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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."
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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. [Neatorama via the listenerd]
Billboard is reporting that "the writer's share" of Tupac Shakur's publishing catalog has been sold by his mother, Afeni Shakur, to EverGreen Copyrights, a company that will help oversee the release of countless unreleased Shakhotchkes:
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