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...East. In two years the conflict had moved far beyond artistic issues to beatings and perhaps worse: Knight is thought to hold Bad Boy head Sean ("Puffy") Combs indirectly responsible for the shooting death of a friend in Atlanta in 1995. One of Shakur's last songs for Death Row implied that Easterners had tried to kill him in 1994 and that he had slept with the wife of one of the label's star rappers, the Notorious B.I.G...
...current law-enforcement tallies, Crips colors fly in 42 states, and the gang is linked annually to thousands of murders, robberies and drug deals. But if Williams, 42, has much to regret, he has also done more than apologize. Writing with stubby pencils from San Quentin's death row in California, the convicted murderer published this month the first half of a 17-book series titled Tookie Speaks Out Against Gang Violence. "You can learn from my mistakes," Williams advises readers in simple, effective prose. "It's the best set of books I've ever read on this subject," says...
...death in 1981 for fatally shotgunning four unresisting victims during motel and convenience-store holdups. But his transformation, he insists, should be judged separately from his crimes. Arriving at San Quentin in 1981 as a feared gangsta godfather, Williams was content for years to watch sullenly from death row as gang violence spread--and with it, an urban nightmare...
...future. Court records show that his case recently reached the federal appeals system after an unusually lengthy entanglement over key testimony from a prosecution witness, now deceased, who was an active jailhouse snitch. "I simply don't believe that I am going to be executed," Williams says calmly. Death-row federal appeals commonly run a three-to-four-year course, and for Williams, whatever time remains has a clear purpose. "As much as you might want to fit in, don't join a gang," he writes in Gangs and Wanting to Belong. "You won't find what you're looking...
Morello is quick to point out that his band backs up its revolutionary rhetoric with action, such as staging benefit concerts for imprisoned American Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier and death-row inmate/activist Mumia Abu-Jamal. During an appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live in April, the band attempted to hang inverted American flags to protest the influence of big money on American politics (former presidential candidate/millionaire Steve Forbes was the host that night), and Morello says SNL cut the band's second song from the program in retaliation. A spokesman for SNL, however, says the group's second...