Chuck Phillips’ latest Los Angeles Times article implicating Sean Combs in the shooting of Tupac Shakur may have been based on fradulent FBI reports created by Frank Sabatino, a 31-year-old scam artist who likes to get up close and clerical with rap superstars. MORE »
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Who Was Involved In Tupac’s 1994 Shooting? Maybe These Guys?
In a lengthy story published this morning that rather exhaustively recaps the events leading up to the 1996 death of Tupac Shakur, the L.A. Times comes this close to naming the assailants behind Shakur’s non-fatal 1994 shooting outside of a New York studio. The paper does, however, finger the men who reportedly planned the shooting thanks to “newly discovered information,” and they include pals of one P. Diddy, longtime hip-hop biz fixtures who’ve repeatedly denied the rumors/accusations that they had any involvement with the assault. MORE »
Tupac Memorial Trashed Twice
The Tupac Amaru Shakur Center For The Arts, a nonprofit geared toward bringing the creative and performing arts to kids and teens, was vandalized twice in two days in a pair of inexplicable incidents with a disturbing racial dimension. MORE »
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Idolator’s Tribute-Video Treasury Pairs Vampires With Pets
Once again, Idolator intern Kate Richardson scours the video sites, looking for the best fan-made music videos. In this installment, she takes two different subjects–bloodthirsty vampires and adorable animals–and tries to figure out if the two can be compared: MORE »
Rapper’s Mom’s Life Story More Exciting Movie Material Than Most Rappers’ Life Stories
Hot on the heels of the announced forthcoming filmed epic centering around the life of the Notorious B.I.G., filmmakers have skipped his arch-rival Tupac in the biopic stakes and gone straight to his mother with Dear Mama: The Life Story Of Afeni Shaku. Producer and former ‘Pac confrere Young Noble is clearly as awed by Tupac’s politically radical, estate-executing mama as he is by ‘Pac himself: MORE »
Even the dead are trying to show up 50 Cent. [HHNLive] MORE »
Tupac’s Dear Mama Steps To Death Row
Tupac’s mom, Afeni Shakur, is trying to smack down Death Row Records for using unreleased Pac songs to pull itself back into the black. MORE »
