Articles tagged "tupac shakur"

Column: Busted Headphones

Hip-Hop Hooray: Tributes in Rhyme

by Quentin B. Huff

[13.Mar.09] :. Forget the beef, let's talk about honoring our hip-hop icons. Perhaps the best way to pay homage to hip-hoppers is to let them speak in their own words.

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Column: Busted Headphones

Biggie Gives Us One More Chance

by Quentin B. Huff

[16.Feb.09] :. Biggie Smalls' mythology hasn't afforded him a dreamy endgame à la Tupac or Elvis. Nobody imagines Biggie pulling the ultimate Machiavellian coup by making the world believe he's dead while he's secretly chillin' in Jamaica.

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Film Review

Notorious

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Jan.09] :. Notorious looks back on the day when hip-hop was coming into its seeming own, when telling stories was a way to make order from chaos, as well as money and, as Biggie saw it, mo problems.

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Subject of music biopic ‘Notorious’ was B.I.G.-ger than life

by Rafer Guzmán [Newsday (MCT)]

[13.Jan.09] :. Soul music has “Ray,” the Oscar-winning film about the legendary Ray Charles, and country music has “Walk the Line,” about Johnny Cash. Punk rock got the biopic treatment in...

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We Don’t Die, We Multiply: Posse Tracks

by Quentin B. Huff

[5.Jan.09] :. Having more than one rapper on the scene enhances and galvanizes a song, as the central theme is strengthened with each successive verse. As the saying goes, there's strength in numbers.

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Column: Torch & Twang

Who Says Country Can’t Hip-Hop?

by Juli Thanki

[26.Nov.08] :. Poverty, crime, disenfranchisement, sinning, saving, and no-account women: Stereotypical subjects of the average country song, or the average hip-hop song?

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Mama Said Knock You Out: Hip-Hop & the Family Unit

by Quentin B. Huff

[16.May.08] :. There are four hip-hop rules for families. One: Fathers, take care of your children and their mothers. Two: Don't talk about other people's mamas. Three: Be good to your own mother. Four: Repeat as necessary.

 

Tupac and the L.A. Times: Will the truth come out?

by Jason Gross

[27.Mar.08] :. Along with JFK, one of the greatest murder mysteries in modern American history is death of Tupac and Biggie (not to mention Jam Master Jay).  Like the JFK assassination, theories fly around but...

 

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs denies link to Tupac Shakur shooting

by Glenn Gamboa [Newsday (MCT)]

[18.Mar.08] :. Sean “Diddy” Combs and manager Jimmy “Henchman” Rosemond issued quick and angry denials about a Los Angeles Times report released Monday morning claiming they were behind the...

 

Tupac Shakur: Tupac: The Complete Live Performances [DVD]

by Quentin B. Huff

[5.Jan.07] :. To enjoy this package, you must either (a) love live rap, (b) love Tupac Shakur, or (c) love Snoop Dogg and the Dogg Pound. You cannot choose "(d) none of the above".

 

Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Jun.04] :. Hearing Tupac Amaru Shakur talk about himself in the past tense is unnerving at first. Not only was he profound and perceptive in his early 20s, he was prescient too.

 

Tupac Shakur: Resurrection

by Marc L. Hill

[15.Dec.03] :. Resurrection, the title of the latest biopic about slain rapper Tupac Shakur, is terribly misleading. The title Resurrection ignores the fact that, more than seven years after the...

 

Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Nov.03] :. This sense-making also has to do with extrapolation and education -- granting Tupac yet another chance to speak his mind, indict injustice, and urge action.