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Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 ¿ Sept. 13, 1996} was a hip-hop artist bor in the Bronx, New York, in 1971. He sold over 50 million records and was killed in Las Vegas in September, 1996. His artistic names were 2Pac and Makaveli.
Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 ¿ Sept. 13, 1996} was a hip-hop artist bor in the Bronx, New York, in 1971. He sold over 50 million records and was killed in Las Vegas in September, 1996. His artistic names were 2Pac and Makaveli.
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New in paperback: The pioneers of the police procedural, Iraq by way of Homer and the Crusades through Muslim eyes
"Immoveable Feast" by John Baxter (Harper Perennial) Baxter, the film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Buñuel and others, fell in love and moved from Los Angeles to Paris some years back, from whence he has dispatched a series of fluent, witty and...Tags: Books and Magazines, California, Simone Weil, Kurt Cobain, West Point
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In Macon, music softens a racial divide
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe three deejays spun R&B and hip-hop, with a focus on oldies, party anthems and black artists gone mainstream -- Michael Jackson, OutKast, Gnarls Barkley. These were carefully chosen common denominators, songs that black and white club-goers might...Tags: Michael Jackson, Dancing, Armed Forces, Notorious B.I.G., Music
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On this day in history
On Sept. 13, 1759, during the final French and Indian War, the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec City. In 1788 the Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election and declared New York City the...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Heads of State, Sammy Sosa, Indiana, Mark McGwire
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Ludacris is the rapper, Chris Bridges is the actor
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMAYBE IT goes without saying, but it's hard to get taken seriously if your name is Ludacris. That's why the rap star, following the path of the Rock, Andre 3000 and 50 Cent, is checking his stage name at the door as he pursues a second career as a...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Video Games, Gerard Butler, 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg
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New Kids on the Block come back strong
New Kids on the Block
"The Block"
Interscope
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On their first album since 1994, the thirtysomething members of New Kids on the Block make remarkably little attempt to conceal their ages. There's one song called "Grown Man," for example, and there's...Tags: New Kids on the Block, Kanye West, Music
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"Suge" Knight jailed on assault, drug charges
Rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was jailed yesterday on assault and drug charges after he was accused of beating his girlfriend while brandishing a knife, Las Vegas police said. Knight, 43, the founder of bankrupt Death Row Records in Los Angeles,...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Assault, Prisons, Drug Trafficking, Trials
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Son of rap producer Dr. Dre found dead; Andre Young Jr. was 20
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersRap impresario Dr. Dre's 20-year-old son was found dead over the weekend in his Woodland Hills home, coroner's officials said. Andre R. Young Jr. had been out with friends the night before and was discovered in his bed by his mother at 10:24 a.m....Tags: California, Human Accomplishments, Eminem, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
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'T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E': A novel by Sanyika Shakur
T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.
A Novel
Sanyika Shakur
Grove Press: 320 pp., $19.95
BLACK LOS ANGELES is generally portrayed in popular culture as a treacherous and brutal landscape full of sexy guns, loc'ed out gangsters, untrustworthy women and corrupt police....Tags: Organized Crime, Gang Activity, National or Ethnic Minorities, Crimes, Ice Cube
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Portrait Gallery exhibit gives hip-hop a good rap
Special to The SunThe National Portrait Gallery in downtown Washington has definitely changed since its reopening in 2006. The formerly staid cultural fixture has moved into the 21st century with exhibits such as Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture, which...Tags: Grandmaster Flash, Hip Hop
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Critics choice: Return to Forever, Eureka, The Hate U Gave
Fusion: Return to Forever Although they were together for just a short time in the '70s, the classic lineup of Return to Forever left a giant footprint on the musical landscape. Now, more than 30 years after calling it quits, keyboardist Chick Corea,...Tags: Theater, Music, Jackie Gleason, Fillmore Miami Beach, Frances Fisher
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Death Row Records auctioned for $24 million to Global Music Group Inc.
NEW YORK (AP) _ Death Row Records, the hip-hop label that released seminal gangster rap albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, has been auctioned for $24 million.The New York-based Global Music Group Inc. said in a statement to The Associated...Tags: Financially Distressed Companies, Bankruptcy, Snoop Dogg, New York, Auction Service
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The Hate U Gave: The Tupac Shakur Story, a review
Special Correspondent for South Florida Sun-SentinelThe Hate U Gave: The Tupac Shakur Story may be the most thought-provoking and lacerating evening in South Florida theater this season. A dazzlingly insightful script and mesmerizing performance, both by Meshaun Labrone Arnold, make this a don't-miss...Tags: Sexual Assault, Sociology, Social Problems, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Colleges and Universities
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