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...million albums, constitutes a defining nightmare for a gangsta-rap world whose paranoid royalty seem increasingly compelled to live out the grotesque violence that fills its art. Many initially connected the murder to the rapper's vocal participation in an ugly feud between his California record label, Death Row, and its East Coast competitor, Bad Boy. It was Death Row president Marion ("Suge") Knight who was driving his black BMW after the Tyson fight, with Shakur standing up through the sun roof. Four men rolled up in a white Cadillac, fired about 13 rounds, and sped away, losing the police...
...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...