Tupac Shakur would have turned 38 earlier this week, and to celebrate, let’s look at eHow’s super-straight-faced “How To Write Songs Like Tupac”! I think my favorite step might very well be the last one, in which possible heirs to his throne are encouraged to practice their powers of prognostication: “Step 6: Write prophetic lyrics. Albums such as The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory include songs that seemed to foreshadow Tupac’s untimely death, and have also encouraged the conspiracy theory that he is in fact alive and well.” Er, so perhaps I should amend that first sentence to “Tupac Shakur may have turned 38 earlier this week…” [eHow] MORE »
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Is Tupac Alive?
Or is TMZ just using some out-of-focus, badly aimed pictures of an African-American male with a nose ring and some facial hair to gin up flatlining traffic? The fact that these photos are presented to the reader in the always-pageview-inflating gallery format would lead me to believe the latter, but I’m something of a skeptic. [TMZ] MORE »
Mozart Is The New Tupac
The classical music community is abuzz after the… MORE »
Layoffs
Chuck Phillips, the Los Angeles Times reporter who couldn’t stop thinking that Diddy had something to do with Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder, is leaving the paper as part of its recent 150-staffer reduction of its newsroom. Also departing: longtime music scribe Richard Cromelin. MORE »
Layoffs
Chuck Phillips, the Los Angeles Times reporter who couldn’t stop thinking that Diddy had something to do with Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder, is leaving the paper as part of its recent 150-staffer reduction of its newsroom. Also departing: longtime music scribe Richard Cromelin. MORE »
Tupac Lives… In A Food Court
And you thought he was only good at releasing albums after death. Judging by the exterior of this stand in a mall outside Jakarta, Indonesia, he’s also proved himself quite skillful at selling goat’s feet–a local delicacy–to starved shoppers. MORE »
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“LA Times” Finally Retracts Latest “Diddy Knew!” Tupac Expose
The Los Angeles Times has retracted its controversial March 17 story “An Attack on Tupac Shakur Launched a Hip-Hop War,” which claimed that Sean “Diddy” Combs was aware that Shakur would be attacked in late November 1994, and that the attack was orchestrated by associates of the Bad Boy CEO. The paper acknowledged that it had been hoaxed by its “confidential sources” immediately following a March 27 debunking of the story on The Smoking Gun, but only today did it announce a full retraction of the original article, written by longtime Diddy conspiracy theorist Chuck Phillips. MORE »
Ray J: Despite Blunted Adolescence With Biggie, Pac, He’s Not A “Disrespectful Pedophile”
Ray J, the 27-year-old brother of Brandy celebrating his first top ten hit, “Sexy Can I (feat. Yung Berg),” wants you to know that despite the attention he’s received for knocking boots with Whitney Houston and Kim Kardashian, he (somehow) still loves women. “A lot of people think of me as being an attention whore or a slut. And I’m not really that. I love being in front of the camera and entertaining. But I do respect women. I’m not disrespectful to anybody that I’m cool with. I just want people to know that I’m not a disrespectful pedophile.” Earlier in the same interview, J described the love and chronic Biggie and Tupac showed the then-underage singer immediately before their respective murders. MORE »
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Shock G Reveals That Tupac Was Into Orgies, Basketball, Putting the Satin On Your Panties
Noz of Cocaine Blunts has unearthed news of what has the potential to the best autobiography since Jose Canseco’s Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big*. The book in question is Producing a Genius, a still-in-progress work by Shock-G, a.k.a. Humpty Hump, a.k.a. the leader of seminal ’90s rap group Digital Underground. According to Shock’s MySpace blog, “the book will chronical [sic], my 6 years, 4 tours, 19 studio sessions, 7 video shoots, 13 house parties, 2 courtroom cases, 5 basketball games, 3 streetfights, 4 arrests/police run-ins, dozens of tag-team girl trade-off experiences inwhich [sic] I was side by side with Tupac, and what it was like to record the young genius in the early years of his career, a time that he himself called the best time of his life.” MORE »
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Diddy Didn’t Do It: “Dude Was Duped,” Demur “LA Times” Dinks
The Los Angeles Times and Bad Boy Hater No. 1 Chuck Phillips have admitted that their latest attempt to implicate Sean “Diddy” Combs in the shooting of Tupac Shakur was based on forged FBI reports, which the Smoking Gun reported yesterday. “In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job,” says Phillips. Will this finally force Phillips to move on already? Or will he still unleash two related pieces he promised would arrive this year? MORE »
