Loading ...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.”
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Shock G Reveals That Tupac Was Into Orgies, Basketball, Putting the Satin On Your Panties
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?
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 »
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.
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.
Idolator’s Tribute-Video Treasury Pairs Vampires With Pets
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:
MTV Europe’s Ad Department Having A Little Too Much Fun With Photoshop
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 »
