up-and-coming rapper Dolla was killed in a shooting at an upscale shopping mall, and a man was arrested for investigation of murder, police said Tuesday.

A list of prominent rappers who have been gunned down in shooting incidents since 1987: Scott La Rock, killed in 1987 in the Bronx; believed to be the first high-profile rap slaying.

Following the deaths of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G., DMX took over as the reigning, undisputed king of hardcore rap.

It's also good for a web-site to claim that Tupac lives, and it seems that TMZ is willing to go out on a limb.